I need to make some kind of a ZGram policy statement so that especially the many newcomers to the Zundelsite understand where I am coming from and what issues I focus on in my ZGrams.
Almost five years ago, when I first started writing, editing and highlighting the struggle caused by, or emanating from, this evil edifice of lies called "Holocaust", I visualized my role as gatherer, simplifier and/or synthesizer of news stories, events and ideas.
The "Holocaust", and all it has come to mean, is the paralyzing poison squirted into the minds of the people of the world - with the order to "Freeze!" Not to examine! NOT TO EXAMINE!
Not to examine what?
What the world's geniuses and creative thinkers have found out about the vexing Jewish question!
I wanted to illuminate and interpret ***the consequences*** of people's erroneous perception of what the so-called "Holocaust" was really all about. Who invented it. Who used it. To what ends and when and how.
What kind of mental, spiritual and moral sewer system barfed it out in filthy anti-cultural and anti-Western ways.
What it permitted - the destruction of time-tested values, the abuse of the courts, the prostitution of the media, the theft of the past, the purchase of vassals and minions . . . you fill in the blanks.
What it denied - the love of one's kin, good people's loyalty to soil and ethnic history, that truth is a defense in civilized discourse, that freedom of speech be an absolute . . . available to all.
How costly it is to the spirit, and how destructive it is - of all the ironies! - to inter-ethnic harmony!
That is, essentially, still my position. Many readers have criticized me that my focus is too narrow. They tell me the problem is race. It's the Talmud. The New World Order. ZOG. It's Christianity. It's lack of Christianity. It's the Feds. It's Rabbi Hier. It's Clinton and his coterie. It's prayer in school - or its absence. It's Satan on the loose on our planet.
I know that there are other problems and other fronts equally important and much more current than the "Holocaust." But I can't cover every front at the same time, and I intend to stay focused exactly where I am.
I know that what is happening with Israel and the beleaguered Palestinians is a direct result of brazen chutzpah, thanks but no thanks to what we call the "Holocaust". No nation would have gotten away in front of running cameras like Israel has gotten away with the atrocities that they inflicted on the defenseless Palestinians, a people conquered in a brutal military invasion half a century ago, had not the West closed eyes and ears because, poor things, poor Israelis, poor people doing all these wicked things, you see, just barely managed to escape from their own "Holocaust" - and now we must cut them some slack!
I am ashamed of what we have become!
But having said all that, I cannot let my ZGrams be the exclusive vehicle for reportage about the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. There are excellent websites and e-zines whose chief focus is the Middle East. They are more expert in that field than I.
I will refer to this unfolding tragedy as warranted, but I can only urge you to subscribe to services reporting independently from the Middle East and read the reportage of people who are much more familiar with what is happening on their own front - and who don't know as much about "my front", the so-called "Holocaust" and how it does its havoc by bludgeoning the spirit and the mind. My heart bleeds for these latest victims. It is painful to my psyche that my adopted country's politicians' moral bankruptcy permits and even aids Israeli aggressors and occupiers of Palestinian lands by distorting the news and thus influence the views of untold millions of unsuspecting news consumers.
But I need to get back to what I do best, ***tell the world over and over in broadsides the costs attached to closing eyes and ears to horrible injustices because we are expected to be ever so politically correct and spare the feelings of the ones who managed to "miraculously escape the "Holocaust"*** - the Elie Wiesels, Rudolf Vrbas and 4,380,000 others claiming pensions and/or compensation for their "Holocaust suffering".
Some "Holocaust"!
The "Holocaust" is costly. There is a price for having given Israel carte blanche to operate from behind the protection America affords its wayward "ally" - bully is a better word. And just as Robert Fisk says, America will pay.
Title: Lies, hatred and the language of force | Arab View
By Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent, The Independent, London | 13 October 2000
This is a story about lies, bias, hatred and death. It's about our inability -- after more than half a century -- to understand the injustice of the Middle East. It's about a part of the world where it seems quite natural, after repeatedly watching on television the funeral of 11-year-old Sami Abu Jezar - who died two days after being shot through the forehead by Israeli soldiers -- for a crowd to kick two Israeli plainclothes agents to death. It's about a nation that claims "purity of arms" but fires missiles at civilian apartment blocks and then claims it is "restoring order". It's about people who are so enraged by the killing of almost a hundred Palestinians that they try to blow up an entire American warship.
It's as simple as that. When I walked into the local photocopy shop yesterday afternoon, the boys there greeted me with ecstatic smiles. "Did you hear that an American ship has been attacked?" one of them asked. "There are Americans dead." All I saw around the room were smiles. In a corner, on a small television screen, an Israeli Apache aircraft was firing a missile at Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Gaza.
Seven years ago, CNN showed us the Israeli prime minister shaking Yasser Arafat by the hand, live on the White House lawn. Now, live from Gaza, we watch a pilot carrying out an order from the Israeli prime minister to kill Arafat by bombing his headquarters.
As usual last night, the television news broadcasts -- those most obsequious and deforming of information dispensers -- were diverting our minds from the truth. They did not ask why the Palestinians should have lynched two Israeli undercover men. Instead, they asked why Palestinian police had not protected them. They did not ask why a suicide bomber in a rubber boat should have bombed the USS Cole.
Instead, they asked who he was, who he worked for, and they interviewed Pentagon officials who denounced "terrorism". Always the "who" or the "what"; never the "why".
It is of course possible that Osama bin Laden, one of the more recent American hate figures, could have inspired -- by sermons rather than direct instruction -- the attack on the USS Cole. Bin Laden's family originally came from Yemen. And it was Yemen that demanded the right earlier this week to fly arms direct to the Palestinians of the occupied territories -- provoked, it seems, by slow-motion footage of yet another boy, a 12-year-old, dying on top of his father in Gaza after being shot by the Israelis. Yet many of the attacks on Israeli occupation forces in Lebanon were carried out by young men, unconnected with the corrupt Arab political élite but enraged by the injustice of their lot. Maybe it was the same in Yemen.
When Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo agreement seven years ago, only a very few asked how soon this raddled, flawed, hopeless "peace" would collapse. I thought it would end in violence because the Palestinians were being forced by Americans and Israelis to sign a peace that would give them neither a state nor an end to Jewish settlements on Arab land, nor a capital in Arab east Jerusalem.
I wrote that Arafat had been turned from "super-terrorist" into a "super-statesman" but could easily be turned into a "super-terrorist" again. And so it came to pass. Yesterday, the Israeli spokesman Avi Pasner shared a BBC interview with me -- and called Arafat a "terrorist".
Alas, none of it was surprising -- none save our continued inability to grasp what happens when a whole society is pressure-cooked to the point of explosion. A Pentagon official was saying last night the US government was trying to find out if the attack on the USS Cole was "related" to "violence" in the Middle East. Come again? Related? Violence? Who can doubt that the attempt to sink the Cole and all her 360 American crew was directed at a nation now held responsible for Israel's killing of scores of Palestinian civilians? The United States -- despite all the claptrap from Madeleine Albright about "honest brokers"-- is Israel's ally.
Ever since Arafat tried to leave the US ambassador's residence in Paris two weeks ago, the Palestinians have placed this responsibility on America's shoulders. If the US wants to go on supporting an ally that shoots down Palestinians in the streets of the occupied territories, then the United States will be held to account. And will pay for it.
No, of course this does not excuse the bloodthirsty killing of armed Israeli agents or the desecration of the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus, or, indeed, the murder of Jewish settlers. But the cruelty of the Palestinians can be explained by the cruelty of the Israelis. The death toll among Palestinians now is almost exactly equal to that at Qana in 1996 when Israeli gunners butchered 106 Lebanese civilians. We called it a massacre. The Israelis said it was a mistake. True, it's scarcely 5 per cent of the death toll at the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps, when Israel's militia allies killed up to 2,000 Palestinian civilians. We called that a massacre. Israel said this, too, was a mistake. Like they called the death of two 12-year-old children and a seven-year-old child and Sami Abu Jezar a mistake.
And yesterday -- with no institutional memory to guide them -- journalists were taking at face value Israel's extraordinary claim that they fired "only at military targets", that the civilian population of Gaza had been "told to evacuate" the areas to be bombed. Do I not seem to remember how the Israelis said in 1982 that in Lebanon they "only fired at military targets" -- and left more than 17,000 civilians dead in two months? Do I not recall that the Israelis ordered the villagers of Mansouri to "evacuate" before they shelled it in 1996, then attacked their cars on the road and fired a missile into the back of an ambulance, killing four children and three women -- the missile made, of course, by the Boeing company of America?
And was not the CIA supposed to be training the Palestinian policemen now being derided by Mr Pasner as "terrorists" (his own country having personally vetted which of them should carry arms)? And was not the United States the guarantor and broker of the disastrous Oslo agreement? So is it really surprising that the Palestinians -- indeed, the Arabs -- blame the United States for the tragedy unfolding in the Holy Land?
And is it any less surprising that the Israelis have now turned on the man with whom they thought they would conclude a peace that would turn "Palestine" into a Bantustan? The man who was supposed to "control" the Palestinians, who was supposed to lock up opponents of the "peace process"-- whether they be peaceful or violent -- is not doing what he was told. He walked out of Camp David because it was a surrender too far. So President Clinton blamed him for the conference's failure -- on Israeli television, of all places -- and ordered Arafat not to declare a state. Or else.
And now, when two US presidential contenders -- Messrs Bush and Gore -- try to out-do each other in their love and loyalty for Israel, can America comprehend what is happening?
I suppose it's the same old story. The Israelis only want peace. The unruly, riotous, murderous Palestinians -- totally to blame for 95 of their own deaths -- understand only violence.
That's what Israel's military spokesman said last night. Force, he said, "will be the only language they understand". Which is about as near to a declaration of war as you can get.
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Thought for the Day:
"The killings of Palestinian kids is business as usual. The operators of the Anne Frank Museums, the professors of "Holocaust Studies," the pundits who shake the heavens with editorial outrage when a skinhead daubs a synagogue with paint, make no meaningful protest when Arab civilians under Israeli military occupation are victims of Zionist war crimes.
If those were Jewish kids who were throwing stones and getting shot for it, the slaughter would be stopped within 24 hours. Arab blood is mighty cheap."
(Letter to the Zundelsite)