Just as the Jews have Righteous Gentiles, I think that it is time for us to have some Righteous Jews. I think that many Revisionists would nominate Dr. Alfred M. Lilienthal for such a designation.
Dr. Lilienthal is a man of common sense and extraordinary courage who has spoken out repeatedly on the destructiveness of Holocaustomania - a term that he has coined. Of course he, too, hates Hitler - but then, who's perfect in our sappy world?
Today's and tomorrow's ZGram are excerpts from an article in the Washington Review of Middle East Affairs, April 1998 titled "What Price Holocaustomania? The Specter of Hitler That Drives Washington's 'Israel First' Mideast Policy."
Here is a strong Lilienthal sample:
"If Adolf Hitler would be able to look up to earth from the depths of hell, a broad smile would break out on the Führer's face. Far from being forgotten 53 years after his demise in a Berlin bunker, Hitler stands at the world's epicenter. All roads that once led to Rome now lead to and from his Holocaust.
This phenomenon sustains America's 'Israel First' approach to the Middle East. The simplistic 'Get Saddam' solution to our resulting troubles there flourishes with the help of media-drawn similarities to Hitler and the crying need of opinion molders and politicians to find a new villain, now that the Evil Empire no longer exists.
The threat Saddam allegedly presents to 'little' Israel is widely portrayed in media photographs showing Israelis trying on gas masks. Such media engendered emotionalism aims to conceal from American taxpayers the $600 million cost of the latest US military buildup against Iraq, which certainly poses no threat to the United States. (...)"
Dr. Lilienthal continues his insightful analysis of this tricky topic in several additional paragraphs, here deleted, and then hits the bull's eye with the following:
"One of this writer's friends of long standing, a Jordanian, asked me why the US stood aside and permitted a great wrong to be visited upon the Palestinians by the Israelis, allegedly to right the original wrong 'committed not by the Arabs, but by the Nazis under Hitler against the Jews.' He, of couse, perfectly understood the psychosis behind the unwavering, unchallengeable support given to the Israeli state since its promulgation in 1948 by the US and, for a time, many other Western countries as well. It was motivated by deep-seated Christian feelings of guilt for the Nazi extermination of so many Jews. As CBS commentator Howard K. Smith has cogently stated, 'The American public has formed its judgment of the Middle East conflict not on the relative merits of the Arab and Israeli cases, but rather on the basis of Christian-Jewish relations.'
Ergo, Christian guilt had, at all costs, to be kept alive and constantly tapped by Israel-leaning publishers, producers and directors. And, of course, woe to those who seem to threaten this state of mind that is so vital to the very existence of Israel. (...)
Keeping the spirit alive involved focusing the attention of US opinion molders and the public on the many sins committed against Jews - from the World War II genocide to the European anti-Semitism that gave birth to it - by injecting Holocaustomania into politics, religion, the arts, and the entertainment world. Then surely no one would ever be able to make a reasoned, logical judgment as to how best to bring about peace in the harried Middle East and how best to safeguard American national interests in that area."
Once again, we see that anything to do with this topic has shifted to the religious realm - the Holocaust Enforcers who are besetting us have left history behind a long time ago! Historians are out!
Will we see exorcists to counter "Holocaust Denial" next?
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"People in the West can condemn their highest leaders, but they don't have the right to utter one critical word about the Zionist regime...I can say with certainty, America and Israel are one and the same. The Majority of senior American officials are Zionists and they use their influence to promote Israeli interests."
(Roger Garaudy)