Dec 20, 2009

PHILIP WEISS: So much for a canard (Israel admits organ harvesting)

 

So much for a canard (Israel admits organ harvesting)

by PHILIP WEISS on DECEMBER 20, 2009 · 35 COMMENTS


Remember when this story came out earlier this year and Israel denied it? The Washington Report did a big piece about it, by Alison Weir, yet the Israel lobbyists said it was an anti-Semitic canard. Myself I say it's further evidence of this great challenge in Jewish history, learning respect for the other.


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Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews 'stemmed from First World War' - Telegraph

 


Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews 'stemmed from First World War'

A new book published in Germany says the murder of six million Jews in the Second World War was due to Hitler's belief that they "stole" victory from the country in the First World War.

 

By Allan Hall in Berlin
Published: 6:03PM GMT 20 Dec 2009

"In his madness Hitler was convinced that the 'Jewish poison' had done the same thing to his beloved Germany in 1918 what the 'cancer poison' had done to his beloved mother in 1907," wrote historian and journalist Dr Joachim Riecker.

'November 9: How World War One Led to the Holocaust' examines the speeches both public and private of Hitler to try to solve the riddle of how a dictator could morph into the industrial-scale murderer of an entire people.

"The core of his hatred lies at the defeat of Germany in WW1," said Mr Riecker, "where Hitler blamed the Jews for defeat of the country, the collapse of the monarchy and the ruination of millions".

Dr Riecker discounts previously held theories that Hitler began hating the Jews because a Jewish doctor called Eduard Bloch unsuccessfully treated his mother Klara.

He added: "Adolf Hitler loved only two things in his life: his mother and the 'German Reich'.

His mother died in 1907 very painfully from breast cancer which was seen at that time as the result of blood poisoning.

"Hitler saw the state 'poisoned' from within. Hitler lived in Munich, where Jews played a leading role in the revolution against the monarchy on Nov. 9th 1918. So suddenly the delusion came to his mind, that the Jews where the reason for the 'inner poisoning' of Germany and that they had stolen the victory from Germany," Mr Riecker said.

"And since this delusion revived the traumatic experience of the death of his mother, he developed the fanatic will to annihilate the "Jewish poison" – and thought that killing the Jews was the way to lead Germany to world domination.

"His anti-Semitism had nothing to do with Dr Bloch."

"Mr Riecker has produced an important and informative work," said German news magazine Der Spiegel in a review.



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"We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids."

 



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_organ_harvesting/print

 

Israel harvested organs in '90s without permission

By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer2 hrs 33 mins ago        

JERUSALEM – Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.

The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians in order to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.

Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said, "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."

The Channel 2 report said that in the 1990s, forensic specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.

In a response to the TV report, the Israeli military confirmed that the practice took place. "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer," the military said in a statement quoted by Channel 2.

In the interview, Hiss described how his doctors would mask the removal of corneas from bodies. "We'd glue the eyelid shut," he said. "We wouldn't take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids."

Many of the details in the interview first came to light in 2004, when Hiss was dismissed as head of the forensic institute because of irregularities over use of organs there. Israel's attorney general dropped criminal charges against him, and Hiss still works as chief pathologist at the institute. He had no comment on the TV report.

Complaints against the institute, where autopsies of dead bodies are performed, at the time of Hiss' dismissal came from relatives of Israeli soldiers and civilians as well as Palestinians. The bodies belonged to people who died from various causes, including diseases, accidents and Israeli-Palestinian violence, but there has been no evidence to back up the claim in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians for their organs. Angry Israeli officials called the report "anti-Semitic."

The academic, Nancy Sheppard-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, said she decided to make the interview public in the wake of the Aftonbladet controversy, which raised diplomatic tensions between Israel and Sweden and prompted Sweden's foreign minister to call off a visit to the Jewish state.

Sheppard-Hughes said that while Palestinians were "by a long shot" not the only ones affected by the practice in the 1990s, she felt the interview must be made public now because "the symbolism, you know, of taking skin of the population considered to be the enemy, (is) something, just in terms of its symbolic weight, that has to be reconsidered."

While insisting that all organ harvesting was done with permission, Israel's Health Ministry told Channel 2, "The guidelines at that time were not clear." It added, "For the last 10 years, Abu Kabir has been working according to ethics and Jewish law."

 

 


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JIM DEAN: Can we say...Jewish Lobby Deniers?

 


From: <jimwdean@aol.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Subject: Can we say...Jewish Lobby Deniers?


 
***He told the Post last Friday that "I have heard that all my life. That is well known of German historians." ***
 
So their is a German historian lobby...but no Jewish Lobby?....Jim Dean
 
***Gryglewski said the "'lobby' term is very charged" and denied using the expression.
There had been a discussion about the "autonomy of the group," said Gryglewski.
Wetzel declined to respond to multiple requests for comment. It remains unclear if Wetzel's purported use of "lobby-groups" refers to non-Jewish and Jewish non-governmental organizations.***
 
So we are supposed to understand that any assertion that pro Israel groups to not lobby using any and all tactics at their disposal to influence/control government of public opinion is and act of _______?.... Jim Dean
 
***However, Wetzel wrote in several e-mails to the commission that she is "appalled" about the disclosures and urged the members to confirm that she did not use the controversial term "lobby-groups." The term "lobby" is considered to have a pejorative meaning in Germany. ***
 
Is this the beginning of a new "L word" smear?...Jim Dean
 
***Dr. Charles Small, the head of the Yale University Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism and former Israeli professor, told the Post, "The reported comment pertaining to 'the lobby' is at best insensitive. One of the most pernicious stereotypes of the Jewish community - particularly in Germany - is the nefarious conspiratorial power of the Jewish people or so-called 'lobby.'" ***
 
So Dr. Small is telling us that Jewish lobbyists lobbying for partisan gains at the expense of whoever they choose is not a nefarious activity, while other doing the same at what is considered at the expense of Israel or 'Jewish interest' are routinely smeared as anti-semites or Jew haters....

Jim Dean
 
 



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Letter to Catholic Bishops of Germany

 


This letter to the Catholic bishops of Germany is simply great.

It could also be extended to the bishops of other countries as well, including the USA. The French bishops never uttered a word of condemnation against the atrocities committed by French troops against German civilian population before the end of the war, immediately after the end of the war and the genocidal campaign against German prisoners of war after the war ended and when said prisoners should have been released. Many of the "French" legionnaires who died at Dien Bien Phu (in Vietnam) were German prisoners who had been given the choice to either join (the Legion) or die of starvation.

Not even when its Moroccan troops were raping every Catholic girl, regardless of age, in the areas given to them to do as they please with the population as their reward. These mass rapes occurred after Monte Casino battle (over 3400 rapes) and then in Germany in Stuttgart, where over 1100 girls and women were raped by Moroccan-French soldiers. However, the French-Moroccans undid themselves in Freudenstadt.

This account from, of all places, Pravda (Russia) gives a glimpse into the behavior of the French in Germany, after they entered hiding under the coattails of the Americans:



Likewise English Bishops did not issue any protests against the innumerable atrocities committed by its military against German civilian population not only during the war but also after the war. It was the English who engineered and offered to Stalin the shifting of borders and wholesale removal of populations, something that Stalin was an expert at and obviously enjoyed doing, like moving chess pieces on a board.

The greatest lie concerning Second World War begins with the name given to that war. It is convenient to start the count of history from a certain date, ignoring what went before. Thus, the Great War and its aftermath with its treaties that were nothing but naked mischief and revengefulness for a war that was clearly started by the British and to a lesser extent, the Russians, and which gave the British a bloody nose and the Russians 70 years of absolute hell (plus 20 more or so of purgatory). Had the US not entered that ("Great") war, it would very likely have ended in 1916, Europe would have remained a civilized continent and would have been spared Stalin, the Soviet monster, Hitler and the Nazi regime with their excesses and there would not have been a "Second War" and nothing worth stealing at Oswiecim (the name of the place in Poland that became a German concentration camp)

Manuel Sotil



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Auschwitz camp's stolen sign recovered in three pieces

Polish police arrest five men after nationwide search for symbol of suffering endured by millions at Nazi death camp


Arbeit Macht Frei sign at Auschwitz

The Auschwitz sign before it was stolen Photograph: Irek Dorozanski/Reuters



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The author establishes that the arguments and findings of revisionist scholars are substantive, and deserve serious consideration. He points out, for example, that even the eminent Jewish Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg acknowledged that there was no budget, plan or order by Hitler for a World War II program to exterminate Europe's Jews.

This book is especially relevant right now, as "Holocaust deniers" are routinely and harshly punished for their "blasphemy," and as growing numbers of people regard the standard, Hollywoodized "Holocaust" narrative with mounting suspicion and distrust.

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AUSCHWITZ YET AGAIN BY GILAD ATZMON

 




AUSCHWITZ YET AGAIN BY GILAD ATZMON 

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2009 AT 11:07AM GILAD ATZMON

Early on Friday the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign that hung over the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp, was stolen.

Commenting to the BBCon the theft of the Auschwitz sign, Rabbi Andrew Baker, the Director of the International Jewish Affairs of the rabid Zionist American Jewish Committee maintained that there should be no replicas to substitute the entrance monument. "There can be no copies or reproductions; visitors must see only what was real. In that way they will be bear witness to the very objects and structures which in turn remain the mute eyewitness to what happened there".

Rabbi Baker wants the "real thing". However, every person who happens to be brave enough to step into the muddy topic known as Holocaust history, is quick to discover the embarrassing fact that lies at the heart of the Auschwitz museum experience: the gas chamber on display is no less than a reconstruction built after the war by the soviets. The original gas chambers were destroyed by the Germans in October 1944 just before their evacuation.

The following extract is taken from an ultra kosher Zionist Holocaust memorial site:

"In late 1944 (17 October 1944), the SS, on orders from Berlin, dynamited all the still functioning gas chambers to destroy any evidence of the killing that had happened there."

Here is an attempt by, again, another ultra kosher Zionist memorial site to deal with the fact that Auschwitz Crematorium 1 is a reconstruction.

"After the war, when the Main Camp was turned into a museum, the authorities felt that a crematorium was required at the end of the memorial journey for visitors. Since the four cremas/gas chambers where most of the mass murder of the Jews took place lay in Birkenau two miles away, they couldn't be used for that purpose…..The chimney, the gas chamber room, the doors, and four of the openings in the roof which had been used to pour in the Zyklon-B were restored. Two of the three ovens were rebuilt. The ovens were not hooked up to the chimney as it was not an operating facility."

The Memorial site concludes, "Crema 1 in Auschwitz I (the Main Camp) is not a "fake" but a restored space meant to be a memorial and symbolic representation of all the gas chambers and crematoria in the Auschwitz complex."

Some historians debate  as to the original function of the ruined gas chambers. I would save myself from commenting on the subject. First, I am not a historian. Second, I am far more concerned by the systematic destruction of the Palestinian people by those who survived the Holocaust. This continuous shoa that is curried out by the Israelis, in the name of Jewish suffering, is taking place right in front of our eyes.

Yet, one thing is clear beyond doubt. For the last six decades tourists have been visiting a gas chamber that was built after the war by the Soviets. As far as the Auschwitz museum is concerned, people haven't been witnessing the 'real thing'.

Accordingly, I would advise Rabbi Baker to revise his demand. The Auschwitz Museum experience is founded on a "copy" and a "replica" or in other words "a restored space meant to be a memorial and symbolic representation".

For the last three decades Auschwitz has been operating as a tourist resort. It has its Holiday Tourist Guide, 'near by' hotels, Hot Dog stand, recommended restaurants and so on. Considering Auschwitz has achieved the status of a successful tourist attraction, I would regard the theft of the entrance monument as a major opportunity. I suggest the current staff at Auschwitz prepare for a mass of tourists to come. I propose  creating many more gate facilities decorated with entrance monuments. In the spirit of multiculturalism and global markets, each entrance can be accompanied by a real McDonalds for the American crowd, a genuine pub for the Brits, an authentic Nandos for chicken lovers and Maoz Falafel for the Israeli youngsters who are sent year after year to brew in Jewish suffering just before they join the IDF. It is in Auschwitz where young Israelis fuel themselves with enough hatred so they can punish the Palestinians for crimes committed by Europeans.




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Auschwitz camp's stolen sign recovered in three pieces

 

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Auschwitz camp's stolen sign recovered in three pieces

Polish police arrest five men after nationwide search for symbol of suffering endured by millions at Nazi death camp


Arbeit Macht Frei sign at Auschwitz

The Auschwitz sign before it was stolen Photograph: Irek Dorozanski/Reuters



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FAURISSON: On a volé "Arbeit macht frei". "Arbeit macht frei" stolen

 

Dec. 18, 2009

From: Robert Faurisson


Arbeit macht frei (Le travail rend libre) a été en 1872 un titre de roman et, à partir de 1928, un slogan de la République de Weimar.

In 1872 the German nationalist author Lorenz Diefenbach used the expression "Arbeit macht frei" as the title for a novel, causing the expression to become well-known in German nationalist circles. It was adopted in 1928 by the Weimar government as a slogan extolling the effects of their desired policy of large-scale public works programmes to end unemployment, and perhaps mocking the Medieval saying "Stadtluft macht frei" ("City air brings freedom"). It was continued in this usage by the NSDAP (Nazi Party) when it came to power in 1933.
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This book is especially relevant right now, as "Holocaust deniers" are routinely and harshly punished for their "blasphemy," and as growing numbers of people regard the standard, Hollywoodized "Holocaust" narrative with mounting suspicion and distrust.

The author of this book, who writes under the pen name of "Thomas Dalton," is an American scholar who holds a doctoral degree from a major US university.

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