How can a society that stews in perpetual hatred be any kind of partner for peace, except through the "peace" achieved by annihilating those whom they hate? And how much interest in peace can there be, if there is such a receptive audience to this line of discourse, which cultivates hatred and violence through blood libel?
"Palestinian media incites hatred through Holocaust," by Megan Jacobs for the Jerusalem Post:
A new exhibit in Gaza portrays the Jewish state burning Palestinian children in ovens.
A group called the National Committee for Defense of Children from the Holocaust unveiled its premier exhibit last week, entitled "Gaza: An exhibit describing the suffering of the children of the Holocaust."
Rather than teach about the Nazi genocide of European Jewry, the exhibit portrays Israel as the perpetrators of the holocaust; Palestinian children are "burned" in a model crematorium by "Israelis."
According to the Ramallah-based Al-Ayyam daily, "The exhibit includes a large oven and inside it small children are being burned. The picture speaks for itself."
The Zionist Organization of America condemned the exhibit, saying in a statement that "there seems to be no limit to the depravity of Palestinian hate education and incitement."
"We have seen over the years every sort of perversity, including educating children to become suicide bombers and honoring mass murderers. Here, the Palestinians, both Hamas and Fatah, depict Israelis as exterminating-Nazis, while teaching nothing about the actual Holocaust in which the wartime Palestinian leadership of Haj Amin el-Husseini was in fact very active. Husseini not only orchestrated campaigns of murder against Jews in the British Mandate, but also became an ally of the Nazis and worked hard to speed up the work of deportation and murder," said ZOA President Morton Klein.
"The depiction of Israelis as exterminating-Nazis essentially sends the message that Jews are evil people who should, like the Nazi regime, be destroyed. It is a travesty that many nations, including the US, continue to fund the PA and thereby work to keep this conflict alive while speaking endlessly of working hard to end it. Until and unless the Palestinians are held to their commitments to end terrorism and the incitement to hatred and murder that feeds it, no peace can be expected to become even feasible," he said.
"This is different than anything else," said Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus. "In the past, Palestinians would compare what Israel is doing to them to the Holocaust."
Over the last few years, Palestinian Media Watch has documented a "tremendous increase" in the usage of the word "holocaust" in the Palestinian media. Marcus said it was now being used "regularly, a few times per week or per article," versus once a month, as it had been prior, causing concern on multiple levels.
"The use of the term 'Shoah' has no doubt permeated society," Marcus said. "It has been adopted as their term."
Once adopted, it serves to delegitimize Israelis, making them out to be liars and aggressors, he said.
Furthermore, the perversion of Shoah language is incitement to hatred that, though not a direct incitement to violence, is equally as dangerous, he said. Marcus compares the current dialogue and hatred promotion to that of 1996-2000, where "incessant hatred was pumped into [Palestinian] society." Once "hatred, fear and a feeling that revenge is legitimate" are instilled in the population, an eruption into violence is the next step in a terrorist cycle, he said.
"Our greatest danger for peace in the long term is promotion of hatred," said Marcus. "This is the worst kind. It will imprint hatred on those kids forever."
Unbelievable. Grotesque. Ultimately self-defeating, once they succeed in telling The Big Lie enough that they begin to believe it themselves.
Do they really believe that the world will associate the words "Holocaust and "Shoah" with victimization of Palestinian Arabs? They are both desperate and despicable
Islam = Narcissistic Hate Mongering Liars!
>>Rather than teach about the Nazi genocide of European Jewry, the exhibit portrays Israel as the perpetrators of the holocaust; Palestinian children are "burned" in a model crematorium by "Israelis." -Marisol
Good God! Have they NO shame??
>>They are both desperate and despicable. --JohnC
Understatements. There are no adequate words to describe the shame of this LIE.
They're turning their children into killing machines.
Just point them in the direction of that which you despise and pull their triggers.
Generations of children who want to die killing.
They say it over and over..."we love death as you love life".
A Holocaust of their own choosing and making.
They could have had good lives, been productive human beings,...now they will all die. And for no good reason.
Meanwhile, lacking any modicum of self-respect, the schmucky, defeatist and paralyzed government of the State of Israel merely observes this outrageous behavior without any intention to penalize the perpetrators.
You can't blame a snake for biting --- it's the nature of the snake. But you can and should blame the Olmerts and the Rabins and the other leftist traitors who not only allowed the snake into your house, but fed it, too, and now prevent you from killing it or chasing it out. The "Palestinians" are doing exactly that which is expected of them. It is the Israeli government which disappoints.
Let's force the evil Zionist Israelis to work with the kind and loving "Palestinian" people to create a lasting peace.
Let's force the evil Zionist Israelis to work with the kind and loving "Palestinian" people to create a lasting peace.
This is much older than the 1990s.
Some revealing excerpts from Martha Gellhorn, 'The Arabs of Palestine', 1961.
First, from a conversation with an Arabised dhimmi Christian schoolteacher - not a young hothead, but a seemingly pleasant, well-educated man of mature years. This is the reply she got when she asked the following question. I posted this in another thread, but in the context of the article under discussion, it bears repeating:
Gellhorn said to him:
"Now you say that you want to return to the past; you want Partition. So, in fact you say, let us forget that war we started, and the defeat, and, after all, we think Partition is a good, sensible idea.
"Please answer me this, which is what I must, know. If the position were reversed, if the Jews had started the war and lost it, if you had won the war, would you now accept Partition? Would you give up part of the country and allow the 650,000 Jewish residents of Palestine -who had fled from the war--to come back?"
"Certainly not," he said, without an instant's hesitation. "But there would have been no Jewish refugees. They had no place to go. They would all be dead or in the sea."
This man took it for granted that an Arab victory in 1948-49 would have meant the murder of every Jew in 'Palestine'. And he could see nothing wrong with that.
He referred Gellhorn to a Muslim friend, also a schoolteacher, also living quite peacefully and undisturbed, within Israel.
She reports: "I put the same proposition to him as to his Christian colleague; if the Arabs had won the war, would they accept Partition?'
"No, never, of course not. We would let some few Jews live here as immigrants but not be masters, not in any part of Palestine." [NOTE: In other words - whereas Jews DID grant Arabs, in Israel, civil rights and equality before the law, Arabs could imagine for Jews only the role of dhimmi].
Then, from Gellhorn's conversation with an Italian Catholic missionary priest in Acre, who had lived in Israel for thirty years:
"He told me that the [Muslim] Arabs said, 'First we will finish with the Shabbaths, and then with the Sundays'. They never changed their ideas. They went around looking at the women and the houses they would take when they managed to get rid of the Jews and the Christians. [NOTE: SO MUCH FOR THE DHIMMI ARAB/ised CHRISTIANS, HATING THE JEWS AND TRYING TO KID THEMSELVES THAT ‘ARAB’ SOLIDARITY TRUMPS THE MUSLIM/NON-MUSLIM DIVIDE]...
"I asked about the Eichmann trial and the reaction of his Roman Catholic parishioners.
"Well, his Christian Arabs thought Eichmann was right, because the Jews were the enemy of the German state. They were always the enemy of the state; the Pharaohs had to drive them out of Egypt, the Persian King tried to clear them out, Ferdinand and Isabella kicked them out of Spain. No one could live on good terms with them, so Eichmann was right. (Horrified, really horrified, I said, "Surely that is not a Christian attitude to the most appalling murders we know about?" He found it terribly funny that I should expect a Christian attitude from Arabs."
Finally, after Gellhorn had visited an Arab [Muslim] village inside Israel (and remember, this is pre-1967 Israel) with an earnest peacenik Jewish activist, this happened -
"When we left, the pretty, healthy [Arab Muslim] children ran beside the car, shouting. I waved.
'Nissim [her Jewish Israeli guide] looked queer, something was wrong; that chronic optimist seemed sad.
"What's the matter, Nissim?"
"Nothing. What the children say."
"You mean just now, shouting?"
"Yes. They say: 'Where you going, bastard? I spit on you.'"
What for, I thought, what for, and will it never stop?
"Do you hate the Arabs, Nissim?"
"No. Of course no."
"Why not?"
"What is the good of hate?"
[And Gellhorn then writes, in words even more appropriate today than when she first wrote them, forty-seven years ago]:
'What indeed? Arabs gorge on hate, they roll in it, they breathe it. Jews top the hate list, but any foreigners are hateful enough. Arabs also hate each other, separately and en masse. Their politicians change the direction of their hate as they would change their shirts.
'Their press is vulgarly base with hate-filled cartoons; their reporting describes whatever hate is now uppermost and convenient.
'Their radio is a long scream of hate, a call to hate.
'They teach their children hate in school.
'They must love the taste of hate; it is their daily bread. And what good has it done them?"
"'THERE is no future in spending UN money to breed hate'. [NOTE: BUT THAT IS JUST WHAT HAPPENED, 1960s-2000+].
"There is no future in nagging or bullying Israel to commit suicide by the admission of a fatal locust swarm of enemies.
NOTE WELL - GELLHORN WROTE THIS IN 1961. IN 1961!!! IT READS LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN YESTERDAY.
'There is no future in Nasser's [or, Ahmadinejad's, or Hamas', or Nasrallah's, or, or, or...] solution, the Holy War [JIHAD] against Israel; and we had better make this very clear, very quickly.
'Long bleak memories will recall the Sudetendeutsch and Czechoslovakia. In a new setting, Palestinian refugees assume the role of the Sudetendeutsch. Israel becomes Czechoslovakia.
'Propaganda prepares the war for liberation of "our brothers." Victory over a minor near enemy is planned as the essential first step on a long triumphant road of conquest. A thousand-year Muslim Reich...may be a mad dream, but we have experience of mad dreams and mad dreamers. We cannot be too careful. The echo of Hitler's voice is heard again in the land, now speaking Arabic." [and, I may say, today, also speaking Farsi].
OT,sorta...
check out this comparison between Palestinians and Tibetans:
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/why_do_palestinians_get_much_m.html
March 25, 2008
Why Do Palestinians Get Much More Attention than Tibetans?
By Dennis Prager
The long-suffering Tibetans have been in the news. This happens perhaps once or twice a decade. In a more moral world, however, public opinion would be far more preoccupied with Tibetans than with Palestinians, would be as harsh on China as it is on Israel, and would be as fawning on Israel as it now is on China.
But, alas, the world is, as it has always been, a largely mean-spirited and morally insensitive place, where might is far more highly regarded than right.
Consider the facts: Tibet, at least 1,400 years old, is one of the world's oldest nations, has its own language, its own religion and even its own ethnicity. Over 1 million of its people have been killed by the Chinese, its culture has been systematically obliterated, 6,000 of its 6,200 monasteries have been looted and destroyed, and most of its monks have been tortured, murdered or exiled.
Palestinians have none of these characteristics. There has never been a Palestinian country, never been a Palestinian language, never been a Palestinian ethnicity, never been a Palestinian religion in any way distinct from Islam elsewhere. Indeed, "Palestinian" had always meant any individual living in the geographic area called Palestine. For most of the first half of the 20th century, "Palestinian" and "Palestine" almost always referred to the Jews of Palestine. The United Jewish Appeal, the worldwide Jewish charity that provided the nascent Jewish state with much of its money, was actually known as the United Palestine Appeal. Compared to Tibetans, few Palestinians have been killed, its culture has not been destroyed nor its mosques looted or plundered, and Palestinians have received billions of dollars from the international community. Unlike the dying Tibetan nation, there are far more Palestinians today than when Israel was created.
None of this means that a distinct Palestinian national identity does not now exist. Since Israel's creation such an identity has arisen and does indeed exist. Nor does any of this deny that many Palestinians suffered as a result of the creation of the third Jewish state in the area, known -- since the Romans renamed Judea -- as "Palestine."
But it does mean that of all the causes the world could have adopted, the Palestinians' deserved to be near the bottom and the Tibetans' near the top. This is especially so since the Palestinians could have had a state of their own from 1947 on, and they have caused great suffering in the world, while the far more persecuted Tibetans have been characterized by a morally rigorous doctrine of nonviolence.
So, the question is, why? Why have the Palestinians received such undeserved attention and support, and the far more aggrieved and persecuted and moral Tibetans given virtually no support or attention?
The first reason is terror. Some time ago, the Palestinian leadership decided, with the overwhelming support of the Palestinian people, that murdering as many innocent people -- first Jews, and then anyone else -- was the fastest way to garner world attention. They were right. On the other hand, as The Economist notes in its March 28, 2008 issue, "Tibetan nationalists have hardly ever resorted to terrorist tactics..." It is interesting to speculate how the world would have reacted had Tibetans hijacked international flights, slaughtered Chinese citizens in Chinese restaurants and temples, on Chinese buses and trains, and massacred Chinese schoolchildren.
The second reason is oil and support from powerful fellow Arabs. The Palestinians have rich friends who control the world's most needed commodity, oil. The Palestinians have the unqualified support of all Middle Eastern oil-producing nations and the support of the Muslim world beyond the Middle East. The Tibetans are poor and have the support of no nations, let alone oil-producing ones.
The third reason is Israel. To deny that pro-Palestinian activism in the world is sometimes related to hostility toward Jews is to deny the obvious. It is not possible that the unearned preoccupation with the Palestinians is unrelated to the fact that their enemy is the one Jewish state in the world. Israel's Jewishness is a major part of the Muslim world's hatred of Israel. It is also part of Europe's hostility toward Israel: Portraying Israel as oppressors assuages some of Europe's guilt about the Holocaust -- "see, the Jews act no better than we did." Hence the ubiquitous comparisons of Israel to Nazis.
A fourth reason is China. If Tibet had been crushed by a white European nation, the Tibetans would have elicited far more sympathy. But, alas, their near-genocidal oppressor is not white. And the world does not take mass murder committed by non-whites nearly as seriously as it takes anything done by Westerners against non-Westerners. Furthermore, China is far more powerful and frightening than Israel. Israel has a great army and nuclear weapons, but it is pro-West, it is a free and democratic society, and it has seven million people in a piece of land as small as Belize. China has nuclear weapons, has a trillion U.S. dollars, an increasingly mighty army and navy, is neither free nor democratic, is anti-Western, and has 1.2 billion people in a country that dominates the Asian continent.
A fifth reason is the world's Left. As a general rule, the Left demonizes Israel and has loved China since it became Communist in 1948. And given the power of the Left in the world's media, in the political life of so many nations, and in the universities and the arts, it is no wonder vicious China has been idolized and humane Israel demonized.
The sixth reason is the United Nations, where Israel has been condemned in more General Assembly and Security Council resolutions than any other country in the world. At the same time, the UN has voted China onto its Security Council and has never condemned it. China's sponsoring of Sudan and its genocidal acts against its non-Arab black population, as in Darfur, goes largely unremarked on at the UN, let alone condemned, just as is the case with its cultural genocide, ethnic cleansing and military occupation of Tibet.
The seventh reason is television news, the primary source of news for much of mankind. Aside from its leftist tilt, television news reports only what it can video. And almost no country is televised as much as Israel, while video reports in Tibet are forbidden, as they are almost anywhere in China except where strictly monitored by the Chinese authorities. No video, no TV news. And no TV, no concern. So while grieving Palestinians and the accidental killings of Palestinians during morally necessary Israeli retaliations against terrorists are routinely televised, the slaughter of over a million Tibetans and the extinguishing of Tibetan Buddhism and culture are non-events as far as television news is concerned.
The world is unfair, unjust and morally twisted. And rarely more so than in its support for the Palestinians -- no matter how many innocents they target for murder and no matter how much Nazi-like anti-Semitism permeates their media -- and its neglect of the cruelly treated, humane Tibetans.
Copyright 2008, Creators Syndicate Inc.
In much the same manner Muslims have parasitized the rhetoric of the civil rights movement, and worse, the secular rights we have fought so hard for in the West to further their fascist agenda. The parasitic Islamic impulse goes back to the plunder based culture of the vagabond Muhammad who pillaged, murdered, and enslaved, and then sacralized his barbarities in the obscene nonsense known as Islam.
They have, they are, they apparently will be, destroying themselves. They will make themselves unfit for any coexistence with the Israelis, who can hardly be expected to trust those raised on this steady diet of unremitting hate, and they will be unfit, really, for living near any Infidels and must under no conditions, in any numbers, be admitted any longer to any parts of North America or Western Europe. That would merely be to endanger Infidels here, beginning with, but hardly ending with, Jews.
They are turning themselves, little by little, into monsters of hate.
Take a look again at those pictures of crowds of "Palestinian" men and boys (not a woman in sight), gawking at a burned-out automobile, or raising their hands and shouting in hystericla hate-filled unison, at some funeral or some rally, or some funeral-rally.
What is your reaction? Your first reaction is to look at the faces so distorted and crowded together, as if it were the last photograph in a series, that starts with one person, and then doubles, quadruples, and so on until in the last photograph every square millimeter is frighteningly filled, in one of those ads against overpopulation.
And your second reaction -- let's face it -- is relief, relief that those people are not living near you. And you wonder how the Israelis can stand it, and thank god, you say to yourself, that they are all bottled up, at least in Gaza, and must be forever, given the way that they have transformed themselves so monstrously, and there is no force on earth that apparently can stop it.
Let them do what they want as long as they remain bottled up under their own Lords of Misrule. But do nothing to make their lot easier, so that they can devote more time to the only thing they do, since they can count on the Infidels to support them. Make them, force them, to work for a living, just like people in sub-Saharan Africa, or China, or Latin America. Why should the world take upon itself the care and feeding, in perpetuity, of one particular group, a group of Arabs and Muslims whose genuine grievance, if they have one, is with the other Arabs and Muslims who have used them as the shock troops of the Lesser Jihad against Israel.
Let them have to work to survive, or at least, make sure that whatever funds they receive come not from Infidels but from other Arabs, other Muslims (no need to encourage them in their delusion that we, the Infidels, owe them a living, owe them anything -- we don't). There is no need for any Infidels to support that seemingly endless overbreeding, which is done for political reasons, as part of what they see as demographic conquest. And if they need, for example, occasionally to let in goods and services, let it be from Egypt, which in any case is where so many of the recent forebears of the Gazan Arabs came from. Yes, and if they occasionally need to travel (say, for medical care that they think they can count on the Israelis to provide) let those in Gaza go to Egypt, where a warm welcome will no doubt be readied for them. And those "Palestinians" in the "West Bank" can go to Jordan, where an equally warm welcome will be awaiting them.
Meanwhile, here's one of those people the "Palestinians" accuse of behaving like Nazis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYBLjEaDFDE
the Jewish state burning Palestinian children in ovens.
A group called the National Committee for Defense of Children from the Holocaust unveiled its premier exhibit last week, entitled "Gaza: An exhibit describing the suffering of the children of the Holocaust."this shows just how low the so-called Palestinian people will go funny thing is if they were granted a state tomorrow it would never be enough for them or any of the Arab states they still want to finish the job that Hitler started back in the 40s is it any wonder that hair Hitler book is the next most popular book in the Middle East next to the car around
To this group, this is the BEST thing. Turning children into lifelong Jew-killing machines is precisely their goal. Is there no shame in Islam?
Delightful interlude, Hugh.
No doubt haram, though.
Evil thrives on mendacity,is made of lies and is rooted in untruth. These people are the Devil's foot soldiers in our time. We are once again in the middle of a cosmic battle between good and evil.
And that Martha Gellhorn article from '61 should be spread far and wide. It is definitive and says it all.
The 'Palistinians' should be forced to visit Autzwich. Even the total horror of that place would probably be lost on these demon possessed morons.
Their words and attitudes are sick, totally depraved.
Once again, Hugh, I love that Yael Naim music video. Sure beats watching HAMAS' TV at MEMRI. Worlds apart. And to think that Nasrallah boasts of "our culture of death." What a counterpoint.
Gramfan -
thanks for the article about Tibet. A long time ago I read a book called 'The Ice Curtain', or something like that, by a Frenchwoman I think, which talked about the cruelty of the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet.
I for one am well aware of what has been happening there - systematic genocide even including forcible sterilisation of Tibetan women, demographic conquest, rewriting of history, cultural vandalism and ruthless ecocide (the stripping bare of Tibet's unique natural landscapes, the wholesale killing of rare and endangered species, the plundering of the forests on its southeastern Himalaya slopes, causing ruinous erosion and floods and quite possibly helping to disrupt the Monsoon system). Gross, shameless greed, cruelty and violence on a sickening scale. It makes me so angry, sometimes, that I cannot see straight. Fifty-plus years of horrible wickedness.
And Australia goes on blithely selling coal and iron to China, and buying their cheap junk. We are shameless.
No-one in the free world, no-one with a conscience, should be selling anything to the Maoist regime; no-one should be buying ANYTHING from them.
Interestingly, the Tibetans have been talking to the Jews - about how to survive as a people, how to sustain one's culture, language, religion and identity, when one is exiled from one's homeland. The Jerusalem Post ran an article about this.
The survival and resurrection of Israel is a sign of hope for many, many other small and oppressed peoples, such as the Tibetans.
The World Council of Churches, and other such bodies, would get much more respect for me if instead of spending time denouncing and railing against, and slandering, Israel, they devoted their energies to courageous, neverending LOUD and public critique of the Chinese Communist regime's gross abuses of human rights, both within China's own historic territory to its own peoples, and also in that which it has invaded, and to which it has not one glimmer of any historic ethno-cultural connection, namely, Tibet.
oops - typo in the above - phrase in final paragraph reading 'would get much more respect for me' should read 'would get much more respect from me'.