holocaust

nothing to do with the holocaust

Holocaust Memorial Day has nothing to do with the Nazi holocaust. The Holocaust industry has nothing to do with the Nazi holocaust. All it is, is an ideological weapon of Israel and its supporters to immunize Israel and its supporters from criticism. It has nothing to do with the actual event. These people don’t care about the actual event. They don’t care about the survivors. It’s a manipulative public relations device, and I think nobody should have any truck with it. You should stay away from it, you should boycott it, and say that you’re not going to allow the Nazi holocaust to be turned into an ideological club to keep dissenting opinion in line.

the ultimate ideological weapon

Just look at what happened, the build-up to the war in Iraq in 2003. Anyone who dissented—anyone who dissented from an illegal war of aggression was accused of being an appeaser of Hitler. Now can you imagine that? The Nazi holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for justifying wars of aggression. That’s a fact. Every time Israel and the United States want to launch an illegal war of aggression, what do they charge? That their enemy is Hitler. Ahmadinejad, he’s Hitler. Hezbollah’s Hitler. Hamas is Hitler. Every time they want to commit an illegal war of aggression, they use the Nazi holocaust to justify it. Now that’s the ultimate irony. The Nazi holocaust has become the chief, the main ideological weapon for waging illegal wars of aggression.

the parasitic roma

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There are whole [Roma] families living without sanitation, without utilities, working in the black economy if at all, whose life in France is nonetheless more pleasant and profitable than it probably was, or ever would be, where they came from. There is no reason for them to return. As it is, though, they are parasites on a state of civilisation, material and cultural, they have done nothing to build and could not reproduce for themselves.

Mary Dejevsky in the Independent, Sarkozy is right about the Roma

Now where have I seen something similar... ?

Because the Gypsies have manifestly a heavily tainted heredity and because they are inveterate criminals who constitute parasites in the bosom of our people, it is fitting in the first place to watch them closely, to prevent them from reproducing themselves...

From a memorandum by Tobias Portschy, the Nazi leader in Steiermark (Burgenland) to Dr Lammers, Chief of the Chancellery (1938)

And this, also vaguely reminiscent...

The Gypsies, especially in the district of the lower court of Oberwarth where about 4,000 of them live, are a danger, less from the political than from the racial and economic point of view. Among them the pure bred (black) Gypsies probably constitute the majority. They subsist almost exclusively by begging and stealing. Their activities as musicians represent more a camouflage than a means of earning a living. Their existence is an extraordinarily great burden for the honest working population, especially the farmers whose fields they plunder, a burden growing from year to year. The mass of the Gypsies still resemble externally primitive African or Asiatic peoples...

Part of a letter from Dr Meissner, General Public Prosecutor in Graz, in 1940, recommended sterilisation of all Gypsies in the Burgenland.

supporting a pattern of criminality

But Gaza is morally far worse [than Rwanda, Srebenica and Darfur], although mass death has not yet resulted. It is far worse because the international community is watching the ugly spectacle unfold while some of its most influential members actively encourage and assist Israel in its approach to Gaza. Not only the United States, but also the European Union, are complicit, as are such neighbors as Egypt and Jordan apparently motivated by their worries that Hamas is somehow connected with their own problems associated with the rising strength of the Muslim Brotherhood within their own borders. It is helpful to recall that the liberal democracies of Europe paid homage to Hitler at the 1936 Olympic Games, and then turned away tens of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. I am not suggesting that the comparison should be viewed as literal, but to insist that a pattern of criminality associated with Israeli policies in Gaza has actually been supported by the leading democracies of the 21st century.

Richard Falk is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967"

defending ahmedinejad (apparently)

Is Ahmedinejad anti-semitic, is he holocaust denying - and does it matter? Should we bother to defend him if we think that he is not?

I think we should. Partly because he deserves, as any human being does, to be considered innocent until he has been found guilty, but mostly because this story about Ahmedinejad is being used to sell another war. Whatever he is, he is not deserving of a war, nor are the people in his country who will suffer it.

Ahmedinejad on the holocaust

Some extracts below from Katie Couric's interview with Ahmedinejad on CBS.The whole thing is well worth watching. The first part (not transcribed) deals with the nuclear threat. Available here:

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KC Some might say that Iran is the largest sponsor, the biggest... er... perpetrator of state-sponsored and has produced inflammatory rhetoric along the lines that Israel should be blown off the map. Given those things, can you understand the concern the international community may have about Iran, in particular?

AM: ... With respect to Palestine, I've always raised a very clear question. What I'm saying, is that we need to ask ourselves where did the events of WW2 happen? Well the answer is - it happened in Europe. So who killed 60 million people during WW2? It was.. people that belonged to the European governments of the time - some European governments at the time. So - what does this have to do with the Palestinian people? Why do we use the murders of WW2 as a pretext to kill Palestinian people now? So, the questions I ask are clear ones.

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