Friends, Reuters carried information about the commemoration of the Holocaust today by many nations.
Now I know you are asking yourself which Holocaust they are referring to. Was it the Holocaust that took place during WW1 when millions perished in the mud on the Western Front? Was it the millions of Russians who were killed while driving the Germans back from the gates of Stalingrad?
Was it the number of European citizens killed by the Germans as they over ran Europe? Was it the holocaust caused by Pol Pot, one which killed millions of Cambodian citizens? Did it refer to the use of atomic bombs on the Japanese citizens by the Americans? What about the Holocausts carried out by Stalin and Mao which killed millions? The answer is no!
To most people the Holocaust, which surely must be the most used word in the English language, only refers to the number of Jews killed by the Germans during WW2. Why this narrow use of the word?
Well, ever since 1945, the Jewish people have tried to keep the word ‘Holocaust’, their Holocaust, constantly in the public eye. There is an industry devoted towards this end. Its purpose? To continuously project the Jewish people as victims, even though what happened to them took place 65 years ago and is only one of many holocausts.
Friends, history is replete with holocausts. History shows that whole people were often put to the sword. Look at the Aztecs, etc. If we were to commemorate every Holocaust that has taken place in the last 10,000 years, we would be attending services every day in the week.
But there is an irony here. While nations commemorate the Jewish Holocaust, the people of Israel are carrying out a genocidal Holocaust against the Palestinians! For 60 years the Palestinians have been brutalized, murdered, starved, had their land stolen, their houses demolished, their kids shot by the very people who want the world to be constantly reminded of the terrible things that happened to them in WW2.
To me it’s a bit sick, the double-standard. How about, once a year, nations of the world commemorate the ongoing Palestinian Holocaust plus all the other Holocausts that have taken place in the last 100 years?
That would put a new and more realistic perspective on the word ‘Holocaust’ and rescue the word from its gross distortion and exploitation by the Jewish people!
Anti=semitic == to try to combat you, that is the word that the Zionists will throw at you, DG, for writing what should be obvious to all clear thinkers. Howard Zinn died today. May he rest in peace.
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David G., you are absolutely correct in your observation that the one-time all-encomapassing word “holocaust” has been commandeered by those who support Jewish claims to victimization.
it reminds me of the time, not so long ago, when I mentioned to a young lady that my father had been killed in WWII, a victim of Nazi gunfire. She responded with, “I didn’t know you were Jewish.” I was completely stunned by this statement.
However, as a retired public school teacher, I quickly realized that in our revisionist “language arts” and social studies curricula, governmentally mandated teaching units include “Holocaust Studies.” It seems as if every level of American education has such units of study, from elementary through high school. The introduction of this course has many facets for both literature and history indoctrinatioon. It, like other ethnic studies, often usurps traditional subjects.
In high school, for example, great authors like Twain, Hemingway, and Faulkner have been replaced by Maya Angelou, Phyllis Wheatley, and the Harlem Renaissance. Founding fathers, as well as important literary and philosophical giants are routinely and flippantly dismissed as “dead white men.”
I remember an eleventh grade English class when I mentiooned George Washington. A student blurted out accusingly from the back of the room, “He’s the dude who owned slaves!” I asked him what else he knew about our first president, and he couldn’t say anything else.
America’s two worst holocausts are usually swept under the carpet. The mass genocide of American Indians throughout the Nineteenth Century is rarely a topic of study. The Civil War is presented almost as a fairy tale with the South as the enemy of all that is decent and rightfully deserving of the brutality it suffered during the Reconstruction. In addition, America’s most notorious robber barons are usually depicted in almost heroic terms, an insidious method of promoting greed and corruption as virtues to a newer generation.
While we are subjected to Holocaust awareness, our new robber barons like the CEOs of Goldman-Sachs, Bernard Madoff, Tim Geithner, et al, ad nauseam, all agents of the colossal Israeli conglomerate. If they can’t win us over through conversion, they’ll resort to our sense of pity.
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I do find it tragically ironic that the very people who were persecuted and murdered in the 30s, are now doing a very similar thing to another nation. The same as then, there are also ignorant people trying to justify it.
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Therese, to be labelled anti-Semitic is an honour!
Judge Joe, I thought about adding the Red Indian genocide. Thanks for your thoughtful, revealing comment.
Lucy, perhaps it’s the story of the brutalized child turning into a brutal parent all over again.
Cheers!
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Amerikagulag Reply:
January 30th, 2010 at 5:35 am
“…Therese, to be labelled anti-Semitic is an honour!…”
Caution there David. To be anti-semitic, you must HATE Palestinians, Iraqi’s and Afghans too. In fact, in order to be anti-semitic, you must be an Israeli as they hate all of the above and the vase majority of which are NOT semite people, but Ashkenazi and Khazar from northeastern europe.
I’ve opposed the Iraq invasion, the Afghanistan invasion and the Gaza seige. I’ve opposed the usurping of land of the Palestinian people in order to prop up a myth of diaspora and a biblical tall tale.
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History is always written by those with the power, money, control, and influence.
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I am skeptical of using the words genocide or holocaust for the Palestinians.
Genocide implies that there are fewer people after than before the mass murders. For instance, there are very few Indians left today in the US.
There are millions of Palestinians who claim descent from the 500,000 driven from their land 60 years ago.
How can that be genocide?
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There was an older man a few months back who went into the Holocaust museum and started shooting. Anyone remember that story? He was portrayed as a crazy lone wolf gunman who hated Jews.
Maybe he was crazy and filled with hate. Maybe he was a racist. We’ll never know his real truth. Maybe he knew history better than most and also realized who is trying to bring down the global economy and usher in this new one world government. Maybe he hoped that if he started the revolution others would follow??? Who knows what goes through the mind of a mad (angry) man who just can’t take it anymore?
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Wagelaborer, it is estimated (though the figure is said to be a serious underestimate) that since the year 2,000, 6348 Palestinians have been killed by the Israelis.
Of course, the Israelis have been murdering, massacring, bombing, demolishing houses on top of, using phosphorous shells, withholding medical treatment, starving the Palestinians, etc, for 65 years. Obviously, the true number who have been killed or ‘have disappeared’ will never be known but it must be well over 100,000, perhaps many more.
And the Israelis are not selective.They target kids, women, anyone who occupies the status of vermin in their estimation (which the Palestinians do).
It sure sounds like genocide to me!
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Wagelaborer, from the US “Holocaust ” museum…
[G]enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Seems to me Israel is guilty of all the above except maybe (e)
Robbo
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Amerikagulag Reply:
January 30th, 2010 at 5:23 am
Yes, they wouldn’t engage in (e). They’d just kill the children. Maybe harvest some organs too.
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It makes me both sad and angry that Israel uses what was a terrible crime as an excuse to commit another terrible crime.
We remember, but we do not seem to learn. If we did we would stop what Israel is doing. And the fact that holocausts have been going for thousands of years suggests that we never will learn.
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Amerikagulag Reply:
January 30th, 2010 at 5:31 am
Yes Jeannie man’s inhumanity to his fellow man seems to be one of the darkest ongoing traits of our curious species. But special attention should be paid to those who are particularly brutal in asserting their self-proclaimed right to be ‘special’ in a mythical god’s eyes. A god which they themselves invented.
Israeli massacres by the numbers.
http://dprogram.net/2009/07/31/israeli-massacres-details-and-numbers/
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Of course! “Holocaust remembrance day”. A special day when Jews the world over pretend they are the only people in the world of any significance.
Lets see…..holocausts, shall we list them?
Democratic Republic of Congo 5.4 million, Rwanda, about 1 million, Sudan, 2-3 million; Somalia, at least 1 million; Cambodia, almost 2 million; Vietnam, 2 million; and, more recently, in Iraq, more than 1 million. Afghanistan is showing the same trend. WWII: Russia – 10 million. World wide 60 million. Armenian 1-2 million. African slavery?
Then there are the unknown numbers of native Americans displaced in both the north and southern American continents. The ongoing and continuing destruction of the native AM spirit through ‘re-education’ in both the US and Canada.The American holocausts:The Inca, the Maya the Aztec.
The millions killed during the ‘holy’ crusades by religious fanatics. And we should take special note of the most recent holocaust: GAZA and the Palestinians.
So, on the UN’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I would hope that people all over the world also give some thought to those millions of others who have died under similar conditions who do not receive the same global attention.
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Therese Reply:
January 31st, 2010 at 11:04 am
And there was a holocaust of the Irish also, at the hands of the Jewish Bankers’ City of London.
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I used to believe that the Jews had a ‘special humanity’ as a result of all they suffered throughout time. I thought that when they said”Never Again!,” that meant that NO HUMAN should ever endure what they did endure. I believed they were a fair people because of their experiences. Most Jews I ever knew growing up in Los Angeles, were non religious humanists. I thought, maybe that all is enough to qualify them as special, or “chosen” as their good book called it.
Time and actions have changed that view. I no longer believe the Israeli people, as a whole, are a moral people. Perhaps amongst one another, but if you are anything else, other people are treated as >less than human. It has become a cult. I understand this kind of thing. The cult member is always the last to know!
The Holy Land used to belong to everybody!
All humans are Survivors!
Take your place in line and start caring about the hand that feeds you.
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Yes, Jews are Victims! Just not victims of what they thought! They are being propaganized within inches of their lives from what I can tell. Once again, the average Jew has more in common with the average Palestinian than the Zionist leaders that are unholy, actually. Theirs is a bloody, murderous regime. Interesting that the new breed of Israeli is blonde and blue eyed. Most Jews are probably afraid to admit – what is before their very eyes. I will not project more onto a people who seem hardly able to speak up -against a way of life that is about death. It goes against The Human Directive. Remember,we are all human before any other category. Good planets, suitable for human life, are still hard to find.
Stop the madness.
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Robbo and Amerikagulag, thanks for your comments which reinforce the points I was making in this thread. The hypocrisy of the Jews is astronomical and they should be strongly condemned for it!
Jeannie and Grace, it’s amazing just what fanatical religious belief can make people do. The Jews, for me, demonstrate just how dangerous religion is, how it can distort peoples’ minds, blind them to the horrors they are committing.
Then the ‘Christian’ Americans are doing exactly the same thing!
Cheers.
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Let an Arabic appearing person walk around sporting a tshirt that featured 13 rabbis in a conga line with the phrase under it “how many shots to take them all out?”
Can you imagine the howls of rage, spittle flying, hands flailing wildly as the peoples of the world condemn such racist, violent idiocy.
Yet where was the rage about the target plastered on the Palestinian woman’s belly sporting the slogan, “one shot, two kills”?
The pendulum has swung as far right as it can go…time to get ready to see some changes, whatever they are I truly hope history does not repeat itself.
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David G Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Dear Kate, history, for humans, will always repeat itself. We don’t have the intelligence to change things and besides, we still have our primitive genes which incline us towards greed, lust and killing.
Sorry!
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The torah and the talmud are weapons of mass destruction and their adherents are enemies of humanity.
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