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HIJACKING THE HOLOCAUST
A Jewish-American perspective of the U.S./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
By: Todd Emoff, May 24, 1999
The Clinton administration is using the memory of the WWII Holocaust,
the systematic destruction of the Jewish people, in an unseemly campaign
to justify the utterly failed and illogical policy of bombing Yugoslavia
into giving up it�s province of Kosovo. It is offensive and demeaning to
the memory of those six million innocent Jews who died at the hands of
the Nazis and Nazi sympathizers to use their deaths to incite war fever
against the Serbs. Clinton/NATO have advanced this comparison to try to
win over Jewish and general public sympathy for the bombing of the
Serbian people into submission. They use the terrible images of the
ethnic Albanian refugees-and this is a terrible tragedy (exacerbated by
our bombing) that the refugees are enduring-as fodder for a propaganda
campaign to tug at the heartstrings of Western public opinion by
invoking the memory of the Holocaust. Why? Because the awful bombing and
killing of the Serbian people is in no way in the national interest of
the U.S. Therefore, another justification must be presented to justify
the horrific death and destruction caused by our bombs. Comparing the
Serbs to the WWII Nazis and using the desperate images of the Albanian
refugees is the only way to get public opinion to support the war.
Without this, support for the war collapses totally.
Regrettably, the Clinton spin machine (unquestionably the best spin
machine in the world since TV was invented) has had some success in
using the Jewish Holocaust to evoke an emotional response from people in
NATO countries, enabling the populations of these countries to tolerate
what the majority of these populations would not normally tolerate. They
tolerate the indiscriminate killing of Yugoslav men, women and children,
including cluster bombing of civilian areas of cities. They tolerate
widespread destruction of the economic infrastructure of an entire
country. All in the name of stopping another Holocaust. There is only
one problem. Comparisons of the current situation to the Holocaust are
not valid. The facts do not support such comparisons. Here are three of
the many major differences between then and now:
1.In Germany in the 1930�s there was no armed Jewish group that went
about killing German police, funding itself with profits from drug
dealing operations, or accepting weapons from outside powers to fight
German authorities. There was no terrorist JLA. Jews were simply
everyday law-abiding citizens. In contrast, the KLA has been killing and
terrorizing the Serbs of Kosovo for over 6 years now. Many ethnic
Albanians have also been killed by the KLA during this period,
especially those that work in Government jobs like the forest service or
the post office. They are killed to be �examples� and a warning not to
work in any capacity that could be seen as conducive to maintaining
Yugoslav control of the province. All Western countries, including the
U.S., are on record acknowledging that the KLA is a terrorist
organization.
2.The Jews in pre-war Germany were not demanding to have a designated
area comprising about 10% of the land of Germany designated as an
autonomous region for the Jews in preparation for slicing off that
portion of Germany as an independent Jewish country. The U.S./NATO
demand on Serbia is that they allow in foreign armies to ensure that the
ethnic Albanians are given autonomy for 3 years, and be allowed
independence at the end of that period.
3.German policy in the early 1940�s was the total annihilation of a
whole people, throughout Europe (and the world, if possible). All Jews
were to be found and killed. Trainloads were sent to factories of death.
In the death camps, medical experiments without anesthesia were
performed on them, they were worked to death, they were systematically
and methodically killed by various methods including mass gassings with
zyklon B. Killed by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, ultimately
adding up to the millions. This was genocide. What is happening to the
ethnic Albanians today in Kosovo is not genocide. The human misery of
the ethnic Albanians is awful, the death and destruction there is to be
condemned, but it is not of the scale, scope or intent as the genocide
that was the Holocaust. There are 200,000 ethnic Albanians living
securely and comfortably (as comfortably as possible under NATO bombing)
in the Belgrade/northern Serbia area today. If it were genocide you
would not find this to be the case. Even if you accept as fact that the
800,000 refugees were forced out by the Serbs (other reasons for leaving
include heavy bombing of Kosovo by NATO, lack of water and food in the
province, forced conscription by the KLA, the prospect of being in a
hellish killing zone should NATO invasion occur) they are still alive.
They were not put into mass death camps and exterminated. It is a
grotesque distortion of the truth to compare the experience of the
ethnic Albanians to that of the Jews in WWII.
The only similarity between the current situation in Kosovo and the
Jewish Holocaust is that it shows that there are still mean, brutal
people in the world. This applies equally to KLA terrorists, Serb
paramilitaries, U.S. cluster-bombers (those that order, approve or
condone the use of anti-personnel bombs in cities), Croatian neo-Nazi
groups, and dozens of other groups worldwide that are motivated by hate.
Obviously, mankind is still not fully civilized.
There is another reason that use of the Jewish Holocaust to drum up
support for bombing and killing the Yugoslav people is abhorrent to
Jews. It is well-known historical fact that during WWII Serbian Jews
were sheltered and protected by the Serb population from the Nazis to
the extent possible. This was unique among East-European Nazi occupied
countries. Jews were hidden, fed, and housed by Serbs. Serbians
�married� Jewish people that they didn�t even know in arranged marriages
to save the new �spouse� from a trip to the death camps. Jews were
accepted into Serbian resistance units. Jews and Serbs were killed
together in the death camp at Jasenovac, and died side by side fighting
in the resistance groups against the Nazis.
In the quintessential irony of this insane bombing campaign, one of the
architects of the raining of death on the Serbs is Madeleine Albright.
Albright was born Jewish, her family fled Prague in 1939 ahead of the
Nazi invasion and went to live in Belgrade. In 1941 the Nazis invaded
and conquered Yugoslavia and 5 year-old Madeleine was sheltered for 6
weeks by � yes � a Serb family! She and her family were then smuggled
out to London. Because of the Serbs little Madeleine lived, eventually
became an American, and culminates her career by killing Serbs by the
hundreds, no, by the thousands in the name of NATO and the Holocaust.
Incredible. In contrast to the Serb behavior vis-�-vis the Jews, the
Albanians formed two SS divisions under the Nazis. One of these, the
infamous 21st Waffen SS �Skanderbeg� division (composed mostly of Gheg
Albanians from Kosovo and northern Albania) spent the latter stages of
the war hunting down Jews to be killed at Jasenovac, and committing mass
killings of Serbs.
The Jewish people owe a huge debt to the Serbian people for their
actions in helping us during that time. How can we repay such acts? By
standing up for them today and doing what we can to stop this sickening
bombing campaign by U.S./NATO. Calling, writing, and meeting with our
Congresspeople, Senators, and the media, educating them to the truth of
the situation. Many Serbs risked (and sometimes lost) their lives
helping us. We need do nothing so dangerous or costly to pay them back.
Making a few dozen phone calls, writing a few letters, and scheduling a
few meetings with our elected representatives and opinion makers is the
least we can do to help them now. We must explain to them that blowing
up Yugoslavia, ruining it�s ecology, and killing it�s people is not
helpful for any of the ethnic groups that live there. Thousands of
Jewish people live in Yugoslavia, 4000 in Belgrade alone. I wonder how
they are faring as their businesses, schools and neighborhoods are
bombed and their children terrorized. We must stop our tax dollars from
being used to kill the Yugoslavs and destroy their country.
The idea that the United States of America should kill the Serbs, kill
the Serbs, and then kill more Serbs (and some Albanians, Gypsies, Jews,
Hungarians, Croats, and others living in Yugoslavia along the way) until
they let us administer part of their country is morally bankrupt. In our
darkest hour the Serbs were there for the Jews. Now it is their darkest
hour. We should be there for them. Above all, we must reverse the
hijacking of our Holocaust. We should not allow our Holocaust to be
twisted by the Clinton spinmeisters into the reason that we are killing
men, women, and children in Serbia or anywhere else. We must take the
Jewish Holocaust back from them and proclaim, loudly, that the memory of
the six million is not to be used for this purpose. Ever.
This is our responsibility. We cannot shirk it.
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Aloha, He'Ping,
Om, Shalom, Salaam.
Em Hotep, Peace Be,
Omnia Bona Bonis,
All My Relations.
Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
Amen.
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Kris
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