Comments on: Brokaw says Israelis can learn from Buchenwald about ‘their treatment of Palestinians’

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:19:46 +0000

have been asking for years why is it on our MSM and in Hollywood flicks about the Holocaust that it is only the deaths of 6 million Jews is mentioned. What about the million of others who perished. Why only mention the Jews? Such disregard tof the millions of others who were murdered by the Hitler killing machine

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:21:54 +0000

Thank you, your comparisons are interesting. Why is it, do you think, that the Armenians could not hide or be sheltered? Why was it so easy to target them?

By: Hymie S

Hymie S — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:08:11 +0000

Hey, you are not supposed to one-up the Jewish claim on victimhood. I'm going to tell on you. Where should I go to do so? I guess I will go to the Federal Reserve Board and USA Congress. They will take care of your truth.

By: July West

July West — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:03:47 +0000

The only difference is that the Jews were always dependent on Western goy aid; Germany raised itself up again after WW1 by its own bootstraps. Germany paid for what it wanted, the Jews always had to rely on gentile welfare, so they had to act within PR mandates. I agree the Jews were no different than the Nazis regarding the Palestinians. The Jews did what they could within confines I described.

By: August West

August West — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:30:49 +0000

The Nazi genocide of the Jews is not sui generis. The Armenian Holocaust is sui generis. Hitler warned the Jews in Men Kampf and his speeches. No one warned the Armenians. Hitler allowed Jews to emigrate after he took power. Talat Pasha and the Young Turks did not allow Armenians to emigrate after they took power. The Nazi genocide of the Jews took place in secret. The Armenian Holocaust took place in full view of the world, as the NY Times contemporaneous stories make clear. Jews could hide in the Wehrmacht during the war. Armenians could not hide in the Ottoman Army. Jews with powerful patrons, such as Furtwangler, head of the Berlin Philharmonic, could shelter Jews in his orchestra. No Turk could shelter Armenians. Hitler required the cutting-edge technology of the most scientifically advanced nation on Earth to kill Jews. The Turks used medieval methods and still out-genocided the Nazis. Jews were not the only victims of the Nazis. The Nazis genocided Gypsies, Poles, Russians, gays, Communists, atheists, and others. At most only half the victims of the Nazi genocide were Jews. The Armenians were the only target of the Armenian Genocide. 100% of the victims of the Turks were Armenians. Germany and the world admitted the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Turkey and the world–including the US–still deny the Armenian Holocaust. Jews blame the Nazi genocide on the entire world, trying to make the entire world feel guilty. Fraudulent books like "Hitler's Willing Executioners" try to deceive all of us into a guilt trip for Israel. The Armenians blame only the perpetrators. Jews use the Nazi genocide of them to justify crimes against humanity. Armenians do not use the Armenian Holocaust to justify crimes against humanity. Nothing compares to the Armenian Holocaust. Nothing. It is an evil beyond comprehension. It is a blackness from which we can never depart. It is sui generis.

By: August West

August West — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:53:34 +0000

The proper moral lesson is that Jews, of all people, should be the last to subject another people to ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, mass humiliation, and abject demonization. Any people that went through what the Nazis did to the Jews losses their right to complain when they act like Nazis. Saying that it happened to us means we can do it to others makes it morally equivalent. Thus, Israel itself creates moral equivalency by constantly raising the genocide issue as justifying its actions towards the Palestinians. The difference between what the Nazis did to the Jews, and what the Jews are doing to the Palestinians, is one of degree, not one of principle.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:19:47 +0000

I hope I am wrong too; yes, it's very depressing. If not now, when…etc? Writ large.

By: Margaret599

Margaret599 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:04:08 +0000

"…uninterrogated rage." Powerful use of words, Phil.

By: Margaret599

Margaret599 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:51:53 +0000

I question attributing any single policy to Obama without a lot of evidence provided; there are so many elements with power within the US governmental administration. I continue to believe that Obama should be judged on the result of his actions once more evidence is available of what actions those are, distinguished from actions taken by other influences which are powerful. Six months of a presidency are but opening days and final conclusions at the end of six months are premature, in my estimation. On a lighter note, from " target="_blank">http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/ For your enjoyment: " target="_blank">http://images.gocomics.com/images/doonesbury/stri...

By: andrew r

andrew r — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:50:36 +0000

Ah, this is why I don't visit threads with <30 comments.