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Monday, May 28, 2007

I commented about my skepticism concerning the image of German General Irwin Rommel before:

I've never thought much of these "good German" protests -- I hear that rather frequently with regard to people like Irwin Rommel, who, it never ceases to be pointed out, was not a Nazi, didn't much like them and ended up plotting against Hitler. Of course, he also did his darndest to fight the Nazi military cause and didn't turn against his Fuhrer until it was clear Germany was losing. I'm sure he had his mitigations, but they've always seemed thin to me.

Now, via Mick Hartley, this story in The Scotsman: Desert Fox or Hitler's poodle?

THE gentleman-warrior image of Desert Fox general Erwin Rommel has been shattered in a new German documentary, which paints him as a lickspittle of Adolf Hitler whose victories were meant to pave the way for the export of the Holocaust to the Middle East.

The controversial two-part programme, aired this week, claims that if Rommel had succeeded in driving the Eighth Army, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, out of North Africa, he would have led his troops into Palestine to begin the round-up, deportation and executions of Jews living there - many of them Germans who had managed to escape Nazism.

The programme - Rommel's War, Rommel's Treasure - claims the plans for the widening of the Holocaust out of Europe were far advanced.

Much of the material for the programme was based on what was found within the last three years in archives in the state of Baden-Württemberg, where Rommel lived. The makers also accessed hitherto sealed foreign ministry files in Berlin.

Jörg Müllner, a historian and co-producer of the programme, said: "The Allied defeat of Rommel at the end of 1942 had prevented the extension of the Holocaust to Palestine. If Rommel had beaten the Allies in the desert and invaded Egypt, a push into Palestine would have followed and the unit would have deployed there...

I believe we've read about this new material before.

Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, also makes an appearance:

..."The most important collaborator with the Nazis and an absolute Arab antisemite was Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem. He was a prime example of how Arabs and Nazis became friends out of a hatred of Jews."...

That's always been a fringe-benefit of anti-Semitism. No matter where he went, Hitler always had a cadre of ideological allies -- Jew haters who, no matter their other differences, had at least that in common.

Also linked by Mick is this excellent article by the incomparable Matthias Küntzel: Why We Cannot Criticize Israel that Way, wherein, more Husseini:

The majority of Arab Palestinians wanted to accept the United Nation’s two state solution in 1947. After all, at this time around 10, 000 Palestinians were working in predominantly Jewish-led industries such as citrus farming. But the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin el-Husseini, rejected the two state solution without consulting his fellow Palestinians and persuaded the leaders of the five neighboring Arab nations to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state by all means. The war of 1947-48, just as disastrous as it was avoidable...

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Mattias Kuntzel writes:
... seem to have discovered their Jewishness upon becoming critics of Israeli policy, which has garnered them greater attention in the media. The contention that Jews cannot be suspected of anti-Semitism and that they are therefore especially convincing critics, one assumes, is common sense.

So it is basically a subterfuge to push their political agenda, just as Islam applies taqiyya.

We have to make it known that they do not speak in our Name and something I'd like to question is the Jewishness of those Chomskys, Judts and their ilk:

Is the person a member at all of the Jewish community, who is committed
to the values the Jewish community cherishes, to make declarations impugning the rest of the community?
People cannot use an accident of birth to legitimise their politics while never
having revealed that their world is prescribed in some manner by something
Jewish.
How can one endorse the "thinking" of these people whose lives have been
spent avoiding and shunning their Jewishness and the accompanying cultural values but now want it as a cudgel to beat their political opponents?

How can one accept the words of a Ronnie Kasrils (South Africa's Minister of "Intelligence"), a self proclaimed Marxist with strong ties to Russia, as acceptable "Jewish" criticism when Marx wrote:

http://marx.eserver.org/1844-jewish.question.txt

We recognize in Judaism, therefore, a general anti-social element of the
_present time_, an element which through historical development -- to
which in this harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed -- has
been brought to its present high level, at which it must necessarily
begin to disintegrate.
In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation
of mankind from Judaism.
?

Thanks, Cynic, for putting your finger on the right spot.

None of this can be justified.

Using putative "Jewishness" to savage other Jews - or Israel - is cowardly, deceitful, and no better than attacks by neonazis. Argue the case on its merits but don't try and claim some kind of moral high ground because you're related to some Jewish people!

Marxism put Jews in an untenable position within the socially/economically progressive community but also in the capitalist West, where they were immediately blamed for causing the Bolshevik revolution. Both Left and Right continue to demonize us, even after all the catastrophes of the 20th century.

And why not? Both evolved from the same culture, Christian Europe, which has tormented us for centuries with accusations of deicide, blood libel, dual loyalty - expelled us from our communities, from entire nations; massacred us; forced conversions and tortured people to "confess" to being Jewish even after their families had converted; confined us to ghettos or the "Pale", restricted employment opportunties then damned us for charging interest - then levyed excessive taxes - which drove up the interest -;

European elites took advantage of Jewish diplomatic and language skills and of course, banks; and the international nature of our community then damned us for being cosmpolitan.

When we establish a nation state to avoid the above, we are damned for that.

The attempt in one of the comments today, to justify that horrible cartoon and claim that it isn't antisemitic falls into the same category. And it reflects incredible ignorance of the damage being done, which has been done to the Middle Eastern Jewish community since probably the 1920's, because of incitement.

Kuentzel has written about that too. He is my hero. He should be required reading by anybody who comments on the Middle East but a lecture by him was cancelled in England recently because of pressure by Muslims - who apparently don't want to examine the influence of the Nazis on the Arab world.

AAARRRGHHHHHHHHHH.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/johnson/264

Sophia,
from what I've heard Hitler who found some affinity to Islam, and the Muslims just loved what he was doing, and lamented that the Germans were brought up to believe in Christianity and not Islam.
"A. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, pp. 142-143"

"The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness…. "

Going through my bookmarks I just found this of Andrew Bostom quoting Jung
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/02/jung_on_hitler_and_islam.html

"We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. (He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god). That can be the historic future."

"Syme: It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. You wouldn't have seen the [Newspeak] Dictionary 10th edition, would you Smith? It's that thick. [illustrates thickness with fingers] The 11th Edition will be that [narrows fingers] thick. Winston Smith: So, The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect? Syme: The secret is to move from translation, to direct thought, to automatic response. No need for self-discipline. Language coming from here [the larynx], not from here [the brain]" -1984 (film)


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