Ian V. Macdonald ( at ianvmacdonald@aol.com ) is one of my favorite commentators and Letters-to-the-Editor writers. I like to run his observations in my Zgrams because of his succinct style and abstracting capacity.
Today he comments on two themes: "Preserving Christian Traditions" and "War Crimes Hypocrisy".
Here's Number One:
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April 5, 2001
Brooke Taylor MLA Government Caucus Office Halifax, N. S. Via Fax 902 424 7484
Dear Mr Taylor,
Re: Preserving Christian Traditions
I am from Sherbrooke, N.S. and although I've been away a long time I still have a very strong affinity for the Province and nostalgia for the traditional old-fashioned standards, which are fast disappearing in Upper Canada.
The main reason that our traditions are being abandoned here is pressure from the Jewish Lobby which opposes vigorously all manifestations of the Christian religion and insists that they be done away with. In the public schools, for the most part, Christian symbols, including Christmas activities, have been abolished and replaced by courses on the so-called "Holocaust" which now enjoys the status of a religion since it must be accepted purely on faith (to question even the most preposterous claims can result in a charge of "anti- Semitism" - the social equivalent of being burned at the stake).
Most Christian bureaucrats tend to apologize and acquiesce to the pressure. Some might genuinely believe we owe the Jews something for the alleged persecution in times past in other countries and others might be motivated by a misguided "turn the other cheek" attitude. There are also Christian Zionists who think the Israelis can do no wrong, including Anglican and United Church Ministers and successive editors of the UC Church Observer (following the untimely death of Al Forrest who was constantly at odds with the Rabbis in Toronto over Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians)
Which brings me to the point of this letter: since the Jews in Nova Scotia are the ones pressing for respect for minority beliefs and protection from Christian domination why not take as a model the practice in their professed homeland. The next time they raise the subject ask how the Government of Israel responds to requests that Judaic symbols and practices be altered or discontinued to accommodate the Christian minority in that country, or the Muslim minority for that matter. You could say that you could hardly do any better than to emulate the Jews' own example. (In fact the Christian religion is severely suppressed in Israel and proselytism is a criminal offence!). In any event, I hope you will stand firm and inspire others to do likewise. If we continue to make concessions we're likely to lose a lot more than our traditions!
Best of luck.
(Ian Macdonald)
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Number Two in a Letter to the National Post:
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Whether or not Julius Viel killed 7 Jews in 1945 (NP 4.4.01) it is surely an atrocity to convict him in 2001 solely on the uncorroborated "evidence" of one admittedly self- serving eye-witness seeking to "make sure the memories of the "Holocaust" are not forgotten".
Furthermore, it is the essence of hypocrisy that Mr Viel should be prosecuted and jailed at the behest of Jewish lobbyists for an alleged minor war crime while Jewish Commissars (to say nothing of Allied soldiers and airmen) who killed many hundreds of thousands of innocent Christian women and children, suffered no such penallty.
Even more grotesque is the fact that while Jews are calling for more "Nazi" (read German and Ukrainian) blood, no matter how congealed, Jewish Israelis are currently committing crimes far worse than those attributed to Mr Viel, namely the deliberate killing and incapacitating of Christian and Muslim children by the thousands on the specious pretext that they threaten Israeli "security". Far from being brought to justice, these callous Israeli murderers are hailed as heroes in Jewish quarters and even rewarded, some of the worst offenders, e.g. Begin and Sharon, with the highest political offices in the land.
Significantly, to compound the hypocrisy, Israel has placed a 20 year statute of limitations on prosecution for war crimes, an unlikely occurrence in any case in a jurisdiction where, according to the official Israeli Soldier's Handbook, as quoted by noted Israeli scholar Israel Shahak in his penetrating book "Jewish History, Jewish Religion" p.76, it is a "mitzvah" (blessing) to kill enemy civilians, "even those who are ostensibly good".
As ever,
Yours sincerely,
Ian V. Macdonald
(ex-RCAF, former Cdn. diplomat)
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Thought for the Day:
Things move really fast nowadays. Just yesterday we hardly dared to call the Israeli policy of official discrimination against Palestinians by the harsh word "apartheid". Today, as Sharon's tanks and missiles pound defenceless cities and villages, the word barely suffices. It has become an unjustified insult to the white supremacists of South Africa. They, after all, did not use gunships and tanks against the natives, they did not lay siege to Soweto. They did not deny the humanity of their kaffirs. The Jewish supremacists made it one better. They have returned us, as if by magic wand, to the world of Joshua and Saul.
As the search for the right word continues, the courageous Robert Fisk proposes calling the events in Palestine a "civil war ". If this is civil war, the slaughter of a lamb is a bullfight. The disparity of forces is just too large. No, Virginia, it is not "civil war", it is creeping genocide.
(Israel Shamir's opening paragraphs in his new article, MAMILLA POOL)
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