The Unkindest Cut of All-Part III
On Jews and other enablers of Hamas with a lookback 75 years
This
last Thursday and Friday November 8th and 9th marked 85 years since the dreaded
Kristallnacht or as it is often translated into English,The Night of Broken Glass.
I don't need to belabor details as to what it signified. I do have in my own
family records a note that my grandmother in Vienna was among those attacked at
that time and then shortly afterwards my grandparents were able to escape to
Switzerland and my father and uncle headed off to Czechoslovakia.
It
has been 85 years since ,and I know that we Jews around the world had felt much
more safe and secure since the rise of the state of Israel. We had been
accustomed to saving Jews in the middle of the hijacking to in Entebbe or the
airlifting of Jews to safety throughout the Middle East and Africa in the
intervening years. After the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War, and more
recently, with the potential alliances with various Arab countries, we could
allow ourselves into a dream of security.
None
of us could have imagined the horror of something worse than a Kristallnacht or
something worse than the worst pogroms of
the past but, that did happen on October 7. We have marked the shloshim the 30
days of mourning for those who are dead yet we know that our mourning, both in Israel, and out, is not ended.
Last
week, I allowed myself to vent on those who tried to pin the blame on Israel,
or create some kind of equivalency, whether by international authorities or
even local media.
I
turn now to my central gripe: history repeats itself, or, déjà vu all over
again.
Student groups
at Harvard decried Israel as “entirely
responsible” for Hamas’ attack; groups at the University of Virginia went a
step further in saying that “colonized people can resist occupation of their
land by whatever means they deem necessary”; and groups at Tufts took the cake
by praising Hamas’ ingenious creativity.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/hamas-slaughtered-wokeness
Now, Jewish students are being physically attacked
on campuses at Tulane and elsewhere.
Sadly, for us, the protests by the
pro-Palestinian camp are very rough and aggressive, and a local Jewish
pro-Israel protestor , Paul Kessler, was knocked to the ground and killed by a
pro-Palestinian protestor just this past Sunday. Violence by the
pro-Palestinian side is not knew—we saw similar attacks on Jews here just two
years ago by the “fellow travelers” and “useful idiots” of Hamas.
All of this anger, against Israel, and by extension,
against Jews, has been , as we have seen, “justified” by apologists for murder.
As I said, déjà vu, just this “ blame the victim” tactic was used against Jews
even while we were still mourning our dead and licking our wounds after the
greatest and almost completely successful attempt at erasing us physically from
this planet.
So here is how the same apologists for murder
blamed us after the Holocaust in the same tones:
Not mine, but your fault! Dec 1946, in a German journal, Der Neue Weg.
Now the silence
is broken, and people are speaking lately also to non-Jews about what had
happened to us in the Hitler era. It is therefore not without interest for us
to note that what the Austrian accomplices have to say about the causes . The
final sentences of this article by a. D. Hornbostel: “Anti-Semitism and Jewish
problem" are significant for us.
We quote the
same verbatim:
“Another prerequisite for a peaceful and prosperous coexistence with the Jewish elements in Europe is of course the determination of the Jews themselves to get rid of all the fatal mistakes and weaknesses that anti-Semitism wants to attack and incited him to such brutal activity as we have unfortunately had to witness in the recent past.”
Thus, my father summed up the implication:
“If we're
talking about mistakes, why not talk about your own mistakes at the same time!
Is this the Austrian way of looking for the splinter in your neighbor's eye and
overlooking the beam in your own? …
Were Hitler,
Seyss-Inquart, Kaltenbrunner, and countless of their accomplices notAustrian? “
Hence, the opposite of a Catholic confession: I
have not sinned, rather, you have sinned.!
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib: after a full day
of silence, finally said:
"I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli
lives lost yesterday, today, and every day," "As long as our country
provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government,
this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue."
Yes, she cries, but it all Israel’s fault (
with US backing, of course).
Now, we have had actual physical attacks on Jews on campuses at Tulane and , closer to home, a UC Davis professor tweeting a call to violence:
Read more at:
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article280938278.html#storylink=cpy
Wir Sind Quitt: We are even! Are we really!
Here is a summary of the verbal fight as it appeared in a journal of Austrian literature (Friedrich Torberg und Hans Weigel — Zwei Jüdische Schriftsteller im Nachkriegsösterreich :Evelyn Adunka,Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 27, No. 3/4, Special Issue: The Jewish Presence in Contemporary Austrian Literature (1994), pp. 213-237 (25 pages) “ Two Jewish writers in post-War Austria”.)
Hans Weigel was a noted Austrian Jewish
playwright and theater critic, who survived the Holocaust in relative comfort
in Switzerland.
In October 1945 Weigel wrote in an article in
the American-published Wiener Kurier:
With you many
are dead and with us too. But we're even! We don't think too much about
yesterday."
My father went on to contrast this Jewish
writer, who had lived comfortably in Switzerland, and was only too happy to
return to Austria, with the greatest modern German writer, Thomas Mann, who
made the US his new home.
Of the same ilk, as some of you may recall, a
Jewish Chancellor of Austria, Bruno Kreisky, in the 1970’s, of the same stripe as this
writer, who turned the Socialist movements against Israel, said:
If Jews are
indeed a people, then they are a “mieses volk”, an ugly people!
( Der Spiegel,
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/kreisky-die-juden-ein-mieses-volk-a-4c081012-0002-0001-0000-000041376698)
Surely, though, the most painful of all , has been the rush to blame Israel by our very own, the very heirs to a Bruno Kreisky, or a Hans Wiegel, or their intellectual ancestor, the very great antisemite, the intellectual father of all anti-semitism, Karl Marx.
“ For Brutus,
as you know, was Caesar's angel:
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all”.
http://www.courageofspirit.com/2023/11/regarding-problem-of-jewish-quislings.html)
“In all European states that had the misfortune to experience the bloody rule of the Germans, the concept of Quislings is known, those people who are criminally inclined, by fear or opportunism, or political immaturity, or for money, without dignity, or for the sake of supposed national interests, in the moral sense or factual sense, to have made themselves accomplices of the Nazi tyrants.
“In antiquity we had our Josephus Flavius, who abandoned his comrades in arms in the most difficult hour of our people and went over to the throne, and who, while his comrades were dragged behind the triumphant’ s chariot, enjoyed himself at the court of the same triumphant by writing hymns in his honor. In the same tragic epoch …Tiberius Alexander( nephew of the great 1st Jewish philosopher) , …governor in Judea, and later as governor in Egypt, who let his legions of blood-hungry and rapacious soldiers, like wild animals and beasts, loose on the quarters of the Jews in Alexandria , and then took part under Titus in the conquest of Jerusalem as the actual head …”
“As is well
known, history repeats itself. During Hitler's time, many Jews helped in the
enslavement and deportation of the Jews to the labor concentration and
extermination camps. Many have committed guilt in their capacity as Judenrate(
Jewish council member) by compiling and signing lists of those destined for
destruction or by assisting in the confiscation of Jewish assets for the
benefit of the Germans; many have committed guilt in their capacity as Jupos
(Jewish police) by enlisting Jews for destruction or deportation ; some took
part directly in the atrocities and devilries of the Germans as kapos.”
“Times of
emergency are known to be the best ground for political adventurers and our
time of need is not yet over. While most Jews returned home wandering, lost,
groping, grieving, disappointed, uprooted, desperate and tired of life, our
Quislings looked in a good mood, were impeccably dressed and stood out from all
the others because of their well-fed nature.”
Such people have forfeited, according to all written and unwritten laws in all liberated countries, the right to play any leading role in social life, …
“Where they still try to push themselves into the foreground, it is the inevitable duty of every Jew to push them into the background.”
Now, after the knowledge of the horrid pillage,
rape, torture, murder, infanticide, and kidnapping, I reserve my greatest
revulsion, after the officers and soldiers of Hamas, who carried it out, next
onto those of our own, who thought it was “cool” or “hip” or “progressive” to
take over the Capital Rotunda ywo weeks ago and Grand Central Station this week, in the name of Jewish Voices For
Peace, threatening to shut down the emblem of American democracy, all the while
draped in Talit and kippah.
Here is a group
of younger Jews who use this as a flag of distinction, something possible only
for children of privileged Jewish elites.
Here is their shameless proclamation:
“We converged
in historic numbers in D.C. with unprecedented heart, power, and ferocity, to
say: Ceasefire now. Not in our names, not with our money.
This was the
largest Jewish protest in solidarity with Palestinians ever.
A staggering
5,000 people from around the country descended on the National Mall in a “Jews
against Genocide” rally — with only a couple days notice, in the middle of a
Wednesday workday. We were proud to be joined by Representatives Rashida Tlaib
and Cori Bush, as well as author and activist Naomi Klein and actor Mo Amer, as
well as our friends at IfNotNow, who had led us in an impressive shut-down of
all 13 entrances of the White House on Monday.
Then two dozen
rabbis led almost 500 Jews in a sit-in in the rotunda of a key Capitol
building. As rabbis blew shofars and shared testimonials from Palestinians in
Gaza, the thousands outside the building chanted “Ceasefire now!” and “Let Gaza
live!” We shut down the street outside the offices of members of congress for
three hours, elected officials and staffers watching from their windows as
capitol police arrested the hundreds inside the building.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/19/thousands-of-jews-and-allies-shut-down-capitol-hill/
This happened as the organization accepted, like all other progressive groups, the Hamas ministry lie of the hospital bombing.The blood of the massacred of October 7 was still wet on the ground and these Quislings mourned the murderers. It is the” most unkindest cut of all”, as it is so convenient, for enemies of the Jews to trot out their token Jew, and use it against us. Jewish students have been harrassed and physically attacked on campus across the country, in part, due to such protestations.
I will now apply my father’s recommendations about the Jewish Quislings and suggest that the Jewish community close out jobs for these fellow travelers. I know that I am being ungenerous, but when the Middle East has been taken over by the dogs of Khomeini, the Hezbollahs, the Hamases, the Houthis, there is no room for generosity of spirit. These are the fellow travelers of Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Remember that the Communists, too, were split into Stalinists and Trotskyites ,Maoists and Viet-Kongists- often, deadly enemies, yet united in the same goal of ideological domination.
Think
carefully when posing for the under trodden.
This
is what he received from his colleague and comrade in arms when he was getting
his hair cut in Mexico City, exiled from his country, an axe to the head:
One last thought of warning
The Jew was the canary in the coal mine in World War II. The Jew, as Israeli, or Zionist, is still the canary in the coal mine. It's not my words, it is , as the Arabs themselves have said” First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.”
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