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NEVER AGAIN? ( WHY NOT? ) PART
1: THE PROCESS OF CONCENTRATION Historical and Investigative Research
- 29 August 2013 1 | 2 | 3
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the Jews—as a first step towards destroying everybody’s liberties—have a
(shall we say) professional
interest in Nazi methods. But those who, conversely, wish to avoid
anti-Semitic genocides—and the Western collapses they drag in their
train—should also study such methods and draw the proper lessons for their
self-defense. Alas…! The powerful
anti-Semites have been good scholars; ordinary Jews—and ordinary Westerners
more generally—not so much. And so, as Santayana once explained, we are
condemned to repeat our history. But let’s try anyway (I am
a sucker for lost causes). To establish the probability of another
anti-Semitic Holocaust we shall examine the close structural parallels
between the WWII situation and present-day realities. Each installment will
address a different aspect of the structure. We all remember this bit of phone-company marketing
wizardry. We see the technician, cellphone in hand, traveling, testing, further each time—so far, in fact,
that soon clouds float below his mountaintop. “Can you hear me now?” Yes. They can always hear him. I can’t get it out of my head, so similar is this ad
to my own experience. Except with me the answer is always no: you cannot hear me. For ten years
and counting I go further each time, dig more information, and my outrageous
predictions, each time, come true. “Can you hear me
now?”, I ask (a bit pathetically). No... You can
never hear me. (I can see why all the prophets became misanthropes.) Someone who does
hear me recently suggested the problem is marketing. I must put the entire
structure together. Use attractive prose, she advised. Be brief, she
admonished. I’ll try. Here, then, is my latest attempt to be heard, as I
explain once again why (if current trends continue) Israel will be destroyed
and the West as we know it finished. In each installment, I will point out
the close parallels between WWII and our own times. Strong sell? Enjoy! Part 1: The process of concentration That was
then... Very broadly, the German Nazi strategy was like
this: first, concentrate the victims, then proceed to murder. Why? Because order must be
preserved until the last minute. This is not a mere outcome of German personality
traits; it is the answer to a practical problem: ideally, the victims of
genocide should hold still while
you kill them. If they are running chaotically, hiding, or, even worse, defending themselves, all sorts of
things can and will go wrong, leading to fewer victims killed, and,
conceivably, program derailment, perhaps even revolution. So first one must shape a process around the
victim’s psychology by presenting always a choice: give up your job or else; hand over your possessions or else; move to the ghetto or else; get on the train or else... This is not simply a process of material deprivation
and geographical clustering but of mental
collapse. To have a choice is crucial. If not—if from day one
we know they mean to kill us—we are more likely to run, or hide, or fight.
But presented with a choice between a) expedient murder, and b) something
disagreeable, hope intervenes and
we buy another day with option ‘b.’ In a stepwise descending scale, every new
option ‘b’ becomes increasingly appalling, yet we choose it again for the
promise it holds of avoiding murder. And so the victim cultures the illusion,
step by degrading step, that she is somehow cooperating with the unfolding
nightmare of debasement, humiliation, and slavery. This destroys the victim
inwardly. For to choose each time not to go down fighting is to learn
(subliminally) that a life so dishonored must have no value. By the end, upon
arrival at the place of concentration, the morale breakdown is so complete
that victims lay themselves to rest without a fight. All of which saves enormous costs in manpower and
ammunition. But to the killers the most important benefit is this: it avoids revolt. A people does not
revolt as a spontaneous mass actuated by a common telepathic spirit; it
coalesces around a conscious vanguard that lights the way, sets the brave
example, and exhorts them to action: a
leader. The Nazis understand this.
So The Lie at the heart of every
option ‘b’—the lie of peace (“you
will not be killed”)—must be delivered to the Jewish people by their own
‘leaders,’ either recruited or created by the Nazis for this very purpose. In
this way, revolt becomes unimaginable. (For who would lead it?) Because the Jews, you see, are innocent. Innocence, though somewhat endearing, is an often problematic
side-effect of ingesting large amounts of ethics. Many Jews are afflicted
with innocence because at the heart of Judaism is the reproduction and study
of History’s most influential book of ethics: the Tora. The book has become culture, so
innocence afflicts even many ‘secular’ Jews who believe themselves uninterested
in the Tora. An innocent person imagines that deep
down all human beings are basically good; Anne Frank—a secular Jew—expressed
this belief in her diary, even though she knew that outside her hiding place
hordes of monsters sought to find her and torture her to death—an adolescent
girl!—because she was Jewish. Importantly, innocent people have trouble believing
that someone is the leader who is not the designated
leader. Neither can they imagine the designated leader not being a proper leader. And so they make themselves believe that
(somehow…) their leaders must be looking after their interests, for they
wouldn’t say “get on the train to the work camp” if the train were not going
there, and if this were not the wisest course of action. To give just one example, in Hungary 400,000 Jews
stepped onto the Nazi trains taking them to Auschwitz-Birkenau
because their own Rudolf Kastner assured them that
a deal had been worked out with the Nazis. If they were obedient and got on the trains without a fuss, he
told them, they would be taken to work camps. They would not be killed. Kastner was the head of the Jewish Agency’s Hungarian
Rescue Committee, the body officially tasked with saving the Jews from slaughter. Kastner knew that they were going to Auschwitz. ...and this is
now There are some interesting differences today.
Whereas the outright Nazi occupation of Europe facilitated a lightning pace
of civilian destruction, the postwar process must lay the ground for genocide
more ponderously. Last time there were many concentration camps, now just the
big one: Israel. Arriving Jews are not immediately killed. If you ignore the
Shadow Of Mordor growing all around, it often does feel inside like a proper ‘work camp’
where industrious Jews can prosper. And undeniably, it is beautiful. Many
Jews not under duress freely elect to go live there. But the more traditional (and powerful) mechanisms
are also at work. Adjusted for scale, the structural similarities to World
War II are striking. Many Jews are made to choose between
a) the persecution/murder combo, and b) migration to Israel. A
dramatic case is the assault against the Jews of the Arab Muslim world that
raged from 1947, when the UN approved the creation of a Jewish state—and
(mind you) an Arab state too—in
what had been British Mandate Palestine. As the children of Moses took option
‘b’ and left with the shirts on their backs, Arab Muslim states were emptied
of Jews and the population of Israel nearly doubled. Over 70% of the refugees chose Israel. A huge boost to the
concentration process. In recent decades there has been another such boost.
Thanks to aggressive policies favoring Muslim immigration to Europe and the
resulting wave (hardly ever reported in the media) of anti-Semitic violence
it has unleashed, remaining European Jews have been steadily flushed to
Israel. But the concentration process goes beyond bringing
all Jews into the same place; it involves, in addition, reducing that place
and packing them ever more tightly. As the popes often did when they redrew
in collapsing concentric circles the boundaries of the ghettoes, so the
‘international community’ (read: the US ruling elite and its proxies) seek to
remove as much territory as possible from Israel, cleanse any Jews from the
amputated territories, and bunch them all together in the remaining
claustrophobic ‘space.’ The Gaza ‘Disengagement’ was the dry run for what now
follows. And what follows concentration, recall, is murder. The process of morale breakdown is eerily similar to
what took place in World War II. The Israeli Jews are made to witness the
spectacle of their craven ‘leaders’ stooping their noses to the ground—under
the wrathful gaze of their Lord Protector and Best Friend—to comply with the
absurd demands of their enemies. And this happens again, and again, and
again. And each time it is worse. Just recently (for example), under US government pressure, Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to
release over 100 Arab murderers of innocent Jews merely to beg PLO/Fatah (read: the ‘Palestinian
Authority’) to sit and talk about
getting everything it imperiously demands. Netanyahu, at the tail end of a
long process of progressive capitulation, is no longer stooping but digging. Since they are told they live in a ‘democracy,’
Israeli Jews internalize that they are somehow cooperating with all this. All of which, ad nauseam, ad infinitum, drills into the mind (subliminally) that the lives
so repeatedly dishonored must have no value. The victims, destroyed inwardly
thus, and emptied of all desire (beyond a pathetic yearning to earn polite
applause from antisemites), prepare to lay themselves again to die. The entire process, as before, requires The Lie: that if Jews debase themselves one more time (and then another…)
there will be peace. And The Lie, once again, must come from their own leaders—preferably from the lions who promised
so loudly never to give an inch. Revolt thus becomes unimaginable. For who
will lead it? Wasn’t Netanyahu supposed to lead it? We live and die in cycles, so the spectating Jew,
ever innocent (Alas…!), makes himself believe, yet again, that
the designated leaders (somehow…) know what they are doing, that they are
(somehow…) defending Israel, that they have (somehow…) a clever strategy! Event horizon The ‘event horizon’ is the point of no return beyond
which any object trespassing the boundary will be
sucked into the Black Hole at the center and destroyed. The boundary itself
is invisible and nothing noticeably dramatic happens at the moment of
crossing. And yet all is lost. For even should a ship now swivel into the
opposite direction with thrusters at Maximum Warp it will not escape but
continue headlong and ever faster into the void. In the World War II Shoa (‘Holocaust’) the event
horizon is the moment of boarding the train, beyond which only bureaucratic
and logistic details—transportation, then gassing—remain. For once on the
train you are boxed in. Even should
you now, belatedly, decide to fight, you cannot move. There is no space. Question: When will the Israeli Jews get on their train? Answer: When they allow
their enemies their (quite obvious) goal: to box them inside an indefensible
territory. After this, only bureaucratic and logistic details remain. The Israeli Jews will survive only if they decide—now—that
it’s okay to inconvenience the antisemites waiting by the train. They must revolt. If they do they will
win: for when they choose to fight the Jews have no equal. It’s decision time: the “All aboard!” has sounded. (Can you hear me now?)
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