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2 Was
Netanyahu behind Yad Vashem
protest? By Michael
Robeson
The official website of Neturei
Karta's pulls no punches, offering a wide range of
material that gives substance to their attack on
Yad Vashem. Dozens of articles and downloadable
books, mostly by Jewish authors including one by
the Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht, provide
documented and convincing support for Neturei
Karta's claims.
In 1933, certain Zionist
leaders in America publicly and loudly declared
war on Hitler and demanded an international
boycott of his new regime. Within months, certain
Zionist leaders in then Palestine established
contacts with the Nazi regime to, among other
things, create financial programs to assist mainly
wealthier German Jews to emigrate to Palestine.
Zionist leaders there maintained working
relationships with the Nazis and with the
Italian Fascists
involving agricultural and military training for
young Zionists right up until the beginning of the
war.
Other relations continued even after
war began, including efforts by the Stern gang,
one of whose leaders was future Israeli prime
minister Yitzak Shamir, to offer their assistance
to the Nazi war effort. One is struck by, among
other things, the element of "good cop/bad cop" in
these relations with the masses of European Jews
caught in the middle.
The history told by
the authors at the Neturei Karta website also
documents Zionist leader's focus on the priority,
not of saving European Jews, but of building the
Zionist state by using only the best "human
material."
Understood in this way, Zionist
policy included eugenic selection in its effort to
build a Jewish state by transforming European
Jewry from a people of the Shtetl to
citizens of the state. Scandalous as this may be,
one should recall that colonialism and the
modernist movement are both illuminated by
Enlightenment beliefs. They both propose to
improve humanity by ridding it of backward,
supernatural beliefs and ritualistic behaviors.
Zionism, in this sense, was operating in
no less a modernist way against those outside of
their state-building needs than were French
Revolutionaries toward Catholics, Christian
conquistadors toward native tribes and the white
races in general toward the darker races. The past
500 years of Western progress have been an almost
endless saga of genocides and destruction of
traditional cultures, that is of common people who
fail to adapt to modernism's increasingly
politicised materialist philosophies.
After reading the books and seeing the
documentation of Neturei Karta, the only argument
that remains in support of Zionist leader's good
intentions is that their neglect of the
non-politicized masses of European Jewry was
merely benign. That argument runs smack up against
a book titled Holocaust Victims Accuse. It
tells of Yitzhak Greenbaum, chairman of the
"Rescue Committee" of the Jewish Association in
Palestine. During the war, he was confronted in an
interview about the lack of initiative in his
committee's work. Greenbaum explained his policy
in this way: "And when I was asked, 'But could you
donate from the resources of the United Jewish
Appeal for the rescue of Jews in Europe,' I said
no. And I say again no ... In my opinion one
should resist this wave which relegates the
Zionist activities (building the Israeli state) to
secondary importance."
Anyone who wishes
to maintain that his and, by extension, his fellow
Zionist leader's feelings toward European Jews
were nevertheless sympathetic, Greenbaum amplified
his statement by later stating very clearly - "One
cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews
in Europe." This from the man heading the
Zionist's Rescue Committee and responsible for
doing everything possible to prevent his fellow
Jews from being slaughtered. Eichmann himself
could not have put it better.
Who are the
real haters? Who are the real anti-Jews? Or,
perhaps, a deeper question - who are the real
anti-humans? The politically unenlightened
defacers of Yad Vashem, some of whom attended the
2006 Holocaust Revision conference in Iran and one
of whom was a political advisor to Yasser Arafat?
Or those modernist Zionist leaders themselves who
after the war promoted the construction of Yad
Vashem, used it for moral advantage in their theft
and murderous occupation of Palestinian land, use
it for political advantage in their frequent
military excursions against neighboring lands and
then regularly accuse the West of not having done
enough to save the Jews from Hitler?
But
what does Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu have to do with this?
Almost
exactly two months prior to the defacing of Yad
Vashem, Netanyahu made a speech comparing the
"Nazi Holocaust" to the dangers posed by a
"nuclear-armed Iran". When criticized by some of
the media for exaggerating the threat, he defended
himself, stating: "I will continue saying the
truth to the world but first of all to my own
people, whom I know are strong enough to hear the
truth,"
Members of Neturei Karta would
hardly dispute that they are among his "own
people". They surely think of themselves as being
strong, strong enough to take controversial
positions on issues that, taken by the
goyim, could get them ostracized or put in
prison. They know at least one of their members
has endured a beating at Auschwitz, more than many
of the Beauty Pageant contestants could honestly
claim.
So, if they are strong, and
stronger than most of us - who could barely endure
the cocktail party shame for not having seen the
most recent acclaimed film - then maybe they
consider themselves, more than most people
honestly can, strong enough "to hear the truth"?
And then, perhaps, to act upon it?
It is
doubtful that Netanyahu will be subpoenaed during
the upcoming trial and accused of being legally
responsible for inspiring the actions of the
defendants, the way that Muslim clerics are hauled
into American courts and prosecuted for inspiring
acts of terrorism (or, to save time and expense,
simply "droned" by presidential order).
But I have the sneaking suspicion that if
Neturei Karta members actually are responsible,
then some of them might just be smirking every
time they see the face of their "abominable"
nation's leader on TV. Especially when he says, as
he did, on CNN little more than a year ago:
The ayatollahs want ... to make
another Holocaust. ... But that's just for
starters. ... They're actually true to their
word. ... This fanatic ideology armed with
nuclear weapons is the single greatest threat to
the peace of the world."
Being True
Torah Jews, how could they not get certain ideas
in their heads that the rest of us would consider
lunacy? So used are we to accepting our own.
Michael Robeson is a middle-age
American ex-pat living in Rome.
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