The Providence Journal has a good column today about Chris Dodd’s book about his father Thomas Dodd, a Nuremberg prosecutor. The piece excerpts a September 1945 letter from the father that characterizes Jews in a negative way:
“You know how
I have despised anti-Semitism. You know how strongly I feel toward
those who preach intolerance of any kind. With that knowledge — you
will understand when I tell you that this staff is about seventy-five
percent Jewish. Now my point is that the Jews should stay away from
this trial — for their own sake. For — mark this well — the charge ‘a
war for the Jews’ is still being made and in the post-war years it will
be made again and again. The too large percentage of Jewish men and
women here will be cited as proof of this charge. Sometimes it seems
that the Jews will never learn about these things. They seem intent on
bringing new difficulties down on their own heads. I do not like to
write about this matter —it is distasteful to me — but I am disturbed
about it. They are pushing and crowding and competing with each other
and with everyone else.”Chris Dodd tells me that when he reads this letter, “I first of all cringe a little bit because I wonder what he’s driving at.”
Columnist Charles Bakst goes on to say, "Today, many Jews fault FDR for not having acted more boldly to save the Jews of Europe."
This Cris Dodd quote really flattened me. We all seem to be waltzing around the same themes over and over again.
Maybe this is just a tragic destiny at work like the García Marquez book, "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" (Chronicle of a Death Foretold)… Character is destiny and perhaps there is nothing we can do about it. Fate.
There are insights to be gained from understanding the holocaust.
The fear of holocaust reference is as much a distortion as the overuse of them.
What I would like to understand about the Holocaust, Mr. Witty, is why a quarter of the Holocaust survivors in Israel are living in abject poverty? For me this gives a high odor of the old caca de la vaca to all the Holocaust monuments and memorials.
For the price of only one smart bomb like the Israelis dropped on Beirut, probably ALL the Holocaust survivors in the world could spend the rest of their days living in the Club Med, eating caviar and drinking Möet Chandon. Obviously all this is NOT about human beings, Jewish or otherwise.
What I would like to understand about the Holocaust, Mr. Witty, is why a quarter of the Holocaust survivors in Israel are living in abject poverty? For me this gives a high odor of the old caca de la vaca to all the Holocaust monuments and memorials.
For the price of only one smart bomb like the Israelis dropped on Beirut, probably ALL the Holocaust survivors in the world could spend the rest of their days living in the Club Med, eating caviar and drinking Möet Chandon. Obviously all this is NOT about human beings, Jewish or otherwise.
What I would like to understand about the Holocaust, Mr. Witty, is why a quarter of the Holocaust survivors in Israel are living in abject poverty? For me this gives a high odor of the old caca de la vaca to all the Holocaust monuments and memorials.
For the price of only one smart bomb like the Israelis dropped on Beirut, probably ALL the Holocaust survivors in the world could spend the rest of their days living in the Club Med, eating caviar and drinking Möet Chandon. Obviously all this is NOT about human beings, Jewish or otherwise.
This just proves that the whole Walt & Mearsheimer thing will probably pass like a breeze. As Dodd's father's quote "the charge ‘a war for the Jews’ is still being made and in the post-war years it will be made again and again" shows, no such thing ever happened, except that Roosevelt was smeared for not jumping in early enough. That just shows you the elite always ends up writing the history books the way they want it
We are not yet living in "post-war years." The great wall in the history of the western world was not the Berlin Wall, but the Nuremberg trial. The post-war years will begin the day Nuremberg is voided and that will require the end of american hegemony. In the east the current japanese "constitution" will have to be erased and a new one, written by the japanese themselves will have to replace it. The post-war years will begin the day americans understand that only evil peoples demmand unconditional surrender, for that is the surest way to make wars eternal.