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Spielberg's Shoah Foundation expands
Associated Press
Published: 21.03.14, 23:23
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1. Does this include Palestine?
Makina ,   New York USA   (03.22.14)
There are plenty of dispossessed folks in Lebanon & Jordan refugee camps with deeds to their houses & land in Israel. You going to represent them too? :-)
2. Time takes its toll
Moshe ,   Israel   (03.22.14)
Spielberg's project is a sacred operation, but how can he collect personal testimonies from the Armenian genocide, which took place in 1915 ? Is anybody who lived then still alive ?
3. Tens of millions murdered in Shoah, not just Jews, 8 million
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.22.14)
...in Poland alone, 4 million Jews, and 4 million non-Jews. 9 out of 10 killed in WWII were not Jewish, 60% of them civilians, out of 65-80 million total killed. Hitler planned on murdering tens of millions more, Slavs, see Generalplan Ost. 10 and 20 years before WWII, "Stalin's Jews" murdered over 20 million by starvation, including the Holodomor in Ukraine.
4. #1 A severe defect in comprehension
Moshe ,   Israel   (03.22.14)
Reread the article. It is not about deeds, and Spielberg does not represent anybody.
5. #3 The anti-Semite Steve hits again
Moshe ,   Israel   (03.22.14)
The non-Jews civilians killed during the Holocaust period were not part of a Nazi scheme to annihilate their nations, unlike the Jews. The overwhelming majority of them died, like in every war, in the course of battles, not in extermination camps. None of the nations involved in WW2 lost third of its people, like the Jews. The story about the "Stalin's Jews" seems to me a sheer fabrication. I have read many books (written by non-Jewish authors) about Stalin's era, and never come upon this allegation.
6. #2 Moshe: "...collecting MATERIALS on armenian genocide..."
GS ,   Germany   (03.22.14)
Replace 'testimonies' (armenian genocide) in this article with MATERIALS and it fits - as 'materials' appeared in the original article, I've read somewhere.
7. #5, Google "Stalin's Jews"
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.23.14)
"In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a "carnival of mass murder," "fantasy of purges", and "essianism of evil." Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history."
8. As usual, the enemy of "good" is "better". Spielberg, being
tom ,   tel aviv   (03.23.14)
an American first and Jew second cannot but "repent" for having taken sides (with his own kind): now he has to make "amends" and ruin his illustrious enterprise. What a shame.
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