Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
* The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles is wailing that Argentina's
Supreme Court has announced that ". . . Jews may have been responsible
for blowing up the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires." (Reuter, 4-1-97)
Sergio Widder, the center's Latin American representative, pointed out in
a letter to Argentine Justice Minister Elias Jassan:
"This incident appears to be an updated version of those who deny the Holocaust and who suggest it was an invention of the Jews to gain some sort of advantage.''
(And you wonder why so many people learn that there is such a thing as, Heaven help us, "Holocaust Denial.")
Stranger yet, this in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing mystery, ".
. . those court members in Argentina who believe Jews were responsible were
apparently basing their beliefs on recent findings of the National Academy
of Engineers that the explosion came from inside the diplomatic mission."
* French populist Le Pen keeps making headlines. For instance, he has come
across an interesting statistic: Of 4.4 million crimes last year in France,
there were only 9 that were racially linked. (!)
Le Pen's words to the wise: "The figure would be much higher if one counted racist crimes against French people.''
"Anti-racism is no longer an opinion," said Le Pen, "but a way of life that is growing wealthy at the expense of our wallets."
* The gap has been widened between Israel and the Arab world by a US veto
of two U.N. Security Council resolutions critical of Israel, whereupon an
Arab diplomat based in Cairo raised questions about Washington's credibility
as a sponsor of the peace talks.
"We Arab states have a public opinion too," he said, "and
it is in an angry mood.''
* Moving along, the US based Network NBC has chosen as its "Interactive
Question of the Week" the following:
"Should there be one international group that governs and controls
the web?" You may vote Yes or No.
Some people have already pointed out that if you vote "No", would
that mean that you cast your vote for the alternative that there should
be a ". . . national group"?
* Ernst Zundel did an interactive 25-minute interview on "Alberta Tonight,"
a phone-in radio show heard all over Alberta and partially in the neighboring
provinces of Saskatchewan and British Columbia, as well as northern Montana.
A listener wrote afterwards:
"It was virtually a 25-minute Zundelist infomercial. The product being sold, of course, was Truth. The show was 99% positive (except for one very bland reference to the Holocaust made in passing by host Lesley Primeau).
* As if the opposition's troubles don't suffice, now there is word, additionally
that, according to the Calgary Herald [March 24, 1997]
". . . A bitter feud among leaders of Canada's Jewish community has
erupted in public over a proposal to make deals with suspected Nazi war
criminals who agree to "rat" on their former colleagues.
B'nai Brith Canada has condemned the plan unveiled last week by the Canadian
Jewish Congress as "morally reprehensible." The two national Jewish
groups are said to be at odds with each other and have been unable to mount
a common front on the war crimes issue.
In calm days past, the organizations have rarely gone public with their
feud. Not any more. The CJC has set up a special hotline at its Montreal
headquarters to encourage suspected Nazis to come forward and give evidence
against their former colleagues.
This phone is going to be manned by American "investigator" Steven
Rambam, who jokingly called the plan "1-800-rat on a Nazi."
Can you imagine Ernst Zundel having such a hotline called "1-800-rat
on a Jew?" The sky would fall in! Guaranteed!
* According to a story in today's London "Daily Telegraph", the
Labour Party has promised that if it gains power after the current election
campaign then it will take immediate action on the "looted Nazi gold"
allegedly in the Bank of England.
Not exactly a vote getter, is it?
* In Zurich, Jewish groups have proposed their favored poster boy, Elie
Wiesel, along with U.S. official Stuart Eizenstat and Israeli member of
parliament Avraham Hirschson to be named directors of the Swiss Holocaust
memorial fund.
* The Israeli parliament is considering a weighty question: "Who is
a Jew?''
A ZGram reader has the answer: "Just about anybody Clinton nominates to a government position who isn't from Arkansas."
* The government announced March 26 it is planning ". . . new legal
measures to speed up the rehabilitation of anti-Nazi resistance fighters
who were convicted by Nazi courts."
This procedure is described as a "legal mine field which has left many
of the most glaring cases still unsettled."
To take a specific case, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
After months of investigation, a Berlin court ruled it could not "pardon"
Bonhoeffer as a Bavarian law had already exonerated him and his co- conspirators
in 1946.
Adding to the confusion, a Munich court ruled in way back in 1951 that the
sentences were in accord with laws which had been in force at the time.
* Also in Germany, there is still controversy about the proposed Holocaust
Museum in Berlin. There was a story about that in the "New Yorker"
recently whereby ". . . a Christian who became a Jew" wanted a
memorial on which would be the names of each of the alleged six million
dead.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl himself intervened to stop this plan. The reason
given was that too many of the "victims" had the same name and
". . . the many duplications would look silly."
No kidding!
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"You either have to castrate the German people or you have got to treat them in such a manner so they can't go on reproducing people who want to continue the way they have in the past."
(Franklin D. Roosevelt, as quoted in David Irving's new title, "Nuremberg, The Last Battle, p. 6)