Copyright (c) 1998 - Ingrid A. Rimland


August 6, 1998

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

 

In one of his tapes, mainstream historian David Irving asks - and here I paraphrase: "The Jews are constantly complaining about anti-semitism by gentiles. But do they ever ask themselves: 'WHY?'"

 

Here is a fine example of "BECAUSE..."

 

Because more often than is good for Jews at large, some of their spokesmen (such as the SWC, the WJC, or the JDL) go out of their way to offend their host countries' sentiments about things that are sacred to them. No wonder that there is a backlash they create by their behavior.

 

Look at the latest one.

 

It seems that a "forest of crosses" planted by Polish Catholics outside Auschwitz ". . . harm(s) the character of the site where millions of Jews were murdered,'' Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement, according to an August 5, 1998 Reuter release.

 

***Millions of Jews***? They obviously can't keep their lies straight even in the Israeli's prime minister's office! One of the later, still inflated claims of "Asuchwitz victims" is 1.5 million.

 

That's not plural! Pay attention to the argument to follow.

 

Last month members of a Catholic workers' group erected some 50 crosses just outside the walls of Auschwitz in the Polish town of Oswiecim as part of a campaign to maintain Christian symbols at the site.

 

In chimed the directors of Israels Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial this week, calling it a "provocative act'' by 'extremist groups'' and urged their removal. The reason given - now get this! - was that the crosses "violated an international accord under which no religious, ideological or political symbols would be erected at the site where 1.5 million people died during World War Two, 90 percent of them Jews."

 

This is the site, I presume, where the Polish Catholic pope prayed over ". . . 4 million dead". This number was first reduced by 3 million after the Zundel trial, then upped again to 1.5 million to allow for an inflated ". . . 90%" of Jewish victims. Some Revisionist researchers, experts in Jewish and ethnic names, say that the percentage of Jewish dead, whatever that figure is, is no more than 30% of the total.

 

Now Revisionists will say that 1.5 million is still way, way too high - perhaps 500% too high - but since there are stiff penalties in Europe (and elsewhere) to question anything about the Holocaust, and since the truthful numbers are still at Arolson and under lock and key, accessible only to Lobby-approved researcher, let's just let this one pass. This whole macabre question of how many died of what causes could have been settled decades ago if those 10 Allied powers and Israel, who have control over these documents which are administered by the International Committee of Red Cross Tracing Services (search for Charles Biederman's 1988 testimony on the Zundelsite) would allow historian's access. But no.

 

Whatever the numbers, the Polish Catholics feel strongly about their right to place those crosses to honor their own dead. In fact, one of them held a 42-day fast to prevent the removal of a seven metre (22 feet) cross set up to mark a visit by Polish-born Pope John Paul. He said that he wanted "the entire escarpment to teem with crosses.''

 

Polish clergymen became very nervous. The Reuter article states that they ". . . have distanced themselves from the crosses without condemning them outright."

 

It must be irony supreme for Zundel-Watchers that Auschwitz has become the focus of a struggle between Jews and Catholics - not over "diminishing the Holocaust" but, in fact, over "honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust."

 

The faithful, described in the Reuter article as "Radical Roman Catholics" and "fringe Catholic organizations", seem to mean what they say - and keep on planting crosses. Some 40 members of nationalist groups gathered outside the walls of the camp and set in concrete two wooden crosses three metres (nine feet) high.

 

This cross now stands on the altar when Polish-born Pope John Paul II prayed at Auschwitz in 1979, surrounded by around 50 of the Christian crosses, most of them knee-high but some larger.

 

"We wont allow foreigners to govern here, this is our Polish land and we are going to defend it,'' insisted trade union member Ryszard Majdzik, who planted his cross amidst praying and hymn-singing yesterday.

 

The Reuter article goes on to say:

 

"Israel on Wednesday officially called on Poland to remove the forest of crosses that have sprouted outside Auschwitz saying they harmed the character of the site.

 

"Polands small Jewish community has said the cross-planting was anarchic and asked the government to take a firmer stand. But it has avoided tough statements for fear of inflaming the situation. (...)

 

"Catholic bishops have condemned the erection of the crosses as divisive but have not yet called for their removal.

 

"Analysts say they are fearful such a move will provide ammunition to fundamentalist Catholic groups linked to the Radio Maryja radio station, which has a large and conservative audience and is a thorn in the side of the bishops.

 

"'This is not a conspiracy, this is a classic case of spinelessness being exploited by a small bunch of determined fanatics,'' said Konstanty Gebert, editor of a Jewish monthly magazine in Poland."

 

This, then, is a religious Mexican stand-off that the Holocaust Promotion Lobby can't afford at this time - while Switzerland is teeming with resentment and where there is a monetary Mexican stand-off regarding "Nazi-Gold" - even as we speak.

 

What is ironic about this is that the Reuter article ends with the following:

 

"Newspaper editorials have called on the government and church to end the stand-off before further damage is done to Poland's image, which was hurt in the past by strains in the relationship between Poles and Jews."

 

Poland's image? For putting up their holiest symbol to honor their own dead? Is there a message to the world of Catholics?

 

Not only in America but also in Poland do you become a "fanatic", and "extremist" and an "anti-semite" if you stick up for the Christian's sacred symbol - the Cross. In heavily Catholic Poland? That's playing at a petrol dump - with matches.

 

Ingrid

 

 

Thought for the Day:

"It was once stated that: '. . . if a Jew is walking his/her poodle and someone accidentally steps on its paw, the yelp is heard 'round the world!'"

 

(Letter to the Zundelsite)


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