The Egyptian army announced on Thursday that 37 tunnels were destroyed on the border with the Gaza Strip in 2018.
The army began a massive operation to destroy tunnels to Gaza in September 2015. The tunnels had been used not only to smuggle weapons and goods to Gaza but also by jihadists in the Sinai to maintain ties with jihadist groups in Gaza.
Egypt used to blame Hamas for much of the ISIS-related activity in the Sinai but lately it has been trying to work for reconciliation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, with little luck.
The army statement also said that it caught and arrested nearly 19,000 illegal immigrants from various countries trying to get to Europe via Egypt.
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A new Israeli study claims that almost a quarter of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed during 100 days in 1942, making it the period with the highest killing rate in the 20th century.
The killings between August and October 1942 included Jews murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp, in Ukraine and as part of the infamous Operation Reinhard — an intense mass-slaughter campaign carried out by Nazi Germany between March 1942 and November 1943 in death camps Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor (that operation alone eventually killed some 1.7 million Polish Jews).
Prof. Lewi Stone of Tel Aviv University made the claim in a study published Wednesday in the Science Advances academic journal, based on his analysis of German train deportation data to the three death camps compiled in the 1980s by Holocaust historian Yitzhak Arad.
The kill and death rate during Operation Reinhard has been “poorly quantified in the past,” Stone contended, noting that most records of the killings were destroyed by the Nazis.
The average death rate of almost 15,000 per day during the “extreme phase of hyperintense killing” — which began after the fuhrer Adolf Hitler ordered the operations “sped up” — is almost three times higher than previous estimations.
Stone argued that the murder rate decreased in November 1942 because “there were relatively few Jews left” in the Nazi-controlled areas in and around occupied Poland, “so the rate of the killing likely subsided because of the difficulty of rounding up victims.”
Not only was president Franklin Roosevelt a war monger and closeted Jew, his real name was Rosenfeld. The war in Poland and Russia was entirely the fault of England, and the American press was bent on bringing the country into war against peaceful Germany. These allegations, according to a new book titled “Hitler’s American Friends,” were some of the key German propaganda messages spread by Nazi spies in the US during the late 1930s and into World War II.
Written by Bradley W. Hart and published in October, the book details Hitler’s “classic disinformation campaign” against the US, along with incidents of “outright espionage.”
“Hitler’s American Friends” is divided into chapters named after the Religious Right, the Businessmen, the Bund, and other groups from which the Nazis drew support. While some of the Nazi supporters are well remembered — such as Father Charles Coughlin and his anti-Jewish radio tirades — the affinity of many “ordinary” Americans for Hitler’s New Germany was largely forgotten after the war, according to Hart.
Hitler was aware of support for National Socialism in the US, and this was the basis for his campaign. An alliance with America was unlikely, but German agents could — at the very least — work to confuse the American public about their government, the press, and other democratic institutions. Throughout the 1930s, Nazi spies operated on Capitol Hill, from church pulpits, and in front of massive crowds at rallies.
In 1937, Congress was compelled to enact the Foreign Agents Registration Act because so many Nazi spies had been caught seeking “to subvert the American democratic system,” wrote Hart. The foresight of the act’s authors helped ensure the American public wasn’t fed pro-Nazi “fake news” during the first two years of Germany’s “war of annihilation” in Europe, before Hitler declared war on the US after Pearl Harbor.
“The American political system survived a series of major existential threats at a moment when the fate of the free world hung in the balance,” wrote Hart, a professor at California State University. With what he describes as “courageous” stands taken by American leaders, “Hitler’s friends never stood much of a chance,” he wrote.
While it’s legitimate to debate universalism versus particularism, equating an oppressed group with its cruelest killers is evil. Can you imagine calling a mean African-American boss an “overseer” or “plantation owner?” What about calling an abusive wife a “rapist?” I had to override my moral auto-correct even to write these terrible thoughts – which shows how Walker’s meanness replicates and infects like thought cancer cells.
Talk about a big lie. The Nazis pursued a race-based, master-race-oriented, strategy of genocide that shrank European Jewry from 9.5 million in 1933 to 3.5 million in 1950. Zionism is a rival nationalist movement to Palestinian nationalism – no Israeli laws define anyone by race, color or blood. Meanwhile, the Palestinian population grew from 1.1 million in 1947 to between six and seven million in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza today. Palestinian propagandists exaggerate those numbers at their convenience, sometimes overcounting how many have lived, sometimes, how many have died.
Walker and Cohen are free to criticize Israel or Zionism. But Nazifying all Zionists – who simply believe that the Jews are a people, with ties to their ancestral homeland, and have rights to establish a state on that homeland – is so ugly, so categorical, it indicts the abuser not the abused – and her academic enabler.
America is afflicted with a president who leads by abuse, polluting our politics by escalating rhetorically and demonizing those who dare disagree with him. It’s pathological: he cannot see how his vicious counterattacks usually prove his rivals’ points. Watching writers and academics mimic such misanthropy is depressing.
Cohen writes: “By reading the poem you can judge for yourself.” Absolutely! HNN’s editor, Rick Shenkman, cleverly entitled this indefensible defense: “In her own words.”
Fortunately, most HNN respondents judged for themselves: “Professor Cohen, you have proven the counterpoint, not your point,” one person wrote. Another added: “Was this SERIOUSLY an attempt to prove she ISN’T a Jew hater?”
Alice Walker damaged Alice Walker’s reputation in her own words, more than any critic could. Like the president she loathes, encased in the oh-you’re-so-wonderful celebrity bubble since the 1970s, she lost touch with reality. Meantime, Cohen seems equally imprisoned: in the loony Left’s Israel-can-do-no-right-but-we-its-critics-can-do-no-wrong bubble.
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As everyone knows, Israel has way too many political parties. In the last election, ten parties made it past the 3.25% cutoff into the Knesset. In all, twenty-five parties contended for the 120 seats in our parliament, and some of those were alliances of multiple parties pooling their votes to keep from falling below the cutoff (the Joint List, for example, is composed of four primarily Arab parties).
There is a party called Ale Yarok (Green Leaf) which calls for legalization of marijuana and managed to get more than 47,000 votes from members who were not too stoned to find the polls. There is a party called Hapiratim (The Pirates), which belongs to an international movement favoring extremely democratic and open government, and which garnered 895 votes, or 0.02% of the electorate. Arghh! The party with the least amount of votes was the Manhigut Hevratit (Social Leadership) party, which consists of a convicted felon named Yosef Ba-Gad. Apparently he has enough friends and relatives to obtain 223 votes.
In fact, Israel does not need anywhere near this number of parties. I would like to propose a simpler arrangement of only six parties. Here they are, with their platforms:
1.The Really Religious Party: God is on our side, so give us money, don’t draft us, and keep your immodest women away from us and their pictures off our bus shelters.
2.The Very Right-Wing Party: Send the Arabs to Jordan and annex the historic homeland of the Jewish people.
3.The Bibi Party: He knows best. Just be quiet and do what he tells you.
4.The Cheap Apartments Party: Apartments are too expensive. In fact, everything is too expensive. Make everything cheaper. We are not interested in security and stuff.
5.The Very Left-Wing Party: End The Occupation. This will bring Peace. The state will use the money it saves on the IDF and Shabak to provide cheap apartments and a free subscription to Ha’aretz for one and all.
6.The Arab Party: End Zionism. Put us in charge, admit that everything is your fault and apologize for the Nakba and maybe we’ll let you live, which you actually don’t deserve, you dogs.
Right now many of you are saying that it’s impossible to live without Ashkenazic and Sephardic Haredi parties, and indeed without Hassidic and Mitnagdic Ashkenazi Haredi parties. And others are saying that there is a big difference between religious and secular right-wing Zionism, or that we can’t forget the historic difference between Etzel and Lechi, or Mapai and Mapam, Ichud and Meuchad, Betar and B’nai Akiva.
Get a grip.
I am still angry about the Altalena, but I’m willing to be in the same party as anyone who understands the importance of a Jewish state for the Jewish people, who is capable of understanding that the Arabs are not just Jews that go to shul on Fridays, and that someone who wants to kill you or your people is an enemy. My heroes are Jabotinsky and Begin, but I could work with Rabin, despite his big mistake (I’m sure if he were here today, he’d admit that he shouldn’t have allowed himself to be pushed into Oslo).
Right now, in the run-up to the election to be held on April 9, we are watching a depressing spectacle of various public personalities maneuvering here and there in the political spectrum, making and breaking alliances, and positioning themselves to feast on what they think will soon be the political corpse of Binyamin Netanyahu. We have the unpopular Avi Gabbai publically kicking the equally unpopular Tzipi Livni out of his “Zionist Union” movement, which went from 24 Knesset seats in the 2015 election, to 8 or 9 projected seats if the election were today. We have Benny Gantz, whose qualifications are that he was IDF Chief of Staff and is very tall, and who refuses to say anything about his position on any important issue, with 14 projected seats (Netanyahu said, and I agree, that “anyone who won’t say whether he is Left or Right is Left”).
One interesting development is the defection of Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked from the religious Zionist Beit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party to create a right-wing party that would truly be a home for both religious and secular people, called Haymin Hehadash (The New Right). I think the name is a little cheesy, but ideologically it’s a good fit for me and many others who found the Zionism of Jewish Home appealing, but were uncomfortable with the degree of social conservatism of some of its members. I’m sure also that Bennett and Shaked understand that an explicitly religious party would never have a chance to lead the government.
Today there is already a party that purports to be right-wing and welcoming to both secular and religious Jews, and that is Netanyahu’s Likud. So probably The New Right will draw its votes from the old Jewish Home and from the Likud, and will cooperate in a coalition with them as well. As long as Netanyahu is more popular than Bennett/Shaked, and the Right maintains its present edge over the Center plus the Left, the governing coalition after the next election will end up looking more or less as it does today.
However, if Netanyahu steps down for any reason, the Likud is likely to lose much of its appeal to security-minded voters (and most Israelis fall into this category). The balance of power on the right might then move to the New Right, and one could imagine a government led by Bennett or Shaked. Bibi certainly doesn’t intend to quit now, but we’ll see what impact the possible criminal indictments (which, in my opinion, are simply political warfare by legal means) will have. And Bennett and Shaked are young, 46 and 42 respectively, while Netanyahu is 69. Their day will come no matter what.
The as-yet undefined party of Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, and other centrists will try to present themselves as hawkish on security to prevent this. The danger is that they might succeed, and we could end up with a Center-Left coalition. Naturally, Bibi is making sure to remind us of this at every opportunity. And I agree with him that letting the Left within 100 km of power would be a disaster. Look what the two Ehuds, Barak and Olmert, almost did when each was Prime Minister.
It’s not possible to reduce the number of parties to six today. Founding political parties seems to be a national pastime here, and the inflated egos of politicians, each one of whom believes that only he or she is qualified to lead a party or the nation, prevents the system from becoming more rational.
Today I am leaning toward voting for The New Right, despite the silly name – unless Bibi convinces me that this will empower the Left. So far, I don’t see it.
Or unless my brother-in-law starts his own party. Then I’d have to vote for him.
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Israel’s decision – along with the US – to leave the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on January 1 is extraordinary. It represents a loss for UNESCO as well as a global tragedy, demonstrating how world heritage has been manipulated by politics.
According to Israeli officials explaining the decision to leave the global organization, UNESCO is a deeply biased organization that sought to rewrite the history of the Land of Israel. “Israel will not be a member of an organization whose goal is to deliberately act against us, and that has become a tool manipulated by Israel’s enemies,” Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said.
Michael Oren, former ambassador to the US and outgoing Knesset member, applauded the move. “Today is the first day that the State of Israel is outside of UNESCO,” he said. It had joined a list of enemies of Israel, alongside the Assyrians, the Roman Empire and the ayatollahs in Iran, who deny the connection between Jews and Israel’s capital in Jerusalem, he added.
Across the sea, former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley tweeted on January 1 that “UNESCO is among the most corrupt and politically biased UN agencies. Today the US withdrawal from this cesspool became official.”
The process has been more than a year in the making. The administration of US President Donald Trump made the decision to leave in October 2017 and Israel supported the US move. Since UNESCO granted Palestinians membership as a state in 2011, the organization has become increasingly hostile to Israel. The US and Israel wanted reform, but like too many things at the UN, instead of reforming, the organization has remained stuck in its ways.
Elbit Systems Ltd. does not produce cluster bombs, the Israeli arms company said as it rejected attempts by the international bank HSBC to separate its decision to divest from the company from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign that had been waged against the global banking power house.
HSBC’s decision to divest from Elbit last month was first made public in a private email correspondence with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, a British-based non-governmental organization.
The group, which had waged a stiff campaign against HSBC in hopes of persuading it to divest from Israeli arms company, published news of the divestment decision as a BDS victory.
HSBC’s divestment came in the aftermath of its November acquisition of the Israeli arms company IMI Systems Ltd., formerly known as Israel Military Industries or Ta’as. IMI has a history of producing cluster bombs.
Elbit’s vice president David Vaknin said that the bank had not contacted his company prior to making its decision nor had it been in touch with the company since it divested.
“We have not received any notification in this regard from HSBC nor any inquiry as to the facts concerning the nature of our activity or our policies in this area,” Vaknin said.
“As part of the Elbit Systems organization, IMI Systems will not be continuing its prior activities with respect to cluster munitions. All of Elbit Systems activities relating to munitions, including those activities to be continued by IMI Systems, will be conducted in accordance with applicable international conventions or US law,” Vaknin said.
In addition, he said, “Elbit Systems [itself] is not engaged in the production of cluster munitions.”
But is the problem just that Jordan refuses to honor its treaties, or is there more to it? Could the US be trying harder and applying more pressure on Jordan if it wanted to?
Just compare the example of Jordan to the US failure to pursue Americans murdered by Palestinian terrorists.
Stephen Flatow, whose daughter was murdered by Palestinian terrorists, questions the apparent immunity Palestinian terrorists have from prosecution. It was one thing when the PLO terrorist entity was in charge -- the US had no leverage to demand that terrorists be handed over. But after the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 and the Palestinian Authority was in charge, there was an actual political entity with which the US formed a relationship.
True, the US has never had an extradition treaty with the Palestinians, but there is still another option:
Either because of U.S. pressure, or because of a general desire to have friendly relations with the U.S., governments frequently agree to “rendition”—that is, to voluntarily hand over terrorists for prosecution in America.
Rendition is so much easier than extradition that Mexico, which does have an extradition treaty with the US, often uses rendition instead.
And yet the US government consistently resists the idea of utilizing this option.
According to Flatow, the US is so reluctant to press for the rendition of Palestinian murderers of US citizens, that it has failed to take advantage of bonafide opportunities. A prime example is Mohammed Abbas, the mastermind in 1985 of the hijacking of the Achille Lauro that resulted in the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, who remained free for years. Over time, Abbas lived in countries from which the US could have demanded extradition, but did not take action. The excuse used was the statute of limitations, despite the fact there is no limitation on murder; the US claimed that Abbas was wanted for hijacking, not murder. In 2003, he was captured by American forces in Iraq while he attempted to escape to Syria. He died in US custody in 2004, the day before he was supposed to be handed over to Italy.
Flatow believes the reason for the failure of the US to pursue Palestinian terrorists who have murdered US citizens over the years boils down to the "fetid swamp of political convenience." Over the years, US administrations have been fixated on the Holy Grail of Middle East peace, and opted for 'the greater good' of having friendly relations with the Palestinians rather than pursue justice for murdered Americans:
Putting a Palestinian terrorist on trial in America would infuriate the PA, which would defend the terrorist as a “hero” and a “martyr.” That would sour America’s relations with the PA, reveal that the PA’s view of terrorists has never changed, and undermine American public sympathy for Palestinian statehood.
This held true during the administrations of Clinton, Bush and Obama.
What about Trump?
President Trump. Public Domain
Watching Trump praise Jordan for its role in fighting terrorism -- while it plays host to the terrorist Ahlam Tamimi -- is a familiar scenario. Foreign policy concerns seem once again to take a priority over justice. The US has an extradition treaty with Jordan and has asked Jordan to turn her over. The US has even posted a reward for her capture, but has stopped short of applying pressure.
On the other hand, Trump has taken steps beyond anything his predecessors have done in applying strong financial pressure on Abbas and the Palestinian Authority.
It could be that he is willing to apply pressure to get things done.
But it could also be that Trump has decided to apply pressure on the Palestinians instead of aid in order to facilitate his version of a Middle East peace -- but will continue to coddle Jordan for the old familiar reasons.
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Professor Katherine Franke of Columbia University - whom we have mentioned before - wrote last month about the completely fictional "Pro-Israel Push to Purge US Campus Critics."
The article is riddled with half truths and errors, but one is particularly easy to show.
She writes:
Especially chilling, the US Department of Education recently adopted a new definition of anti-Semitism, one that equates any criticism of Israel with a hatred of Jews.
Is that what the policy says? No, it says the exact opposite. It says, explicitly, "[C]riticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Franke is 100% wrong.
When this was pointed out to the editor of the New York Review of Books, he responded in an astonishing way:
A perfectly reasonable and accurate criticism was leveled at Seaton - and his response was dismissive and derisive.
Is this how editors are supposed to deal with fact checking? By making fun of the number of followers the fact checkers have?
I couldn't resist responding to Seaton:
I just was made aware of this exchange and I am astonished at the lack of ethics of an editor at @nybooks. The tweet is absolutely correct, Franke is 100% wrong in her assertion. Weeks later and there is no correction.
And Matt -I have a LOT more followers than you do, "loser."
I usually don't use ad hominems in my tweets, but by Seaton's yardstick for how important one is, he indeed is a loser compared to me. Not to mention if one compares how either of us deal with honest fact checkers.
Of course, as of this writing, Seaton hasn't responded. He can't because whatever he says (outside of an abject apology to the original fact checker) would make him look like even more of a "loser."
I don't know if Seaton is the person who edited Franke's inaccurate article and allowed her lies to be published under its name.
But one wonders why the New York Review of Books, which often has the word "prestigious" attached to its name when it is mentioned in the media, would employ someone who is so utterly dismissive of both readers - and of the truth.
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According to the Palestine Times, Israel has changed the area that Gaza fishing boats can go.
It used to be 9 miles out to sea, but (apparently for security reasons) Israel has reduced it to 6 miles in the north and south of Gaza, but to make up for the loss of area it increased the distance for the middle of Gaza to 12 miles.
The Gaza fisherman's union rejected the changes, in protest of the six mile limit at the northern and southern borders.
Which means that they still cannot go further that six miles anyway in the north and south - and they are not taking advantage of the additional three miles newly available to them.
As far as I know, Israel never allowed a 12 mile area to be fished since the blockade was started.
Ironically, last summer when Israel increased the fishing zone in central Gaza from six to nine miles, fishermen complained that the additional area was not suitable for fishing - and they demanded a 12 mile zone.
Now they have it and their own union will not let them use it.
(h/t Ibn Boutros)
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Nearly six years ago I gave a lecture at Yeshiva University on how to answer anti-Israel arguments. Since the lecture was over an hour and twenty minutes, I decided to break it up into 20 sections, one each to answer one popular anti-Israel argument.
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Historian Kobby Barda has found a lost chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: After World War II, the U.S. gave Israel and Arab nations $1.5 billion to solve the Middle East refugee problem. But only Israel lived up to its end of the deal.
Kobby Barda couldn't believe what he was seeing. While researching the establishment of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee under the auspices of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa, Barda found his way to the personal archive of one Isaiah Leo "Si" Kenen, a Canadian-born lawyer, journalist and philanthropist who was one of the founders of the pro-Israel lobby.
Among the many documents that record in detail Kenen's work in the first years of Israel's existence as a state, Barda discovered a lost chapter in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the start of the 1950s, in addition to pouring money into the Marshall Plan to rehabilitate Europe after World War II, the U.S. decided to provide money to Arab states and Israel so they could find a solution to the refugee problem created by the 1948 War of Independence.
The American aid earmarked to solve the issue of Middle East refugees was supposed to have been split evenly between Israel and the Arab states, with each side receiving $50 million to build infrastructure to absorb refugees. The money to take in the Arab refugees was handed over to the U.N. agency founded to address the issue of Palestinian refugees, and the Americans gave Arab countries another $53 million for "technical cooperation." In effect, the Arab side received double the money given to Israel, even though Israel took in more refugees, including ones from Arab nations – Jews who had been displaced by the regional upheavals. The amount Congress allocated to provide for Middle East refugees – Jewish and Arab – at the request of then-President Harry Truman was equal to $1.5 billion today.
We all know that the Jeremy Corbyn cult uses smear tactics. It can be well highlighted by this case study. It is a worthwhile exercise to show just how empty and crudely constructed these smears can be.
My website was attacked on the evening of the 22nd December. It was down for several hours and when the server restored the site, it remained unstable as the new security systems were configured. I have ample proof of the attack. For example there are numerous emails from the host company as they attempted to deal with the problem, including one that confirms a DDOS attack. Someone also kindly archived how the website looked at the time of the attack:
The antisemitic mindset of the Corbyn conspiracy cult
Everyone knows there are bad people in the world who pose a danger. But for the antisemite, this does not hold true for the Jews. In the eyes of the antisemite, the Jews *are* what is bad in the world. So when Jews complain they’ve been hacked, they are lying. When they say they are victims of antisemitic abuse, they are conspiring to smear someone, and even when six million of them ‘go missing’, they have somehow deceived the world just to gain power and make money. It does not matter that in some cases the antisemite has replaced the word ‘Jew’ with ‘Zionist’, the seams always show where it has been stitched in.
So through the eyes of the antisemites, the attack on my website could not be real. It did not take long for someone to write up a version that turned the DDOS attack into a conspiracy to smear Jeremy Corbyn supporters, and of course being Jewish, make some money whilst I did it. On 30th December, the Prole Star upload an article that did just that:
The Prole Star and its editor
The Prole Star is a Jeremy Corbyn support media. It self references as a socialist site ‘counteracting mainstream media bias’. The Facebook page has 6000 followers. On Twitter, they have another 10,000. It seems to rely on freelance writers desperately seeking media to publish their articles. The Editor and chief contributor is Maria Roberts. Roberts has been writing for the Pole Star for over two years.
I don’t know much about her. Her Facebook friends include Jacqueline Walker, Tony Greenstein, Piers Corbyn, Jon Lansman and Grahame Morris MP. Beyond her editorial role at the Pole Star, her profile also suggests she is a Director at a Company called ‘Red Letter Ltd‘. Company House has her using the names ‘Jeanne Roberts‘ and ‘Jeanne Maria Roberts‘. She is listed as holding ‘overall control’. The accounts and Confirmation Statement are also both overdue, so if you are reading this Maria – chop-chop.
Alan Dershowitz: Comparing Trump to the Nazis Is Holocaust Denial
Professor Alan Dershowitz joined FOX and Friends on New Year's Day to discuss a new poll that finds most children are completely ignorant of the Jewish Holocaust in World War II. Dershowitz then went on to say that any of the people today who compare the current US political climate to the Nazis are basically Holocaust deniers. (h/t jzaik)
Jews are white when the left wants to exclude them from
participation in, for instance, the Women’s March. Jews, on the other hand, are
anything but white when the right wishes to exclude them from normative
society.
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Isn’t it nice that we’re so
malleable a people that you can make us be whatever you want to fit your own personal
dynamic—to exclude us from all your ranks at either end of the spectrum?
How accommodating of us.
The truth is, of course, that
Jews can be any color of the human rainbow. The first Jews were nomads in the
Middle East, so they were likely somewhat dark in color. Then as now, however, color
was an unimportant factor in determining one’s Jewish identity. What was and is
important is a belief in one God, matrilineal descent or conversion, and
circumcision for males. These beliefs and activities, rather than the color of
one’s skin, determine whether or not one is a Jew.
If you are a Jew, or you become
a Jew, you were standing there at Mt. Sinai when God gave us the Torah and the commandments.
There was no white privilege in play. We all received the same Torah, the same
commandments. We all said naaseh v’nishma:
we will do and we will listen. We were as one and our God was/is/and always
will be one (and not some trisected or multiple being).
Professor Gunnar Heinsohn,
of the University of Bremen makes the case that Jews were murdered in the
Holocaust not because of race, but because of their Torah values. It makes
sense if you think about it: if the Final Solution had been about skin color,
blacks, Asians, and Hispanics would have been killed in the same numbers, in
the same fashion.
Professor Gunnar Heinsohn
This was obviously not the
case, which leads Heinsohn to view the Holocaust as an event that is uniquely
unique, and not comparable to any other genocide. Hitler’s real goal, according
to Heinsohn, was to exterminate the Jewish people so as to erase Judaism from
world memory as an ethics system. This would enable the Germans to break
whatever commandments they liked with a free conscience. They could do whatever
they wished: murder entire groups of people, weak people, handicapped people,
and minorities; and plunder and conquer territory, without being hampered by morals
or a guilty conscience, all the while claiming superiority over other beings.
Heinsohn lays out his evidence
in a paper called “Hitler
and the Jewish People.” He explains, for instance, that Hitler didn’t
believe in a racist antisemitism, sharing from a letter written to Martin
Bormann, on February 3, 1945:
I have never been of the opinion that the Chinese or Japanese,
for example, are racially inferior. Both belong to old cultures and I admit
that their tradition is superior to ours. […] I even believe that I will find it all the easier to come to an understanding with the
Chinese and the Japanese, the more they persevere in their racial pride. […]
Our Nordic racial consciousness is only aggressive toward the Jewish race. We
use the term Jewish race merely for reasons of linguistic convenience, for in
the real sense of the word, and from a genetic point of view there is no Jewish
race. Present circumstances force upon us this characterization of the group of
common race and intellect, to which all the Jews of the world profess their
loyalty, regardless of the nationality identified
in the passport of each individual. This group of persons we designate as the
Jewish race. […] The Jewish race is above all a community of the spirit. […]
Spiritual race is of a more solid and more durable kind than natural race.
Wherever he goes, the Jew remains a Jew […] presenting sad proof of the
superiority of the ‘spirit’ over the flesh.
Only when it comes to blacks,
in fact, does Hitler betray a streak of honest-to-goodness racism, as in this
passage from Mein Kampf:
From time to time magazines call the attention of the
bourgeoisie to another case of the first Negro
ever to have become a lawyer, teacher, even a pastor or star tenor or the like.
While the feeble-minded bourgeoisie marvels at this miraculous feat of trained
performance, full of respect for this fabulous result of present-day pedagogy,
the Jew slyly takes advantage of the opportunity to construct new proof of the
correctness of his theory of the equality of human beings which it is his
mission to hammer into the heads of the nations. It does not dawn on the
degenerate bourgeois world that in truth what we have here is an offense against
all reason, that it is outrageous lunacy to keep drilling a native anthropoid
until one is convinced of having made a lawyer of him.
Hitler’s racism was real, but racial
theory, says Heinsohn, fails to explain the Holocaust. “According to the logic
of the racist theory, Hitler’s main war should have been waged against black
Africans. But since it was waged against Jews, reasons other than those of
racism must be investigated.”
No. It wasn’t racism, but
something else. Hitler wanted to be free to act without conscience, free to
violate the commandment: “Thou shalt not kill.”
In the first edition of Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that
infanticide is preferable to the modern practice of prophylactic birth control.
“The exposure of sick, weak,
deformed children, i.e. their annihilation, was in reality a thousand times
more humane than the deplorable lunacy of our present-day time,” writes Hitler,
who goes on to speak of an emerging “obsession” with:
“Saving” even the weakest, even the sickest, at all costs. […]
A stronger race will banish the weaker ones, for in the end the instinct to
survive will always break the ridiculous bonds of a so-called humanity of the
individual, allowing the humanity of nature to take its place, a humanity which
destroys the weak to provide space for the strong. Therefore, he who wants to
ensure the existence of the German nation through a self-limitation of its reproductive
process is depriving it of the future.
In case you were wondering,
Hitler tells us straight out where this, in his opinion, false humanity, comes
from. “In recognition of the consequences [of birth control], it is not,
coincidentally, the Jew above all who so skillfully sets about embedding such
mortally dangerous ideas in the minds of our people,” writes Hitler.
At the 1929 party convention in
Nuremberg, Hitler publicly condemned the Jewish way of thinking, in preference
to what he suggested was an older, Indo-Germanic right:
If one million children were born in Germany per year and
700,000 to 800,000 of the weakest eliminated, the final
result might possibly even be an increase of strength. The worst danger is that
we are interrupting the natural selection process ourselves (by caring for the
sick and weak). […] The most far-sighted racial state of history, Sparta,
systematically implemented these racial laws.
Hermann Rauschning, the Nazi
leader of Danzig, wrote a book about a meeting with Hitler in the early 1930’s.
Rauschning summarized Hitler’s remarks in his report as follows:
Our lawyers and lawmakers make a fundamental error in assuming
that one can create life with a code of laws and a constitution. Our revolution
is not merely a political and social one. We face a tremendous upheaval of
moral principles and the spiritual orientation of man. With our movement the
intervening age, the middle age, has come to its end. We terminate a wrong path
of mankind. The Tables of Mount Sinai have lost their validity. Conscience is a
Jewish invention. It is our duty to depopulate, just as it is our duty to provide
appropriate care to the German population. We will have to develop a technology
of depopulation. What do I mean by depopulation, you will ask. Do I intend to
eliminate entire peoples? Yes, more or less. That is where it will lead to.
Nature is cruel. We therefore have the same right. […] For centuries people have
been driveling on about the protection of the poor. The time has come to
address ourselves to the protection of the strong from the inferior. One of the
most important tasks of an eternally valid German politics will be to use every
possible means to prevent the further growth of the Slavic peoples. Natural
instinct commands every living being not only to defeat the enemy but to destroy
him. In earlier ages there existed the good right of the victor to exterminate
entire tribes, entire nations.
Hitler saw Jewish values as a
kind of infectious organism that prevented lebensraum
and with it, Aryan national survival. As early as August 7, 1920, Hitler wrote:
Do not think that you can fight
a disease without killing the causative agent, without destroying the bacillus,
and do not think that you can fight racial
tuberculosis without seeing to it that the nation is freed from the causative
agent of racial tuberculosis. The influence of
Judaism will never fade as long as its agent, the Jew, has not been removed from
our midst.
“The Jewish race is above all a
community of the spirit,” wrote Hitler, almost 25 years later. In one of his
efforts to destroy this “spiritual bacillus” he ordered four priests hung in
Luebeck on November 10, 1943, because they distributed a sermon of Bishop von
Galen which spoke of the Lord pronouncing “Thou shalt not kill” “amidst thunder
and lightning on Sinai.” Their crime was WehrkraftZersetzung,
the destruction of a soldier’s will to fight and kill.
If Hitler served to dehumanize
Jews in the eyes of the people, it was only a means to an end: to motivate the people
to do away with the Jews, so that Germans could be free to murder and plunder
and have the world to themselves. They felt they deserved this, after so many
hard years with a busted economy. Annihilating the Jews was a means to an end.
By the same token, the
contemporary Jewish leftist wants to destroy Judaism and its brightest symbol,
Israel, in order to absolve himself of the guilt of not recognizing God and His
Torah. If Judaism is declared immoral, therefore moot, Jews on the left need
not feel guilty for not following the commandments. This tautology of the contemporary
Jewish left offers a perfect dovetailing with Hitler’s 20th century Nazi
ideology.
Hitler gave the Germans permission
to be morally bankrupt. The fact that they fell in with him so easily, and
cooperated so well, speaks not to Hitler’s force of personality, but to the
fertile ground of the German soul, so conducive to breeding greed, hate,
licentiousness, and murder—as long as all is done in an orderly fashion and
properly recorded for posterity.
What then, is the excuse of the
Jews?
h/t Quirinus Amsterdam
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Tel Aviv, January 2 - Activists and media figures voiced bewilderment today following a display of real, verifiable moral fiber and character on the part of a person showcasing a public measure of care for the oppressed, social justice warriors are reporting.
Witnesses at a rally for the rights of migrant workers in the southern neighborhoods of this Mediterranean city recalled a woman holding a sign that railed against the racism, xenophobia, and other ills plaguing the mostly-African group that arrived illegally over the last decade, who intervened with her body when a migrant attempted to assault a photojournalist who had captured images of other migrants assaulting an elderly woman. The incident shook them, the activists confessed, as they had rarely, if ever, encountered someone who defends the rights of the oppressed yet expects the oppressed to still behave with some sense of decency.
"I'm confused right now, and a little, a little shaken," stammered one demonstrator. "That's not what I'm used to. I still have to process what happened here today. I didn't think anyone was supposed to display any kind of moral consistency or courage in this milieu. My understanding has always been that ethical behavior was something you only demanded of others, and certainly not of the oppressed people with whom you're showing all-important solidarity and allyship."
"It's weird - I don't think I've seen this before," added a second. "Intersectionality's hierarchy implies that you can't require the oppressed to behave by the same standards as the class of oppressors, since those standards are just ways in which the oppressors cement their privilege. That's not what this woman - forgive me for assuming her gender, we just don't know - assumed, obviously, and that's a challenge to our paradigm that I'm having difficulty assimilating."
A third demonstrator contrasted the woman's behavior with the more typical model common in the progressive social justice realm. "Virtue is for signaling, not for practicing," she insisted. "That's why it was OK for Omar Barghouti to pursue a degree in ethics from Tel Aviv University while spearheading the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement against Israel. It's about the noise you make, not the life you lead. It's why Linda Sarsour led the Women's March and bellowed 'MeToo' even as she defended an accused sexual harasser on her staff and refused to believe the accuser. What I saw today made me profoundly uncomfortable, and some of us are going to have to sit down and hash out today's episode so we can decide whether we need to wreck this traitor's life and reputation for her treason."
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