ZGram - 2/3/2004 - "Ian Macdonald: 'Defining Holocaust Survivor'"

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February 3, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Ian Macdonald is a one-time diplomat with vast experience across 
cultures in many countries where he worked.  For as long as I've been 
on the Net, I  enjoyed watching his fine mind shine reason and 
balance unto a complicated problem. 

Below you have such a sample.  The only phrase I would find imprecise 
is "...to free the Jews from Hitler's clutches" because it buys into 
the an all-too-common simplification that World War II was fought "to 
rescue Jews."  Nothing could be farther from the truth!

There are many, many writers who have pointed out that there were 
other reasons, far more compelling - two of the major ones being the 
very real threat of Communism poised to swallow up Europe, and 
Hitler's simple, economic plan to give "thumbs down" to usury. 

Now one might argue that both social issues sprang from Jewish 
brains, but it does not follow that the humanitarian impulse was the 
causal factor for the Allied side that made some fifty-plus countries 
sign up so willingly to volunteer their sons for slaughter.  In fact, 
had gentile self-interest and common sense prevailed, the opposite 
would have been true. 

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Editor, Letters                                         February 2, 2004
NATIONAL POST
Toronto

Defining "Holocaust Survivor"

Isobel Vincent ("Who is a Holocaust Survivor" January 24, 2004) 
should have informed the reader, prior to attacking the subject of 
"Holocaust Survivors", what definition of "Jew" she applies in 
conferring "Survivor" status, since according to media practice over 
the past 30 years the term is applicable only to Jewish "survivors", 
not to Gentiles, even though hundreds of thousands or more in the 
latter category, mostly German Christians, perished in the literal 
holocaust of the Allied terror bombing campaign. So far, the only 
plausible comprehensive definition of a Jew I have seen is "someone 
who calls himself a Jew", all other simple definitions based on race 
and religion failing miserably to embrace more than a minority of 
World Jewry.

Without an acceptable definition of Jew, the study of survivordom 
obviously begins with a handicap that severely prejudices the quality 
of any conclusions derived therefrom.  Even if this problem were 
overcome, there remains, as Ms Vincent herself points out, the more 
vexing challenge of what special war-time experience of authenticated 
"Jews" would qualify them for "survivor" status, hence compensation. 
The next hurdle is to verify the claims and to explain why Jews 
should be so richly rewarded when others sacrificed far more 
(ironically in many cases risking, and losing, their lives to free 
the Jews from Hitler's clutches while the Jews themselves enjoyed 
safety and comfort, treacherously working for the German war effort, 
including the production of munitions used to kill their guileless 
liberators.  Far better that the surplus funds be awarded to these 
courageous Gentiles and  their families).

As for the "Battle for Restitution" and the implication that Jews had 
not been adequately compensated for their alleged wartime losses, 
surely Ms Vincent writes with tongue in cheek.  Anyone who has read 
"The Holocaust Industry" by Norman Finkelstein and has even the most 
rudimentary powers of observation will be aware that Jewish 
"survivors" have been rewarded many times over, beginning with 
emergency assistance upon "liberation" and continuing with payment of 
inflated individual claims by the German Government (generally with 
"no questions asked" to avoid charges of "anti-semitism"), followed 
by "pensions" and massive payments to Israel, financed directly or 
indirectly by German and North American taxpayers, which now amount 
to a trillion dollars, or far more if Palestinian real estate and 
impunity from prosecution are included.  World War II, whether or not 
contrived by Zionist Jews to have the Christian nations destroy each 
other, enabled them to prosper and seize power beyond their wildest 
dreams.  As if that were not sufficient, ingrate-supreme Edgar 
Bronfman, using the World Jewish Congress as a platform, extorted 
over a billion dollars from the Swiss banks by threatening to have 
them excluded from American financial markets unless they "refunded" 
the fictitious "dormant balances" from the accounts of alleged 
victims of the "Holocaust" (I asked a Swiss official why the banks 
would pay a claim that was so self-evidently fraudulent.  He replied 
that it was a hard-headed business decision, based on the fact that 
the banks would lose far more had they not complied).

The general perception, at least among Gentiles, of a "Holocaust 
survivor" is of a person who was consigned to a "death camp" and 
"miraculously" escaped the gas chamber only through sheer ingenuity, 
pluck or Divine Intervention, to become part of a "tiny remnant" of 
former European Jewry, bravely battling seemingly insuperable odds to 
reach a "safe haven" in Palestine.  Ms Vincent attempts to perpetuate 
this image by reference to the "Six Million Jews murdered in the 
Holocaust", although this enormous figure, along with the "gas 
chamber" legend, has long since been discredited as unbridled, 
mendacious, anti-German hate propaganda (the British Foreign Office 
dismissed the mega-gassings as "just another attempt by the Jews to 
stoke us up" and, more significantly, Winston Churchill, arguably the 
best informed individual on either side of the conflict, pointedly 
omitted any reference to the "gas chambers", the sine qua non of 
Extermination validity, in his detailed "History of the Second World 
War" - an impossibility had there been any substance to the claim.

So before trying to decide "Who is a Holocaust Survivor", Ms Vincent 
should define not only "Who is a Jew", but "what, exactly, is the 
so-called Holocaust".  With 4.4 million "survivors" and  absence of 
forensic evidence of  gassings, it can no longer be defined as the 
"Extermination of Six Million Jews, mostly in Hitler's Gas Ovens", as 
the Zionists, and their co-conspiratorial media handmaidens, would 
have it.

Ian V. Macdonald
455 Wilbrod Street
Ottawa K1N 6M7
Tel 613 241 5389





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