Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Michael B., I think this is the type of thing you've been talking about. This could go a lot deeper, but this is a nice, if too quick, look at the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, his ties to Naziism, and that relationship's legacy today -- including Hamas, Hizballah and Al Manar.

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For LOTS more on this topic, please visit my page:
http://somebodyhelpme.info/nazimuslims/nazimuslims.html

I also have clips of the Hitler and the Mufti on my YouTube page:
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=loverofzion&search=Search

Yes and no, certainly this is done in the vein suggested, though was emphasizing that it's needed in a professionally produced manner, similar to the manner in which PBS Frontline and other well polished documentaries are produced, together with the wide distribution and general public awareness raised.

(For something of a similar contrast, another subject matter, one also reflecting an historical lineage which likewise receives far too little attention - and one also motivated, at least in large part, out of an ideologically/culturally induced studied avoidance - is the direct historical lineage between fin de siecle Marxian praxis and the rise of fascism in Italy, via Mussolini. More involved than that statement admits, but it's pronounced nonetheless and reflects the fact that the twin totalitarian movements of the 20th century are profoundly intertwined. They may not be identical twins, but together they are totalitarian forces, writ large, obviously, across the 20th and into the 21st century, and that is no mere historical, political and cultural coincidence. Tyrannies gorge themselves in and seek to promulgate fear and hate, as Nelson Ascher rightly emphasizes. The social/political force which those twin totalitarian movements feared and hated to the utmost was the classical liberal form best and imperfectly represented in the U.S. and the erstwhile West in general, i.e. in profoundly and substantively representative and Constitutional forms. And the "West" very much is the erstwhile West, otherwise it would at least know how to be ashamed of its posturing vis-a-vis Israel, but it does not even know that, in its depth and core. Critically and tersely put, the West has become an egoistic whore, one believing itself to be a virtuous wife; celebrating when it should be weeping in remorse and shame, and not out of any type of religious motivations per se, rather out of the substrate of social/political and broadly conceived ethical motivations, reflective of Locke, Montaigne, Montesquieu, et al.)

VDH's latest underscores the "reluctant" West (a far too gentle term imo), rightly titled with a question mark, "Hope Amid Despair?" Some key excerpts:

"Syria and Iran stage celebrations as news emerges from the ruins of southern Lebanon revealing just how well-armed Hezbollah was — and how impotent the Lebanese “government” really is. The only suspense remaining is whether the United Nations peacekeeping force or the Lebanese army will prove the most craven in giving Hezbollah a green light to rearm and terrorize."

"The near criminal indifference of the international community is cause for greater depression still. No one says a thing about horrific Arab racism and anti-Semitism that brazenly offer the world pictures of our Secretary of State as a primate and constant hate speech of Jews as apes and pigs."

"The globalized media is absolutely discredited after the coverage of Lebanon. Reuters has destroyed its reputation, gained from 150 years of world reporting, by releasing doctored pictures and tolerating staged photo-ops. Almost all the Western media outlets failed to distinguish Lebanese civilian from military casualties — as if the Hezbollah terrorists they never filmed and never interviewed never died."

I disagree with Hanson in terms of the "hope" he's suggesting and would instead view it more in line with wishful thinking; any genuine and substantial hope needs to be born up upon far more solid material than what is being displayed by the "West" vis-a-vis Israel. By contrast wishing, or wishful thinking, invokes a passive and less than mature quality and unfortunately it's a passive and even deluded quality which is far more on evidence in this Hezbollah/Iran/Syria vs. Israel round than anything more substantial. But Hanson frames it tentatively, with caveats, and he doesn't hesitate to underscore the all too real cause for despair which needs some type of qualitative assessment if it's to be reckoned with, so it's a thoughtful offering in the main. (Despair invokes a passive quality as well, which also needs to be resisted, obviously enough, but am referring not to individual/personal despair but rather to the response of the "West" vis-a-vis Israel in this latest round.)

The video won't play for me. And when I click on it and it takes me to youtube, i get the message

"The url contained a malformed video id"

Don't know what the problem could be. Works fine for me.

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