A Zundel letter on guerrilla warfare

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Zgram - September 15, 2006

A Zundel letter out of Mannheim Prison to Mark Weber, Direktor of the 
Institute for Historical Review (www.ihr.org):

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15 August 2006

Ernst Zündel
JVA Manheim
Herzogenrieder Str. 111
68169 Mannheim
Germany

Dear Mark!

I hope you and the family are well? As you can see, I am alive and 
following world events with keen interest - as best as possible, when 
one is locked up for 22 hours and 45 minutes [a day] for the last 3 
1/2 years.

It seems that my detractors [have] finally gone berserk, as they have 
so many times in their blood-stained history.  The rampage through 
Lebanon has finally revealed the inner soul of the boys from the 
planet of Khazaria.

I am surprised how critical the press is in Europe - even some 
Israeli commentators. There is one “Middle East Expert", an 
Egyptian-born Israeli called Daniel Dagan, who speaks fluent German 
and is frequently interviewed as a commentator in discussion groups. 
He comes up with the most interesting insights, nuanced and well 
reasoned.

His conclusion is that Israel has, in effect, been practicing the old 
Roman empire "Divide and Rule"  in that it has successfully managed 
to play off one religious sect or group like the Shiites against 
Sunnis, Christians against Muslims, as in the 1978-82-84 invasion of 
Beirut, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, etc. That policy was best 
described in Robert Fisk's "Pity the People." He was the Mid-East 
correspondent of the London Times for 25 years, was fired due to the 
usual pressures, the Independent took him on, and he stayed covering 
the Mid East beat. Mark, it is one of the most remarkable, shocking, 
incorruptibly honest exposes of the underlying reasons for the 
continual upheavals in the Mid-East political landscapes. I can only 
recommend that book to anyone who seriously wants to understand that 
very complex region.

The BBC and even CNN are full of post mortems just now, since the 
cease-fire has started. To my surprise, Israeli flaks are trying hard 
to spin-doctor the cease-fire as a victory, while independent 
analysts seem to think that it is a political defeat for Israel and 
by extension for America that could have been avoided with a little 
extra effort and some flexibility by the Israelis. Some Israeli 
newspapers report a massive decline in Olmert's ratings, and some are 
demanding the setting up of a commission of inquiry into the conduct 
of the war - an Israeli inquiry!

This Daniel Dagan says that there may well be political upheavals in 
Israel, in the current government, etc! The economic consequences for 
Lebanon are estimated at near $3 billion. Israeli sources say for 
them it is about $1.6 – 1.8 billion in lost revenue, lack of 
production - all that for what exactly? Two kidnapped soldiers?

Once again the impotence of the Arabs, their all-talk-and-no-action 
has been demonstrated to the world!  Imagine an army of 50,000 
Lebanese soldiers, with 300+ tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft guns, 
some warships, not raising a finger to even attempt to defend their 
country!  I feel reinforced in my disdain for the oligarchies there - 
as well as the callous murderous thug-like elements here!

Mark, if there is a God in heaven, or some kind of Karma, or some 
sense of equilibrium or justice, then there will be suffering on an 
accumulated scale of apocalyptic proportions - a near Armageddon.

I have naturally lots of time on my hands, after all. I am still 
locked up 22 hours and 45 minutes [a day]. The German political Near 
East expert Lüders said on Art TV on the 14-15th August at midnight 
that this war "war die grösste Dummheit und Niederlage einer 
israelischen Regierung seit dem Unabhängigkeitskrieg 1948." [ "... 
was the greatest stupidity and defeat of an Israeli government since 
the 1948 War for independence." ] Courageous words, especially for a 
German in this philosemitic society.

I am surprised how frank newspapers like "Die Zeit," "Süddeutsche 
Zeitung," and "Der Spiegel" are in their criticism of Israel's 
destructive, civilian-infrastructure-directed campaign - more so here 
than in America. There is general agreement that Israel lost the 
battle of the images early - and never really recovered from the 
direct hit on that UN observer post, and the massacre of the children 
at Kana!

Actually, strange as the comparison may seem, the Israelis are almost 
stepping into the footsteps of the Germans in the destruction of 
Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising - and also the German reprisals 
against "Partisanen"/guerrillas in the East.  That's  also true for 
the Americans and the British in Iraq and in Afghanistan where they 
are bogged down in guerrilla wars like the Germans were in the 
Balkans, in the East and in the Italian and French areas of Europe!

It's amazing to me how things are evolving! All the murderous tricks 
used and employed against the Germans have since been experienced by 
Germany's tormentors. The Soviets got beaten by the Mujahedin - and 
their empire collapsed as a result of this Afghan guerrilla war! The 
British were driven out of Malaysia, Greece, Cyprus, even India by 
guerrillas, out of Kenya and Rhodesia, even Egypt and Palestine - by, 
of all things, Jewish guerrillas!  How about the French in Algeria 
and Vietnam? Or the Belgians in the Congo? Even the Serbs lost their 
illegitimate, artificial state! And [it also] was, of course, 
America's turn in Somalia, in Vietnam with the Vietcong, and finally, 
of all the karmic come-uppances, Afghanistan!

Now is that not Karma done? You tell me!  How the very same 
Americans, who had largely financed and orchestrated the Soviet 
Union's defeat by their surrogate guerrilla army - were to move their 
troops into the very same countryside?  Mark, is that [not] the 
height of arrogance or the height of folly and hubris?

And [then we saw] the mistake compounded by the "cakewalk" 
shock-and-awe German Blitzkrieg invasion of Iraq - with the 
subsequent,  still raging guerrilla war there! The British had taught 
the Arabs with Lawrence of Arabia's successful campaign against the 
Ottoman empire how one defeats a conventional army.

This history would not be complete if one did not tell the history of 
the Bundists (1902) and the Bolsheviki (1917) against the Czar - 
their later role in the Partisanen/Resistance Movements in Russia, 
Poland, the Balkans, France, Spain.  They were the backbone of these 
murderous collections of cutthroats, torturers and murderers! Over 
700,000 German soldiers fell victim to these murderous gangs of 
outlaws! And the Allies celebrated them as heroes and as freedom 
fighters?

That always amazed me - the short-sightedness. The organized Western 
nations after WWII, especially the British, were the first ones to 
get a taste of the skills learned by the likes of Menachem Begin, 
Stern, and all the others. It was not long before the King David 
Hotel blew up, British soldiers were kidnapped, mutilated, their 
bodies booby-trapped in the olive groves of Palestine.  (...)

It was not long before Karma caught up with the cutthroats, and the 
war now just over is proof that history is catching up with the 
originators of that "Advance to Barbarism",  the guerrilla war [that] 
Europe had spent 3,000 years to overcome, til the Geneva Convention 
finally tried to impose some humanity on war, an incredible 
achievement, redeeming mankind - only to be outdone and overcome by 
the ghetto dwellers and shtetl boys from the Pales of Settlement. 
And what was so easy to accomplish against the civilized, chivalrous 
organized armies of Europe, namely the killing by ambush, is now 
derailing the plans of the coterie around the cowboy from Crawford 
and the belated colonialist squatters with the religious Chosen 
People syndrome!

All that suffering, bloodshed, and destruction - because we do not 
have the guts to tell a collection of psychopaths that enough is 
enough?!

History is coming full circle.  We are living in interesting times!

All the best!

Ernst

PS: The trial will end in September - verdict in October! Inevitably!

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