Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland

September 27, 1997

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:


Today's ZGram is a direct challenge to the executive editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Mr. Richard Curtiss, one of my favorite commentators - a man I believe to be honest, courageous, and fair.

In "A Closer Look at . . . The U.S.- Israel 'Strategic Relationship' And Those Who Choose to Support It" in the October/November issue, you write:

"Americans had been told since the end of World War II that we had a 'moral obligation' to help the Israelis. I was never sure why, because Americans my age had spent the years they should have been in college fighting the Nazis, and some of my neighbors and schoolmates had been killed doing it. Then when the 'moral obligation' began to fade, it seemed we had a 'moral responsibility' for the protection of Israel, no matter how many wars it started in the Middle East. We acquired this 'responsibility' because President Harry Truman had twisted arms in the U.N. to get Palestine partitioned in 1947, and then had decided to recognize the new Jewish state even before it had a name and had defined its borders. (...)

I hadn't felt much 'moral obligation' to help Israel for a long time, and I had never accepted the 'moral responsibility' to get this little apartheid state out of its constant scrapes with its neighbors, which usually ended up with both an expansion of Israel's territory and an expansion of America's financial obligations. But I recognized that most Americans unquestioningly accepted both obligations, even if they hadn't even been born at the time of the Nazi slaughter of Europe's Jews."


Please, Mr. Curtiss, hold it right there. You are making your excellent points from a serious incorrect assumption. You are writing from the assumption that the Jews of Europe were, in fact, exterminated by the Nazis genocidally, as American and Zionist propaganda has so vociferously claimed since 1942.

Do you know that no comprehensive and convincing evidence has ever been presented in front of an independent, neutral body of historians examining all aspects and documents available on this emotional topic? Ever!

The common and simplistic strategy in any court of law, where Revisionist authors and historians have come to trial, is almost universally devoted to treating people who say, "It didn't happen the way you have been told for half a century . . ." as the agents of the devil. The common strategy is rhetoric, bombast, and often out-and-out intimidation, with which every challenge to the conventional Holocaust story is infused.

Worse yet, "judicial notice" of the Holocaust is frequently imposed by courts the world over: The Holocaust itself is not to be questioned!

In the above-mentioned article, you are commenting about America's commitment to the state if Israel by remembering a conversation you had with a friend.

You write:

"It was just totally outrageous, however, to think that our 'moral obligation' which by then had thoroughly alienated 200 million once-friendly Arabs, and was rapidly having the same effect on the rest of the Muslim one-fifth of the human race, was now going to be presented as a 'strategic asset' instead of the 'strategic liability' that was obvious to anyone who could read a map."


And you continue:

"I recovered from my shock enough to say: 'Of course you're joking.'

'No, the joke's on us,' my friend replied. 'I'm dead serious.'

'Well, they'll never make it stick,' I said. 'The American people don't know much about either geography or the Middle East, but they're not that gullible.'


Oh yes, they are, Mr. Curtiss. This gullibility includes more people than you think - and it includes much fatter lies and misconceptions than you think. One of the intellectuals in our ranks has summarized it well:

"Americans are unique among peoples. Instead of expelling Jews, (as other countries have done in the past) they believe everything Jews tell them. This means they believe in FDR, liberalism, the welfare state, feminism, interventionism, WWII, the Holocaust and 'Israel uber alles.' . . . Every opinion must first be filtered through a Jewish bookseller, a Jewish newspaper, a Jewish magazine or a Jewish media commentator. The most important opinions to filter are those relating to the Holocaust. The second worst thing to thinking the Jews had it coming is to think it didn't happen at all. This is called "Holocaust Denial" and is vile anti-Semitic propaganda."


You write, furthermore:

"Later that day I told some of the retired Middle East hands what I'd heard. I thought they would get a laugh out of it. In fact, however, none of them believed me. 'You must have misunderstood,' they concluded.

Unfortunately, I hadn't. And in the intervening years, I've often wondered if when Abraham Lincoln said, 'You can't fool all the people all of the time,' he might have made an exception for a society in which all of the media, either out of complicity or fear, gangs up on all of the people to make them believe a hoax, even a ridiculous one."


Here is your hoax, Mr. Curtiss. It is called "The Holocaust."

It is deeper and more devious than the hoax that America had a "moral obligation" transformed into a "responsibility" re-christened a "strategic asset". These politically potent linguistic transformations ride on the original hoax. They would not "take" in the American psyche without the underpinning of the original hoax.

The original hoax is that Hitler killed 6 million Jews in a genocidal rage, most of them by gassing.

The Six Million Hoax underlies all foreign policy in the Middle East because it serves as sword AND shield. Any foreign policy compromise is rejected by pleas that God promised the Land to the Jews because recent history has "shown" they were the Persecuted Ones. The Holy Hoax of the Six Million is invoked to justify everything any Jew ever did!

There are those in America and elsewhere moderately annoyed by what Jews do. These people are called "anti-Semites", "bigots", and "neo-Nazis."

The more astute among them are called "Holocaust Deniers." The Zundelsite features some of these Holocaust skeptics and "Holocaust Deniers." For that, the Zundelsite has been attacked by Germany and Canada.

We have, in the ranks of serious Revisionists, highly specialized investigative reporters. They do not work within the mainstream press, and they do not have official sanctions. Their investigations, however, are highly damaging to official Jewish and Allied myths and are thus not appreciated by the frequently Jewish-controlled press.

Why not take a look at Revisionist documents - with an open mind and with a caring heart for justice and for truth?

You conclude, speaking of the American Israeli Political Action Committee:

"In any secret ballot among members of Congress, AIPAC would easily be voted not only the most effective, but also the most hated lobby on the Hill.

A secret poll of the media would yield some similarities."


If that is a fact, then what does that mean?

You know part of the answer. But you put only partial blame on the political rot when you speak of traitors coming from within the Palestinian ranks themselves, saying,

". . . they are worth many battalions to the Israelis, who will be quite incapable of further mischief in the Middle East if the American public ever frees itself of the myths of 'moral obligation' and 'moral responsibility', and most of all, the hoax of Israel as a 'strategic asset.'"


And you conclude, correctly:

"To hasten that day, supporters of a Palestinian state and of peace and justice in the Middle East could better serve both by applying the test of 'who benefits?' from Israeli human rights violations anywhere, and from current Israeli policies of occupation and exclusion in Palestine. It certainly is neither the government nor the people of the United States."


Mr. Curtiss, here is my challenge to you. I ask you to apply your own test: Who really benefits from the Holocaust Hoax - financially and, above all, politically?

Who benefits from you believing, without investigating, that the Holocaust did, indeed, happen the way it is portrayed in, for example, Schindler's List? Will you, a fair and decent human being, invest one week of your life in really looking at Revisionism and what Revisionists have found? And then let the world know your own conclusions - through your channels, which are more influential than our channels?

The KNOWN FACTS about the Holocaust would cut off support for Israel on the Hill in a hurry!

We say, quite simply: It is time for the Jewish Lobby to "Face Their Critics."

They must appear on the television weekly to address charges that they are a nation within the nation, that they disastrously influence and control domestic and foreign policy under President Clinton, that they have long since repudiated forgotten pledges about being merely a religion, that they communized Russia through the Bolshevik Revolution, that they betrayed Germany's vital interests in WWI and incited the world against Germany in World War II, that they stole Palestine from the Arabs, etc. etc.

They must be given every opportunity under the "fairness doctrine" to rebut the charges against them - including the charges pertaining to the so-called "Holocaust" as an extortion industry.

If they cannot, then their critics must be allowed to air the case against them. Globally! We are quite willing and capable of doing so in front of an impartial commission of neutral, expert historians and scientists.


Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

Cartoon depicting two men:

First man: "Mass arrests, deportations, pass laws, houses blown up, killings, prisoners brutalized, censorship, curfews - why do we continue to give so much support to a country like this?"

Second man: "Well, Israel is the only democracy in the area."



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