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THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH An HIR series
________________________________________________________ Introduction The simplest way to explain
why the European Jews were exterminated in World War II is like this: at the
time, the conditions were just right to produce an extermination of the
European Jews. But this explanation is too simple to be useful, so we must
specify, at least minimally, what those conditions were that produced the
Shoah (Holocaust). I believe the main conditions are five: 1) A group
with an antisemitic and genocidal ideology, the German Nazis, controlled a
great many resources, whereas the Jews were in a weak position relative to
this power. 2) A great
many people came to believe, absurdly, as a result of massive propaganda,
that they were in mortal danger from ‘the Jews,’ and that they therefore
needed to defend themselves from ‘the Jews.’ Many ordinary people, in
consequence, either did not oppose, or else cooperated with, the Nazi power
directly in charge of the Final Solution. 3) The
democracies also did not oppose, or else they cooperated with, the progress
of antisemitism and then the Final Solution. 4) Incredibly,
many mainstream Jewish leaders preached to the Jews that they should not
defend themselves, and they also sabotaged the efforts of those Jews who did
mount a defense (see Part 1). 5) Incredibly,
many ordinary Jews chose to ignore the obvious signs that they would be
exterminated, heeding their leaders’ calls not to defend themselves, or else
choosing to defend themselves when it was much too late. Between five and six
million Jews perished in one of the worst human disasters in recorded history
because the above five conditions simultaneously manifested themselves. Now, one may legitimately complain that the above is not very satisfying.
One should want to know, after all, why the above five conditions came
about -- at least if one is interested in making sense of history. However,
the minimal and very general explanation of the Shoah contained in the above
five conditions has a virtue: it provides a simple checklist by which we can
predict that another such massive Catastrophe is about to take place. In
other words, if we are agreed that the above five conditions are broadly
responsible for many millions of Jews dying in the mid-twentieth century,
then we are entitled to expect that millions of Jews will again perish if and
when the above five conditions recur. And so, if we are neither antisemites,
nor imbeciles, nor moral cowards, we can work to prevent the next
Catastrophe if we see that the above five conditions are once again being
brought about. HIR has published much material supporting the view that the first
three conditions are manifesting themselves today (consult the footnote).[1]
The present series on the problem of Jewish self-defense is concerned with
documenting that conditions four and five are also manifesting themselves. I have divided Jewish leaders into the following four useful
categories: Part 1.
Diaspora Jewish organizations during WWII Part 2.
Diaspora Jewish leaders today. Part 3.
Israeli leaders today. Part 4.
Israeli leaders in WWII (coming...) Beyond this, in Parts 5
and 6, I will examine the problems ordinary Jews have with self-defense, and
the reasons why they allow themselves, with disastrous results, to be led by
such people. |
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________________________________________________________ | A | Jewish leaders in the Diaspora Jewish leaders in the Diaspora are not better today than they were in
World War II. A full documentation of their activities would keep us here
forever, so I will focus on a number of prominent examples that will be
sufficient to make my case.
In Part 1 we have seen that Reform Rabbi
Stephen Wise -- the most important American Jewish leader of his day -- was
terribly destructive to the effort to rescue the desperate European Jews. As
we also saw, most Jews are completely ignorant of this history, which
helps explain what otherwise would be a colossal absurdity: the fact that
they celebrate the memory of Stephen Wise and name synagogues and streets
after him. But why so much
ignorance about something so important? Here is a clue: “At one time
or another, and often simultaneously, Stephen Wise was president or chairman
of a bewildering number of organizations, among them: the American Jewish
Congress, which he founded; the Zionist Organization of America; the United
Palestine Appeal; the World Jewish Congress, which he co-founded with Nahum
Goldmann; and the American Jewish Conference, an umbrella group of dozens of
US Jewish and Zionist organizations.”[2] In other words, the
organizations that are dominant in the Jewish mainstream today -- the ones
that, by educating the new generations of Jews about what happened in World
War II, might be helping protect the Jewish people from the next massive
attack -- were created by Stephen Wise and his colleagues. What follows? That
these organizations will prefer that their shameful past not be properly
understood, and hence will not educate the Jewish people. Consider what
happened in 1981. In that year, there was an effort to change the dangerous
and absurd state of Jewish ignorance about the role of the American Jewish
leadership in sabotaging the defense of the Jews during WWII. A semi-official
commission would study this chapter in history and inform the public.
Holocaust survivor Jack Eisner is who came up with this idea, and he was
going to provide the financing, but in the end he didn’t because, according
to him, the people involved in the commission were going to “whitewash the
truth” rather than make it transparent. Should this be
surprising? I don’t think so. “Among the
members [of the proposed commission] were Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman, Rabbi
Arthur Hertzberg, Hon. Philip Klutznick, Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, Dr. Bruno
Bettleheim, Dr. Martin Peretz, Judge Simon Rifkind, Rabbi Arthur Schneier,
Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum and Mr. Sol Chaikin.”[3] I will not indict
every member of the above proposed commission; for example, Martin Peretz is
an opponent of the Oslo Process and a critic of the current Jewish
leadership: he at least sounds like a Jewish patriot.[4] But someone like Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg does give
cause for concern. You see, this mainstream Jewish leader has been “president
of both the American Jewish Policy Foundation and the American Jewish
Congress, [and] vice president of the World Jewish Congress.”[5] In other words, he has been a leader of the very
organizations that were created by Stephen Wise and Nahum Goldmann. Given that institutions survive the passage of time when the people in
them recruit ideological bedfellows as replacements, it is not unreasonable
to expect that Arthur Hertzberg will turn out to be like Wise and Goldmann,
particularly when Hertzberg is given to bemoaning in print the supposed
“scarcity of men such as Stephen Wise.”[6]
With this in the background we may put on the table a hypothesis to explain
why Jack Eisner protested that the commission he was to fund, and which
contained Arthur Hertzberg, would “whitewash the truth” rather than expose
it: Jack Eisner realized that Arthur Hertzberg would attempt a cover up. I shall now support
this hypothesis by taking a closer look at Arthur Hertzberg. In 1979 Arthur Hertzberg came out with a book titled Being Jewish
in America (1979). Julius Weinberg, who read it and reviewed it,
understood the author’s political position to be as follows: “Hertzberg
proposes that the Jewish community of this country [the United States] should
have an equal voice in the political decisions to be made by the state of
Israel -- including Israel’s foreign policy.”[7] And Hertzberg’s
paternalistic attitude, Weinberg wryly observed, extended not merely to
Israelis but to all Jews, for in Hertzberg’s opinion Jews are “no longer to
be trusted to know what is in their own best interests, but are in need of
enlightened mentors to guide their ideas and actions.” And who might these
“enlightened mentors” be? Why, the leaders of the World Jewish Congress,
including Hertzberg’s own exalted self. The above
pretensions were precisely those of Goldmann and Wise, Hertzberg’s forerunners
in the World Jewish Congress. As we saw in Part 1, “[Nahum]
Goldmann wanted total control of world Jewry concentrated in his hands, and
said so unabashedly. The World Jewish Congress, which he had set up with
[Stephen] Wise, was ‘the single address’ in his mind.”[8] In other words,
Nahum Goldmann wanted the World Jewish Congress, a Diaspora organization, to
decide matters for Jews everywhere, including Israel. So in his megalomaniac
pretensions and general contempt for Jews, Hertzberg is just like his
predecessors. But this is not where the similarities end. As we saw in Part 1,
Goldmann and Wise did not defend the persecuted Jews; instead, they sabotaged
Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook), who was defending the persecuted Jews. So
Goldmann and Wise were interested only in their own power. Arthur Hertzberg
has likewise continued this World Jewish Congress tradition of criminal
disregard for the security of the Jewish people, advancing his “equal voice”
in the service of sabotaging the defense of Israel. Consider that for
Hertzberg, as Julius Weinberg explains, “it is Israel rather than the Arab countries
surrounding it that has to prove its benign intentions to the world.” Isn’t
that remarkable? These would be the same Arab countries that have launched
wars against Israel with the proudly and publicly announced purpose of
exterminating the Israeli Jews.[9] So why does Hertzberg tell us that the
Israelis are the ones who have to prove their benign intentions to the
world? They haven’t attacked anybody, let alone called for
exterminating anyone. That was 1979, but
Hertzberg has been consistent. On 19 September, 2003, The Jerusalem Post
reported, “In America,
historian of Zionism Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, like philanthropists Edgar
Bronfman and Marvin Lender, has also chosen sides by appealing to President
George W. Bush to put sanctions on Israel and to view Israel and the PA [the
‘Palestinian Authority,’ run by the PLO] as equivalents.”[10] Hertzberg
“has...chosen sides”: he sides with the PLO. Rather passionately, I might
add: he wants US sanctions on Israel. And Hertzberg’s statements, mind
you, were made right as the PLO was murdering scores of innocent Israelis at
the height of the Second Intifada. Now, when we see
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg lobbying for the Jewish state to be considered equivalent
to an organization, the PLO, whose controlling core Al Fatah was created
by a leader of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution with the purpose of continuing
the extermination of the Jewish people,[11] how shall we characterize this? Would the word antisemitism be
too strong? (But one can find Rabbi Hertzberg introduced as “a man of
impeccable liberal credentials,” so this is how you earn your ‘liberal
credentials’ these days: attacking the Jews.[12]) Of course, Hertzberg sells his position as supposed compassion for the
West Bank and Gaza Arabs (i.e. the so-called ‘Palestinians’), and various
sources will echo this: for example, Wikipedia refers to his “outspoken
criticism of the policies of Israel toward the Palestinians.”[13]
But this is absurd. It is the PLO that has been oppressing the West
Bank and Gaza Arabs, not Israel.[14]
The serious problems for these Arabs began when, partly as a result of
pressure coming from Hertzberg’s World Jewish Congress (more on this below),
the PLO was imposed on the Arabs as ‘government.’ Since then, not only has
the PLO been murdering innocent Israeli civilians, but it has also been murdering
innocent West Bank and Gaza Arabs, sometimes executing them merely for
selling land to a Jew, or for opposing the killings of Jews, when it is not
murdering them for opposing the PLO on other grounds.[15]
The Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza were treated infinitely better when the
Israeli government was directly administering these territories,[16] so
genuine compassion for these Arabs would require Hertzberg to be a vocal
opponent of the PLO, not Israel. What is the political effect of this spectacle -- of Rabbi Arthur
Hertzberg on the world stage behaving as if he has a rather special animosity
against the Jewish state? Well, considering that the man has been “president
of both the American Jewish Policy Foundation and the American Jewish
Congress, [and] vice president of the World Jewish Congress,” the effect on
ordinary people (Jewish and non-Jewish alike), who are poorly informed, is to
make them think: “Gee, if a leader of something calling itself the ‘World
Jewish Congress’ says that Israel is the bad guy, then it must be -- because,
how can Israel be the good guy if even the Jewish leadership attacks it?” As
we saw in Part 1,
in World War II Rabbi Stephen Wise had a similar effect on many people who
otherwise would have defended the Jews: he confused and demoralized them. It
is impossible to know exactly how many lives were lost this way, but given
that Peter Bergson’s movement managed to save some 200,000 people despite Wise’s
repeated acts of sabotage, as we saw in Part
1, the cost could be a few million. More consistency: Since Rabbi Stephen Wise was the enemy of Peter
Bergson (Hillel Kook), who was a founder of the Irgun Tzvai Leumi Jewish
army, and who did his utmost to save Jewish lives in Europe while Wise
sabotaged his every move, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Arthur Hertzberg
was an enemy of the late Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, a former
leader of the Irgun, and like Bergson a Jewish patriot.[17] When you put all this together, it is kind of obvious, isn’t it, that
Arthur Hertzberg will not want the actions of Stephen Wise examined or
publicized because, if this happens, a lot of people might notice that Arthur
Hertzberg, Stephen Wise’s heir, is behaving very much like Stephen Wise, who
betrayed the Jewish people when they most needed him. So this seems quite
sufficient to explain the fact that Jack Eisner, who was to fund Arthur
Hertzberg’s work reporting on Stephen Wise’s role, should have complained
that Hertzberg’s commission was going to “whitewash the truth” (by the way,
some of the other members of the proposed commission were also cause for
concern[18]). And because
Eisner’s effort fell apart, what we have on the response of American Jewish
leaders to the Shoah is just the belated work, in the last few years, of a
couple of historians.[19] |
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg “Hertzberg proposes that the Jewish
community of this country [the United States] should have an equal voice in
the political decisions to be made by the state of Israel -- including
Israel’s foreign policy. • What
is the political effect of this spectacle -- of Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg on the
world stage behaving as if he has a rather special animosity against the
Jewish state? •
Menachem Begin |
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Edgar Bronfman, Sr. The same year, 1981, that Arthur Hertzberg was sabotaging the effort
to understand what Wise and Co. did during World War II, Edgar Bronfman,
president of the World Jewish Congress (so, Hertzberg’s boss), was working
very hard to endorse US President Ronald Reagan’s radically anti-Israel
policies, which had for goal the creation of a PLO state in the West Bank.[20] In
1982, Bronfman was at it again, using his perch as president of the World
Jewish Congress to endorse Ronald Reagan’s plan for Middle East ‘peace.’
Reagan was using Bronfman as a ‘Jewish diplomat,’ as if all Jews were the same
and the World Jewish Congress spoke for them all, including citizens of
Israel. American newspapers dutifully carried the headline “Jewish Leader OKs
Reagan Peace Plan.”[21] But Bronfman did not speak for the Israeli Jews: “the Israeli
government. . .unanimously and totally rejected the American initiative.”[22] The Israeli prime
minister at the time was Menachem Begin, the former leader of the Irgun’s
military wing. So there are no surprises
here. Edgar Bronfman, like Stephen Wise and Nahum Goldmann before him, has
been busy giving cover to the US government for its anti-Jewish policies. His
support for Reagan’s anti-Israeli policies in the early 80s was extreme.[23] Bronfman did the same in the mid-80s, when again as president of the
World Jewish Congress, he acted as an informal diplomat for Shimon Peres, at
the time Israel’s prime minister. The diplomacy Bronfman conducted (mind you,
Bronfman is not an Israeli citizen) was meant to do an end-run around
Yitzhak Shamir from the opposition party, who was the actual foreign
minister. And the point of this diplomacy, according to some reports, was to
give away the strategic Golan Heights to the Syrians![24] At
the same time, Peres sent leaders of the American Jewish Congress, another
organization founded by Stephen Wise, to be his private diplomats to Arab
leaders with whom he wanted to legitimize the PLO as a political player.[25]
Peres and Bronfman finally achieved their goals with the so-called Oslo
‘Peace’ Process, which empowered the PLO inside the Jewish state. It apparently has
not bothered Edgar Bronfman that Al Fatah, the controlling core of the PLO,
was grandfathered by Hajj Amin al Husseini, responsible for one terrorist
wave after another against innocent Jews in British Mandate ‘Palestine,’ and
later one of the main architects of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution in Europe.
Hajj Amin also mentored Yasser Arafat.[26] And Bronfman, like Hertzberg, has been consistent throughout. In the
year 2003, “Edgar
Bronfman, President of the World Jewish Congress, ...suggested the [Jewish]
settlements [in the West Bank and Gaza] were the key obstacle to peace and
echoed [Hebrew University] professor [Ze’ev] Sternhell in advising the
Palestinians that they would be wise to focus their terror attacks on
settlers.”[27] When we see Edgar
Bronfman advocating the murder of innocent Jews in order to advance the
political goals of the PLO, an antisemitic terrorist organization with
genocidal goals, and which traces its origin to Adolf Hitler’s Final
Solution, how shall we characterize this? Is the word antisemitism too
strong? This time, at least,
“Jewish outrage forced [Bronfman] to apologize.”[28] Jewish outrage of this sort is healthy -- more of it may yet save the
Jewish people. |
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Abraham Foxman If you go to the
website of the famous Anti-Defamation League (ADL), you will see a quotation
from the ADL Charter of 1913 that states: “The immediate
object of the [Anti-Defamation] League is to stop, by appeals to reason and
conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish
people.”[29] The leader of the
ADL is a man by name Abraham Foxman. It is more than a bit surprising, given
that the ADL mission is supposedly to defend the Jews from antisemitism, that
it should be so easy to find Abraham Foxman defending antisemites, and in
particular antisemites who attack Israel. For example, in
October 2003 there was a bit of an eruption in the US House of
Representatives when it was revealed that the Ford Foundation was financing
openly antisemitic groups among the West Bank and Gaza Arabs.[30] An organization that is supposed to protect the
Jews from antisemitism should have been spearheading the demands for a
federal investigation into the Ford Foundation, but what the ADL’s Abraham
Foxman did instead was protest these demands: “Abraham
Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League told the Forward that
it is too soon to call for a congressional investigation: ‘This is an
institution that’s been around for a long time. They’ve established a
credible reputation...’”[31] The Ford Foundation
has indeed “been around for a long time,” as it was created by Henry Ford in
1936. This is the same Henry Ford who popularized Nazi propaganda all over
the world with his Dearborn Independent, an antisemitic publication
that sought to convince Westerners that ‘the Jews’ in secret controlled
everything with the purpose of destroying non-Jews, causing such a hysteria
in the Western World that it made Adolf Hitler’s genocide possible. Henry
Ford was such a big Nazi that Hitler not only gave him the highest decoration
conferred by the Nazi state on foreigners, but in addition kept a life-size
portrait of Ford in his office and was fond of saying that the American
automaker was his inspiration. These and other facts about Henry Ford, plus
the fact that the Ford Foundation has been advancing Nazi-like policies and
attacking Jews throughout its entire history, are trivial to document, and
HIR has produced one such documentation here:
But instead of
making this public, Abraham Foxman, the leader of the ADL, jumps to the Ford
Foundation’s defense the minute somebody calls for an investigation, and
tells everybody that we shouldn’t be investigating them because “they’ve
established a credible reputation.” Isn’t this behavior inconsistent
with the avowed purpose of the ADL, which is to fight antisemitism? The above defense of
the Ford Foundation is not out of character for Abraham Foxman. It is not
difficult to find this man apologizing for, and giving cover to, the PLO. For
example, when Arafat was caught calling for jihad after the so-called
Oslo ‘peace’ process had already begun, Abraham Foxman covered for him by
supporting Arafat’s oxymoronic expression “jihad for peace,” helping confuse
the Western public. “Speaking to
an Anti-Defamation League delegation in Gaza, Arafat said his use of the word
‘jihad’ in his speeches not only meant a holy war involving fighting, but
also can be used in terms of peace. ‘We asked the
chairman to engage as much as possible in words of understanding and
reconciliation,’ said ADL National Director Abraham Foxman. ‘The chairman talked
in terms of the jihad for peace so that the word jihad as we know it can be
converted into the jihad of peace.’”[32] Jihad means ‘Holy
War’ -- the slaughter of infidels, as historian Bat Ye’or has documented in
detail.[33] But if anybody is suspicious that a
Jewish historian may have distorted the meaning of ‘jihad,’ then we can ask
the King of Saudi Arabia what the modern meaning of ‘jihad’ may be.
This will be quite relevant to Yasser Arafat’s own use of the word because
Saudi Arabia has been a major sponsor of the PLO. As reported in the British
daily The Evening Standard: “In 1980, King
Fahd of Saudi Arabia gave a clear definition: ‘What is meant by jihad is a
united, comprehensive, integrated Arab-Islamic confrontation in which we
place all our resources and our spiritual, cultural, political, material and
military potential in a long and untiring ‘Holy War’ against Israel, of
course, who else?’”[34] If Abraham Foxman’s
excuse here will be that he doesn’t know this elementary thing -- the meaning
of the word ‘jihad’ for Muslim enemies of the Jewish state -- then he should
be fired, because it is the job of the leader of the ADL to know such things.
If he does know this, then how shall we characterize the fact that
Foxman apologizes for the anti-Jewish terrorist Yasser Arafat when he calls
for “a long and untiring ‘Holy War’ against Israel”? Would antisemitism be
too strong a word? The ADL has been
quite consistent in helping clean up the image of the PLO. As Kenneth Levin
points out, “Yasser
Arafat, from his entry into the territories [of the West Bank and Gaza] in
1994, orchestrated a campaign of defamation and vilification against Israelis
and Jews. He promoted in PA schoolbooks and media, over which he always
maintained tight control, denigration of Jewish belief, classic anti-Semitic
caricatures of Jews, claims of Jewish perfidy and godlessness, blood libels
against Jews, assertions that Jews have no historical connection with the
land of Israel, denial of any Jewish religious ties to the Temple Mount,
denial of the Holocaust, and much else in the same vein. Yet the ADL’s
response was ambiguous at best. In the fall of 1998 it published a report on
anti-Semitic statements proffered by the Palestinian Authority over the
previous year, and at various times it would put out press releases urging
Arafat to change his ways. For example, one such release in November, 1998,
called upon Arafat to remove anti-Semitism from official PA airwaves. Yet
Arafat’s anti-Jewish campaign did not keep the head of the ADL, Abraham
Foxman, from leading American Jewish delegations in pilgrimages to the PA
chairman or proffering Arafat ‘gifts of Jewish art.’”[35] And I must add what
Kenneth Levin left out: Yasser Arafat also broadcast, on Palestinian
Authority Television, sermons by mullahs who screamed at the viewing Arabs:
“blessings to whoever put a belt of explosives on his body or on his sons’
and plunged into the midst of the Jews crying: ‘Allah Akbar, praise to
Allah!’”[36] But Abraham Foxman is apparently not
overly troubled by this, and this naturally has an effect on the public: when
one of the most visible Jews supposedly in charge of fighting antisemitism is
found apologizing for the PLO, what poorly informed people conclude is that
the PLO must be kosher. This is especially true given that, for
example, Abraham Foxman goes out of his way to pronounce the PLO’s textbooks
kosher (acceptable to Jews): “At a meeting
in Ramallah in September 2000, Foxman presented Arafat with a letter
regarding recently introduced PA school texts...prais[ing] them for excluding
‘the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic passages prevalent in previous textbooks
and curricular material.’ But, in fact, ...the new books denigrate Jews and
Judaism and continue to teach that all of Israel rightly belongs to the
Arabs.”[37] As if all this were
not enough, Abraham Foxman can also be found apologizing for the Vatican’s
antisemitism.[38] Unbelievable. |
Abraham Foxman “This is an institution [Ford Foundation]
that's been around for a long time. They've established a credible
reputation... • How
shall we characterize the fact that Foxman apologizes for the anti-Jewish
terrorist Yasser Arafat when he calls for jihad? •
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AIPAC (American
Israel Public Affairs Committee) AIPAC is the most visible component of what people call
the ‘Jewish lobby’ in the United States. A Google search on the ‘Jewish
lobby’ or on AIPAC will quickly convince you that quite a lot of people
believe this lobby to be terribly powerful, and to have great influence on
what US foreign policy becomes. The same people matter-of-factly assume that
what the ‘Jewish lobby’ does is produce pro-Israel US foreign policy. This is
false. AIPAC in fact promotes pro-PLO US foreign policy, as the
following HIR investigation has shown:
In fact, the AIPAC
leadership took such a strong pro-PLO turn when the Oslo process was
jump-started that many rank-and-file members and contributors became
disillusioned. As Kenneth Levin explains, “...while some
in the professional echelon of the organization seemed not only to embrace
the Oslo agenda [the purpose of which was to bring the terrorist PLO inside
the Jewish state] but to do so with conviction and aplomb, there were members
of the lay leadership, the highest level of AIPAC’s financial supporters, who
were unhappy with the organization’s stance, and many longtime contributors
were so put off by AIPAC’s pro-Oslo activities that they withdrew their
support.”[39] What kinds of people
will work with “conviction and aplomb” to assist the goals of an
organization, the PLO, whose controlling core, Al Fatah, was created by a
leader of the Final Solution to continue the extermination of the Jewish
people? Wouldn’t such people have to be antisemites? But these are the
leaders of AIPAC. The leaders of AIPAC
cannot claim ignorance of what the PLO really is, because AIPAC boasts loudly
that the millions of dollars that concerned Jews have contributed over the
years are supposedly spent doing all sorts of very careful research on the
Arab-Israeli conflict,[40] and because the origins of the PLO
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The broad picture I think I have given enough focused examples, but I nevertheless want
to make it clear that the above American Jewish leaders just considered are
in no way exceptions. Rather, they are the norm. So I will here give you a
quick panoramic view, relying on Kenneth Levin, who, in his book The Oslo
Syndrome, has already surveyed this landscape. Kenneth Levin begins his chapter entitled ‘American Jews and Oslo’ with
the following quotation plus explanation: “Arafat is not
going to be happy with that. Sara Ehrman,
board member of Americans for Peace Now, complaining that dovish American
Jewish leaders had failed to press Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to
treat Israel, led at the time by Ehud Barak, more harshly in order to extract
additional Oslo-related concessions. (August 1999)”[42] So, the Jewish leaders
of Americans for Peace Now were worried that Yasser Arafat would be unhappy
with American Jewish leaders for not obtaining sufficient political benefits
for Yasser Arafat -- an antisemitic terrorist pledged to the destruction of
the Jewish state. This beggars description, and yet it is standard for this
American Jewish organization. In its earlier incarnation, which was called
American Friends for Peace Now, “the group had published an ad in The New
York Times essentially characterizing Israel as the impediment to Middle
East Peace,” so the organization engages in anti-Israeli propaganda.[43] And what is standard for Americans for Peace Now is
also the approach of many other American Jewish organizations. In fact, “Leadership of
both Americans for Peace Now and its predecessor organization overlapped with
the leadership of such groups as the Jewish Peace Lobby and CONAME [Committee
on New Alternatives in the Middle East, founded by Noam Chomsky] (which had
lobbied against US arms shipments to Israel during the Yom Kippur War)”[44] I hope you are doing
a double take: an American Jewish organization, CONAME, led by the well-known
Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky, opposed US assistance to Israel in the Yom
Kippur war. This was a war of aggression by the Arab states against Israel:
“The War began with a surprise joint attack by Egypt and Syria.”[45] And yet Noam Chomsky’s CONAME apparently didn’t
think the Israelis had a right to defend themselves. In addition, “Gail
Pressberg, for a time president of APN [Americans for Peace Now] and then
director of APN’s Center for Israeli Peace and Security, had a long history
of involvement with anti-Israel organizations and events, including some
marked by frank antisemitism, and in her earlier career had not notably
demonstrated any concern for Israel’s security. Pressberg’s Israel-related
activities have been documented by Rael Jean Isaac. In the late 1970s, as
director of the American Friends Service Committee’s Middle East ‘Peace
Education’ program, Pressberg had organized anti-Israel conferences and
called for a halt to US arms shipments to Israel. Pressberg had also signed
ads making wildly untrue and defamatory claims about Israeli actions in
Lebanon, opposing relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, and demanding
Israel’s return to its pre-1967 borders. From the 1970s onward, she was a
consistent promoter and apologist for the PLO. When, in September, 1986,
terrorists killed twenty-one Turkish Jews at a Sabbath prayer in their
Istanbul synagogue, Pressberg characterized the slaughter as due to ‘the
humiliation and dispossession felt by the Palestinians’ and used the occasion
to urge again US negotiations with the PLO.”[46] How shall we
characterize a person who apologizes for the slaughter of innocent Jews in
Turkey, followed by an argument that this slaughter should produce a reward
for an antisemitic terrorist organization pledged to the destruction of the
Jewish state? Would antisemite be too strong a word? But there is more. “The Jewish
Peace Lobby after 1993 consistently argued that Israel would have to offer
the Palestinians more and that peace would ensue once Israel had made
concessions along the lines the Lobby demanded, including the division of
Jerusalem. It persisted in lobbying Congress for support for its stances. Leaders of the
New Israel Fund continued to direct most of the Fund’s resources to groups in
Israel advocating Arab views and opposing and challenging [Israeli]
government positions. In 1997 the Smithsonian Institution planned a lecture
series on ‘Israel at 50’ and agreed to have the New Israel Fund formulate the
program. The scheduled list of speakers consisted overwhelmingly of critics
of Israel, such as Azmi Bishara, an Arab member of the Knesset who had
recently paid homage at the grave of an Islamic Jihad murderer of
Israelis...”[47] And more: “[the] Israel
Policy Forum (IPF), [was] created in 1993 at the behest of Israel’s
Labor-Meretz coalition government [Shimon Peres’ outfit] and placed under the
leadership of a former APN [Americans for Peace Now] president, Jonathan
Jacoby, who had earlier in his career signed a New York Times ad
accusing Israel of ‘state terrorism.’ One of IPF’s
early efforts, intended to convey to the American public and American leaders
an impression of wide American Jewish enthusiasm for Oslo, was its
sponsorship of a poll that ostensibly showed 87 percent of American Jews
supporting the ‘peace process.’ The poll was grossly skewed in the framing of
its questions, as, for example, in its asking: ‘As you may be aware, Israel
agreed to recognize the PLO as the official representative of the Palestinian
people after the PLO renounced terrorism, removed the clauses from its
charter which called for the destruction of Israel, and formally recognized
Israel’s right to exist. Do you approve or disapprove of the Israeli
government’s decision to recognize the PLO as the official representative of
the Palestinian people?’ Not surprisingly, 82 percent approved. The poll did
not ask, for example: ‘Do you trust the PLO’s renunciation of terror?’ Also,
it was, of course, dishonest in its assertion that the PLO charter had been
changed.”[48] Another American
Jewish group, project Nishma, “lobbied
Congress in support of the [pro-PLO] Labor-Meretz agenda and sought to depict
that agenda as enjoying wide American Jewish grassroots backing, with the skeptics
among American Jews being a minority. Once more, those who challenged
Labor-Meretz policies were smeared as opponents of peace. In 1997, Project
Nishma merged with Israel Policy Forum.”[49] Then there is the
Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation, founded in 1989 by
American Jewish entrepreneur Daniel S. Abraham. “In December,
1996, during the premiership of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Center held a
conference that was billed as a ‘Retrospective on the Peace Process’ but
proved to be mainly, according to media reports, a sustained attack on the
Netanyahu government. Guest speakers included PA [Palestinian Authority]
general secretary Ahmed Abdul Rahman, former Secretary of State James Baker
[who earlier had forced Israel to accept the PLO inside the Jewish state[50]],
and columnist Thomas Friedman [a major critic of Israel, and Jewish]. Rahman
excoriated Israel and its policies and insisted there were no Palestinian
violations of Oslo. On the issue of Arafat’s agreement in several of the Oslo
accords to change the Palestinian charter and its calls for Israel’s
destruction, Rahman said, ‘We don’t want a new charter.’ Baker urged greater
pressure on Netanyahu and suggested the United States had to get tougher on
Israel. Friedman similarly advocated the administration forcing Israel to be
more forthcoming and praised Baker and former Secretary of State Kissinger
for having aggressively pressed Israel while they were in office. Most of the other
speakers as well focused their remarks on criticizing the Netanyahu
government or Israel in general. Interestingly, the speaker apparently most
willing to address Arab shortcomings vis-à-vis peacemaking was the Jordanian
ambassador. ...the
Center’s founder, S. Daniel Abraham, a frequent visitor to the [Syrian
capital of] Damascus, became something of an apologist for [Syrian dictator
and antisemite] Hafez al-Assad. In an interview in July, 1997, Abraham
declared that Assad ‘wants to make peace with Israel...’ [and]...went on to
observe, ‘Not all dictators are terrible people, and not all dictatorships
are terrible forms in which to live.’ He added that most Jews in Syria live
freely and ‘there was no anti-Semitism to speak of’; this after the great majority
of Syrian Jews had fled the country and Secretary of State Warren Christopher
had some months earlier protested ‘an anti-Semitic article published in the
semi-official Syrian Times.’ A 1999 ad by the Center proclaimed,
‘President Assad has scrupulously kept all of his commitments in earlier
disengagement accords with Israel. He possesses both the will and the ability
to make peace with Israel and implement it throughout Syria.’ In contrast to
his warm feelings for Assad, Abraham is reported to have asked President
Clinton, ‘Do you really think Netanyahu wants peace.’”[51] How shall we
characterize Daniel S. Abraham. Is antisemite too strong a word? I shall stop my
review of American Jewish leaders here. As overwhelming as the above may
seem, I have given you nothing more than a light taste. The pattern is clear. How about Jewish
leaders elsewhere in the Diaspora? They are not as important as American
Jewish leaders, but they tend to behave similarly. As an example, we may consider
the famous French Jewish philosopher Bernard Henri Lévy, who worked overtime
to clean up the image of Alija Izetbegovic, an Islamist terrorist and
antisemite who apparently allied with the Nazis during WWII, and who revived
the Nazi SS Handzar division during the civil wars in Bosnia, in the 1990s,
when he led a campaign of terror and genocide against the Bosnian Serbs, and
against any Bosnian Muslims who did not agree with him. HIR has documented
the activities of Bernard Henri Lévy in the following piece.
And the following
piece documents how the leaders of some American Jewish organizations falsely
accused the Serbs and defended Izetbegovic. “WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
IN BOSNIA?: Who started the war in Bosnia? And who committed genocide? Was it
the Bosnian Serbs, as NATO and the mass media alleged, or the Bosnian Muslim
followers of Alija Izetbegovic?” Historical and Investigative Research; 19
Aug 2005; by Francisco Gil-White Now, nobody defended the Jews more bravely in WWII than the Serbs,[52] so
some Serbs have come to believe that, in the civil wars that took place in
Yugoslavia in the 1990s, they were betrayed by ‘the Jews.’ This is false.
Most Jews -- due to the unfortunately dismal state of education about the
Holocaust in the Jewish community -- are not even cognizant of what happened
in Yugoslavia during WWII. And those Jews who demonized the Serbs in the
1990s were primarily some prominent leaders in the Jewish community, such as
Bernard Henri Lévy -- i.e. not ‘the Jews.’ Those Jews who defended the Bosnian Islamists against the Serbs, were
-- absurdly -- defending the legacy of Hajj Amin al Husseini, who created the
SS Handzar division and organized the mass slaughters of Serbs, Jews, and
Roma (Gypsies) in WWII Yugoslavia, and who also mentored Yasser Arafat,
moreover creating Al Fatah, Arafat’s organization, and the controlling core
in the PLO.[11]
Not coincidentally, those Jews who have promoted anti-Serb propaganda tend to
be precisely the same Jews who defend Hajj Amin's heirs, the antisemitic PLO
terrorists, against the Jewish state. Bernard Henri Lévy is a case in point.
He accuses that criticism of Israel is too strong, but, all the same, in a
trip to Israel, pretending that the suffering of the West Bank and Gaza Arabs
is the fault of Israel rather than of the PLO, he declared:
But the one defending Nazis in Bosnia is Bernard Henri Lévy, so he is
the one with memory problems. |
Sara Ehrman “Arafat is not going to
Noam Chomsky
Gail Pressberg
Daniel S. Abraham
Thomas Friedman
Bernard Henri Lévy “The only hope, [Lévy] said, was in the
birth of modern, secular Islam, which is what he had found and admired in
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government Jewish officials in the US government are hardly better than Jewish
leaders in non-governmental Diaspora Jewish organizations. Much more could be
written than what I will here present, but what follows is more than enough
because I have chosen to focus on those US officials responsible for crafting
US policy towards the Jewish state. In the year 1994, The Jerusalem Post wrote: “...the trio
that implements Middle East policy at the State Department [are] State
Department planning director Dennis Ross, …and his two chief assistants, Dr.
Daniel Kurtzer and Aaron Miller...”[53] Ross, Kurtzer, and
Miller -- all three of them are Jews. This is the sort of thing that people
with a certain kind of ideology will love to point out. For example, Alfred
Lilienthal, who expressed his passionate opposition to the idea of a Jewish
state in 1949,[54] immediately after the German Nazis,
and then also a number of allied Arab states, had attempted to exterminate
the Jews,[55] also makes the following
complaint: “it is simply ridiculous that all American officials involved with
U.S. mediation in Middle East peace are Jewish.”[56] (Alfred Lilienthal, by the way, says he is Jewish). But the only question that matters is whether staffing such State
Department positions with Jews in fact results in an unduly pro-Israel
US foreign policy. To answer this question, consider that it was in the year 1994 that
the The Jerusalem Post made the above observation about Ross, Kurtzer,
and Miller. Well, it was also the year 1994 when -- thanks to US
government threats against Israel about what would happen if the
Israelis did not accept this -- the PLO was brought to govern the West
Bank and Gaza Arabs.[57] When the US
began this remarkable bully diplomacy to force the PLO on the Israelis (which
process was, in true Orwellian fashion, subsequently baptized the ‘Oslo Peace
Process’), the terrorist PLO was actually languishing in Tunisian exile and
had been essentially defeated back in 1982.[59] It
was US pressure that allowed this organization to rise again from the
ashes and nestle itself inside the Jewish state, from which position it has
been easily murdering quite a few innocent Israelis, while extorting and
murdering many innocents in the Arab population which it rules.[60] We
are speaking, as mentioned before, of an organization whose controlling core,
Al Fatah, traces its roots to Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution.[58] The Jewish US officials in charge of forcing the PLO on Israel had to
know precisely what they were doing because they have the resources of a vast
intelligence service, and because documenting what the real intentions of the
PLO were was not exactly difficult. “In 1974, when
much of the world was promoting Arab-Israeli negotiations in the wake of the
Yom Kippur War, Yasser Arafat, leader of Fatah and of the PLO, formulated
what he called the ‘Plan of Phases.’ The plan declared that the Palestinian
Arabs would seek to acquire territory by negotiations and would then use that
territory as a launching pad for military pursuit of Israel’s annihilation.
With this agenda as backdrop, Arafat offered to enter into negotiations with
Israel.”[61] Consistent with
this, in 1994, when the Oslo ‘Peace’ Process was being jump started, Yasser Arafat
explained to a Muslim audience what the point of Oslo would be: jihad. “A
tape-recording has surfaced of PLO leader Yasser Arafat speaking to Moslem
followers… Mr Arafat was exhorting his followers to prosecute a ‘jihad ... to
liberate Jerusalem’. Mr Arafat does not deny the tape’s authenticity… [His
followers] would have taken it to mean that the peace process was just a
stratagem: a Trojan Horse which should now be exploited with maximum
violence.”[62] And again consistent
with this, shortly before he died in 2001, Yasser Arafat’s right-hand man
Faisal Husseini himself used the expression ‘Trojan Horse’ to characterize
the ‘peace’ process.: “...Faisal
Husseini, the top PLO official in Jerusalem...[was] quoted as likening the
Oslo accords to a ‘Trojan horse.’ ...the weekly Al-Arabi quotes Husseini as
calling the Oslo accords ‘just a temporary procedure, or just a step towards
something bigger…the liberation of all historical Palestine from the (Jordan)
river to the (Mediterranean) sea, even if this means that the conflict will
last for another thousand years or for many generations.’”[63] Finally, there is
the fact that Mahmoud Abbas, the new PLO chief, appears to be the very
intellectual force behind Arafat’s ‘Plan of Phases’ as (a) he authored an
entire study concerning how the Israelis could be prepared for slaughter by
promising them peace,[64] (b) the media refers to him as the
“architect” of Oslo,[65] and c) it is in fact his signature,
and not Yasser Arafat’s, on the Oslo agreement.[66] Since this is the current leader of the PLO, we have perfect
consistency: the PLO has always and only meant to destroy Israel. So, we can point to the fact that, in the year 1994, the three people
making US foreign policy in the Middle East -- Dennis Ross, Daniel Kurtzer,
and Aaron Miller -- are Jewish, as if this amounted to an analysis of US
foreign policy; or...we can point to the fact that in 1994, US foreign
policy in the Middle East is in fact to twist Israel’s arm in order
(a) to revive the PLO (a defeated Nazi organization that desires land only as
a platform towards the destruction of Israel), and (b) to give the PLO both
proximity to its Jewish targets and power inside the Jewish state by making
it the ‘government’ over the Arab population of the West Bank and Gaza. Or..., as I am required to do, given the
topic of this article, I can point to both the Jewish identity of
those crafting this policy, and to the policy itself, remarking that
once again we have powerful Jews attacking the Jewish people. There really is
a pattern, here. And -- I remind you -- Ross, Kurtzer, and Miller did
everything they did knowingly, because if anybody has the motivation
and means to discover the true intentions of the PLO it is the Middle East
specialists at the top of the world superpower’s foreign ministry. And how shall we describe the behavior of Dennis
Ross, Daniel Kurtzer, and Aaron Miller? Would antisemitism be too
strong a word? In the case of Aaron Miller, there is also Seeds of
Peace to consider. This is an organization that claims to be training the
next generation of peacemaking leaders on both the Israeli and Arab sides by
bringing teenagers of these populations to its camp in Maine, USA, and
teaching them to dialogue with each other. The US government funds Seeds of
Peace and, along with the Establishment media, goes quite out of its way to
promote Seeds of Peace as a supposedly benevolent force. Kenneth Levin takes
a different view: “As reported
in the Jerusalem Post in January, 2000, ‘A recent film called ‘Peace
of Mind,’ produced by Seeds of Peace and intended for theater and television
screenings around the world, casts doubt on the organization’s motives. It is
so tilted in favor of Palestinian arguments, so unquestioningly sympathetic
to Palestinian grievances, that it becomes a propaganda instrument rather
than an ode to young friendship. The film, in
explicating the Arab-Israeli conflict as background to the students’
encounters at the camp, presents a doctored and bogus past and a similarly
distorted present. While the film states that it was produced by the Arab and
Israeli campers, three of the four Israeli students featured in it wrote to
Seeds of Peace to protest its bias and to assert that ‘we did not make the
movie, as the movie claims... The movie was only shot in part by us, and most
of our footage, including its most significant statements from our point of
view, were discarded.’ The mind set
of the camnp’s organizers was further revealed in an incident recounted by
the father of one of the camp’s Israeli students in a letter to the Jerusalem
Post. ‘One morning, the camp assembly was told by the founder, John
Wallach, that that morning a Palestinian had run down two Israelis and killed
them and that he was subsequently killed. He asked for a moment of silence
for the Israelis and the Palestinian. The Jewish campers immediately objected
and refused to stand for the Palestinian. Apparently no one could explain to
Mr. Wallach [who said he was Jewish until the day he died] that there is no
moral equivalence between terrorists and their victims.’”[67] HIR has documented
that the main purpose of Seeds of Peace is to empower violent antisemites on
the Arab side, dressing them up in the convenient camouflage of ‘peace.’
The current
President of Seeds of Peace is...Aaron Miller, the same man who helped craft
the entire Oslo ‘Peace’ Process that is now destroying Israel.
The behavior of Jews today who have important
positions in the US government is a repeat of what we saw, in Part 1,
was the behavior of most Jewish US government officials during WWII: they sabotage
the defense of the Jewish people.
The next piece in
this series is:
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Dennis Ross
Daniel Kurtzer
Aaron David Miller • ...once
again we have powerful Jews attacking the Jewish people. There really is a
pattern, here. • Notify me of new HIR pieces!
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________________________________________________________ Footnotes and Further Reading [1] Condition 1 states: “A group with an antisemitic and genocidal ideology, the
German Nazis, controlled a great many resources, whereas the Jews were in a
weak position relative to this power.” It does not require a special demonstration to say
that Israel is surrounded by Muslim states whose populations and governments
would like to see the Jewish state destroyed, and which have frequently
called for the genocide of the Jewish people. Just recently, the president of
Iran said that Israel should be “wiped off the map,” as the Ayatollah
Khomeini also did before him. Against this, however, is the belief of many
people that tiny Israel is actually a very strong country, and stronger even
than the combined forces of the Muslim world, which has a population of more
than 1.3 billion people, growing at lightning speed. If we grant this widely
held yet absurd premise it will appear that the Jews are not in a weak
position relative to their enemies, and therefore that condition 1 has not
yet recurred. But, regardless, we will all agree that tiny Israel cannot very
well be stronger than the combined Muslim world and the United States
of America. It therefore matters that HIR has documented that behind the
Muslim forces that wish to destroy the state of Israel is the government of
the United States. I am not referring just to the obvious case of Saudi
Arabia, which country the US has armed more than any other in the world, as
documented here:
I am also talking about cases that are less obvious
to people, and which suggest a general US policy to sponsor antisemitic Islamist
terrorism. For example, the following book -- which conveniently hyperlinks
to every period briefly considered -- documents in some detail that US foreign
policy (note the word ‘foreign’) has been consistently antisemitic, and
dramatically pro-PLO.
For example, it was the US that forced Israel to
accept the PLO inside the Jewish state, and also the US Intelligence that
trained the PLO as they were taking power over the West Bank and Gaza Arabs,
even though PLO officials were explaining in public that they would go on killing
Jews, and any Arabs who disagreed (to read about all this, consult the
hyperlinks for the years 1991
and 1994 in
the above piece). And the following series on Bush Jr.’s war on Iraq
documents, also in some detail, that the US ruling elite always takes steps
that will strengthen the Iranian Islamists, even as they claim in public to
oppose them.
This includes arming the Iranian Islamists to the
teeth, as the US ruling elite did secretly and illegally during the Iran-Iraq
war (the ‘Iran-Contra’ scandal), documented in a section of the piece below:
Why might US foreign policy be designed to assist
the powers that wish to destroy Israel? This could have something to
do with the fact that US foreign policy is controlled by US Intelligence, and
with the fact that US Intelligence was created by absorbing in secret tens of
thousands of Nazi war criminals after World War II. To learn more about this,
read:
Condition 2 states:
“A great many people came to believe, absurdly, as a result of massive
propaganda, that they were in mortal danger from ‘the Jews,’ and that they
therefore needed to defend themselves from ‘the Jews.’ Many ordinary people,
in consequence, either did not oppose, or else cooperated with, the Nazi
power directly in charge of the Final Solution.” In World War II the above was achieved with a
propaganda that went by the name Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,
a Tsarist hoax that accused ‘the Jews’ of controlling everything in secret
with the purpose of destroying non-Jews. The Nazis, with the help of Henry
Ford, popularized this hoax all over the Western world, making a lot of
people very afraid of the Jews. This exact same propaganda, just as
before, is being widely reproduced all over the world today by professional
antisemites, in both the Muslim and Western worlds. In addition, very
slightly modified versions of it are being pushed by the mainstream Western
media. HIR has produced a detailed investigation of how this works:
Condition 3 states:
“The democracies also did not oppose, or else they cooperated with, the
progress of antisemitism and then the Final Solution.” In World War II, the United States and Britain had
policies that were designed to assist the Final Solution, even as US and
British officials deplored the outcome in public. You may read about this
here: Today, the United States is once again assisting the
forces that wish to destroy the Jews, for which consult:
[2] Rapoport,
Louis. 1999. Shake heaven and earth: Peter Bergson and the struggle to
rescue the Jews of Europe, Gefen, Jerusalem and New York. (p.60) [3] HOLOCAUST THE
AMERICAN JEWISH CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: The Rise and Fall of the American
Jewish Commission on the Holocaust; The Forgotten Heritage: The Struggle of
the Irgun's Delegation to the United States (1939-1945) Against the Silence
of America (The Story of the Bergson-Hecht Group); Teh Jewish Post of New
York; May/June 1996; by GAD NAHSHON. [4] The Jerusalem
Post; September 12, 2003, Friday; SECTION: FEATURES; Pg. 3B; LENGTH: 395
words; HEADLINE: The road to hell; BYLINE: Ruth Wisse; HIGHLIGHT: The writer
is Martin Peretz professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard University. BODY (Full Text): I would much rather praise Israel's noble
achievements than talk about its mistakes, but, alas, no one can shield the
Israelis from the consequences of the Oslo Accords. When Israel recognized the world's then-leading
terrorist as the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people and pledged to
arm his "police force" to prevent further attacks upon its
citizens, it became the first country ever to arm its professed enemy with
the expectation of gaining security. That Yitzhak Rabin thought such an
action was "reversible" if it didn't work, only magnifies the folly
of his government's actions. Many Israelis assure me that by now
"everyone" recognizes the error of Oslo. Yet those who express
their disappointment in Yasser Arafat usually frame this admission in a glow
of innocence, as though they expected to be praised for having paved their
road to hell with good intentions. They proudly recount how much they were
prepared to risk for peace, as if a gambler should be congratulated rather
than treated for his desperation. They boast that at Camp David, in the summer of
2000, Ehud Barak promised Arafat everything that he had wanted even though
none of the obligations of Oslo had been fulfilled! These Israelis want to
show off their readiness for compromise and accommodation, as if stupidity
should be rewarded for being imprudent. Consider the immaturity of this approach. Does a
general expect to be rewarded for leading his troops into the enemy's trap?
Does a CEO claim a bonus for having lost the controlling share of his company
in negotiations with a cannier rival? Would physicians count on public
approbation for handing out scalpels to a killer? Arafat and the PLO made monkeys of those who
negotiated the Oslo charade; they scored the first real Arab victory against
Israel since 1948. Unless Israelis face up to the enormity of this debacle,
they are likely to keep swallowing the same hook, line and sinker. In a country where commissions of inquiry are
routinely struck to investigate failures of omission as well as commission,
no independent inquiry has yet been launched to identify the origins and the
process of Oslo. I have a feeling that this is because so many Israelis still
do not recognize that an unmonitored agreement with a professional terrorist
had to result in increased violence against them. [5] Arthur
Hertzberg. Wikipedia. [6] Review of Being
Jewish in America, by Arthur Hertzberg; Commentary Magazine; Vol. 68, No.
2 (August 1979); by Julius Weinberg [7] Review of Being
Jewish in America, by Arthur Hertzberg; Commentary Magazine; Vol. 68, No.
2 (August 1979); by Julius Weinberg [8] Rapoport,
Louis. 1999. Shake heaven and earth: Peter Bergson and the struggle to
rescue the Jews of Europe, Gefen, Jerusalem and New York. (p.62) [9] The state of
Israel was legally authorized by a UN vote in 1947. An Arab state in the
other half of what had been British Mandate ‘Palestine’ was also authorized
by the same vote, but the Arabs didn't want an Arab state in ‘Palestine’;
what they wanted was to prevent the existence of any Jewish state. So
they rejected the -- perfectly legal -- UN vote and launched a combined Arab
attack against Israel in 1948. Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab
League, announced publicly, and proudly, what the war would be about: “This will be
a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like
the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” Mind you, the Holocaust had just ended. To read more
about this, and see the documentation, visit:
For another example, Nasser announced his genocidal
intent right before the 1967 Six Day War. To read about this, visit:
[10] The land of
delusion, The Jerusalem Post, September 19, 2003, Friday, NEWS; Pg. 1A,
1151 words, Caroline B. Glick [11] In this
footnote I address two points: 1) that the PLO means to exterminate the
Jewish people; and 2) that the controlling core of the PLO, Al Fatah, was
created a leader of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution. The claim that the PLO means to exterminate the
Israeli Jews is supported by the PLO’s own constitution, for this is what the
PLO happens to announce as its intention: Article 9…says
that “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.” Article 15
says it is “a national duty to repulse the Zionist imperialist invasion from
the great Arab homeland and to purge the Zionist presence from
Palestine.” Article 22
declares that “the liberation of Palestine will liquidate the Zionist and
imperialist presence and bring about the stabilization of peace in the
Middle East.” TRANSLATION:
The Associated Press, December 15, 1998, Tuesday, AM cycle, International
News, 1070 words, Clinton meets with Netanyahu, Arafat, appeals for progress,
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent, EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip.
[Emphasis added] Historian Howard Sachar explains the following about
Al Fatah, Yasser Arafat’s and Mahmoud Abbas’ organization, which is the core
component of the PLO, calling all the shots: “...the Fatah
(Arab Liberation Movement) [was] organized...by veterans of the Mufti’s
former Arab Higher Committee.” SOURCE:
Sachar, Howard Morley - A history of Israel : from the rise of Zionism to our
time / Howard M. Sachar. 1982, c1979. (p.619) Who was “the Mufti” -- the man behind the creation
of Al Fatah? That would be Hajj Amin al Husseini, who was given
bureaucratic authority and a large budget by the British when they made him
Mufti of Jerusalem in 1920, after Hajj Amin demonstrated that he could
organize large-scale terrorist attacks against innocent Jews in British
Mandate ‘Palestine.’ He used this power to organize another terrorist riot in
1921 (after which the British expanded his budget and bureaucratic
authority), and then a much larger attack in 1929, followed by an even bigger
attack in 1936-37 (this last one was called the ‘Arab Revolt’ and was
organized with weapons provided by the Nazis). Each time, Hajj Amin’s attacks
were against civilians, and they included, for example, such things as
torturing Jewish children to death. In 1941 Hajj Amin met Hitler in Berlin.
Hitler promised to conquer the Middle East and exterminate all the Jews
living there, after which Hajj Amin would be installed as the local leader.
Hajj Amin, for his part, immediately became one of the supreme leaders of the
Final Solution in Europe, organizing large SS divisions in Bosnia composed of
tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim volunteers who carried out large-scale
exterminations of Serbs, Jews, and Roma (Gypsies) in Yugoslavia. He also
played an important role in getting hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews
sent to Auschwitz, and in speeding up the operation of the death camps.
Yasser Arafat proudly explained to his Arab audiences that Hajj Amin was his
mentor and hero. To read more on Hajj Amin's role, read:
Some of this material was originally published here:
[12] Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover,
NH: Smith and Kraus. (pp.165-66) [13] Arthur
Hertzberg. Wikipedia. [14] I will deal
here with both points: 1) Israel's
treatment of the West Bank and Gaza Arabs; and 2) the PLO's
treatment of the same. 1) First, Israel's administration of the West Bank
and Gaza followed a war provoked by the Arab states in 1967 that had the
publicly announced purpose of exterminating the Israelis. For years prior to
the 1967 war, there were terrorists attacks against Israeli civilians from
the Jordanian and Syrian borders, while Nasser promised an impending Arab
genocide of the Jews in Israel. "…Syria
used the Golan Heights, which tower 3,000 feet above the Galilee, to shell
Israeli farms and villages. Syria's attacks grew more frequent in 1965 and
1966, while Nasser's rhetoric became increasingly bellicose: 'We shall not enter
Palestine with its soil covered in sand,' he said on March 8, 1965. 'We shall
enter it with its soil saturated in blood.'" SOURCE: Howard
Sachar, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, (NY:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 616. Despite that, Israel's administration of these
territories was quite benign. This is Newsweek, writing ten years later in
1977: "Arab
living standards [in the West Bank] have jumped more than 50 per cent in the
past ten years, and employment has nearly doubled, largely because of the
$250 million annual trade that has grown up between the West Bank and Israel.
The Israelis have also kept the Jordan River bridges open, allowing 1 million
Arabs a year to cross and to keep their markets in Jordan for such products as
olive oil, soap and farm produce. The Israelis also allow the Arabs to elect
their own officials, even though the winners are often radical activists.
Still, the Arabs say they have never been more unhappy. . ." Source:
Newsweek, June 13, 1977, UNITED STATES EDITION, INTERNATIONAL; Pg. 55, 849
words, The West Bank Today, Milan J. Kubic So the Israelis installed a benign regime on the
West Bank despite the fact that this was the population of one of its
attackers in 1967, Jordan, in a war that was pledged to destroy Israel
through genocide. But this enemy population was nevertheless allowed freedom
of the press, the freedom to elect its own leaders, however radical, border
crossings with Jordan, and the ability to take jobs in Israel. Can anybody
imagine another country doing that, under the circumstances? Me neither. 2) The problems for the West Bank and Gaza Arabs
began when the PLO organized the First Intifada, which, contrary to popular
perception, involved much real violence by Arabs against Israelis who never
provoked them.
The following piece discusses the PLO treatment of the
West Bank and Gaza Arabs under the heading "Why doesn’t Fadi El-Salameen
complain that Abbas’s Fatah oppresses the West Bank and Gaza Arabs?":
[15] To read about
how the PLO murders Arabs who oppose the killing of Jews, visit:
Here below is a report from Agence France Presse on
the fact that murdering Arabs for selling land to Jews is PLO policy: “An
Arab-Israeli paper reported Thursday that Palestinian nationalist leaders,
including the grandfather of the PLO’s current top official in Jerusalem
[Hajj Amin al Husseini, who was great uncle (not grandfather) to Faisal
Husseini], sold land to Jews in the years before Israel’s founding. The weekly
Fasl al-Maqal, owned by Arab-Israeli parliament deputy Azmi Beshara and based
in the predominantly Arab city of Nazareth in north Israel, ran a list of 54
leading Palestinians who sold land to Jews from 1918-1945. It comes amid
widespread controversy over a Palestinian Authority campaign against Arabs
who sell land to Jews, mostly in the occupied territories but also in Israel
proper. [Palestinian] Authority officials early this month announced that
Palestinians who sell land in the West Bank, Gaza Strip or east Jerusalem to
Jewish settlers face the death penalty. They have also said sales of
Arab-owned land inside Israel will be punished...” SOURCE: Agence
France Presse, May 29, 1997, International news, 840 words, Historical
Palestinian leaders sold land to Jews: report, NAZARETH, Israel, May 29 To read more about how, before the founding of the
State of Israel, small landowning Arabs were terrorized by the big landowners
(the same ones who created what is called the ‘Palestinian National movement’
-- in particular, Hajj Amin al Husseini), so that these big landowners could
buy the land of the small Arab landowners at bargain prices and then resell
the same land at exorbitant prices to the same immigrant Jews whom the big
Arab landowners hypocritically denounced, visit: Today’s West Bank Arabs are likewise between a rock
and a hard place. Selling land to Jews is economically attractive because
they pay well, and because keeping the land is a risk given that the armed
thugs which the Palestinian Authority calls its policemen are fond of
confiscating land: “The 70-person
[Gaza Security and Protections] unit was formed more than a year ago to crack
down on militant groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and to track and
arrest high-profile criminals in Gaza. Instead, some members of the unit were
accused of turning into criminals themselves, confiscating land, smuggling
weapons and intimidating the general public with threats of violence.” [16] Israel's
administration of the West Bank and Gaza followed a war provoked by the Arab
states in 1967. Despite that, Israel's administration of these territories
was quite benign. This is Newsweek, writing ten years later in 1977: "Arab
living standards [in the West Bank] have jumped more than 50 per cent in the
past ten years, and employment has nearly doubled, largely because of the
$250 million annual trade that has grown up between the West Bank and Israel.
The Israelis have also kept the Jordan River bridges open, allowing 1 million
Arabs a year to cross and to keep their markets in Jordan for such products
as olive oil, soap and farm produce. The Israelis also allow the Arabs to
elect their own officials, even though the winners are often radical activists.
Still, the Arabs say they have never been more unhappy. . ." SOURCE:
Newsweek, June 13, 1977, UNITED STATES EDITION, INTERNATIONAL; Pg. 55, 849
words, The West Bank Today, Milan J. Kubic [17] Arthur
Hertzberg. Wikipedia. [18] Phillip
Klutznick, like Hertzberg, has served at the top of the anti-Israel World
Jewish Congress, as president, and he has been an advisor to the same US
presidents whose policies have been endangering the State of Israel. “He was the
national president of B’nai B’rith from 1953 to 1959, and later served as
president of the World Jewish Congress… Klutznick’s knowledge was sought at
the highest levels. He served as an envoy to the United Nations for
presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Carter, and also advised presidents
Truman, Johnson and Ford. He was Carter’s Secretary of Commerce from 1979 to
1981.” SOURCE: Philip
M. Klutznick, Omaha World Herald (Nebraska), November 28, 1999, Sunday,
SUNRISE EDITION, Pg. 22, 374 words, Nancy Evans. The late Bruno Bettleheim was accused of having been
a “pathological liar,” including about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor,
and the fact that he was a scientific fraud (his phony theories of autism
brought tragedy to many lives) is consistent with such accusations. “Beyond the
controversy regarding Bettelheim’s psychological theories, controversy has been
raging regarding his own history and personality. After Bettelheim’s suicide,
allegations surfaced that Bettelheim had a dark side. Three ex-patients
questioned his work, characterizing him as a cruel tyrant and critics, such
as Richard Pollak, allege that he was a pathological liar who invented much
of what his official biography tells of his life before reaching the United
States. Critics also claim that he often spanked his patients despite the
fact that he rejected spanking as ‘brutal.’ Treatments based on his autism
theories failed to help children, and his reported rates of cure (around 85%)
were found to be fraudulent.” SOURCE: Bruno
Bettelheim | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [19] See:
[20] In 1981 the
US pushed for a PLO state in the West Bank against Israeli objections; From
“IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL: A chronological look at the evidence”;
Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White. [21] Jewish leader
OKs Reagan peace plan, Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA), September 23,
1982, Thursday, Midwestern Edition, Pg. 12, 428 words, By Daniel Southerland,
Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, Washington [22] The
Washington Post, September 6, 1982, Monday, Final Edition, First Section;
World News; A1, 807 words, Israel Rebuffs Reagan, Approves 3 Settlements, By
Edward Walsh, Washington Post Foreign Service, JERUSALEM, Sept. 5, 1982 [23] US president
Ronald Reagan was exerting “pressure on Mr Begin to agree to a Palestinian
autonomy agreement.” The better to exert pressure, the Reagan administration
“indefinitely postpone[ed] Mr Begin’s next trip to Washington and disown[ed]
Israel’s demand for monitoring stations in southern Lebanon after the main
body of its forces leaves the country.” In addition, “The Reagan
Administration is also quietly delaying seeking Congressional approval for
delivery of Israel’s next batch of F-16 jet fighters.” And not only that:
“Leaked reports in Washington that the Administration is considering the
drastic step of cutting off military aid to Israel so long as its forces
remain in Lebanon have not been totally denied.” Edgar Bronfman was helping
Reagan out: “Earlier this week. Mr Edgar Bronfman, head of the World Jewish
Congress, the largest international Jewish organization, distanced himself
from the official Israeli line and said that Israel would have to make
political concessions to secure peace.” SOURCE: Time
runs short for Reagan's Middle East peace plan, Financial Times
(London,England), February 3, 1983, Thursday, SECTION I; American News; Pg.
4, 1019 words, Reginald Dale. To read more about how Edgar Bronfman loudly supported
the anti-Israel policies of the Reagan administration, consult the following
two pieces:
[24] In 1985,
Shimon Peres acted as a US agent, against Israeli interests; From “Is the US
an Ally of Israel: A chronological look at the evidence”; Historical and
Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White. [25] See above
footnote. [26] In this
footnote I address two points: 1) that the PLO means to exterminate the
Jewish people; and 2) that the controlling core of the PLO, Al Fatah, was
created by a leader of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution. The claim that the PLO means to exterminate the
Israeli Jews is supported by the PLO’s own constitution, for this is what the
PLO happens to announce as its intention: Article 9…says
that “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.” Article 15
says it is “a national duty to repulse the Zionist imperialist invasion from
the great Arab homeland and to purge the Zionist presence from
Palestine.” Article 22
declares that “the liberation of Palestine will liquidate the Zionist and
imperialist presence and bring about the stabilization of peace in the
Middle East.” TRANSLATION:
The Associated Press, December 15, 1998, Tuesday, AM cycle, International
News, 1070 words, Clinton meets with Netanyahu, Arafat, appeals for progress,
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent, EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip.
[Emphasis added] Historian Howard Sachar explains the following about
Al Fatah, Yasser Arafat’s and Mahmoud Abbas’ organization, which is the core
component of the PLO, calling all the shots: “...the Fatah
(Arab Liberation Movement) [was] organized...by veterans of the Mufti’s
former Arab Higher Committee.” SOURCE:
Sachar, Howard Morley - A history of Israel : from the rise of Zionism to our
time / Howard M. Sachar. 1982, c1979. (p.619) Who was “the Mufti” -- the man behind the creation
of Al Fatah? That would be Hajj Amin al Husseini, who was given bureaucratic
authority and a large budget by the British when they made him Mufti of
Jerusalem in 1920, after Hajj Amin demonstrated that he could organize
large-scale terrorist attacks against innocent Jews in British Mandate
‘Palestine.’ He used this power to organize another terrorist riot in 1921
(after which the British expanded his budget and bureaucratic authority), and
then a much larger attack in 1929, followed by an even bigger attack in
1936-37 (this last one was called the ‘Arab Revolt’ and was organized with
weapons provided by the Nazis). Each time, Hajj Amin’s attacks were against
civilians, and they included, for example, such things as torturing Jewish
children to death. In 1941 Hajj Amin met Hitler in Berlin. Hitler promised to
conquer the Middle East and exterminate all the Jews living there, after
which Hajj Amin would be installed as the local leader. Hajj Amin, for his
part, immediately became one of the supreme leaders of the Final Solution in
Europe, organizing large SS divisions in Bosnia composed of tens of thousands
of Bosnian Muslim volunteers who carried out large-scale exterminations of
Serbs, Jews, and Roma (gypsies) in Yugoslavia. He also played an important
role in getting hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz,
and in speeding up the operation of the death camps. Yasser Arafat proudly
explained to his Arab audiences that Hajj Amin was his mentor and hero. To read more about Hajj Amin al Husseini, visit:
Some of this material was originally published here:
[27] Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover,
NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.493) [28] "TWO AND
half years ago I publicly reprimanded Edgar Bronfman the president of the
World Jewish Congress when on the eve of a meeting between President George
W. Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon he co-signed a letter with former
secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger calling on the president to reject
Israel's intention to build a separation wall. Without consulting any of his
WJC colleagues Bronfman also took it upon himself to urge the president to
exert pressure on Israel and apply "the same straightforwardness in his
meeting with Prime Minister Sharon" as he had with the Palestinian
leadership.
And what did Bronfman say, exactly? According to one
source, this:
And according to another source, this:
In other words, it is ghastly to kill people in what
Bronfman calls 'Israel proper'. Put ripping to shreds innocent civilians is
not ghastly if these civilians are Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. [30] "A
recent investigative report on the Ford Foundation's funding of Palestinian
groups is triggering calls for a federal investigation... Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York, and
the American Jewish Congress are urging a federal probe into the alleged
financial ties between what might be the country's most prestigious
foundation and anti-Israel Palestinian groups... The calls come in reaction to an investigative
report published in last week's Forward, alleging that the foundation had
backed Palestinian groups accused of fomenting the anti-Israel agitation and
blatant antisemitism two years ago at the U.N. World Conference Against
Racism in Durban, South Africa... ...'The Ford Foundation, at best, used poor judgment
in its decision to fund Palestinian organizations that promote extremist
anti-Israel and antisemitic agendas,' [Representative Henry] Waxman said.
'They may have also violated U.S. law, if these groups are found to have
links with Palestinian terrorist organizations. I hope there will be a full
investigation...'" SOURCE: "Probe Demanded of Ford Foundation
Funding"; By NACHA CATTAN, FORWARD STAFF; OCTOBER 24, 2003. [31] "Probe
Demanded of Ford Foundation Funding"; By NACHA CATTAN, FORWARD STAFF;
OCTOBER 24, 2003. [32] Arafat to
ADL: I’ll urge PNC to alter Charter, The Jerusalem Post, November 19, 1995,
Sunday, NEWS; Pg. 2, 296 words, Elli Wohlgelernter [33] To understand
better the meaning of jihad, consult: Bat Ye'or
(2002) Jews and Christians under Islam: Dhimmitude and Marcionism. Published
in French as Juifs et chrétiens sous l’islam, Dhimmitude et marcionisme
[Commentaire, N°97, Printemps 2002] French
original: [34] SOURCE:
Evening Standard (London) May 19, 1994; SECTION: Pg. 9; LENGTH: 907 words;
HEADLINE: A NEW KIND OF JIHAD [35] Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover,
NH: Smith and Kraus. (pp.459-60) [36] At the
following address: you will find a collection of televised Friday
sermons, with translation, put together by the Middle East Media Research.
Look for the heading: “Palestinian Authority Sermons 2000-2003.” The
quotation in the text, conveniently, is the first in the collection. [37] Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover,
NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.460) [38] Truth vs.
Hype: The policies of the Vatican under John Paul II regarding Jews and the
Holocaust, Yugoslavia and El Salvador; "Part 1: Did the Pope Really
Reject Church Antisemitism? Mr. Foxman's Mistake"; by Jared Israel; 21
April 2005. [39] Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover,
NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.457) [40] From the
AIPAC website:
[41] You will find
the most complete documentation on this here:
Some of this material was originally published here:
[42] Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover,
NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.448) [43] The Oslo
syndrome. (p.450) [44] The Oslo
syndrome. (p.450) On CONAME’s founding: “…the
Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East (CONAME), among whose
founders, in 1970, were anti-Zionists such as Noam Chomsky. During the 1973
war, CONAME lobbied against U.S. resupply of Israel. The following year, the
same year Yasser Arafat promulgated his Plan of Phases for Israel’s
annihilation, the organization distributed an article by one of its financial
backers praising Arafat for his ‘moderation and pragmatism’ and offering
justifications for the PLO’s recent massacre of more than twenty Israeli
schoolchildren at Ma’a lot.” SOURCE: The
Oslo syndrome. (p.450) [45] Yom Kippur
War | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [46] The Oslo
syndrome. (p.450) [47] The Oslo
syndrome. (p.449) [48] The Oslo
syndrome. (p.452) [49] The Oslo
syndrome. (pp.452-53) [50] “In 1991,
Bush Sr.’s administration forced Israel to participate in the Oslo process,
which brought the PLO into the West Bank and Gaza”; from “IS THE US AN ALLY
OF ISRAEL?: A Chronological Look at the Evidence”; Historical and
Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White. [51] The Oslo
syndrome. (p.453) [52] The following
is from the book "Serbs Chose War" (by Ruth Mitchell, Garden City
Publishers, New York, 1943, pp. 260-264.) “Source: Letter written by a Jewish physician, a professor
in the Department of Medicine in the University of Belgrade, to a friend in
London on his escape from Yugoslavia in 1942. As the writer is a Jew, for the
sake of relatives who remain in Yugoslavia his name cannot be used.” TEXT OF THE LETTER: “In Yugoslavia
there were 85,000 Jews, including Jewish émigrés from Germany, Austria,
Poland and Czechoslovakia. Thanks to the Serbs, the Yugoslav Jews had
succeeded in saving and rescuing many of their compatriots from Germany and
German-occupied countries. Service rendered and assistance given to Jews by
Yugoslav consular officials in Austria and Czechoslovakia has specially to be
recognized. Of the total number of Jews in Yugoslavia about 7,500 were
refugees. After the
[Nazi invasion in 1941]...the Jews came under the rule of various regimes,
including Pavelich's 'Independent Croatian State'. The 'solution'
of the Jewish question in the Independent Croatia devolved upon the Croatian
Ustashis. [This was the clerical-fascist regime set up in Croatia with Nazi
approval.] In Serbia, however, the Jewish problem was not dealt with by the
Serbs themselves. This the Germans reserved for themselves. There are special
reasons for this. When they occupied Serbia, the Germans did not find any
anti-Semitic feeling in the country. They could not persuade either the local
population or the local authorities to take any anti-Semitic measures. The fact that
Nedich [the Serbian quisling government, installed after the Nazi invasion]
twice demanded from the German commanding officer in Serbia and the Banat
that he and his government should be given the right to settle the Jewish
problem, against whom no drastic measures should and could be taken in
Serbia, shows the feeling of the Serbian people toward the Jews. The following
reasons were given by Nedich to the Germans for this demand. If the Germans
wanted the Serbs to calm down, it would be of first importance to stop the
terrible persecution of the Serbian Jews. The Serbian people could not and
would not accept such treatment 'of their compatriots of the Jewish
religion.' The Serbs consider Jews as their brothers, only of a different
religion. The answer which Nedich received from the Germans regarding this
demand was 'that the Serbs have not attained a culture to the degree
necessary to enable them to deal with the Jews. We ourselves shall settle the
Jewish question in Serbia.' With regard to
anti-Semitism, Yugoslavia can be divided into two parts, i.e., districts
where this feeling was latent, and Serbia, where, it can be said without any
exaggeration, anti-Semitic feeling has never had any root. During
Yugoslavia's twenty-three years of existence, Serbia has always professed the
free democratic tradition existing in the former Kingdom of Serbia. There in
the nineteenth century, and later in the twentieth, the Jews always had full
civic rights and complete equality with their Serbian compatriots. This
equality was not only granted in various constitutions of the Kingdom of
Serbia and later of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but it was also a true
expression of the relationship between the Orthodox Serbs and the Jews in
their everyday contact. This friendly and amicable relationship also existed
in the economic, financial, and political life in Serbia. The small group of
Jews living in Serbia gave their contribution towards the cultural and
political life in Serbia's struggle for the formation of a state of South
Slavs. The Jews had in Serbia members of Parliament. In Serbia's struggle for
liberation, the Jews gave their contribution. Several were awarded the
Karadgeorge Star for bravery in the battlefield - equivalent to the British
V.C. About a year
before Yugoslavia was attacked by Germany, by pressure from the Reich and in
their attempt to suit their policy to the dictators, the Tsvetkovich-Machek
Government passed the first anti-Semitic measure in Yugoslavia. The
Government was not unanimous on this point. Dr. Koroshets, leader of the
Slovenes, upheld the measure as Minister of Education. Serbian cabinet
ministers, however, including the Minister of War, refused to apply the act.
The application of it was confined to the Ministry of Education, under the
Slovene, Dr. Koroshets, and the Ministry of Trade and Industry, under the
Croat[ian], Dr. Andres. In all the
schools and universities, numerous restrictions were applied by circular, but
in Serbia, Serb teachers and professors succeeded in avoiding or sabotaging
the regulations. In this regard
Serbia completely differed from Croatia under Dr. Machek and the district
governor or Ban, Shubashich. In Croatia anti-Semitism was inherited from
Austria-Hungary. Anti-Semitic centers had always existed. Dr. Shubashitch's
Croatia had even prepared elaborate laws and regulations just before the war
broke out in Yugoslavia in 1941. A large part of the industries in Jewish
hands in Croatia was to be confiscated and nationalized. Anti-Semitism was
particularly stressed in Croatia by the right wing of Dr. Machek's Croatian
Peasant Party. This report
could be divided into two parts - the first beginning with the entry of
German troops into Belgrade in April 1941 to the beginning of August 1941;
the second from the middle of August 1941 until the closing down of the
office of the 'Jewish section' late in 1942. The section was closed because
there were no longer any Jews in occupied Serbia. During the first stage the
Jews were tortured, persecuted, maltreated, taken for forced labor.
Well-known Jews and Serbs were taken to German concentration camps. Women of
the intelligentsia class were forced to clean latrines in the German
barracks, to clean floors and sweep streets under the supervision of the S.S.
troops. They were made to clean the windows of high houses from the outside,
and several of them lost their lives through falling down. Jewish girls were violated
and taken to 'Militar-Medi'. Already during the first stage the Jews were
deprived of all their property and most of them were evicted from their
homes. In the second
period male Jews were sent to concentration camps. But quite a number of men
and young Jews succeeded in escaping to the villages, where they lived with
Serbian peasant families. A number later joined the guerrillas. A
considerable number of youths from the Jewish Zionist organization, which
co-operated with the Serbian organizations for the preparation of resistance,
actively helped the guerrilla fighters. Many collected hospital material for
the guerrillas or posted anti-German posters in Belgrade streets. The name of
Almozmo, a schoolboy of ten, the son of a well-known Belgrade dispensing
chemist in Peter Street, should be mentioned. He threw bombs at two armored
German cars and a tank in Grobljanska Street in Belgrade and blew them up.
His elder brother, a medical student, is still fighting in Bosnia, in spite
of the order that the mayor and members of the rural councils would be shot
if such cases were discovered in their villages. Some forty of
my relatives were shot in Belgrade by the Germans. I am, however, very proud
to say that today two small relatives of mine, one of five and one of seven
years of age, whose parents were shot by the Gestapo, are being hidden by two
Serbian mothers. No German
measures in Belgrade were able to upset the friendly relations between the
Serbs and Jews. During the forced-labor period Serbs talked to their Jewish
friends in the streets even in front of the German soldiers and police.
During the period well over 300,000 Serbs were massacred by the Croat Ustashi
in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Lika and some 60,000 shot by the Germans in
Serbia, during the period when Serbian students and peasants were hung in the
main square in Belgrade, the Serbs of the capital had sufficient courage to
protest publicly their indignation at the treatment of the Jews. When Jewish
women were transported in lorries to the concentration camps, Serb
shopkeepers in the streets through which these processions passed closed
their shops and their houses, thus expressing not only their protest, but
also emphasizing the fact that the entire population of Serbia, yesterday and
today, does not and cannot participate in the extermination of their Jewish
neighbors. The example of
the Serbian people with regard to the Jews is unique in Europe, particularly
in the southern part of the continent. In spite of intensive German
propaganda in writing and through the wireless, the Serbs remained
unaffected. When we consider what happened to the Jews in neighboring
countries, in the "Independent State of Croatia," Hungary, Rumania,
and Bulgaria, the Serbian example shines out. Today there
are no more Jews left in Serbia, except some children hidden by the Serbs and
those fighting along with the Serbs in the forests. I saved my own life
thanks to my Serbian friends. I was saved from certain death. Serbian
peasants and my other friends also saved from death my only son, who was on
several occasions sought by the Gestapo in Belgrade. It is my
desire as a Jew and as a Serb that in free democratic countries where Jews
are still enjoying full freedom and equality they should show gratitude to
the Serbian people, pointing out their noble acts, their humane feelings, and
their high civic consciousness and culture.... I cannot
conclude this report without mentioning how the Serbian Orthodox Church, the
Patriarch Gavrilo, and his clergy tried to save Serbian Jews and Gypsies. Up
to the present day the Germans have massacred I70,000 Gypsies, men, women,
and children, in Serbia and the Banat. Serbian Orthodox priests and the
Serbian peasantry risked their lives not only to save ordinary Jews and their
children but also to save those Gypsies and their children. Today the chief
rabbi of Yugoslav Jews lives in America. He was saved from the Gestapo, being
smuggled out from Serbia from monastery to monastery by the Serbian clergy.
He was handed over by one Serbian church to another, by one Serbian priest to
another until he was passed on to Bulgarian territory. There, with the
assistance of the Orthodox Bulgarian clergy, some of whom were his personal
friends, he arrived at the Turkish frontier." [52a] "On anti-Semitism, suicide bombers and a sick
Israel: A conversation with French philosopher, columnist and writer
Bernard-Henri Levy"; Haaretz; 26/05/2003; by Anat Cygielman. [53] GETTING
EVEN, The Jerusalem Post, January 14, 1994, Friday, FEATURES; Pg. 18,
4545 words, Steve Rodan [54] Alfred
Lilienthal says he is "an American of Jewish faith," and yet
"in 1949, his article, Israel's Flag Is Not Mine, published in the
Reader's Digest, caused great controversy because of its anti-Zionist
position." This was a strange year in which to be an anti-Zionist, if
you were a Jew, because the year before the combined Arab states had
attempted the extermination of the Israeli Jews. SOURCE: http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/ [55] Azzam Pasha,
Secretary General of the Arab League, announced: "This
will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken
of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades." SOURCE: Howard
M Sachar, A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time,
(New York: Knopf, 1979), p. 333 To learn a little more about the context of this
war, visit:
[56] “Whether It’s
Jerusalem or Nantucket, You Can’t Go Home Again”; By Dr. Alfred M.
Lilienthal; WASHINGTON REPORT On Middle East Affairs; DECEMBER 1997, Pages
34, 93. [57] The key
threats took place in 1991, when George Bush Sr. and James Baker threatened
the Israelis for 8 months that they would lose all US financial aid, and
moreover that the US would decide the future of the Middle East with the
Arabs, unless the Israelis agreed to participate in a diplomatic process to
bring the PLO into Israel. To learn about this, read:
[58] In this
footnote I address two points: 1) that the PLO means to exterminate the
Jewish people; and 2) that the controlling core of the PLO, Al Fatah, was created
a leader of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution. The claim that the PLO means to exterminate the
Israeli Jews is supported by the PLO’s own constitution, for this is what the
PLO happens to announce as its intention: Article 9…says
that “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.” Article 15
says it is “a national duty to repulse the Zionist imperialist invasion from
the great Arab homeland and to purge the Zionist presence from
Palestine.” Article 22
declares that “the liberation of Palestine will liquidate the Zionist and
imperialist presence and bring about the stabilization of peace in the
Middle East.” TRANSLATION:
The Associated Press, December 15, 1998, Tuesday, AM cycle, International
News, 1070 words, Clinton meets with Netanyahu, Arafat, appeals for progress,
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent, EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip.
[Emphasis added] Historian Howard Sachar explains the following about
Al Fatah, Yasser Arafat’s and Mahmoud Abbas’ organization, which is the core
component of the PLO, calling all the shots: “...the Fatah
(Arab Liberation Movement) [was] organized...by veterans of the Mufti’s
former Arab Higher Committee.” SOURCE:
Sachar, Howard Morley - A history of Israel : from the rise of Zionism to our
time / Howard M. Sachar. 1982, c1979. (p.619) Who was “the Mufti” -- the man behind the creation
of Al Fatah? That would be Hajj Amin al Husseini, who was given
bureaucratic authority and a large budget by the British when they made him
Mufti of Jerusalem in 1920, after Hajj Amin demonstrated that he could
organize large-scale terrorist attacks against innocent Jews in British
Mandate ‘Palestine.’ He used this power to organize another terrorist riot in
1921 (after which the British expanded his budget and bureaucratic authority),
and then a much larger attack in 1929, followed by an even bigger attack in
1936-37 (this last one was called the ‘Arab Revolt’ and was organized with
weapons provided by the Nazis). Each time, Hajj Amin’s attacks were against
civilians, and they included, for example, such things as torturing Jewish
children to death. In 1941 Hajj Amin met Hitler in Berlin. Hitler promised to
conquer the Middle East and exterminate all the Jews living there, after
which Hajj Amin would be installed as the local leader. Hajj Amin, for his
part, immediately became one of the supreme leaders of the Final Solution in
Europe, organizing large SS divisions in Bosnia composed of tens of thousands
of Bosnian Muslim volunteers who carried out large-scale exterminations of Serbs,
Jews, and Roma (gypsies) in Yugoslavia. He also played an important role in
getting hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews sent to Auschwitz, and in
speeding up the operation of the death camps. Yasser Arafat proudly explained
to his Arab audiences that Hajj Amin was his mentor and hero. To read more about Hajj Amin al Husseini, visit:
Some of this material was originally published here:
[59] In
1982-1983, the US military rushed into Lebanon to protect the PLO from the
Israelis; from “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A Chronological Look at the
Evidence”; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White. [60] The following
piece contains much material on the PLO oppression of the Arabs:
[61] Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover,
NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.161) [62] Source:
Evening Standard (London) May 19, 1994; SECTION: Pg. 9; LENGTH: 907 words;
HEADLINE: A NEW KIND OF JIHAD [63] The Baltimore
Sun, July 11, 2001 Wednesday, FINAL EDITION, Pg. 1A, 1574
words, Israelis taking darker view of Palestinian intentions; Many see
existence of Jewish state at risk, Mark Matthews. [64] In 2005
Mahmoud Abbas, the one who invented the strategy of talking 'peace' the
better to slaughter Israelis, acquired complete control over Gaza. The US
ruling elite loves Mahmoud Abbas; from “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A
Chronological Look at the Evidence”; Historical and Investigative Research;
by Francisco Gil-White. [65] In the quote
below The Guardian says that the Oslo process was created by Mahmoud
Abbas. But notice also that The Guardian obligingly calls Mahmoud
Abbas an “arch-moderate.” “Oslo could,
perhaps, have worked. But its architect, the arch-moderate Abu Mazen, warned
from the outset that it would lead ‘either to a Palestine state or the
liquidation of the Palestine cause.’” SOURCE: THE
AXE IS SHARPENED FOR ARAFAT; He once carried the hopes of his people. Now
Yasser Arafat faces their bitterness as the peace process stalls and
allegations of corruption, incompetence and even collaboration dog him. In
the first of three articles, DAVID HIRST looks atthe slow collapse of the
latest Palestinian dream of freedom., The Guardian (London), April 15, 1995,
THE GUARDIAN FEATURES PAGE; Pg. 21, 3747 words, David Hirst [66] “…at 11 a.m.,
before some 3,000 guests on the South Lawn, including former presidents Jimmy
Carter and George Bush, [Shimon] Peres and PLO Executive Committee member Mahmoud
Abbas are to sign an agreement between Israel and the PLO conferring limited
self-rule on the Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank.” SOURCE: Old
Foes Meet Today At Israel-PLO Signing; White House Ceremony to Open New Era,
The Washington Post, September 13, 1993, Monday, Final Edition, FIRST
SECTION; PAGE A1, 1289 words, Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post Staff Writer [67] Levin, K.
2005. The Oslo syndrome: Delusions of a people under siege. Hanover, NH: Smith and Kraus. (p.456) |
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