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Holocaust Rememberance Jan 30, 2010
An article from Haaretz with some uncomfortable truths for some of our resident supporters of Israel who are in denial about Israel's racist/xenophobic acts:


Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda
01.28.2010 | Haaretz
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at Yad Vashem. “There is evil in the world,” he said. “Evil must be stamped out at the beginning.” Some people are “trying to deny the truth.” Lofty words, said by the same person who only the day before, not quite in the same breath, uttered very different words, words of true evil, evil that should be extinguished at the start, evil that Israel is trying to hide.

Netanyahu spoke of a new “migration policy,” one that is evil through and through. He malevolently lumped together migrant workers and wretched refugees - warning that they all endanger Israel, lower our wages, harm our security, make us into a third-world country and bring in drugs. He zealously supported our racist interior minister, Eli Yishai, who has spoken of the migrants as the spreaders of diseases such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, AIDS and God knows what else.

No Holocaust speech will erase these words of incitement and slander against migrants. No remembrance speech will obliterate the xenophobia that has reared its head in Israel, not only on the extreme right, as in Europe, but throughout government.

We have a prime minister who speaks about evil but is building a fence to prevent war refugees from knocking at Israel’s door. A prime minister who speaks about evil but shares the crime of the Gaza blockade, now in its fourth year, leaving 1.5 million people in disgraceful conditions. A prime minister in whose country settlers perpetrate pogroms against innocent Palestinians under the slogan “price tag,” which also has horrific historical connotations, but against whom the state does virtually nothing.

This is the prime minister of a state that arrests hundreds of left-wing protesters against the injustices of the occupation and the war in Gaza, while time grants mass pardons to the right-wingers who demonstrated against the disengagement. In his speech yesterday, Netanyahu’s equating Nazi Germany with fundamentalist Iran was no more than cheap propaganda. Talk about “degrading the Holocaust.” Iran isn’t Germany, Ahmedinejad isn’t Hitler and equating them is no less spurious than equating Israeli soldiers with Nazis.

The Holocaust must not be forgotten, and there is no need to compare it with anything. Israel must take part in the efforts to keep its memory alive, but in doing so it must show up with clean hands, clean of evil of their own doing. And it must not arouse suspicion that it is cynically using the memory of the Holocaust to obliterate and blur other things. Regrettably, this is not the case.

How beautiful it would have been if on this international day of remembrance Israel had taken the time to examine itself, look inward and ask, for example, how it is that anti-Semitism has reared its head in the world precisely in the past year, the year after we dropped white-phosphorous bombs on Gaza. How beautiful it would have been if on this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu had declared a new policy for integrating refugees instead of expulsion, or lifted the Gaza blockade.

A thousand speeches against anti-Semitism will not extinguish the flames ignited by Operation Cast Lead, flames that threaten not only Israel but the entire Jewish world. As long as Gaza is under blockade and Israel sinks into its institutionalized xenophobia, Holocaust speeches will remain hollow. As long as evil is rampant here at home, neither the world nor we will be able to accept our preaching to others, even if they deserve it.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1145670.html

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Re: Holocaust Rememberance Feb 01, 2010
It’s beyond ridiculous and ironic when a leader of country whose country represents everything is evil and inhumane, preaches about morality and evil.

If one examines Israel’s strategies and intention toward the Palestinians, it’ll be obvious to find out that Israel has been doing exactly the same as Hitler did. The only difference however is, that Hitler allegedly killed a large number at once, but Israel kills dozens of Palestinians from now and then, and if you add up all the Palestinians that have been killed so far you’ll find the margin is not as far as one might thinks.

German has been holding as a hostage financially and morally for something that had been done by Hitler, in which they had paid for it severely. So, is it fair that the people of German have to listen every year to those hypocritical Zionist leaders reminding them of how bad and indecent German was, and preaching to them about morality and decency. When those same leaders have been committing the same atrocity on daily basis against so many innocent Palestinians for refusing Israel’s occupation and bullying.


Israel has forced so many Palestinians out of their country to only live as stateless, homeless, in poverty in other countries, and have been refusing them the right of return to go back to their own homes. Not to mention the inhumane blockade on Gaza, and the horrible condition that the whole Palestinians have been living in for the last 60 years, due to Israel’s occupation and evil practices. But I guess those Zionist leaders are capable of preaching and blaming the German, but when it comes to their own evils and illegal practices, they surely know how to quickly hide behind the anti-Semitism slogan - :shock:
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Re: Holocaust Rememberance Feb 01, 2010
Obersturmbahnfuhrer Hubelmann has spoken again.
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Re: Holocaust Rememberance Feb 01, 2010
Oy vey!
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Re: Holocaust Rememberance Feb 01, 2010
Obersturmbahnfuhrer Hubelmann has spoken again.

A romantic nationalist speaking from its cradle!...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_nationalism

http://www.harunyahya.com/romanticism3.php
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Re: Holocaust Rememberance Feb 01, 2010
Berrin, do you condemn the collabaration of the Mufti with Hitler? And I think it is you who feels superior/better over others, the kuffar, don't you?
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Re: Holocaust Rememberance Feb 01, 2010
Fancy you trying to implicit the facts, over the poor, helpless Mufti! Ask the Brits why?
Do you understand why I called you romantic nationalist, from its cradle- the birth place? Apparently the Brits aren’t exclusive from this either.

The Muslims didn’t know anything about creating nationalist borders amongst themselves but had to learn it when the Ottoman Empire was being pulled apart.

In Islam a mufti is a servant of God, has no difference from another believer, except the role as governor under sharia rule.
Our God says to his believers that, he is both the creator of kuffar and belivers. While he makes assessments of his creation/created- in quran to reason and for us to think and take lessons from the knowledge provides, he however does not give any authority and previlage to any of his believers to abuse, demean or demonise the kuffar or any of his creation, as long as they are peaceful and not in war. We are also taught that a kuffar may be an unbeliever today but may well be absoulate precious believer tomorrow provided that we stay patient, a good role model and not to loose hope while doing our duties as ordained. God also says to us that he has no borders between people, and no one nation or race has superiortiy over the other and that he is the owner of all the wealth on the earth and it is the duty of every single being to make efficient use of it in justice so that its all sufficient for every living creature in the world.
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Re: Holocaust Rememberance Feb 01, 2010
A long reply for a very simple question. Germans today have no problem condemning the nazi's and Hitler and distance themselves from it. The Mufti was a nazi and introduced a new form of anti-semitism in the Muslim ME and was (and still is) very successful at it. Together with Hitler he agreed that Jews are the main problem and that a solution must be found. Seems you agree with this nazi and his nazi ideas and cannot codemn him. Guess that makes you a nazi too, are maybe better an Islamofacsist.
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Re: Holocaust Rememberance Feb 01, 2010
From the tone of your reply, I see that you've got the message...Good for you....It's just that, I look at their state now and feel sorry that the Arab muslim brothers listened to the false promises of the such romantic nationalists of the time and era.
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