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Compared to the Holocaust remembrance which has
been just underway, the proposed "Silent Holocaust" (of the Palestinians) would
still be quite 'silent'. The Jewish holocaust was on the camera lenses and
the front pages of every media of the world since it was inaugurated at the
UN. In Canada alone each and every radio and TV station had numerous
holocaust programs not once, or not just for that one day, but for several days,
repeated ad nausea. The print media carried numerous articles, op-eds and so on.
The Zionists were horrified by the poll
which indicated that there were still a few people who had not heard
about the holocaust. They wanted to make doubly sure that every man
and woman under the sun heard about it. Thus the world was drenched with
holocaust programs.
But the silent Holocaust of the Palestinians
may, at most, reach only a few ears and hearts.
Just as I was being inundated with the Holocaust
programs, I happened to read a report by Khalid Amayreh, which churned
my stomach.
He wrote: On the
very day world leaders were commemorating the holocaust at the UN headquarters
in New York last week, an Israeli Jewish professor at
Haifa University (HU) was telling his students that "Arabs are scum, vermin
and dirty animals that ought to be exterminated." David Baka'ti didn't
stop there. According to some of the students who attended the lecture, he urged
Jews to "put a bullet to the head of each and every Arab you encounter."
In an earlier lecture at the HU History Department,
Baka'ti reportedly told students that "crime surges in the veins of an Arab and
that Arabs were parasites living off humanity."
Far from raising an outcry, the Mien Kamph-like remarks
were well received by many Jewish students attending the lecture, with some
reportedly nodding their heads approvingly.
Last month, another Israeli professor, by the name of
Rafael Yisraeli, who was presented as an "expert witness" on Islam during the
trial of five Israeli-Arab community leaders, also in Haifa, told the court that
"Arabs are habitually dirty and that they can't be trusted."
Yisraeli, a co-founder of the quasi-fascist party Moledet
(Motherland), claimed that the Islamic Holy Book, the Qur�an, taught Arabs to
kill Jewish children.
More virulent manifestations of Jewish racism are rife in
religious lectures and edicts delivered regularly by prominent Jewish rabbis,
with hundreds of thousands of loyal followers.
On 19 May 2004, a prominent rabbi from the Jewish colony
of Kiryat Arba'a near the southern West Bank town of Hebron, by the name of Dov
Lior, wrote that the killing of non-Jewish civilians was permissible in order to
save Jews, civilians and soldiers alike.
"The law of our Torah is to have mercy on our soldiers
and to save them. This is the real moral behind Israel's Torah and we must not
feel guilty due to foreign morals," the Ma'ariv newspaper quoted him as
saying.
Lior, who is also chairman of the Jewish Rabbinical
Council and reputedly one of the most learned scholars of the Torah, had praised
the murder of 29 Arab worshippers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in 1994, calling the
murderer, Baruch Goldstein, "a great saint and rabbi�may his memory be
blessed."
Again, the manifestly racist remarks drew only silence in
Israel as no rabbi or Jewish religious leader uttered a word in condemnation of
the hateful, racist incitement.
According to Rabbi Menachem Froman, because of Lior's
"deep knowledge of Jewish law, most rabbis refrain from challenging his
understanding of the Torah and the Talmud."
In 2003, during a visit to the so-called Bible-Belt
States in the U.S., Beny Elon�then Israel's Tourism Minister�was reported to
have told American evangelical leaders that "Jews and Christians ought to
cooperate to exterminate Islam off the map." Once again, the nefarious remarks,
which were reported by the Israeli press, drew no condemnation from Jewish
leaders.
The above examples are not isolated or represent the
exception rather than the norm as many Israeli and Jewish apologists might
argue.In fact, expressions of sinister Jewish racism against
gentiles in general can go on and on and on.
In fact, it would be safe to assume that not a day passes
in Israel without a Jewish government minister, or a rabbi, or a high-ranking
army officer making a racist remark about non-Jews, demonizing and dehumanizing
them in ways reminiscent of Nazi incitement against Jews.
This sinister bigotry is very dangerous, as already seen
in the behaviour of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip.
On 30 December 2003, an Israeli soldier who mistakenly
shot and seriously wounded a Jewish demonstrator in the Northern West Bank told
interrogators that he thought he was shooting an Arab, not a
Jew.
"I am sorry; I never thought I was shooting at Jews, I
would never shoot a Jew," the soldier said!
It is this racist culture that rewards soldiers and
officers in proportion to their crimes against Palestinians.
Examples are numerous. Ariel Sharon, the war criminal who
is now lecturing the world on the evils of Nazism, was rewarded twice with the
premiership of Israel despite (perhaps for) his role in the 1982 massacres that
took place at Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon.
Amos Yaron, who, too, was convicted of complicity and
conspiracy in the genocidal massacre, was also promoted to the office of
Director-General of the Israeli Defense Ministry.
And now we are told that Dan Halutz, the Israeli Air
Force Commander who has the blood of 12 Palestinian children on his hands, is
slated to become Israel's Deputy Chief of Staff.
And when an Israeli civil rights group on 22 January
appealed to the Israeli High Court to block the appointment in light of Halutz�s
criminal record, the Court ruled that the "behaviour" of Halutz shouldn't
interfere with his professional career.
The truth of the matter is that a collective Nazi-like
mindset is permeating much of the Israeli society these days in ways that can be
compared with the anti-Jewish atmosphere that prevailed in Germany in the late
1930s.
Today, Israeli Jews can murder non-Jews with impunity;
seize, steal or destroy non-Jewish property with impunity; and humiliate,
degrade and beat non-Jews with impunity, very much like the Nazis did to Jews
more than 60 years ago.
Jewish soldiers, convicted of murdering Palestinian
children, receive symbolic prison sentences, only to avoid negative
international reactions.
Does this mean that Israel is walking on the same path of
Germany under the National-Socialist leadership of Adolph
Hitler?
Well, the holocaust, as Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan
Shalom rightly said recently, didn't start with gas chambers and detention
camps. It started with words, with Mien Kamph, with hateful propaganda, with the
dehumanization and demonization of Jews and non-Jews.
Unfortunately, Israel, by words and actions, is fostering
a similar culture, by demonstrating to the Israeli Jewish public that non-Jews,
especially Arabs, can be murdered with impunity and that their lives are worth
less than Jewish lives.
Today, hundreds of thousands of Jewish students in
Talmudic schools throughout Israel are being indoctrinated in hate for non
Jews.
Just imagine how these racism-filled youngsters will
behave toward non-Jews when they join the Israeli army!
I do hope it is not too late to rectify this dangerous
moral crisis in Israel before it is too late.
And let no one say a
holocaust can't happen again or that Jews are not capable of being the
aggressors. Jews have been aggressors and tormentors for many years. And the
world must prevent them from going any further. http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_10212.shtml
So, if this is how a people who want the rest of the
world not to forget Auswitch, behave, the holocaust will remain hollow. No one
seems to have learned any lesson.
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