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Distorting the Holocaust
Manfred Gerstenfeld
Published: 01.05.11, 14:01
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1. How soon people forget.
andy prigge ,   orangeville canada   (05.01.11)
There is no comparison between what the satanic nazis did and what Israel is doing today. I listened to David Faber's story a few days ago, about the Jews being put in the gas chambers in auschwitz, he saw his family murdered, and had to pull the gold fillings out of victims. This was very difficult to listen to. This is not what Jews are doing to the palestinians. They use surgical precision to eliminate legitimate terrorist targets. The nazis came in to peaceful neighborhoods shot indiscriminately men women and children and hauled the survivors away do die in a cloud of zyclon b. My Father and Mother is German. I can't help but think what G-D says to all of us HE will "visit the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation. I have prayed to G-D that HE would forgive what my people did to HIS chosen people. And now i pray that the Jewish People would forgive my transgressions and also those of my people.
2. It's plain ignorance that leads to this comparison.
Talula ,   Israel   (05.01.11)
6,000,000 Jews were murdered in the war, just because they were Jewish. They were not plotting to 'anahilate' a country, nor did they send in bombers to kill citizens - facts that these ignorant assholes seem to be unaware of.
3. The fallen tree
Josh   (05.01.11)
So sad. Torah is a tree also for those who cling to ....
4. No 1
Sasza ,   US   (05.01.11)
No 1 read http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january152011/gassing-arabs-tg.php
5. Zionism is an insult to the memory of the Shoah
William Magig ,   Gary Indiana, USA   (05.01.11)
6. holocaust distorted
moron ,   galut   (05.01.11)
blame left especially media which perverts language daily --terrorists are militants,srikes are job action and a massacre is a holocaust. and every unfortunate event a a tragedy or crisis..orwellian as in 'war is peace' or 'peace process'
7. Holocaust
Bob Canada ,   Canada   (05.01.11)
I believe that Staline is the mastermind of the holochoax to assure the creation of Israel who would serve him as a solution for his russian jewish problem.Naturally the American abidded by this because it migh have helped their own jewish problem.Anyway it did serve a good cause because it permitted the jewish religion to finally be in the majority in a country.I also believe in the Moon hoax which was again a russian american ploy (free grain for 2 years to keep quiet).Lets face it going to the moon 8 times in 2 years and not going there anymore in 50 years is very strange indeed.
8. Sasza do you believe your lies
Ken Jurist   (05.01.11)
That site you gave is a Palestinian propaganda site. They have Ken Okeefe as one of its writers. Read this article which shows what a wacko Okeefe is. http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/12/krazy-ken-okeefe-unmasked-by-fellow.html
9. bad comparissons
(05.01.11)
If the Israeli's were to behave as the "nazi's, there wouldn't be a "Palestinian alive today! This is the 'message that should come out of Israel loud & clear! The children of today don't (want to) know about the Holocaust anymore, because in W-EU it sadly has become a ''footnote in history, under pressure of the Muslim new Europeans, who don't wan't to know (the Armenian bloodbath also didn't happen)), so teachers are being forced and pressured to take it out of the curricilum. The old Europeans have become as ignorant as the new imported ones.
10. Sasza #2
Rachel   (05.01.11)
There is no PROOF the Jews spray painted that graffiti on the wall in that article. However,it has been PROVEN over and over again that the Arabs will lie and often go so far as to accuse Jews of crimes they are not guilty of. And another fact you are missing no Jew or Israeli has ever put hundreds of Arabs in gas chambers.
11. Educating the West has a long history of trial and failure.
David Turner ,   Richmond, USA   (05.01.11)
It seems to me, Dr. Gerstenfeld, that the priority is not to try to reform the West through yet more education, you yourself indicate that two generations of such only resulted in significantly MORE, not less, antisemitism. And Nostre Aetate absolving “the Jews” of collective guilt in the murder of Jesus, a charge repeated from gospel to Luther and Hitler, only resulted, once again, in an increase of antisemitism among the religious for decades thereafter. Education and reason fall on deaf ears. The one thing so many of our scholars seem to miss is that antisemitism is part of the West’s culture, religious, social and cultural. Education is, of course, needed. But our efforts should be directed at our own people, following in the footsteps of Pinsker, Herzl and Jabotinsky. With antisemitism a permanent and ineradicable presence in the Western Diaspora, it’s only a matter of time until the West goes through another brief period of conscience at committing yet another Shoah. But considering that Germany was nearly successful with the technological means available then, present day technology of detection, transport and murder are far advanced today.
12. Sasza, keep it up!
Naftush ,   Israel   (05.02.11)
Your way of thinking does more to justify Zionism than a thousand Israeli spokespersons.
13. "Israel performs a holocaust to the Palestinians"
Tahl   (05.02.11)
"Jews do to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to them", "Israel performs genocide/ethnic cleansing on Palestinians", and so forth - are not only flagrant, boldface lies, but statements which would officially define you as an antisemite in several Western countries. And if that makes half of Europe to be antisemites, so be it. Ignorance is never an excuse.
14. To Sasza
Mike ,   Tel Aviv/Israel   (05.02.11)
I have to point out the inherent irony when someone who lives in the US and is most likely not of Native- American origin talks about dispossession and genocide. America has never been the Promised Land with a clear, continuous, and permanent connection for those who came here 400 years ago to conquer and kill. So don't be sanctimonious - act on your principles and give away you possessions to a Cherokee and move to Europe. Israel, on the other hand, has always had continous, unbroken, and permanent Jewish presence, not to mention that unlike the US, most land belonging to Israel was legally bought and that its very establishment was sanctioned by the World's nations. As to the few bad apples with racist views - we have those, like all other nations have theirs, just like we too have thieves and prostitutes. But making it seem like this obvious fringe is the mainstream in Israel while it exists nowhere else but in Nazi Germany - that is the definition of racism.
15. Demonizing Israel as support for perpetrators of the Shoah
Shalom Freedman ,   Jerusalem Israel   (05.02.11)
The real point is that those who demonize Israel actually continue the project of the Nazis. They would delegitimize us, and destroy us. It is deeply disturbing to know that such a large part of the world's population, especially in the enlightened West buy the nonsense that Israel is 'exterminating ' the Palestinians. I would point out that the Palestinian Arab propaganda machine has had no small part in perpetrating this total falsity.
16. Europe with a widespread criminal worldview ,...
split ,   US   (05.02.11)
"criminal worldview" ;) ,...
17. Pius XII
Gene Graczyk ,   Santa Rosa, CA USA   (05.02.11)
Perhaps the quoted chief rabbi will then explain why the chief rabbi of Rome converted after liberation because of what he had witnessed the Vatican do? If there are distortions, there is equal blame. Much of this is a reaction to Israeli claims of a kind of super exemption from judgment of current actions because of this truly horrific event in the past. If Lieberman campaigns on driving Israeli Palestinians to the border at bayonet point, what is the rest of the world to think?
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