Jew hatred is alive
and well in the world. It has found a comfortable home among the cloaked words
of political correctness in Europe and the United States. It's alarming. It is something that never
goes away, but lies just below the surface to emerge when the world needs a
scape-goat. It is rearing its perverted
head as evidenced by the response of politicians and much of the liberal press
to the latest Israeli attacks against Hamas.
Exaggeration? Not in the least.
With George Mitchell
appointed as special envoy to the volatile Middle East, no doubt the U.S. has a
seasoned negotiator. Mitchell accomplished things for peace in Northern Ireland
that most thought would be unattainable after a turbulent 800 years of strife
with England.
"The situation in the Middle East is volatile, complex and
dangerous. But the president and the secretary of state have made it clear that
danger and difficulty cannot cause the United States to turn away," he
said.
<http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/obama.mitchell/?iref=mpstoryview>
Now comes the biggest challenge of all for Mitchell:
peace in the Middle-East. Mitchell has a
simplistic theory that all problems are caused by human beings and can be
solved by human beings. This is logical,
but Mitchell has to conqueror the anti-Semitic problem that has plagued the
world for thousands of years up to the present day problem of the anti-Semitism
among the far left media, and leftist leanings of Europe. With the liberal left now dominating politics
and media in the United States, anti-Semitism is finding a politically correct
way to express itself in coded terms
such as "disproportionate response."
Swirsky says it best: Make no mistake about it. The outrage,
protests, U.N. resolutions and biased media coverage are not about the latest
Israeli-Arab conflict. Rather, they are symptoms of the greatest pandemic of
hatred the world has ever known - plain, old-fashioned anti-Semitism.
<http://www.rightsidenews.com/200901223407/editorial/it-s-the-jews-stupid.html>
One way
for us to wake up and pull our heads out
of the sand is to read Joan Swirsky's article.
Start Here:
January 22, 2009 By Joan Swirsky
For many decades after World War II, Eastern Europe was completely Judenrein, a Nazi term meaning free of - actually rid of - Jews. Small wonder, given that the region's concentration camps and crematoria - Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Majdanek, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Flossenburg, Mauthausen, Ravensbruck, et al.- had incinerated millions of Jews in the Nazi's reign of terror. But even in the utter absence of Jews, anti-Semitism flourished! And let's not forget that even after the Holocaust, this intractable hatred persisted - in France, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, the list goes on and on. Even today, this age-old venom thrives and in many places has grown to monstrous proportions. The same can be said of countless places on earth where no Jews have ever lived and no inhabitants of those places have ever met a Jew. CONTINUE |
I can’t believe she said that! Now that she is the wife of a Vice President, she is going to have to learn discretion. What she said may indeed be true, but she should have realized the firestorm of conversation that comment would unleash.