The Final Solution wasn’t a German invention, but a collaborative effort by the Christian world.
Christian Russia thought about some kind of Final Solution in the nineteenth century. Russian government was receptive to Zionist leaders because they offered to rid Russia of Jews. Russian government prompted waves of pogroms. In the early twentieth century in Ukraine, government forces annihilated the Jews in the numbers only superseded in Holocaust.
Then came Stalin. He was deeply anti-Semitic but allowed Jews into the most visible – and hated – positions in communist hierarchy. Stalin committed a strategic disaster by partitioning Poland with Germany: absence of that buffer state in June 1941 allowed Germans to extinguish the Russian army in a matter of days. The only reason for partitioning Poland was to pass Jewish towns into the German hands. Indeed, Germany and Russia carved Poland specifically the way that major Jewish population centers fell to Germans. Russians supported the Nazi Germany until the very day it launched the offensive against the Soviet Union; Germany thrived on Russian iron, grain, and many other products.
The Russian government knew about the Germans’ annihilating the Jews in the conquered Soviet Union from the day one, from the burning of Jews in Byalostok, but didn’t warn the Jews to flee for their lives – which they still had enough time to do, even on foot. Ukrainian, Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Russian, and Byelorussian populations assisted the Germans into hunting down, rounding, and massacring Jews. Most European Christian nations showed similar zeal in helping the Germans to finish Jews off. Evidently on Stalin’s orders, the Soviet Army avoided bombing death camps during the massive bombing raids into the German-occupied Eastern Europe. Primo Levi testifies to daily bombings of “work” camps around Auschwitz, but not a bomb touched the death camp itself.
Immediately after the WWII, when some Jews appeared to be saved, Russians envisaged a new solution: the Jewish state. Stalin’s support for establishing Israel is only intelligible as a means of annihilating the Jews. Stalin didn’t mean Israel as a socialist beachhead in the Middle East: despite the fact the many Israeli Jews were socialists, their leadership deeply resented anti-Semitic Russia, and except the fringe communists, few Jews supported closer ties with the Stalinist state. Stalin had much better bet with post-colonialist Muslim countries: Egypt, Syria, and Iraq. It would be absurd for Russia to support Israel against the wishes of Arabs who possessed both human and territorial mass. The pattern of Russian arms sales to Israel in the War of Independence confirms that Stalin meant Israel as a deathtrap for Jews: Russia only supplied Israel (through Czechoslovakia) outdated light weapons, primitive artillery, and some useless trophy aircraft with no spare parts (defending Tel Aviv in March 1948, 3 out of 4 Messerschmitt-109 aircraft was downed in the first raid). That was enough to prolong the war with Arabs and make it bitter, but hardly enough to win it.
Had the Soviet Union wished Jewish victory, it could have supplied tanks, artillery, and aircraft (Stalin opposed the shipment of meager sixty Spitfire jets through Yugoslavia), or simply send a message to Arab capitals that the hugely respected USSR stands behind the Jewish state. Czechoslovakia also supplied advanced weapons to Arabs (e.g., 8,000 automatic rifles, 200 machine guns, etc in a single shipment to Syria; the Lino affair). Many Soviet Jews (notably Dragunsky, later the official leader of Soviet anti-Semites) volunteered to fight for Israel but were not allowed to go. Overall, Soviet support for Israel was almost non-existent compared to the massive aid extended to Spanish communists fighting Franco, to Angola, and many other insurrections. When Israel survived, Russia began a major anti-Semitic campaign which culminated in the 1953 witch hunt against Jews and wholesale deportation of Jews to the coldest place in Siberia – the very place Germans earmarked for starving the Jews before proceeding to eliminate us in the death camps. Stalin died just days before the scheduled deportation.
Britain prompted the most notorious Arab massacres of Jews: in Jerusalem, Hebron, and Tiberias the British pointedly withdrew their police forces. Jews were massively persecuted, murdered, and extradited to Germans in French- and British-influenced Muslim countries: Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco. The British refused safe haven in Palestine to the Jews fleeing the Holocaust. Earlier, the British offered Jews to settle in Uganda; likewise, Germans thought of resettling Jews in Mozambique and Russians – in Siberia. (Uganda, a country with no Jews, evolved viciously anti-Semitic; the Entebbe affair took place there.) Later, Britain provided the PLO with safe haven in its protectorate of Kuwait.
Jewish American establishment, an assimilated bunch of court Jews who prosper by selling the souls of their compatriots, pretended to doubt the scale of the German massacre of Jews. They lied. Every Pole around Maidanec or Auschwitz knew what was going on there: they saw the trainloads of Jews entering the death camps and empty trains coming out. Post-war interviews with the Poles confirm their unequivocal knowledge about the massacre. No doubt, that information, among other reports, was passed to Jewish “leaders.” At least from the early 1944, they knew about the extermination of Hungarian Jewry: the Germans made their plans very clear to Zionists who refused so little as to supply trucks, coffee beans, and money to Germans in exchange for the entire Hungarian Jewry. But at least the Jewish barons could claim ignorance.
The US Administration had the benefit of vast intelligence, and certainly knew about the ongoing extermination of Jews, if only from regular Enigma intercepts of German communications which included the exact numbers of massacred Jews. The US refused so little as bombing the death camps. Before the WWII, when the extent of German institutional anti-Semitism was clear, and British and American newspapers ran articles about the immense suffering of Jews, the US refused entry visas to fleeing Jews and deliberately made a comedy out of the Evian conference which meant to find the Jews foreign asylum.
The Americans, British, and Russians maintained radio broadcasts for German-occupied countries, but not a single time any of them mentioned the ongoing extermination of Jews. That silence allowed Germans to keep shipping trainloads of unsuspecting Jews to Auschwitz as late as in autumn of 1944. Had they knew their fate from the authoritative radio, they could flee for their lives, fight for their deaths, or commit suicide for their dignity.
The UN partition plan of 1947 was no boon to Jews, but meant to complete the Final Solution. The Jewish state was broken into three isolated enclaves, interspersed with Arab territory. The three “Jewish” enclaves contained 40% Arab population. Thus the UN Security Council’s Christian members assured the attack on Israel both from without and from within. The Jews were to be annihilated.
Nothing has changed since the Holocaust. In 1967, as the Arab armies were massing at Israel’s borders, as the IDF was digging thousands of graves open for Jewish bodies, as common Israelis thought in the terms of Holocaust – what did the world do? Nothing. Nasser and the Syrians were explicit about their intentions to annihilate all Jews rather than merely dismantle a Zionist state. The world screamed at Israel in disappointment when she preempted and survived.
In 1973, as the Egyptian army was seemingly poised to enter Tel Aviv in a matter of days, the American Jewish leaders did not lead mass rallies demanding the US intervention: America, after all, fought on behalf of Koreans, Vietnamese, and Kuwaitis. European Jewish leaders did not chain themselves to presidential palaces in their respective capitals to demand the right of overfly for Israeli resupply aircraft: Europe closed its skies to the military supplies desperately procured by the fledging Jewish state. When the world, including Jewish assimilationist organizations, beats its collective chest, “Never again!”, remember that “again” has already happened.
It is incorrect to say that the world learned nothing from Holocaust. It learned a tremendously important thing: murdering millions of Jews is socially acceptable. A handful of Germans were hanged, but most ex-Nazis led respectable lives, worked in government offices. Just years after the Holocaust, Germany opened its embassy in Israel and was welcomed in the community of nations. To talk about the Holocaust to a German is now indecent, as it may offend his sensitive soul. So the nations learned, it is okay to kill Jews.
In 1947, the US originally voted for establishing the Jewish state. When fighting between Arabs and Jews subsequently flared up, the US withdrew its UN vote in favor of Israel, leaving the Jewish state one on one with Arab militias. To add, the US banned American Jews from going to Israel to fight, and embargoed arms shipments to Palestine. That didn’t affect the Arabs who received arms supplies through other ports, notably in Egypt, and from Iraq and Syria. In effect, the arms embargo targeted Israel. The US voted for the UNSC resolution condemning Soviet arms shipments to Israel.
The US reiterated its policy of annihilating Israel in 1956. After Israel, besieged by fedayeen attacks for eight years, cleansed Sinai from the Egyptian militia, the US intervened, ordered Israel to halt, offered military aid to Egypt, and threatened direct intervention on Egypt’s behalf. Eisenhower pressed Israel to withdraw from the Sinai, promising the US would always intervene to keep the Tiran Straits open. He lied; in 1967 America not only refused intervention on Israel’s behalf, but prepared operational plans for landing the US Navy in the Sinai to defend Egypt against the Jewish army. Before the Six-Day War, the US foreign policy was geared toward buying Egypt time to launch an offensive against Israel. The US-led UN withdrew its peacekeeping troops from the Sinai immediately upon Nasser’s demand.
In 1973, the US intervened only to counter the Soviet influence in the Middle East which grew exponentially with Egypt’s early victories and Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in defense of Egypt. The US aid to Israel came too late to be used in the war. European Christian countries – NATO members - refused the US planes the right of overflight, preventing military supplies from reaching the Jewish state.
The US provides massive aid to the PLO, which is nominally intended for the terrorist Palestinian Authority. America sells advanced weapons to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, fakes nuclear disarmament of North Korea, and uses Israel as a pawn to placate Arabs with the suicidal peace process.
Bush is touted as the US president most favorable to Israel. Roosevelt, too, was very friendly to Jews – yet did nothing to stop the Holocaust. Truman was very favorable to Jews, yet had almost killed the newborn Israel through arms embargo. Decades later, Jews were surprised to discover anti-Semitic remarks in Truman’s diary.
The current peace process is a historically standard Christian policy against the Jews. Locked into a fourteen-mile-wide state, besieged by the US-armed Arabs from without, watched by the fifth column of 34% Arab population from within, the Jewish state is meant by the Quartet to become the Final Solution.



Well, at least they're consistent.
That they are.
In the end, we shall have the last laugh.
We have outlasted everyone. We shall outlast them, let's not forget who IS on our side.
While we do not rely on miracles, do not doubt the influence of G-d.
I’m not sure the dark view of all the historical events are entirely correct, but there is no getting away from the depressing lesson that comes from the entire weight of our history. As Meir Kahane once said, and I paraphrase, “When the chips are down, the only people Jews can rely upon are other Jews.”
For anyone who is doubting the article, consider that over 400 US-trained Fatah "policemen" have been deployed to Jenin recently.
Its scary just how accurate Kahane was. G-dwilling, the world will have to answer soon for his blood and the blood of all the Jews that has been spilled at their hands.
Very sad, but mostly true. As for Bush, though, I don't really think he wants to kill all the Jews — he just wants to destroy the concept of the nation-state, as he is trying to do with his North American Union and eventually One World Government. Israel is the ultimate challenge to that concept. Of course, it doesn't much matter if the result is the same.
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Albert — You're going to get Ray started again, if you insist on invoking the Deity.
Know thy enemies and never underestimate them. We have to remember that for the next big war. Because there'll be one. Yes, eventually we'll have the last laugh and most probably more land, even if that will cost us thousands of victims very unfortunately. We can only count on ourselves here in Israel, and the court jews (Hofjuden) will watch everything on TV and send a check to the most active jewish organization, (Nota Bene: the most assimilated and leftleaning) which at that time will not come to us but pay for the dinners for political support that never arrives on time.
Bravo Obadiah, this article comes at the right moment, in two days we have our modern 60th anniversary. Happy Birthday Israel.
It is not fair to say that the Christian world is against the Jews. A Bible based Christian knows that salvation was offered to the Jews first, then the gentiles. A Bible based Christian knows that the Jewish state is to be established, the Temple re-built and the Temple sacrifices re-instituted. The world is largely against the Jews because it is against God, regardless of what the world says its allegiances are.
If it offends a Jew that I say Jesus is the Christ, that is sad. Yet, one being offended by the stumbling block does not mean I am against them.
Lot of very hard truth in this article.
There is something for us to learn: What can we, the Jews, do, to change this? So, the problem is well presented, even if there is no easy, or obvious answers.
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To Gunner,
Antisemitism is born from Christianity. The early Christians were ethnically Jewish, when they started selling their religion to the non-Jews, they had to invent a new meaning for their Jewish scriptures: now the "real Israelites" are the Christians. So according to them "Jews" have lost their status, and Christians were the real Israel, the "chosen people". This is the first source of antisemitism.
Second source is another came from another invention designed to make Christianity more palatable to Romans was to change the Jesus myth so that Jews rather then Romans, were responsible for the murder of their "Savior".
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There can only be peace between Jews and Christians when both Jews and Christians fully realize that Christianity is just another Jewish sect.
Ray, xtianity is NOT another Jewish sect. Xtianity is nothing more then mithraism. The historical Jew NEVER had anything to do with xtianity. The apostate Rav Shaul is responsible for it, and he was booted out of the Jewish Orthodox synagoge that the original Jewish followers of the historical JEW prayed at. The only possible chance for "peace" between Jews and goyim followers of the great counterfeit lie man-god named jesus is for the goyim (Esav) to admit they follow a lie, turn to Torah (as he would have taught to goyim if he ever had, but he never did) and abandon their pagan religion named xtianity.
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Gunner-you don't offend me with saying jebus is the (anti)christ, you offend me thinking we Jews don't know who our own was. It's actually incredibly sad to think how arrogant goyim are who can't even read Hebrew from the same Bible the historical Jew used to teach only other Jews to return to. Even your church historican Eusebuis admits that the original JEWISH followers only used the Tanach (as the Bible)and Hebrew Matityahu (as his teachings), and paid little attention to the rest. Go back and translate the greek codexes and see how it matches your null testament today. Guess what, the book of Luke alone has over 30,000 variances. Nausiating to say the least. Nice try though.
Zvi, actually we can't even trust Jews today! Read the paper lately. All the best.
Sam Harris, the author and notable atheist once observed that one of the main differences among people of different religions is their varying view of what happens to people after death.
There is another take on the origins of anti-Semitism: Jews were the original scapegoat. First for the myth of Jesus’ death, and after that the convenient excuse for all the tragedies of life. Scapegoating was used by religious leaders and secular politicians in much the same way; from crop failures, child deaths, plague, economic failures, to the oil shortages of today. Even some Rabbis were saying the holocaust was a result of Jews straying from the orthodox way of life. What kind of God did they envision… one who would snuff out the life from six million people because of a failure to conform to the six hundred odd mitsvot?
Ray is correct about Christians believing that they are the "new Israelites".
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Shiloh is correct that Saul/Paul's religion, made official by the Romans at Nicea, has nothing to do with what the Orthodox Rabbi "Jesus" taught.
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Zvi is correct that much anti-Semitism has been because Jews are always handy scapegoats.
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And Gunner is correct that the Temple must be rebuilt (though his reasons are not mine).
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Am I not agreeable today?
Can I be correct about something too?
Sure Erick — You are correct that at least they are consistent.
Gentlemen, may I remind you of the Forum option?
The forum is too full of Australians and lunatics. Well, so are the comment, actually.
Just trying to be positive, Danny, while staying on topic, but I guess I'm not very good at it.
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Let me try in my more usual mode of expression. While most of the historical details of Obadiah's article are correct, there is one particularly glaring inaccuracy — namely the use of the term "Christian world". If you had limited the article to pre-Soviet history, it might have been a more defensible position, but the Soviet Union was specifically and officially Atheist. Hitler was not a Christian — he was a Nordic Pagan (of his own twisted sect).
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From even before WWII, Britain and France were totally secularized societies, even if people thought of themselves as Christians. The United States has always been officially secular, even if most of the people called themselves Christian.
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Assimilated Jews have very rarely been persecuted by the societies into which they assimilated. The Nazis were very different in that way, and again, they were not Christians. The German mob might have been, but the German mob was not doing the "scientific" pursuit of those with Jewish blood — the mob went after Jews who lived as Jews.
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The Chinese don't talk about how they were persecuted by the Shinto world or the Zen world — they were persecuted by the Japanese. The Chinese gave Zen to the Japanese, after all. And, not to put too fine a point on it, the Jews gave Christianity to the world (though, like I said above, I agree with Shiloh that what the world got is not at all what Jesus taught).
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Hitler thought Christianity was a disgusting and ignoble religion, and he definitely considered it a Jewish sect.
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So much for being agreeable. (Sigh…)
Joseph wrote: "Assimilated Jews have very rarely been persecuted by the societies into which they assimilated. The Nazis were very different in that way, and again, they were not Christians. …..the mob went after Jews who lived as Jews.
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I do believe the above is an atypical view of the Nazi era. The typical Berlin Jew (unlike the Polish counterpart) was reformed to an extreem, well educated, didn't speak Yiddish, and in the area of general commerce (including banking) quite assimilated.
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After June 1930, the Nazis went after every Jew, including those married to Christians. The Nurenberg Laws made anyone with a single Jewish grandparent, a Jew. Assimilation didn't help any of them. In Eastern Europe; even in the large Polish cities, Jewish life was rich in culture and commerce… but always separate from the hedgemonic culture.
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Zvi — I am an atypical guy. You left out the part of my statement that is most pertinent to your response. I said the Nazis were different in that they DID go after assimilated Jews, based on race. In case I was not clear enough, I do not consider "the mob", who may have been Christian, the same as the Nazi elite, who thought of themselves as Nordic Pagans. The "mob" did not go after assimilated Jews living secular lives — they went after Jews that looked like Jews. The Nazis, however, were the ones that searched the birth records for Jewish grandparents, and measured ears and noses, etc., and would have used DNA analysis if they had had it to search out Jews by race.
Joseph,
You are correct that the Nazi antisemitism was pure racist, however it is not correct that Jews who converted to Christianity were accepted by the surrounding non-Jews.
There was a big group of Jews in Spain who converted to Christianty while keeping their ethnic and cultural background were called "Marranos". They were persecuted, massacred and expelled. The very name "Marranos" means "pigs"…
They were accused of secretly practicing Judaism (For example of such crimes as eating matzos. Though in reality such cultural heritage, does not make less Christian.)
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I am very familiar with relations in Eastern Europe and Russia. Converted Jews still had to hide their Jewish origins in order to not be persecuted. Mother of Poland's greatest poet, was a converted Jew. Her name was changed and her origins hidden. Still today, Polish people consider this an insult to their national pride if someone claims that she was a converted Jew.
Situation is simillar in Russia, and other East European countries.
Christians with Jewish ancestors, tend to hide such lineage.
Joseph,
And tragically you are also mistaken when you are saying that "the mob did not go after the assimilated Jews" living secular lives.
Unfortunately, the mob did go after all Jews.
I am particularly aware of that in in Poland and Ukraine, (where most Jews lived): The mob there collaborated with the Nazis. They pointed out Jews to the Nazis. Poles could tell the Jews by their different ethnic looks, not because they were dressing differently.
My parents and their family were completely assimilated and non-religious Jews in Poland. My parents managed to escape to Central Asiatic republics of Soviet Union, but virtually everybody who stayed behind in Poland and Ukraine was murdered. Without the help of locals Germans would never know who was Polish and who was Jewish.
Well, I'm glad that everyone is so happy in disagreeing
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Ray — Please read carefully what I say before erecting a "strawman", hey? First of all, I was making the point that Obadiah is incorrect in using the term "Christian world" to ascribe blame for the persecution under the Atheist Communists and Pagan Nazis. Secondly, I never mentioned Poland. I was making a point aout the German "mob", which may have been nominally Christian, and the Nazi elite that were not. Thirdly, a Jew would not have to dress like an Orthodox Jew to "look" like a Jew. And conversely, many Jews had and have blonde hair and blue eyes, as you and Danny have pointed out before. Likewise, many Germans (and Poles) with no Jewish blood had and have a "Jewish look" about them. No doubt "the mob" in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, France, and everywhere else, took the opportunity to "turn in" their enemies who had no connection to Jewishness at all if they looked even vaguely Jewish. If they didn't look Jewish, just say they were Bolsheviks (or homosexuals).
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The mob goes off periodically on whoever it is acceptable to persecute. Historically, the Jews have been handy.
Since everyone is enjoying it so, I will return to the article: Obadiah's point seems to be that the Jews were allowed to have a state as a trick and a trap to finally eliminate them. If that were true, and the whole "Christian world" were in on the conspiracy, it would have made alot more sense for the Brits to just let all the Jews come to "Palestine" when Hitler was still willing to let them escape. Of course, they did not. And it would seem that the Soviets would have let Jews emigrate freely after Israel was formed. Of course, they did not. And it would seem that the Americans, or the Soviets, or the Brits, or the French could have just nuked Israel and blamed it on each other and/or the Arabs. But, of course, they have not.
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People hate people that are not like themselves. Just how it is. And Jews that lived as a separate people were available in Europe to hate. But the Jews gave the world Christianity (yeah Shiloh…I know). And the Western world is definitely not "Christian" by any reasonable measure now, except the American Fundamentalist Christians that actually do support Israel.
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If the goal is just a new, super-duper Masada, go ahead and alienate those misguided, even blasphemous Christians who support you. If not, I would suggest taking your friends where you can get them, and not lumping them together with Stalin and Hitler.
I think Obadiah was implying more that the world would be glad to get rid of the Jews, but most countries do not have the guts to pursue that goal in the open, like the German did.
In really simpler words - Everyone wishes Israel and the Jews would just disappear, but nobody wants the responsibility.
The Nazis did not fear anyone, and did not pretend they believe in any kind of moral, so they did not suffer from those problems.
And the Muslims are much the same.
Also, Joseph made some good points, which support the notion that this isn't really an orchestrated plan by the nations, but rather each one turning a cold shoulder (Or worse) to the Jewish people.
Finally, I suspect Obadiah was using the 'christian world' in this article as bait to get more intense reactions from his readers.
Though a lot of these modern secular and Atheist societies have Christian roots, and hate runs deep through the generations.
I happened to agree with Obadiah that Christianity is the root of antisemitism. And that Hitlers and Russian persecution of Jews have it's roots in religion. Without the hundreds of years of religiously inspired murder of Jews, Hitler would have not even thought of Jews, neither would the German people hate Jews.
The same is the case in Russia. The few years of Communism, did not change the deeply Christian and antisemitic Russian (and Polish, and Ukrainian, etc, etc) culture.
So I agree, it is the Christian world.
(The modern Islamic antisemitism, is borrowed from the Nazism.)
Anti-semitism started in Egypt when the Hebrews took their gods and sacrificed them. With the advent of xtianity, they got even with us. So simple.
My father taught me that if you help your friend, he will hate and resent you.
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Obadiah lists here all sorts of bad things the Brits and Soviets and Americans did and all sorts of good things they could have done but did not.
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You think we were too slow to move against Hitler? Who says we had to move at all, EVER? Franklin Roosevelt, a very white Christian, committed TREASON by knowingly allowing the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor JUST TO GET US IN THE DAMNED WAR!
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The Soviets and Americans and Brits defeated Hitler and GAVE the Jews a country. The Jews had almost 2000 years to take back their homeland, but despite their vaunted intelligence, they never found a way. It took blood. Mostly Russian and American blood.
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You write revisionist history. Jews created Christianity, then hate the Christians.
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Obadiah talks a good game, but everyone knows how good the Jews are at talking. Much rarer to see them act. Go ahead and argue, while YOUR politicians give away your land. Blame it on Bush — everybody else does. Or blame it on the Tsar. What's the difference.
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You now celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Nation the "Christian world" GAVE you, with a f—–g MOSQUE sitting on top of your Temple. I will give a crap about Israel again when that situation is remedied (by Jews).
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"Ein Volk hilft sich selbst."
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This is my last post here. I have nothing else to say to you.
To Joseph: You're right that the US and Russia were under no moral obligation to help Jews. This article doesn't condemn them for doing nothing, but warns the Jews that nothing should be expected of foreigners. Indeed, the argument is made that they seek to harm Jews.
As for what state America and Russia gave us, please see the attached map.
But, again, you're right that Jews should act ourselves rather than complain about Bush, Rice, and whoever else.
Fellow bloggers:
Forgive this “slightly off the subject” note, but I thought at least one among you would be able answer a question that impacts upon the subject of rights of return.
The writer, Bennie Morris, who has, over the years, flip-flopped on the question of whether the Palestinians left Israel in 1947, were instructed to do so by their leaders, or were thrown out by the Israelis. Morris has just written a new book.
Does anyone know of any book(s) that document the circumstance of Jews who left the Arab lands to settle in Israel? The edicts and economic forfeitures that surrounded their flight to Israel.
Many thanks
There is contradictory evidence on the subject. The problems ranged from real (Syria) to very temporary (Iraq) to largely induced by Israel (Egypt) to absent (Yemen). At any rate, the Jews left all their real estate behind, and that vastly exceeds in value anything left by the fleeing Arab peasants. Rabbi Kahane argued that Arab refugees should receive compensation from the abandoned Jewish property value.
Thank you Danny. What I was interested in was a book resulting from a sociological study of Jewish immigrants who came from Arab lands. Perhaps one which quantified the value of property they were forced to abandon.
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Aside from the human suffering, this subject is certainly going to come up someday when any settlement is made with a mutual acknowledgement that there will be no right of return for either Jews or Arabs.