"The events which transpired five thousand years ago;Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determinedwhat will happen five minutes from now; five yearsFrom now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event."
- Dr John Henrik Clarke -
(black), adj. 3a. of, pertaining to the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
HOLOCAUST:
(hol e kost), n. 1a. a great or complete slaughter or reckless destruction of life.
The Black Holocaust is one of the more underreported events in the annals of human history. The Black Holocaust makes reference to the millions of African lives which have been lost during the centuries to slavery, colonization and oppression. The Black Holocaust makes reference to the horrors endured by millions of men, women, and children throughout the African Diaspora. In sheer numbers, depth and brutality, it is a testimony to the worst elements of human behavior and the strongest elements of survival.
Yet no monuments have been made and apologies have been few. Worse still, most of the descendants of those who suffered, struggled and died, are unaware of this Holocaust while others seek to ignore it. One can only imagine the terrible damage placed upon the psyche of a people who seek to ignore or forget the tragedies of their past.
What a world:: Racist Arabs & Islamic bigots call the victims of their racism - "racists"
Forget the fact that Israel is multi-racial for all colors from the whitest of white to the darkest of black, whereas Arab countries (including "Palestinian" authorities") asides from oppressing all non-Arab minorities, are almost entirely "judenrein", but in democratic Israel, an Arab can get the highest office!But the brazenness of Arab racism not only fails to admit of it's racist war on Jews/Israel since the 1920's, but it brands Israel's defense FROM it as "racist"..
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Israelis aren't 'racist' - they're worried Op-Ed Contributors ...Israel's Arab citizens are being drawn toward radicalism by their leadership. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1167467807212
[Racism of] Killing Jews in Israel a young Israeli student at Hebron University was gunned down while jogging through a mixed neighborhood of Jews and Arabs. The al Aqsa Brigade, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yassir Arafat's Fatah movement, joyously claimed credit for the killing of yet another innocent Jew. When it was later learned that the jogger was an Arab-Israeli and not a Jew, al Aqsa quickly apologized to the family, calling it an accident. But the killing of the innocent young jogger was not an accident; the murderer had deliberately taken aim at his head and midsection, intending to end his life. The only thing accidental about the murder was the religion of the victim. The al Aqsa Brigade had sent the assassin to murder a Jew - any Jew, so long as he was a Jew.This is racism, pure and simple. And despite efforts by supporters of Palestinian terrorism to justify the murder of innocent civilians as national liberationor by any other euphemism, this case proves that the Palestinian terrorists targeting of Jews and only Jews - as many as possible - is little different in intent than other forms of lethal or exterminatory anti-Jewish murders (I dont use the term anti-Semitic only because some Arabs claim that because they too are Semites, they cant be anti-Semitic). Obviously the numbers are different, because Israel is capable of defending its Jewish citizens, but if it were not, the goal of Palestinian terrorist groups would not be very different from that of previous groups intent on murdering as many Jews as possible. http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israeljewsracismdersh130112.html
The Hamas advocates Killing Jews, simply for being Jews http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=14650
If justifying the murder of innocents because they belong to a certain hated group is not abject racism, I'd like to know what is.http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999795.html
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MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD 'Racist' speech walkout - Apr 21, 2009 Diplomats from across the world have walked out of a speech delivered by Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a global anti-racism conference, ... http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-ticker/world/2009/04/21/mass-walk-out-at-un-conference-after-racist-iranian-speech.html
Lebanon news - NOW Lebanon -Western leaders horrified at 'racist ...Western leaders horrified at 'racist' Ahmadinejad speech. April 20, 2009. Western leaders recoiled in horror Monday at a fierce anti-Israel outburst by Iran's president at a UN ... http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=89673
When representatives of many Arab and Muslim nations publicly applaud Ahmadinejad's racist rant, the real losers are the Palestinians. ... http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/durbanII
The Islamo Arab CRIME on the 6,000,000 holy innocent victims of the [real] HOLOCAUST
It seems that there's serious desperation on the parts of Arab racist & Muslim fascist propaganda machine, wether originating from 'Palestinian' Pallywood or using the Arab "palestinians" to further the radical Jihadization of their people by the false perception of being the "victim".
Not so long ago it was the usual tirade of terminology like: "massacres", translation, each time the Arab Palestinian butchers (in the name of bigoted Islamism and and/or racist Arabism) failed, or rather succeeded in causing civilian casualties, the Zionists are automatically blamed for the deaths, the higher the civilian casualties, higher is rated their propaganda, such "massacres" have been orchestrated for years.
Then it grew to the term "genocide", it doesn't help how careful Israelis are to minimize civilian casualties by notifying civilians to leave and by risking young soldiers' lives in going door to door on a selective mission to root out terrorists, Israel was, still is, blamed for Palestinians dirty tricks to cause casualties, seeing that the term "massacre" is no longer "fresh", the "genocide" slogan started to appear more and more on 'Palestinian', Islamic mainstream media.
The latest "bombshell" they came up with, all in an attempt to "shock" us is shouting: "Holocaust", translation, Israel's fight against Arab Muslim genocidal campaign in a clear set out goal of total annihilation, is branded so "atrocious", labeling that unique crime title on cowardice (their powerful weapons, which Israel does NOT have are the women and children they hide under) Palestinian (or Hezbollah) lost battles.It entails a few fascist points, First: it seeks to dramatize the fallen as if it is not a battle but a "cold blooded campaign", second: it seeks to diminish the uniqueness of that most outrageous crime in history, that of WW2 (where there was a clear plan to erase an entire creed from the face of the earth, there were no attacks from Jews upon Germans, nor were there any "battles" between the Nazis and all the 6 million or the 1.5 Million Jewish kids slaughtered only for pertaining to a certain origin), third: it seeks to hurt feeling of ALL Jews in the world.
Why? You ask? because they hate, because their hatred of the "other", in particular of the one that is neither all Arab nor all Muslim but pluralistic democracy (though primarily a shelter for Jews seeking refuge), this tiny innocent "entity" in the middle east is too "different" from the Arab Muslim reign of racism, bigotry.
The only silver lining in it is that, they have used up all our sensitivity by now, there's no room for more drama since they have pretty much "used" it all, including the ultimate word though so ridiculously in even mentioning it on their desperation in between their lost attacks on innocent Israelis.
Israel VS Islamo Arab campaign of Genocide.
Attempted Genocide From the Start [1] Israel has always faced (radical) Arab genocide, To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be recalled. [2] It exist a common phrase: 'If the Jews would just lay down their weapons there would be no more Israel' [3].
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The first Arab sponsored terrorist attacks upon Jews occurred in 1920 [4] a highlighted tragedy is The Hebron Massacre of 1929 where thousands of Arabs descended from Har Hebron, shouting "Kill the Jews!" in Arabic [5] [6].
This was not the first mass racist attack by Arabs against unarmed civilian Jews in British Mandate ‘Palestine,’ nor would it be the last attempted extermination. [7].
It was the Mufti who sought to annihilate the tiny State of Israel [8], The Palestinian Mufti's Deal with Hitler: 'Kill All the Jews in the Middle East' [9].
Though Haim Weizmann declared he would accept a Jewish state even with the size of a tablecloth — still, even that was rejected by the Arabs who swore to "throw the Jews into the sea" and attacked in force to fulfill that oath. [10].
What the Fight in Israel Is All About... Spring of 1967 the Arab countries, led by Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt, prepared to attack Israel and, in their own words, “throw the Jews into the sea. [11] [12], the Arab leaders' slogan : We’ll Throw Them into the Sea" [13]
New Radical Islamic Thinking Justifying The Genocide of Infidels [14], Specifically Radical Islam's Threat of Genocide against the Jews is more and more revealed [15][16] [17].
The Palestinians Encourage Genocide [18] and on Palestinian TV openly call: Kill All The Jews [19], Palestinian Muslim cleric urges all Arabs to kill Jews, Christians [20], (Even calling to Kill all Americans [21]), Islamic sermons broadcast on Palestinian Authority have also been openly genocidal [22] An ideology of genocidal radical Islamism - Jihad-Islamism.[23]
At the second Palestinian violent Intifada, they came up with a new (tool in) Genocide: Suicide Bombing, designed to massacre the most masses of civilians possible [24] [25].
An emphasis in radicals' work is indoctrinating Palestinian Children to Genocidal Hate, Imams are extremely influential in successfully emphasizing the goals of jihad and martyrdom [26] Especially the Islamic party: Hamas promotes Islamic supremacy over the world, "The Hamas Ideology of Hatred and Genocide: Islamic supremacy over the world, destroying Israel and Jews [27], vows to 'drink' Jewish blood, group would drink the blood of Jews [28], Hamas Mickey-Mouse-like character to incite for genocide [29], Genocide of Jews remains Hamas goal [30] and declare: "The Final Goal of the Resistance is to Wipe This Entity Off the Face of the Earth" "We are making the preparations for a confrontation. This is not because we need to be prepared for an Israeli act of aggression - after all, aggression is intrinsic to this entity - but because the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity off the face of the Earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out." [31]
Hamas, the Muslim-Brotherhood-linked terror group dedicated to the annihilation of Israel through jihad [32], The people who comprise Hamas are dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and the slaughter of every Jew who lives there [33] in its Charter 1988 it states: 'Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it' ... Hamas wants the ‘islamisation’ of all the Middle East (as a first phase) [34].
In Al-Qaeda's Intellectual Legacy - Islamic Thinking justifying the genocide of infidels, According to al- Ali, all citizens of Israel are to be considered combatants. [35].
In her book 'Lebanon's Hezbollah' (2003, Page 49) Ann Byers writes: 'In the 1990s, Hezbollah was training members of the terrorist groups Al Qaeda... (it supported the PLO as) in its early days the PLO was dedicated to the annihilation of Israel'. [36].
The Hezbollah Founding Statement contains a section titled “The Necessity for the Destruction of Israel,” which reads as follows: “We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve . . . Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. [37]
Hezbollah calling on Muslims to kill all Jewish Israelis with firearms, knives and poison [38]
The widening arena of Hezbollah's attacks stemmed from Nasrallah's perception that Jews anywhere are legitimate targets. In fact, Hasan Nasarallah has said: If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. (Daily Star, Oct. 23, 2002) [39].
More from Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah on Al Manar: "Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan, America, is absolute. Regardless of how the world has changed after September 11, death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America." (House Record: 'war is ugly but tyranny is uglier'). [40], "Martyrdom operations -- suicide bombings -- should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it." [41]
Hezbollah’s renewal of Jihad Genocide on Global “Jewish Targets” (June, 2008) [42].
The 'Muslim Brotherhood's Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi: 'There is No Dialogue between Us and the Jews Except by the Sword and the Rifle' [43]
Islamic Republic of Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has triggered a sharp international response and widespread condemnation [44] [45] (It was not mistranslated [46]). has been described as wanting to carry out another genocide aimed at destroying the State of Israel [47], He 'faced genocide case', in 14 Dec 2006 was expected to be the target of a lawsuit which accuses him of inciting genocide against Israel. [48] [49].
In 2007, Ahmadinejad has threatened (again) the State of Israel with annihilation, Iran: 'Israel, US will soon die' [50]
Even many of 'moderate Arabs' have been accused of this [51], in a poll of February 16, 2007 '75% of Palestinians do not think that Israel has the right to exist' [52].
Jerusalem Post's C. Glick: No Tolerance for Genocide , Genocide: The Spirit of Palestine... in Palestinian society today. It is not just Hamas or Tanzim or Islamic Jihad that we must fight, but Palestinian society itself must be transformed for there to be peaceful coexistence. Poll after poll shows that a solid majority of Palestinians from all socio-economic levels supports suicide bombers and other forms of terrorism against Israel. In fact the polls show that the higher the socio-economic level of the respondents, the stronger their support for terrorism. Virulent, Nazi-style Jew hatred and dehumanization has become for the Palestinians, as for the Germans before them, the central unifying theme of society. The best-seller lists in the PA for years have included such works as Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. [53] [54] [55] [56].
On the so called 'Palestinian documentaries'. T. Menaker: 'College Film Festival: Kill the Jews', It is understandable that the mere existence of Israel in such close proximity is unbearable. What is strikingly serious in all these films is that if one were to count the most often used words, these words would be "humiliation" and "Kill the Jews!" Even in the most peaceful and idealistic documentary... a young boy asked what he wants to do when he grows up is prompted by his father: "Kill the Jews!" When asked to draw a picture of his future he draws himself killing Israelis. [57]
The International Solidarity Movement - a 'Palestinian' propaganda machine, organized many activities, including on US campus, both, the ISM and PSM support in thinly veiled language suicide bombings... in their gatherings the audience chanted "Kill the Jews" - "Ittbach al yahood" in Arabic [58].
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM), its American, student affiliate the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, and other radical left-wing groups label every inch of Israeli territory as “occupied Palestine,” advocate destroying the Jewish State by “any means necessary,” and openly condone terrorism and Muslim suicide bombers as a means for accomplishing this goal. These groups are working to eliminate a population of six million Jews. [59].
At Israel's operation against Hamas terrorists in 'cast lead' [60] December 2008-January 2009, anti Israel Arab Muslim protesters called for Jews to 'Go Back to the Oven', to 'kill all the Jews', or: “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas” [61], Other demonstrators held signs that said "Nuke Israel," and a number made comparisons to the Holocaust [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67].
Phyllis Chesler: Today, we have grown used to seeing Palestinian and Hamas supporters goose-step, Nazi-style, shoot out their arms as they deliver the Hitlerian "Sieg Heil" salute. They also chant and scream: "Jews to the ovens," "Hitler did not kill enough of you," "Jews to the gas chambers." [68].
Letter from President-Elect Barack ObamaFuneral of Rabbi Arnold Jacob WolfDecember 26, 2008Chicago, IllinoisI am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, who was not just our neighbor, but a dear friend to Michelle and me. We are joined in this time of grief by the entire Hyde Park community, the American Jewish Community, and all those who shared Rabbi Wolf's passion for learning and profound commitment to serving others. Today we bid farewell to a titan of moral strength and a champion of social justice.Rabbi Wolf always remained true to the meaning of being a rabbi: he was a teacher. He took great pleasure in delving into Judaism's ancient texts, drawing out lessons about right and wrong, and inspiring young people to engage the world and strive to improve it. He transformed the historic tradition into a catalyst for Tikkun Olam - the sacred pursuit of repairing a broken world in our own time He taught us by example that we must pray not just with words, but with deeds - and that we must truly live the meaning of "love thy neighbor as thyself."In the great Rabbinical tradition, Rabbi Wolf was passionate and provocative in this work - and my conversations with him were always lively. You knew that if he disagreed with you, he would let you know in no uncertain terms - especially if he thought you were overlooking the moral dimensions of an issue, or rationalizing your own failure to live up to the highest moral principles. But he did it with kindness, and often with a smile or a laugh to let you know that even though you were just plain wrong, and had no idea what you were talking about, he still loved you.
Rabbi Wolf's commitment to justice started early in life. As a young rabbi serving at a turbulent time for our nation, he was determined to fight discrimination of any kind, and his involvement in the Civil Rights movement alongside Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel helped strengthen the bonds between the Jewish and African-American communities.Rabbi Wolf embarked on an historic experiment with the founding of Congregation Solel on Chicago's North Shore. Solel, which means "trailblazer," describes him well. He was proud to have Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as an honored guest speaker. He was among the first to introduce to Chicago the writings of Elie Wiesel and Holocaust studies. And he never shied away from controversy or challenge when he saw an opportunity to advance the cause of freedom throughout Chicago and in Jewish homes and classrooms across our country, Rabbi Wolf's name is synonymous with service, social action, and the possibility of change. He will be remembered as a loving husband and father, an engaging teacher, a kindhearted shepherd for the K.A.M. Isaiah community, and a tireless advocate of peace for the United States, Israel and the world.And I will always be personally grateful for the support he showed me as I embarked on my own journey. In a piece Rabbi Wolf wrote on my behalf months ago, he wrote that he was proud to be my neighbor and that he hoped to someday visit me in the White House. In the end, however, the honor was all mine. And while he may not have lived to pay that visit to the Oval Office, I hope that his spirit of love, his love of learning, and his deep dedication to serving others will live on in the work I do each day. May his memory be a blessing and a comfort to us all and an inspiration for the generations to come.
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Truth about Islamic Iranian Ahmadinejad's Genocide Call to wipe off Israel and the "Palestinian" support for it
Ahmadinejad Was Not MistranslatedJune 17, 2008 - 11:32 am A new study by Joshua Teitelbaum of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs sets out to refute the claim that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders are being misquoted when they call for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. As the executive summary states: "What emerges from a comprehensive analysis of what Ahmadinejad actually said - and how it has been interpreted in Iran - is that the Iranian president was not just calling for 'regime change' in Jerusalem, but rather the actual physical destruction of the State of Israel . When Ahmadinejad punctuates his speech with 'Death to Israel' (marg bar Esraiil ), this is no longer open to various interpretations." Download this thorough - and chilling - analysis, in PDF format - http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdfhttp://www.cicweb.ca/scene/2008/06/ahmadinejad-was-not-mistranslated/ 29 Feb 2008 ...Ahmadinejad was not mistranslated, and has in fact reiterated the threat to commit genocide several times, including recently at ... http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/530786/the-mother-of-all-mistranslations.thtml
(Nytimes research debukes Juan Cole and others who tried to claim that Ahmadinejad did "not" call on Israel to be wiped off)Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel? - New York Times... But translators in Tehran who work for the president's office and the foreign ministry disagree with them. All official translations of Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement, including a description of it on his Web site (www.president.ir/eng/), refer to wiping Israel away. ...When combined with Iran's longstanding support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah of Lebanon, two groups that have killed numerous Israelis, and Mr. Ahmadinejad's refusal to acknowledge the Holocaust, it is hard to argue that, from Israel's point of view, Mr. Ahmadinejad poses no threat. Still, it is true that he has never specifically threatened war against Israel.So did Iran's president call for Israel to be wiped off the map? It certainly seems so. Did that amount to a call for war? That remains an open question.Nazila Fathi contributed reporting from Tehran for this article.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11bronner.html?ex=1307678400&en=efa2bd266224e880& amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Was Wiping Israel Off the Map a Misquote? - Michael Rubin (National Review)Some "academics" ... misquoted ... a line which originated with Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor, who wrote: "This idiom does not exist in Persian, and that what Ahmadinejad actually said was, 'This occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.'" But here, the Islamic Republic provides its own clarification. In its official translations, it headlined Ahmadinejad's call to "wipe Israel off the map." http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWEwNDliNzBjYjY3NzQ3ZWM5YWY4ZTc2ZDg4NTg4N2E=
Ahmadinejad: Israel's "annihilation" is a necessary part of the "historic war" between Islam & the West (Al Jazeera). http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-ahmadinejad-means-once-again.html
Since Ahmadinejad's call to "wipe Israel off the map" last October, some academics have claimed the Iranian leader was mistranslated or misunderstood. "Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map, because no such idiom exists in Persian," left-wing University of Michigan professor Juan Cole told the New York Times. "He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse... Since Iran has not attacked another country aggressively for over a century, I smell the whiff of war propaganda." Jonathan Steele of the British Guardian newspaper also told the Times: "The Iranian president was quoting an ancient statement by Iran's first Islamist leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, that 'this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,' just as the Shah's regime in Iran had vanished. He was not making a military threat. He was calling for an end to the occupation of Jerusalem at some point in the future. The 'page of time' phrase suggests he did not expect it to happen soon." Neither of the two have responded to Ahmadinejad's latest clarification and call to action, which were translated and distributed by the Iranian state-run IRNA news agency. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/106893
How Iranian propaganda try to "rewrite" Ahmadniejad's words in blaming it on Israelhttp://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2008/01/24/irib_the_enemy_intends_to_wipe_palestine_off_the _world_map.html
IRAN - Oct 26 - Wipe Israel From Map, Says Ahmadi-Nejad.(Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad)http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11680539_ITM
(Palestinian Islamic) Al-Aqsa: We identify with Iranian remark - 6 Nov 2005 ... Iranian President 'to wipe Israel off world map'; Palestinian preacher calls on Palestinians to support al-Qaeda masterminds Bin-Laden, ...http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3164720,00.html
Aksa Brigades echo Ahmadinejad's call | Middle East | Jerusalem Post6 Nov 2005 ... Why Americans support Israel? It's the "values", stupid ... have refrained from reacting to the call to wipe Israel off the map. ...http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1131043735699&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, told Iranian television that suicide bombing attacks against Israel were justified, especially attacks in buses. He rejected the historical Jewish connection to the Land of Israel and stated that Hamas' avowed intention was to wipe Israel off the face of the map. http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/osama_hamdan0807e.htm
("Moderate Palestinian") Fatah agrees: Wipe out IsraelIn a leaflet published by Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the group stressed its ... who called with all honesty to wipe Israel off the map of the world. ...http://www.jnewswire.com/article/727
Holocaust's unholy hold
The deeper we are stuck in our Auschwitz past, the more difficult it becomes to be free of it.
By Avraham BurgReporting from Nataf, Israel — Even today, when economic storms are shaking markets around the world, posing a threat to the stability of entire countries and societies, Israel continues to conduct its business far from the turmoil, as if swimming in a private ocean of its own. True, the headlines are alerting the public here about the crisis, and the politicians are hastily recalculating their budgets. But none of this is dramatically changing the way we think about ourselves. To Israelis, these issues are mundane. What really matters here is the all-important spirit of Trauma, the true basis for so many of our country's life principles. In Israel, the darkest period in human history is always present. Regardless of whether the question at hand is of the future relations between Israel and our Palestinian neighbors in specific and the Arab world in general, or of the Iranian atomic threat and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it always comes down to the same conversation. Every threat or grievance of major or minor importance is dealt with automatically by raising the biggest argument of them all -- the Shoah -- and from that moment onward, every discussion is disrupted............
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035393.html
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Report: Auschwitz blueprints found in Berlin apartment
By Reuters Tags: Holocaust, Germany, Auschwitz
Original plans for the construction of the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz, including a gas chamber and crematorium, have been found in a Berlin apartment, a newspaper reported Saturday. The daily Bild published copies of some of the 28 plans, which the head of Germany's federal archives, Hans-Dieter Krekamp, called "authentic proof of the systematically planned genocide of the Jews of Europe." Bild gave no indication of where, when or by whom the plans were found. It said they were dated between 1941 and 1943 and stamped, "Waffen-SS and Police Construction Directorate." Some were signed by senior SS officials and one initialled by the head of the Nazi ideological corps, Heinrich Himmler. Kreikamp told the newspaper the documents were "extraordinarily important." One plan, drawn by a detainee as early as November 1941, when experiments in eliminating prisoners were already under way, had a gas chamber clearly labelled, Bild said. Another showed a crematorium with places for ovens marked, and storage space for bodies. The "final solution to the Jewish question", namely the extermination of Jews living in Nazi-occupied Europe in what became known as the Holocaust, was decided by officials of Adolf Hitler's regime in January 1942 at a conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. More than one million Jews, gypsies and others deemed "subhumans" by the Nazis were killed at Auschwitz, near the Polish city of Kracow, out of a total six million slaughtered up to the fall of the regime in 1945. Advancing Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz in January 1945, but camp authorities had blown up the gas chambers, and Holocaust deniers have claimed there was no proof of the camp's purpose.
My father, Louis,has a message for all Jewish voters about why the supports Barack Obama
Please watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylav7dY7SJQ
Dear Friends/family/acquaintances,
I wrote this with many of you in mind, and I am sharing it with as many other people as I can find. I am not mentioning any names here. Those of you who watch Fox national "news" will recognize I am talking to you, and those of you who don't, will recognize my public warning to all.
I am so worried about this country, I don't know what else to do.
I know that the vast majority of my friends, and millions of people like me, would never take Fox national "news" seriously (I am not talking about the local stations here, but the national one on cable). We know that it is entertainment, and we know that the Fairness in Media act does not apply to it because it is cable. With the deregulation of the airwaves and media these last eight years, anything goes. We know that Fox "news" is deliberately extremely biassed to the right, and that its content is designed to get people to support the interests of big business and to to be brainwashed against their own self-interests. We know that they deliberately slander anyone who advocates for the "little guy", because that undercuts the profits of the corporations who pay them to throw their mud. We know no intelligent person would ever think it is "fair and balanced". How could they possibly???????
But they do. Millions and millions of millions of Americans, who still have not gotten the memo that it is merely "entertainment" rather than real news. Millions and millions and millions of people who actually think that because they say the words, "fair and balanced", they actually aspire to be so. I am concerned that if the large corporate interests that give the world Fox news ever wanted to commit a Holocaust, or witch trials, or massive public lynchings, or something as evil as these things, they could seriously get away with it.
I sometimes make myself watch Fox "news", although I know that I will get upset watching it after a very short time. I make myself watch it because I firmly believe I should "keep my friends close, and my enemies closer". So, I force myself to watch it, and I imagine myself getting all of my "News" from this station. If I did, I would probably become very paranoid. I would think liberals and unions were nuts, and minority members were evil. Every "news" story is presented, edited, and exaggerated from that angle. Every story, twenty-four hours a day (I know that because I have watched it all night at times.) The same corporate lies are presented all night long, just like they are during the day.
Lately, I have been sickened by the whole ACORN story, for example, because it is so heavily sensationalized. The lies are fantastic. There were 8 or 9 "news" stories about this, or mentions of it, every hour on Fox "news". Never mind that every credible, sane, unbiassed agency has said that this story is not accurate, and that the lies have been hugely distorted. Fox "news" says it is true, so millions of Americans think it is true.
I recently shared my concerns with an intelligent male friend of our family. This man is a college graduate, has a job with a great deal of responsibillity, and has a great family with several children. He is a mildly religious person, pays his taxes, and is a good all-around citizen. Even though this man in intelligent, I was the first person who told him Fox "news" is not real news. Two weeks later, he said to me, "I have to admit, I did start to notice after awhile that what you are saying is true. Fox is the only "news" station that perpetuates the "stories" they report. All of the other stations are very different. I did not realize that until you pointed it out to me.
What do we do? Imagine if Hitler owned a tv station on cable, and used "news" anchors that were always emotionally charged like the ones on Fox "news". Psychological research shows that when information is presented in ways that evoke emotion, it is remembered more easily, and people are more inclined to act on that information. Fox "news" does this in every segment. If Hitler wanted to motivate people to kill others, he would certainly have started using Fox "news" had it been available to him. Their method of delivering lies and distortions would have made the job easy and effiicient.
"People are too smart for that", some of my friends tell me. These are the same friends who say they do not understand where all of the irrational sentiment is coming from about Barack Obama, or why people bring monkey dolls to McCain/Palin rallies. They don't understand why people are falsely being accused of being "terrorists", and why violent racist acts are increasing all over this country.
But I do understand it, because I have many dear friends and relatives who watch Fox "news", and watch it regularly. They cannot be the only fifteen or twenty people who do. They are religious and secular people alike, peopje who have jobs and families, pay their bills, and are otherwise good citizens, and great people. Not only do they watch it, they believe it, and they don't even question what they are watching. They truly believe that watch they are watching is "news".
I am very worried about this country. I am worried that millions of Americans are psychologically addicted to a "news" source that constantly plays on their emotions, brainwashes them, and feeds them lies about the world. I am worried that if Fox news had any other agenda than their current one of getting people to vote against their own economic best interests, they have enough believers, and they could do pretty much anything they wanted to do, and a sizeable minority of the population would simply follow their suggestion. This is how Hitler attempted to take over the world. Who is the next Hitler? Does he watch Sean Hannity?
There is a saying, "If we don't know history, we are destined to repeat it". One of the most significant events that led up to the Holocaust was the German economy collapsing. Germans needed a scapegoat for their fear.
You may laugh at this suggestion, however, let me remind you of two recent news stories. In one, a man who regularly watched Fox news (books written by some of their frequent guests and anchors were in his home in prominent places), walked into a Unitarian church during a children's pagaent, and murdered a number of people, wounding many more. He said he did it because he hated liberals, gays and black people. This man left a letter saying he had just lost his job and needed a scapegoat.
A month later, a similar story happened when an unemployed man shot the leader of the Democrats in Arkansas.
Even more concerning than just the occasional crazy people who are pushed into acting on their impulses, I am worried about the complacency of the majority. Most of the people who read other newspapers and who know how insanely biassed Fox "news" is, don't recognize the danger in ignoring them. They are not remembering the lessons of the Holocaust. They do not do anything about the daily brainwashing by Fox "news", except to shrug it off and say with a smile, "Come on, people are smarter than that".
Smart people killed millions of Jews, gypsies, academics, homosexuals, developmentally disabled people and others in the Holocaust, too, and not that long ago. Other smart, decent people saw it coming and did nothing.
Pass this on if you care about this country. Or don't. The choice is yours. I hope we don't regret our complacency later.
~ Nancy Cronk
First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
Sarah Palin has been telling anyone who will listen that Barack Obama is "not like us." The Republican rallies are becoming increasingly venomous. Barack Obama's middle name--Hussein--is used as a slur, to prove his differentness, and to foster the idea that he somehow has ties to the Arab world, and by extension, terrorism. It's working. Audience members shout that he should be killed, that he is a terrorist. Even uniformed police officers, who should know better, fan the flames.
Speaking for McCain, Michael Goldfarb berated Obama's sentiment inscribe in the visitors' log at the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem. The McCaine spokesperson said, "Today he says 'never again.' A year ago stopping genocide wasn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces in Iraq. Doesn't that strike you as inconsistent?" McCain has fail to renounce Goldfarb's comment made on his behalf.
A year ago, Obama indicated that United States cannot use its military to solve the world's humanitarian problems. If McCain believes that it IS the United States' duty to use our military to stop humanitarian genocides, then why hasn't McCain pushed for military intervention elsewhere. Iraq reportedly was responsible for the genocide of almost 25,000 Kurds in 1986-88. A horrible number, but not as great as elsewhere in countries where McCain failed to support US intervention.
Indonesia killed over 100,000 Papuans, but McCain never suggested US military intervention in West New Guinea for humanitarian reasons. Mengistu killed over half a million in Ethiopia, but McCain never suggested US military intervention for humanitarian reasons. Since we have been in Iraq, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus report by Rep. Tom Lantos and Rep. Frank Wolf reported on some of North Korea' genocides, "Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have crossed the border into the Peoples Republic of China....China's policy has been to repatriate defectors back to North Korea where they face imprisonment, torture, and execution for the "crime" of leaving their homeland.". This is only of of North Korea's genocides. US Congressmen attended the North Korean Genocide Exhibition in 2004. The US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, issued a report in 2003. He reported "extreme phenomena of repression ... unique to North Korea." Korea practices "ethnic infanticide", forced abortions and murder of inter-racial babies ( North Korean and Chinese) to create babies with the pure blood of the "master race", North Korean. In neither case has McCain called for US military intervention for humanitarian purposes. The lists goes on and on where McCain has not called for US military intervention to stop genocides, Darfur, Tibet, Chad, and Zimbabwe.
Perhaps McCain doesn't understand Jesus' teaching in Matt 7:5, "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck of sawdust from your brother's eye."
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Chapter 12
Three of Mrs. Downs’ history classes were reading about the
Holocaust. They were discussing the events that led up to War World
II. For the next six weeks, the classes would combine for two hours
in the media room.
Mrs. Downs looked at the children’s faces. This was a very
sensitive topic, but it was an important part of history. She wanted the
class to understand the depth of Hitler’ hatred and how he used that
hatred to manipulate a country and commit mass genocide.
She thought about recent hate crimes and knew that the potential
of a mass genocide was always possible, as long as people continued
to judge their neighbor based on their race, class, or religion. Children
that were considered outcasts, different from the main stream, were
responsible for several mass school killings. They were children in
pain. She thought if children could understand the consequences of
hatred and cruelty, a dialogue could help prevent another tragedy.
Mrs. Downs began her lecture. “Leading up to today’s lessons, we
have been discussing Hitler’s first failed revolt and how he used the
decline in the economy to turn Aryan individuals against the rest of the
population.
“Hitler took advantage of the German economic struggle to
convince the Aryan population that the Jews and other racial and
religious groups were responsible for their financial woes. He
promised more jobs, greater profits and a stronger army. He
convinced them that in order for them to be successful, they would
have to rule Germany and he would be their leader. Adolph Hitler took
office January 30, 1933 as Prime Minister of Germany.
“Hitler believed that the only group of individuals that should live
had blond hair, blue eyes, and were of Germanic heritage. These
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people were called Aryans. He believed in racial purity, and
superiority of the German race.
“The Holocaust was not just about Hitler’s hatred of the Jews. His
genocide extended to Romanians, Serbs, Jehovah Witnesses,
Homosexuals, Communists, the elderly, handicapped, mentally ill,
beggars, Russian prisoners of war, Gypsies, African-German
children, and individuals born deaf and blind.”
Mrs. Downs concluded her talk by reviewing a bulleted time-line.
* March 1933- the first concentration camps were opened.
ideas were burnt. They included books written by Albert Einstein,
Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Helen Keller and
many others.
Jews were no longer citizens of Germany. Many of them were fired
from their jobs and ordered to sell their property and businesses to
Germans at lower prices.
* March 13, 1938- Hitler took over Austria
SS members looted Jewish stores and homes. Synagogues were
burnt. Jews were murdered.
* September 1, 1939- Nazis invade Poland.
passengers escaping the Nazis were denied entrance into Cuba and
the United States. The ship turned back to Europe. Passengers sought
asylum in Belgium, Holland, England and France. Only the two
hundred and eighty-eight that sought refuge in England survived the
war.
thousand women and children, one million Jews and hundreds of
thousands of innocent people.
were forced to wear armbands to identify themselves as Jews. Cattle
cars were filled with a hundred people at a time, killing them with
poisonous gas. Men were led into bathhouses where poison pellets
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were dropped in through an opening in the ceiling. The bodies were
later burned. Others were shot and tortured.
six million Jews, of which 1.5 million were children. thirty thousand
Gypsies, individuals born deaf and blind, five hundred African–
German children, Romanians, Serbs, homosexuals, communists, the
elderly, two hundred thousand handicapped, mentally ill, beggars, and
Russian prisoners-of-war.
Jennifer was in tears. “Mrs. Downs, how could this happen? Why
didn’t anyone help? Why did the United States deny the passengers
entrance into our country? We have immigrants from many countries.
Why did we let so many people die before we entered the war?”
The bell rang. Mrs. Downs hated to leave the class like this. She
called Jennifer to the front of the class after it was over and spoke with
her. She made sure she was okay, and wrote her a note to return to class.
“Class, quickly take your seats. We have two guests with us today,
Devorah Rosenberg and Maria Manning, both survivors of the
Holocaust. Children, please welcome our guests. I will let each visitor
introduce herself.”
“Good morning. First of all, thank you Mrs. Downs, for inviting me
to tell my story.
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“I was born in Germany in 1925. I am Jewish. My father owned
a neighborhood bookstore. I had two brothers, Daniel and Aaron.
“Our lives were filled with joy until 1933 when Hitler took office.
Hitler blamed my people for all of the economic problems in Germany.
He ran on a platform based on hatred for any group that was not what
he considered to be the perfect race.
“At first, people continued to shop at our store. In March of 1933,
people were prohibited from buying from Jewish stores. That May,
Nazis broke into my father’s store, threw all the books into the street,
and burned them.
“My parents were brave. I heard them cry all night in their room.
My father had no other livelihood. We were barely surviving. Hitler
had opened concentration camps in Dacha, Germany not far from us.
I was afraid we would be next to leave our homes. My father was
trying to get us out of Germany. He still had a few connections.
“In 1935, a law was passed declaring that Jews were no longer
citizens of Germany. All Jews were fired from their jobs and forced
to sell their business and their property. The Nazis forced us to sell our
property for almost nothing. Our only hope of survival was to leave the
country.
“The Nazis came for my father and brothers first. I watched as
they put them in a freight car with many other people and drove away.
My mother and I ran after the car crying, knowing that it might be the
last time we saw the rest of our family.
“The car stopped down the road. At first we thought they had
changed their minds, and were going to allow them to stay with their
families. We waited for what seemed like hours, and then saw them
drag out dead bodies and load them onto a truck.
“My mother screamed. I collapsed in my mother’s arms not truly
understanding what had happened. My mother tried to get me away
from the scene before I saw my brothers and father’s dead bodies
dragged out onto the street. As I saw them bringing out my brothers,
I froze. I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. All I could see was
my brothers’ faces.
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“The Nazis took the rest of us to the ghetto. My father had hidden
what little money we had to help my mother barter her way out of
Germany. It was a long wait, but finally we were smuggled out of the
“By this time, there was no escape from Hitler’s reign. He had
seized most of Europe. We prayed that we would escape death at the
hands of the exterminators. We knew we could just as easily die from
starvation as execution.
“My mother was very ill and couldn’t hang on any longer. She
knew her fate, so she took her own life rather than die at the hands of
the Nazis.
“I was left an orphan. My aunt did her best to feed and care for me
as if I were her own. Many of the young girls were raped by the Nazis
and forced to work as their maids.
“That is how I survived until the end of the war. I cooked and
cleaned the gatehouse for my keep. I would sneak food back to the
camp for as many as I could help. After the war, I was able to leave
and come to the United States with my aunt. It was only then that I
was able to mourn the death of my family and many friends.”
As Mrs. Rosenberg told her story, the children saw tears in her
eyes. At certain moments she would pause, gather her composure,
and begin again. Jennifer went up to Mrs. Rosenberg and hugged her.
They just looked at each other as tears rolled down their cheeks. Mrs.
Downs gave Mrs. Rosenberg a few minutes before they continued.
Later, Mrs. Downs introduced Mrs. Manning. Mrs. Manning had
blue eyes and blond hair. She looked like the people that Hitler
described as “perfect.” Why was she here? Why was she a Holocaust
survivor?
“My name is Maria Manning. I am a Holocaust survivor. I was
born in Germany in 1925. My family and I are Jehovah’s Witnesses.
My father was a religious man. In our religion, we believe that all races
are equal in the sight of God. Jehovah’s Witnesses do not support any
movement motivated by racial or ethnic hatred.
“When Hitler took over as chancellor of Germany, my father was
one of the first to speak out. He would not support “Hitler’s campaign
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of hatred.” We knew that the time would come when my father would
be forced to pledge his allegiance to Hitler or be arrested. We knew
my father would never join Hitler’s army.
“We continued to meet with other Witnesses and spread our word.
My mother wanted my father to hide, but he refused. My mother
would not support Hitler, but she wanted her family to be safe.
“Finally the day came that my father would make the ultimate
choice. The SS men banged on the door. They spoke with my father.
He refused to join the army and was arrested. He was labeled an
enemy of the state. My family was sent to a concentration camp. The
Nazis felt that in time they could break my father’s spirit.
“Five thousand, nine hundred and eleven Jehovah Witnesses were
arrested from 1933 to 1935. Over two thousand were executed. My
father and brothers were executed on March 24, 1934. I survived,
despite malnutrition and bad living conditions. It is as true now as it was
then, just like Mrs. Rosenberg, that my faith has sustained me.”
“Thank you so much for coming to our class Mrs. Rosenberg and
Mrs. Manning. If you don’t mind, the children have some questions.”
Rita raised her hand. “Mrs. Rosenberg, do you hate Germans?”
asked Rita.
“I won’t lie to you,” replied Mrs. Rosenberg. “The day I saw my
father and brothers murdered, I hated the Nazis with everything in me.
I wanted to kill them. Thank God my mother was a woman of great
faith. She would not allow me to retaliate. I finally realized that if I
continued to hate, then I was no better than my father’s executor.
“Mrs. Manning, I know that your dad was a religious person, but
you were a child. How did you feel about your father’s sacrifice? Did
you feel cheated?” asked Randy. “I mean if your dad had joined the
army, he might still be alive.”
“Although I was young,” replied Mrs. Manning, “I respected and
believed in the doctrine of the church. My dad was the head of our
household. If he had compromised his beliefs, then our religious beliefs
would have been founded on a lie. If my father had turned his back on
his religion to save his family, he would have been dead to himself. My
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father would not have shot another man or pledged allegiance to Hitler,
even if it resulted in his own death.”
The bell rang and the children slowly exited the class. Jennifer
stood in the doorway thinking. It was too much information to process
at one time. The scariest part of the lesson was that even today there
are people that hate others based on their color, religion, or class.
People hated people just because they were different.
Mrs. Downs always said if we did not study history, it would repeat
itself. Would there be another Holocaust in our lifetime? She prayed. silently that we would learn
from our past.
"God says in Jeremiah 16 - 'Behold I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave unto their fathers' - that would be Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - 'Behold I will send for many fishers and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them' - that will be the Jews - 'from every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the Holocaust... you can't see that. So think about this - I will send fishers and I will send hunters." -Pastor John Hagee
This profound display of theological buffoonery approaches the outer limits of incredulity. This is the Mecca of relativism as regards scriptural interpretation. Jeremiah 16:16 has been related to the Egyptians of antiquity, the Chaldeans, the Persians, the Medes, and even the Apostles of Jesus. The reference to the holocaust is just one more addition to the litany of scriptural assessments that have amassed to cloud the original meaning in a lasting and eternal doubt. Whatever Jeremiah had in mind, we may never really know. The best take would be to relate something in the immanent future or recent past within the time of this prophet. That would favor the Egyptians or the Chaldeans. Taking it to the Hitler regime is going beyond the irrational to pure conjectural stupidity.
At the crux of this resounding idiocy lies the eternal bid to align a loving God with the existence of evil. Trying to legitimize a fallacy yields repugnance. What is even more repulsive about John Hagee's remarks is the mental captivity of the thousands if not millions of people who regularly listen and attend to this lunacy. As if there is no further to go, we have the ambitions of a man seeking the presidency of the United States driving this high office into associations that border on insanity, explained and excused by the pragmatism of national politics. Stranger bedfellows have rarely surfaced. Despite the belated rejection of Hagee's endorsement, John McCain exposed a sickly and dangerous rift in the fabric of human intellect bogged down by the ignorance of the masses which demands capitulation to the irrational dialogue of religious intransigence.
To signal the absence of an end in sight to this madness, Hagee goes yet another furlong by bringing in an aging Jewish "authority" to stand with him and rubber stamp the catastrophically ridiculous mix of the holocaust with the prophecy of Jeremiah. I thought that church and state were to be separate entities within the framework of a government dedicated to freedom of speech and protection from religious incursion. I still think that and shudder each time the ugly head of religious insolence rears itself in politics at the national level.
John McCain is not a religious fanatic seeking to trumpet his zeal to a spiritually thirsty constituency. He's at best a moderate looking to win a campaign. He, like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and anyone else seeking the office of president must find a connection to the hundreds of millions of Americans who live by faith one way or another. This violates Article 6 of the Constitution which shields office holders and seekers from any test of religion. Article 6 continues to be overlooked in elections which constantly demand from the candidates, a high profile salute to the seemingly immortal reign of religious intolerance.
RWH 5-24-2008
So, tell me if I understand this right: it had to take resounding admiration of Adolf HItler and the Holocaust for John McCain to reject John Hagee's endorsement of his campaign? And this man says he has the judgment to be President ... or has he just been having a long senior moment? (Please, no offense intended to seniors!)
I originally brought up this subject earlier this month and judging by the comments and the public awareness, but I recently saw these comments played on Countdown and Verdict on MSNBC. So, I thought his would be a good time to revisit this critical issues. Please read the following message and spread the word to everyone you know. It is important that the public is aware of these disturbing comments.
Hello all, I don't know how you all feel about John McCain, but I'm pretty sure you find the Holocaust as one of the most horrific events in history. Well, I urge you to watch this video of John McCain supporter, John Hagee in which he claims that the Holocaust was a justifiable, God created event, through absolutely outrageous language that can not and should not be tolerated. John McCain actively sought out the support of Mr. Hagee throughout the Republican primary, and his willing association with a man who could make such comments says something very significant about his judgment. Please watch this video, take a stand and make the public aware of such a willing association, and such hateful speech. Thank you, Chris Comninel
May all of Senator Obama's supporters follow his example and actual words about the Holocaust, genocide, Israel, and anti-semitism. Barack Obama's official statement on May 2, 2008, Holocaust Remembrance Day:
"Today, we remember the light that was brought into the world by each of the six million Jews who lost their lives in the Holocaust, as well as the terrible darkness of the Nazi genocide. We also renew our commitment to combat the scourge of anti-Semitism everywhere, and to stand up against extremism and prejudice of any form. Let us resolve to confront genocide and work to prevent mass atrocities, beginning with greater action to stop the killing in Darfur. And let us stand with the Jewish State of Israel, a strong and resilient democracy that emerged out of the shadow of the Holocaust, but which still has enemies that threaten its destruction. The years may pass, but our memory of the Holocaust will never fade. Instead, it guides our commitment to honor those who were lost, recall the crimes that were committed, and work for a more just, peaceful, and hopeful future for all people." From the transcript of the February 26 Ohio debate:
"Today, we remember the light that was brought into the world by each of the six million Jews who lost their lives in the Holocaust, as well as the terrible darkness of the Nazi genocide. We also renew our commitment to combat the scourge of anti-Semitism everywhere, and to stand up against extremism and prejudice of any form.
The years may pass, but our memory of the Holocaust will never fade. Instead, it guides our commitment to honor those who were lost, recall the crimes that were committed, and work for a more just, peaceful, and hopeful future for all people."
From the transcript of the February 26 Ohio debate:
SENATOR OBAMA: "And the reason that I have such strong support is because they know that not only would I not tolerate anti-Semitism in any form, but also because of the fact that what I want to do is rebuild what I consider to be a historic relationship between the African-American community and the Jewish community. You know, I would not be sitting here were it not for a whole host of Jewish Americans, who supported the civil rights movement and helped to ensure that justice was served in the South. And that coalition has frayed over time around a whole host of issues, and part of my task in this process is making sure that those lines of communication and understanding are reopened."'
My comment added to Senator Obama's statement in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day:
The word 'genocide' had to be invented to describe the enormity of the crime of the Holocaust. More than 10 million people were targeted for state-sponsored mass murder by the Nazis, including six million Jews as determined by 'racial heredity', not by religious practice. The other four+ million included Roma (gypsies), homosexuals, Slavs, communists, and many good people of Christian faith who tried to say no. I would like to remember the countries who took European Jewish refugees when no one else, including the United States, would: Sweden, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and China. I also want to honor the memories of all the righteous Christians of Europe who risked their lives to save their neighbors and friends, especially Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat in Hungary who helped tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, and then disappeared into Soviet prison camps.
Nevermind country lines. We share this planet and our brothers and sisters need help. This is a holocaust.
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