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Israeli Columnist to Gov’t: Don’t Use Holocaust Remembrance Day as PR

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Posted on Jan 27, 2010
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Birkenau during ceremonies Wednesday in Oswiecim in southern Poland. The event marked 65 years since the camp was liberated by the Soviet Red Army near the end of World War II.

Members of the Israeli government marked Holocaust Remembrance Day in various locations around Europe on Wednesday, invoking the refrain of “never again” and commemorating the millions killed—but according to Haaretz’s Gideon Levy, some of these leaders also used the occasion to serve more contemporary, and unsuitable, ends.

Gideon Levy in Haaretz:

This is the prime minister of a state that arrests hundreds of left-wing protesters against the injustices of the occupation and the war in Gaza, while time grants mass pardons to the right-wingers who demonstrated against the disengagement. In his speech yesterday, Netanyahu’s equating Nazi Germany with fundamentalist Iran was no more than cheap propaganda. Talk about “degrading the Holocaust.” Iran isn’t Germany, Ahmedinejad isn’t Hitler and equating them is no less spurious than equating Israeli soldiers with Nazis.

The Holocaust must not be forgotten, and there is no need to compare it with anything. Israel must take part in the efforts to keep its memory alive, but in doing so it must show up with clean hands, clean of evil of their own doing. And it must not arouse suspicion that it is cynically using the memory of the Holocaust to obliterate and blur other things. Regrettably, this is not the case.

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By Robert, January 28, 2010 at 8:11 pm Link to this comment

The Holocaust Backfires

January 27, 2010

Author: Gilad Atzmon

” “Ynet reports:” Peres in Berlin, Netanyahu in Auschwitz, Lieberman in Budapest and Edelstein at the UN headquarters in New York all plan to attack the Goldstone report into the Gaza war on International Holocaust Day this Wednesday.

Israel’s political echelon will once again try to divert attention from the fact that the Israeli crime is beyond comparison.

Israeli Propaganda Minister Edelstein told Ynet before leaving for New York. “The connection between the Goldstone Report and the international Holocaust memorial day is not an easy thing”. He is indeed correct. The true interpretation of the Goldstone report is that Israelis are the Nazis of our time. “We must learn the lessons from what happened” Says Edelstein, “then too, those who yelled out were told that Hitler is a clown and that all the gloomy predictions of the 1930s were nonsense.”

Someone should advise the Israeli Propaganda man that by now no one regards mass murderer Barak, Nuclear enthusiast Peres, warmonger Livni or ultra racist Lieberman as clowns. We respect them for what they are. Yet, we prefer to see them locked behind bars.

In fact, those world leaders around the world who bowed to Jewish pressure and made the Holocaust into an international memorial day must have been convinced that the Holocaust carries a universal message against oppression and racism. They were actually correct, if the holocaust has any universal and ethical meaning, stopping the ‘Jews only state’ and bringing its criminal political and military leaders to justice is the true interpretation of the lesson of the Holocaust.

Propaganda Minister Edelstein added “on the Holocaust memorial day of all days, which also marks the battle against global anti-Semitism, we must discuss this connection, because today the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces are accused of harvesting organs and murdering children”. The Israelis better internalise that the truth of Israeli brutality is now common knowledge. IDF mass murder of children, elders and women is part of our collective memory. The Israeli institutional involvement in organ harvesting is also well documented and an accepted fact.”


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http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-holocaust-backfires.html#entry6441442

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By brewerstroupe, January 28, 2010 at 1:48 pm Link to this comment

Finklestein debates the point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCKTKMFTprM

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By ghostrider67, January 28, 2010 at 9:50 am Link to this comment

Its a well known fact that most western and Arabs so called moderates are at the beck and call of the Zionist self deluded vision of grandiosity.
These so called free nations will keep on paying in their collective nations wealth,health,military,sweat and blood to appease their master.If the poor sheeple that work their entire lives to foot the bill dont wake up by getting informed instead of getting more brainwashed by the day from the MSM and act upon it,it will continue till they go to their graves and leave their entire future generations with an unwanted legacy that will never be honoured or satisfied.
After all,it has never been entirely proven that the holocaust only targeted jews,but no one dare questions a debt that is endless in fear of being labeled (god forbid) anti-semite.
BTW,Stalin massacred triple the amount of people than hitler did,but we never hear the Russians cry out for retribution or superiority towards the world.

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By Steven, January 28, 2010 at 5:32 am Link to this comment
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The most succint explanation I’ve ever read explaining Jewish bastardization of the
Holocost.  Starting in 1948 with the creation of Israel, it’s been degrading to the
victims of the concentration camps and those who fought to end it.

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By Tom, January 27, 2010 at 10:03 pm Link to this comment
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It’d be great if Bibi actually learned from the Holocaust.

Ethnically cleansing a minority group in this case Palestinian is the behavior of Nazis. Stop using Holocaust to justify genocide against Palestinians Bibi.

Folks should consider the global campaign to boycott, divest and sanctions against the apartheid state of Israel.

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