Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
March 14, 2001
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
This morning, Ernst and I had the following exchange, after we had read yet
another stunning article by Israel Shamir:
Ingrid:
"This Israel Shamir is astonishing. Did you think that what you said some
ten, twenty years ago would zip around like lightning on the Net? The only
thing that's missing in his writing is an understanding of Revisionism.
Our brand. He buys the stereotypes. He hasn't got the foggiest."
Ernst: "So he says."
Ingrid: "Which means?"
Ernst: "With Jews writing like that, what is there left for gentiles to say?"
Here is that article:
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VAMPIRE KILLERS By Israel Shamir | March 14, 2001
Folk stories about vampires provide readers with various remedies to the
calamity of a ghoulish attack. A fistful of graveyard dirt is favoured,
garlic is beneficial, and the cross is most efficient. But these remedies
don't always work. In Roman Polansky's hilarious horror comedy, The
Fearless Vampire Killers, the hero tries to scare off a Jewish vampire by a
sign of the cross. The Jew smiles at him with a kind understanding smile,
straight from Fiddler on the Roof, and bares his fangs. The cross does not
ward him off. Polansky's work comes to mind as I follow the new wave of
Holocaust controversies.
The "revisionist historians", who are considered by their adversaries to
be "Holocaust deniers" are currently meeting in Beirut to compare their
notes on Nazi genocide. The American Jewish establishment, including the
Zionist Organization of America and the Anti-Defamation League, has
demanded a ban on the conference. The ZOA is not against revisionism as
such. This organization pioneered the art of denying history and
published, at the expense of American taxpayer, a booklet called "Deir
Yassin: History of a Lie".
Deir Yassin was a peaceful village the Jewish terrorist groups Etzel and
Lehi attacked on the 9th of April 1948, and massacred its men, women and
children. I do not want to repeat the gory tale of sliced off ears, gutted
bellies, raped women, torched men, bodies dumped in stone quarries or the
triumphal parade of the murderers. Existentially, all massacres are
similar, from Babi Yar to Chain Gang to Deir Yassin.
ZOA revisionists have utilized all the methods of their adversaries, the
"deniers": they discount the eye-witness accounts of the survivors, the Red
Cross, the British police, Jewish scouts and other Jewish observers, who
were present at the scene of massacre. They discount even Ben Gurion's
apology, since after all, the commanders of these gangs became in their
turn prime ministers of the Jewish state. For ZOA, only the testimony of
the murderers has any validity. That is, if the murderers are Jews.
If the Jews are the victims, these same American Zionist organizations
spare no effort in challenging revisionism. This morally dubious position
was no doubt of great comfort to those who gathered in Beirut. By their
flawed logic, if the Israelis are telling a tall tale about what happened
in 1948, perhaps the Jewish memories of the Holocaust are also flawed. It
is misplaced energy. Sure, they scored a few hits, and the tales of soap
manufactured from human fat or Wiesel's fiery furnaces were laid to rest.
But these Revisionists also question the actual number of Jewish victims.
If only a thousand Jews or Gypsies were murdered by the Nazis, it was a
thousand too many. It is hardly an important issue, as the very definition
of victim is based on interpretation.
A good example of "victim definition" was provided in last weekend
Haaretz. When the Gulf war ended in 1991, there was one reported Israeli
victim of the war. Today, there are officially one hundred Israelis who are
recognized as victims of the Gulf war, and their dependents receive a
pension at Iraqi expense. Some of the victims died of stress, some could
not remove their gas masks and suffocated. The Haaretz article asserted
that many more claims were declined by the Israeli authorities. That is why
Michael Elkins, the ex-BBC Jerusalem correspondent and an Israeli citizen
is correct in arguing that the number of victims, whether there were six or
three million dead is not an issue.
The "revisionists" risked their lives and fortunes trying to undermine
what they call "the Myth of the Holocaust". One can understand their
interest. Nowadays, one may openly doubt the Immaculate Conception or
(maybe) challenge the founding myths of Israel. Yet the cult of the
Holocaust retains a unique, court-enforced prohibition against any
investigation that might cast a doubt on its sacred dogma. Dogmas have a
way of attracting critical minds. Still, behind this red muleta, the
charging bull's horns meet thin air. The arguments on gas chambers and soap
production could be very interesting, but they are quite irrelevant. Where
then is the matador?
A courageous step was taken by Dr Norman Finkelstein in his best-selling
expose "The Holocaust Industry". There is, however, an important
distinction between Dr Finkelstein and the "revisionist historians"
gathered in Beirut. Dr Finkelstein, a son of holocaust survivors, stayed
away from the possibly illegal statistical controversy and concentrated on
the ideological construct of the Holocaust cult.
A fat lot of good it did him. A Jewish organization called "Lawyers
without Borders" has already sued him in France. These lawyers were at
perfect peace, when the Israeli legal machine pronounced a six months
probationary sentence on a Jewish murderer of a Gentile child. They did not
move a finger when a 15-year-old girl Suad was placed in solitary
confinement, refused legal aid and subjected to mental torture. They are
visibly absent from Israeli military courts where a single Jewish officer
can mete out long imprisonment sentence to a Gentile civilian based on
undisclosed evidence. Apparently, these lawyers are aware of certain
borders.
Finkelstein set out to explore the secret of our discrete Jewish charm, a
charm that opens American hearts and the coffers of Swiss bankers. His
conclusion is that we do it by appealing to European and American guilt
feelings. "The Holocaust cult [1] has proven to be an indispensable
ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most
formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast
itself as a victim state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US
has acquired victim status". Finkelstein carries out a brilliant analysis
of the Holocaust cult, and comes to a startling discovery: it is but a
shabby construct of a few cliches stitched together by the sorrowful voice
of Elie Wiesel in a limo.
Finkelstein is not aware of the magnitude of his discovery, as he still
believes that the Holocaust cult is a great concept, second only to the
invention of the wheel. It solved the eternal problem of the rich and
influential, warding off the envy and hate of the poor and exploited. It
allowed Mark Rich and other swindlers to cheat and steal, it allowed the
Israeli army to murder children and starve women with impunity. His opinion
is shared by many Israelis. Ari Shavit, a well-known Haaretz writer,
expressed it best in 1996, when the Israeli Army killed over a hundred
civilian refugees in Kana, Lebanon: "We may murder with impunity, because
the Holocaust museum is on our side". Boaz Evron, Tom Segev and other
Israeli writers have articulated the same notion.
One can sum up the thesis of Dr Finkelstein as follows. The Jews succeeded
to square the circle, and solved the problem that befuddled aristocracy and
the run of the mill millionaires. Namely, they disarmed their opponents by
appealing to their compassion and guilt feeling.
I admire Dr Finkelstein for his continued belief in the good heart of his
fellow Man. I trust he also believes in fairies. In my own estimate,
compassion and guilt feelings can maybe get you a free bowl of soup. Not
uncounted billions of dollars. Dr Finkelstein is not blind. He noticed that
the Gypsies, another victim of the Nazis, received next to nothing from a
"compassionate" Germany. The capacity of Americans to feel collective guilt
towards their Vietnamese victims (5 million killed, one million widows,
Coventry-style destruction laced with Agent Orange) was recently expressed
by Defence Secretary William Cohen: "There is no place for apology (let
alone compensation). A war is a war". Despite having all the facts at his
disposal, Dr Finkelstein grasps his cross and tries to frighten the vampire
away.
What is the source of power that fuels the Holocaust Industry? This is no
idle or theoretical question. The making of yet another Palestinian tragedy
is now in high gear, with the slow strangulation of its cities. Every day,
a tree is uprooted, a house is demolished, a child is murdered. In
Jerusalem, the Jews celebrated Purim by a pogrom of Gentiles, and it made
page six in the local papers. In Hebron, the Kahane boys celebrated Purim
at the tomb of the mass murderer Goldstein. This is no time to pussyfoot.
In The Sirens, Bloom expresses the feelings of his creator James Joyce
towards the bloody concept of Irish liberation by farting at the epitaph of
an Irish freedom fighter. My grandparents, my aunts and uncles died in the
WWII. But I swear by their memory, if I thought that guilt feelings over
the Holocaust cult caused the death of a single Palestinian child, I would
turn the Holocaust memorial into a public urinaire.
The shabbiness of the Holocaust cult and the ease of its victories in
sucking billions is solid proof of the real power behind this industry.
This power is obscure, unseen, ineffable, but quite real. It is not a power
derived from the Holocaust, but rather, the Holocaust cult is a display of
raw muscle by those who wield real power. That is why all efforts of the
revisionists are doomed. The people, who promote the cult, could promote
anything, as they dominate all public discourse. The Holocaust cult is just
a small manifestation of their abilities. This power would just smile in
the face of Dr Finkelstein's revelations.
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[1] Dr Finkelstein distinguishes between "holocaust", the historical
event, and the Holocaust, the ideological construct. I took the liberty to
rename it "the Holocaust cult" in the interests of lucidity.
Israel Shamir is an Israeli writer and journalist. His articles The Rape
of Dulcinea, The Test Failed, Galilee Flowers could be found on many
Internet sites, www.thestruggle.org, www.antiwar, www.NileMedia etc. He can
be reached at shamiri_@netvision.net.il, or write P.O.B. 23714 Tel Aviv
61236
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Thought for the Day:
The Jerusalem Post | March 14, 2001
"How is it possible that in the name of the Jewish people, which
experienced what it is like to be a victim of oppression, of the ghetto and
of siege, such terrible war crimes are being committed."
-Issam Makhoul, Knesset Member of the Arab-Jewish Hadash party, responding
to the IDF's blockade of Palestinian cities in the West Bank.
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"This is twisted Palestinian propoganda. Anyway, they deny the Holocaust."
-MK Rabbi Haim Druckman, National Religious Party, in response
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===== Dr. Ingrid Rimland is a well-known novelist, keynote speaker, and
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