At http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/10/20/News/News.14044.html we find yet another ever more revealing article by Rabbi Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Titled "Rabbi Hier alarmed by surge of global anti-Semitism", and subtitled "More than 200 attacks on Jewish targets", it says the following:
By Chani Cohen
JERUSALEM (October 20) - More than 200 attacks on Jewish targets have occurred world-wide since the beginning of the month, parallel to the violence in the Middle East, Simon Wiesenthal Center dean Rabbi Marvin Hier said yesterday.
Zundelsite:
The gruesome images coming out of Israel and the occupied territories of children shot at point blank range, of humiliation piled on humiliation, of lynchings of policemen and revenge killings and tortures will provoke an equal and opposite reaction among the groups affected.
Chani Cohen:
"These attacks are just the tip of the iceberg. It has been a long time since we have seen signs in Germany reading 'Death to the Jews,'" Hier said at a press conference in Jerusalem.
Zundelsite:
Misha Wolf, the Jewish-Communist boss of East Germany's Stasi (secret police) sent his secret agents into West Germany in the early 1960s to smear exactly this slogan on Jewish synagogues and gravestones to discredit the West German government. It took over 30 years and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe before this disgusting policy of exploiting "anti-Semitism" was found out and exposed.
In the 1980s, skinheads were paid up to $800 (US) by New York network cameramen for "Nazi salutes" for the evening news. Read Laird Wilcox's "The Hoaxer Report" how hate crimes are created.
Chani Cohen:
The Wiesenthal Center is demanding that the United Nations formulate a resolution condemning the more than 200 antisemitic attacks worldwide, including more than 60 on synagogues, such as an attack this week on a synagogue in Damascus.
Zundelsite:
Some graffiti is undoubtedly the reaction of the politically impotent in such a crisis. It is counterproductive and juvenile and should be condemned.
Chani Cohen:
"This is the largest number of attacks on synagogues since 1938, and the world has been silent," the center's associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, said. "We will try to make sure that the same democracies that voted against Israel in the recent resolution condemning Israel, as well as the United States who did not veto the bill, will take a leadership role in the international arena in speaking out against these hate crimes. If the UN charter is to have meaning then the international community, through the UN, needs to speak out against antisemitism."
Zundelsite:
If the U.N. Charter is to have any meaning, Israel ought to be forced by U.N. military action to withdraw from all occupied land and live up to all previous U.N. resolutions - which were never enforced!
It is the height of chutzpah by the Wiesenthalers in the face of what is happening with pogroms against Palestinians, assassinations by snipers with silencers, Apache attack helicopters against civilians in Palestine etc. to ask for condemnation of the victims by the perpetrators who take out full page ads supporting Israelis policies in this issue.
Chani Cohen:
According to the center, there has been an unprecedented increase of antisemitic attacks throughout Europe - on synagogues, schools, and individuals - since the UN issued a statement earlier this month condemning Israel for the use of excessive force.
Zundelsite:
Where was "excessive force" used ***against*** Jews or Israelis anywhere on Planet Earth in the last 55 years? What justifies Israelis murderous policies in this case?
Chani Cohen:
>From the nature of the crimes, as well as brochures and Internet material distributed by various hate groups, it appears that the Palestinians are finding allies among right-wing extremists in Europe and the United States.
Zundelsite:
No., not among "right wing extremists"! Major European media outlets in England and the continent have been highly critical of Israel's thuggish policies in this conflict. These papers, such as the Guardian and the Independent, were often pro-Israel in the past 50 years. Now an entirely different media wind is blowing! And what is being said in Europe needs to be said in America as well - as is already happening, although not nearly often enough.
Chani Cohen:
"If the extreme European right unites with the Moslem cause, then we will find ourselves in a totally different situation that is out of control," said the head of the Wiesenthal Center's Israel office, Dr. Efraim Zuroff.
Zundelsite:
Legitimate "angst" or financially motivated fear mongering? Fear mongering is the Simon Wiesenthal Center's stock in trade - to milk more millions of contributions and bequests out of ever more frightened Jewish donors.
Chani Cohen:
Center officials are expected to meet soon with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and plan to try to make it an issue in the United States presidential elections.
Zundelsite:
These Israel-Firsters, "God's Chosen People"-invokers are so out of touch with their deteriorating public image and dwindling sympathies for Israel's bully behavior that it is amazing to watch. That's what happens to people who defend and approve and grow accustomed to getting away with officially sanctioned torture, breaking of bones, bulldozing of homes, random assassinations and political killings.
Chani Cohen:
Hier attributes the reluctance of governments to speak out on behalf of the Jewish people, to politics.
"It is hard to look oil in the eye and cast blame for the attacks against the Jews," Hier said. "But the issue should not be how the Arabs will react, but rather that synagogues are being burnt. Governments are afraid and do not want to be put on the spot, but that is exactly what we need to do."
Zundelsite:
That is one more step in the direction of becoming totally isolated. That's what happens to leaders and organizations and even governments who are totally out of touch with the feelings and realities of the people and the world around them.
Chani Cohen:
"I can assure you that if the situation was reversed and 60-70 mosques were burnt, and the Arab nations were to demand a UN resolution, they would get it," he added.
Zundelsite:
The Arabs have had dozens of resolutions passed - how has it helped them? Israel has repeatedly ignored them - and the West, notably the U.S. ruling elite, has protected Israel via rubber-stamp reaction.
Chani Cohen:
Hier said he is also dissatisfied with Israel's passivity.
Zundelsite:
"Israel's passivity" ??? Like Apache helicopter gun ships? Rockets? Tanks? Assassinations by snipers? Some "passivity"!
Chani Cohen:
"Israel is most likely being so quiet on these events because they presently have their hands full," Hier said. "However, this is strategically a big mistake. Israel has the moral responsibility to Jews all over the world to demand from the United Nations that we do not want domestic sympathy, but rather an active solution."
Zundelsite:
Israeli politicians are concerned about their domestic reelection chances, like politicians everywhere. They only care about what Diaspora Jews think or even suffer if it ever came to a real worldwide reaction.
Many Israelis think of Diaspora Jews as self-indulgent traitors who live overseas in the safety and wealth the gentile democracies provide for them. Israeli "sabras" - those born in Israel - know that the billions of dollars sent by Jewish organizations to prop up their enclave is what Germans call "Rückversicherung" - escape hatch - where these self-indulgent overseas Jews can flee to if they get in trouble, like the Red Mafiya Jewish gangsters from the former Soviet Union, like Meyer Lanski did - and many others.
Rabbi Hier deceives himself and overestimates his own importance in matters Israeli. He is just a useful schlepp to them - to be activated anytime they need someone to run interference for them.
Stay tuned. This story is unfolding.
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Thought for the Day:
"Depth of Arab outrage, violence shakes Jews across the spectrum"
( Title of an article by Julie Wiener, archived at http://jta.virtualjerusalem.com/index.exe?00101013 )
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