Sunday, April 11, 2010

So the Arabs held no Guilt for the Holocaust, you say?

 

1.  So the Arabs held no Guilt for the Holocaust, you say?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162083.html

 

The Arab position on the Holocaust

By Shlomo Avineri (Professor emeritus of political science, Hebrew University)

 
One sometimes encounters the Palestinian argument that there is a basic injustice in the fact that they appear to have to pay the price for Europe's crimes during the Holocaust. It's true, of course, that Nazi Germany and its allies, and not the Palestinians, are those guilty of perpetrating the Holocaust. Nonetheless, any argument that links the establishment of the State of Israel exclusively to the Holocaust ignores the fact that modern Zionism preceded the annihilation of the Jews in World War II, even if the Holocaust clearly strengthened the claim for Jewish sovereignty.

Yet the Arab argument that places all responsibility on Europe is not completely correct. When the Arab revolt against British rule in Palestine broke out in 1936, its aim was to change the British position, which had supported Jewish immigration to Palestine since the Balfour Declaration. The revolt was also meant to hurt the Jewish community and discourage Jews who were planning to immigrate. The British, in time-honored colonial tradition, cruelly suppressed the revolt, assisted by the Jewish community and helped by the British Mandatory government.

But in the winter of 1938-39, the British changed their policy after the government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain realized that its appeasement of Hitler had failed. Britain began to prepare for a war against the Nazis, and as part of this it changed its Middle East policy. Britain reintroduced the draft, started massive production of tanks and aircraft, and developed the radar. In light of the need to insure the Empire's critical link to India via the Suez Canal, Britain feared that continued violent suppression of the Arab revolt in Palestine would push all Arabs in the region closer to Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It consequently decided to move closer to the Arabs and away from the Jews and Zionism. As Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald explained to the Zionist leadership, the change was prompted not by a British conviction that Arab claims were justified, but rather by realpolitik: There were more Arabs than Jews; the Jews would support Britain against the Nazis in any case, but the Arabs have the option of joining Nazi Germany.
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The cruel paradox lies in the fact that appeasement of the Arabs started just as Britain relinquished its appeasement policy vis-a-vis Hitler and was preparing for war against Germany. This was the reason for the 1939 White Paper, which drastically limited the right of Jews to buy land in Mandatory Palestine and placed a ceiling of 75,000 on Jewish immigration. The message to the Arabs was clear: The Jews would remain a minority in Palestine.

This policy did not completely achieve its goal; the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, found his way to Berlin anyway. An anti-British and pro-Nazi rebellion erupted in Iraq, led by Rashid Ali. But as far as the Jews were concerned, the British continued to consistently apply the principles of the White Paper during the war. The gates were shut to legal Jewish immigration, the British navy fought illegal immigration and ships seeking to save Jews from the Nazi occupation (such as the Struma) were returned to their port of origin; some of their passengers died at sea, others in the gas chambers.

Guilt for the Holocaust lies with Nazi Germany and its allies. But an untold number of Jews, perhaps as many as hundreds of thousands - including my grandparents from the Polish town of Makow Podhalanski - were not saved and did not reach Mandatory Palestine because of the position taken by the Arabs: They succeeded in shutting the country's gates during the darkest hour of the Jewish people. Anyone seeking reconciliation between us and the Palestinians must insist that both sides be attentive to the suffering of the other side, and that goes for the Palestinians as well as for us.

 

 

2.  Funniest story of the year!   Galloway is the pro-jihad British communist anti-Semite who was a paid agent of Saddam Hussein:

 

http://www.therespectparty.net/breakingnews.php?id=858

 

 Three Muslim extremists charged after attack on Galloway

Saturday 10th April 2010

George Galloway was set upon by a group of Muslim extremists while campaigning in East London this afternoon. Three men, believed to belong to the extreme sect Islam4UK, the latest name for Al-Muhajiroun, were arrested and subsequently charged with public order offences.

Galloway, who is standing in the Poplar and Limehouse constituency, was with a party of supporters in Watney Market around 3pm when he and his colleagues were first abused and then attacked by the group.

"They called me a filthy Kaffir" said Galloway, "and shouted that no one should shake the 'filthy Kaffir's hand'. This lot are the latest incarnation of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun. They don't want Muslims to vote, they don't believe in democracy, and because I encourage Muslims to vote and take a full part in our society they hate me. My party, Respect, is the antidote to these despicable extremists."

Galloway's assistant Kevin Ovenden had his phone smashed in the incident and other supporters were abused and jostled.

Galloway was also attacked, held hostage and received death threats from Al-Muhajiroun, then called Al-Gourabaa, in the 2005 General Election.


3.  Time to start kicking the traitors out of universities?

From http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-who-quiz.html

New "Who?" Quiz

Which leading Israeli politician announced he would "ban extremist Islamist groups, refuse visas to hate preachers and insist that universities identify and root out radicals promoting violence, antisemitism and other racial intolerance on campus."?

Right. None.

It is David Cameron of the Conservative Party of Great Britain.

In an exclusive interview with the JC, Conservative leader David Cameron said his party would "drain the poison" of extremism. He said recent visitors to Britain such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the influential Egyptian cleric who supports suicide bombing against Israeli targets, and Ibrahim Moussawi, Hizbollah's "media relations officer", would never again be allowed into the country.

He also confirmed that a Tory government would ban the virulently anti-Zionist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which calls for the re-establishment of the caliphate (Islamic state).

While defending the principle of academic freedom, he said universities had a responsibility to root out extremism, even if this meant fingering individual students for their beliefs: "That means making clear to university authorities and student unions that they need to help identify those who are vulnerable to influence from extremists or show they are willing to promote hatred, just as they would in relation to any other suspected crime," he said.

 

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You realize what this means? Half the members of the faculty at Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University will be denied entry into the UK if the Tories win!

 

 

4.   The Truth about Kamm:  http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3873611,00.html

 

 

5.  The Leftists Moonbatize over the Kamm affair:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3873815,00.html

 

 

6.  Haaretz continues its ultra-treason:  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162086.html
 
7.  At the margins of the Kamm story is a minor Jewish anti-Semitic pro-Hamas blogger named Richard Silverstein, a self-declared groupie of Neo-Nazi Norman Finkelstein.  He likes to call everyone who is more pro-Israel than Ernst Zundel a "Kahanist," has called me that, and is now being sued in Los Angeles court by the writer Rachel Corrie for smearing her with that term.  He evidently has ties with David Duke and some Neo-Nazi web sites.  Silverstein evidently was passed  the story of Kamm before it was public by a radical anti-Israel faculty member at Ben Gurion University and Silverstein ran the story on his pro-terror blog, named - I am not making this up - Tikun Olam, that in spite of the Israel court order prohibiting publicizing the story. 
SO who just is this Silverstein clown?  There is a blog that follows his shenanigans and you might want to take a look in particular at this story:
http://kapodickie.blogspot.com/2009/03/oh-boo-hoo-kapo-dickie-whines-about.html
The entire blog in question is at http://kapodickie.blogspot.com/





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