Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day (I didn't know such a day even existed). To commemorate the day the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network released the following statement:
How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow!...
She weeps sore into the night, and her tears are on her cheeks:
among all who loved her she has none to comfort her.
(Book of Lamentations)
Last week, after murdering 1400 people – of whom 400 were children – after bombing hospitals and mosques, schools, universities and humanitarian supplies, and tens of thousand of homes, Israel declared a cease-fire. A shameful parade of European leaders immediately went to Jerusalem to embrace the mass murderers and to pledge their support for the continuing siege of Gaza.
The primary purpose of this massacre was to break the spirit of the Palestinian people until they surrender and accept their fate as lesser human beings. As former Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon said in 2002, "The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people." European leaders support this goal, as did previous U.S. administrations, as do the ruling elites of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi-Arabia, despite the fury of their peoples. We wait to see if the freshly inaugurated Obama Administration will break with sixty long years of attack on the Palestinian people armed and financed by the U.S. and Europe.
We grieve with the people of Gaza. We see the faces of the children, of the women and the men; we hear their voices. We also hear the silence of the leaders of Western countries, intermittently broken by evasive platitudes. And we are reminded of the time when the world turned a blind eye while our forebears, our families, were slaughtered.
Read the rest of the statement after the jump -
Yet on January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the leaders of the U.S. and Europe will be joined in honoring the memory of our dead. Even as we seek to remember and to honor the immensity of that loss, we struggle to find words to convey the hypocrisy of these ceremonies, in which those who are silent today pay homage to the victims of yesterday’s silence.
The radical Jewish writer Walter Benjamin, who died while fleeing the Nazis, wrote, "not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious." The Third Reich was defeated, and yet, "the enemy has not ceased to be victorious." Racism, mass murder, and genocide continue to be accepted tools of statecraft. Even our dead are not safe. They have been called up, disturbed, dredged from their mass graves and forced to testify against their fellow human beings in pain, to confess a hatred that was alien to them and to offer themselves up as justification for a new cycle of suffering in Palestine. Their ghosts have been enlisted to help displace fellow Jews from Arab homelands, and to bequeath to them that same alien hatred, conscripting those of us descending from Arab lands to become enemies of our own memory and past.
The Jewish British MP Gerald Kaufman spoke in anguish while the massacres in Gaza were taking place: "My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza." We share and echo that refusal. Let not the memory of Jews murdered by the Nazi regime serve as cover for the attempted destruction of the Palestinian people!
Although the guns are relatively silent, this genocidal assault on the Palestinian people is not over. The siege, the lack of food and fresh water, the disease-threatening broken sewage system, and economic collapse and humanitarian crisis persist in Gaza with the full support of the U.S., Europe and the Egyptian government. As the siege of Gaza continues, so does the slow ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the home demolitions, the building of the apartheid wall, the settlement build-up, the economic devastation of the towns and villages strangled by checkpoints, the assault on Palestinian neighborhoods in Jaffa, Akka, Lydda, the Galilee and the Negev, the mass imprisonment of Palestinians (over 11,000), and all the large and small ways by which Israel is seeking to crush the spirit and erase the presence of the Palestinian people in their homeland.
Faced with the threat of annihilation in Europe, Jews resisted. From ghettos to concentration camps and within countries under occupation, Jews led resistance to the Nazi regime. Today, from the ghetto of Gaza to the Bantustans of the West Bank and from the neighborhoods of Jaffa and Akka to cities across the globe, Palestinians resist Israel’s attempt to destroy them as a people. On January 27th, honoring the memory of our dead is for us inseparable from honoring more than sixty years of Palestinian survival and resistance. Only when the Palestinian people regain their freedom will the dead rest safely. Then we will all celebrate another victory for life.
can we say the west is not innocent and what could happen is justice.
from ynet via angry arab:
jewish youths torch Arab property in Nazareth Illit (like this never has happened before)
According to suspicions, gang of nine members – most of them under 18 – set fire to cars, houses belonging to northern city's Arab residents
Sharon Roffe-Ofir Published: 01.26.09, 07:52 / Israel News
Nine young Jewish men, most of them under the age of 18, were arrested Sunday night on suspicion of torching property belonging to Arab residents of the northern city of Nazareth Illit over the past few months.
The nine gang members were expected to be brought before a judge on Monday morning. Two of the group members are 22 years old, and the rest are aged 15 to 18.
They are suspected of carrying out the violent acts throughout October and November. They were arrested following concrete intelligence received by the police, who believe they have enough evidence to indict them.
"The gang engaged in torching cars, attempting to set fire to apartments and violence offenses against Arabs living in Nazareth Illit," said Superintendent Lutfi Falah, commander of the local police station.
the jewish sentence for these jews will be to observantly observe, wearing yarmalukes and scarves, the usa armed professional jewish terrorist thugs terrorize the gaza concentration prison and the prison cells of the west bank.
From ghettos to concentration camps and within countries under occupation, Jews led resistance to the Nazi regime.
Really???
Incidentally, I see the zionazis have managed to force d'Escoto to skip the UN ceremony, and he's the goddam chairman of the UNGA.
Rowan,
Some did, some didn't.
A figure I honour is Maxim Litvinov, who as Soviet Foreign Minister tried to engineer an alliance between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies — the one thing that might have deterred Hitler.
In 1946, he stood in his office, denouncing Stalin's foreign policy to an American correspondent. The office is likely to have been bugged. He is known to have slept with a revolver beneath his pillow.
His wife, Ivy, whome he met in London, had mixed parentage. Her father was a Jewish refugee, her mother the daughter of an Indian army colonel. She was well known for saying precisely what she thought, even when she found herself engulfed in the nightmare of Stalinism.
In a collection of Ivy's stories, entitled 'She Knew She Was Right', there is a lightly fictionalised account of her and Maxim's courtship in London, when he was a nobody.
When he was dying, he said to her: 'Go home, Englishwoman.'
Where do you find something of this spirit now?
In recent debates in the House of Commons, Sir Gerald Kaufman is the only figure I have seen who has unambiguously identified himself as a a Jew. Other contributors who are known to be Jewish have not done that.
At the same time, Kaufman has mercilessly accused the Israeli government of being at once war criminals and fools — of acting in ways that make things worse off for everyone, Jews and Gentiles alike.
As a non-Jew, I pay him honour.
Something to read for International Holocaust Memorial Day: Massad, Nakba, Mankubin, Holoexaleipsis, Heroism
I read it. Sorry, but it seems to be just another distilation of palestinian whining.
Here are few more "whining" Palestinians for you Chris, why don't you comment on their "whining" some more, it shows the most beautiful recesses of your soul to the readers:
Eva, I can show you the same pictures of Israelis. Would you like to see the pregnant Israeli woman who was shot point blank into her skull? Perhaps you'd like to see her 4 daughters, also shot point blank into their brains.
Of course, we'll never know if the Palestinian who killed them killed the mother in front of the daughters ar the daughters in front of the mother or perhaps it was alternate?
Shot dead at point blank range after the car was ambushed.
Of course, you might say I'm whining, but it certainly appears that you are.
One solution seems to be to give the Arabs better weaponry so that we can see who the real whiners are. Bullies don't do so well in a fair fight.
Fish in a barrel, or grouse in one of Cheney's canned hunts have more of a fighting chance.
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chris berel: How much is the Israel government paying you with USA goy tax dollars? You don't equal a single microscopic dot of fecal matter from Martillo's rear.
Lance, is that why Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and lebanon lost so badly?
Is that why The earlier three lost again?
Sarah, you seem very confused, but there is no doubt that you are worth a single microscopic dot of fecal matter from Martillo's rear.
Israel has been successful in the way a bully with a bully big brother is. Moshe Dayan admitted that Isreal provoked the Syrians to make it look as if they were the aggressor. The blockade of the Suez could have been negotiated peacefully. Israel wanted conflict in order to gain lebensraum (acquiring territory by conquest is illegal under international law). Hell, Israel won't even declare where their official boundries are so who in the hell knows who will be murdered next in order to gain more of it? They murdered US sailors in international waters on a clearly marked and identified US naval ship as well and lied about it. They murdered captured Egyptians and lied about it. Sometimes war criminals get away with things for a long time. I hope the Arabs have as long a memory as the Israelis.
I know why the Palestinians fight the way they do due to the realities of asymetrical warfare. The IDF got its nose bloodied by Hezbollah but they probably thought that was a victory because they were also able to murder a lot of civilians there too.
MURDER as COVER for THEFT is NOT *self-defense* ~ LT
Seems you've gotten your news from a combination of stormfront, IHR, and EI. Cangratulations, you're totally brainwashed.
Regardless, Israel is successful because of the dedication of individual Israelis. Israel has a great example of what world diplomacy will accomplish. Allowing Hitler to wipe out about 90% of Europeon Jews.
That's why the jews are determined to win. I recall a famous American loss during the revolution, I believe it was fought on Breed's hill. They lost, but wiped out a significant number of Britsh soldiers. They Americans considered it a great victory.
ah, the Masada complex, the Samson option…
Death before slavery? I recall an obscenity filled post you made demanding such.
Yes, but I was talking about us goyim, not about you.
At least now we know why you rant as you do.
chris berel is just like his whinny Israel brat. Time to give them some tough love. He thinks Americans actually think he is cute. Enough to vomit, the little ugly kid.
Unfortunately, Sarah, you're not making any sense. Perhaps if you put a little thought into your post, you might come out better then a small child bewildered by her betters.
Try thinking before posting. I understand it helps.
"The blockade of the Suez could have been negotiated peacefully. Israel wanted conflict in order to gain lebensraum" Wow, the combination of gross historical lie about the Suez Crisis (yeah, right, Nasser was a man of peace who had no intention of destroying Israel) and language ("lebensraum") meant to evoke a vile comparison between the Nazis and Israelis reads like something out of Hamas or Hezbollah propaganda literature….you know, like these groups' founding charters. Indeed, some of the other comments on this site (umm…like use of the term "Zionazis" for instance) are indistinguishable from those routinely found on hard-core white supremacist websites. Congratulations, Mr. Horowitz. You're truly a man of peace!