The Finkelstein media fallout/European book promotion tour is still producing comments from left, right and center, the way any good intellectual controversy should. Below is one viewpoint from the right of the political spectrum, as expressed by the British-based National Journal.
I must confess I didn't quite get it, reading this op ed piece the first time around - so let me forewarn you. When the writer speaks of, or implies, "Jewish enemies" he isn't talking about Revisionists. He is speaking about Orthodox Jews who hate the Zionist state with a passion, and who have every interest and intention to demolish the so-called Holocaust - exactly as we do.
In other words, here you are witness to an undeclared religious civil war where Jew is fighting Jew!)
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An implacable struggle is raging within Jewry between orthodox groups, devoted to the holy scriptures of Judaism and the secular Zionists. These orthodox strains consider the state of Israel religiously and judicially illegal. As a matter of fact they describe Israel as a "totally Satanic state". Since this state has been founded solely on the 6-million holocaust story, its Jewish enemies recognised the necessity of destroying the foundation of this state. It is also true that Germany, the main financier of Israel, the "Satanic state", would cease to exist in its present form, if the holocaust story {were] exposed to the masses.
Therefore, the enemies of Israel, having realised this fact, must destabilise and even dismantle Germany as well. That is what Finkelstein's book is intended to achieve as a first phase of a vast offensive against the big lie.
Some people criticise Professor Finkelstein for not attacking the holocaust-lie directly, but that he only touches the fringes, the lies around the story. This is actually not true, [since] it would not be possible to wage a factual, revisionist-style war on the holocaust industry through the present media-system.
The war had to be instigated in this manner because, by totally destroying the credibility of the holocaust heralds, exposing them as criminals and describing their operations as a huge conspiracy, [this] makes it impossible for the perpetrators to maintain their power control. However, emphasising the fact that the "6-million-figure is untenable", Professor Finkelstein strikes at the root of the holocaust-lie.
When he calls David Irving "a good historian", despite Irving's claim that no gas chambers for killing Jews existed at Auschwitz, he demonstrates his inclination to support this line of revisionist revelation. Here Finkelstein signals that the gas-story will be next on the agenda destroying the holocaust industry's homebase, Israel. Professor Finkelstein could never have published this book without the support of influential Jewish circles.
What Finkelstein writes and says would normally be punished with a minimum sentence of five years in prison in holocaust Germany and up to twenty years in Austria. The conclusion is that, besides orthodox Jewish strains, even Zionist groups must have perceived the inevitable eruption of the holocaust truth and therefore are now trying to hand over their stooges in anticipation of the imminent rage of the duped German people.
To bring Zionist Germany to its knees, it is necessary to aggravate the anti-government mood in Germany by forcing their Berlin vassals to intensify persecution against Germans who know about the lies and the scam whilst Finkelstein publicly denounces the same falsehoods under Jewish protection. This is likely to turn Germany into a boiling pot of resentment and hate. The result can already be observed.
For the first time persecutive Germany censored a Jewish journalist, Tina Mendelsohn. German TV-station SWR said on Monday, February 5, 2001 [that] it cancelled the broadcasting of a documentary on Finkelstein's book, apparently out of fear that the programme could be seen as promoting anti-Jewish views.
Officials at Südwest-Rundfunk, a regional broadcaster station serving south-western Germany, said it [had] pulled the documentary on author Norman Finkelstein's theories off the air at short notice and asked the London-based producer, Tina Mendelsohn, to make changes. The show had been scheduled to be aired on Monday night (Feb. 5, 2001).
In its original version, the documentary features Finkelstein, supporters and opponents of his views as well as a brief opening clip of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels. The station said the show could ''trigger unintended effects,'' indicating it was worried that it might be seen as encouraging extreme-right views in Germany (thus proving that the so-called extreme right are in the right).
SWR co-producer Martina Zöllner said the station was asking for changes to the film and would show it at a later date, but that details were still being discussed.
An influential conservative newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, likened the decision to Soviet-era censorship.
Finkelstein is due to promote the German translation of his book in Germany this week. The German persecution machinery would arrest any German on the spot for making the slightest comments which are openly promoted by Professor Finkelstein. But in the case of Finkelstein they must refrain, however difficult it is for them, from implementing their own criminal laws, because Jewish power groups do not allow the persecution of their man, Professor Finkelstein.
This double standard will turn Germany into a boiling pot of outrage which is necessary to destroy the holocaust industry and thus Israel. Zionist-Israel on the other hand can only escape from this dilemma by creating an international war that will distract the focus of the collapsing holocaust industry in Germany and Europe and revenge itself against its non-Zionist enemies. Thus, the election of the "butcher" Ariel Sharon was guaranteed.
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Thought for the Day:
"Eagles definitely have a longer life span that wrens."