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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (12755)8/20/2005 12:15:54 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Memory Lane

By wretchard
The Belmont Club

When Hitler's troops reoccupied the Rhineland in violation of its treaty obligations to restore German dignity, stormtroopers parading before the Reichschancellery sang 
    "for today we own Germany and tomorrow the entire world".
The echo of that refrain reverberates in the United Nations. The Jerusalem Post has this Associated Press story:
    The United Nations is embroiled in a dispute with 
    American Jewish organizations over the funding of 
    Palestinian banners in Gaza, and US Ambassador John 
    Bolton on Wednesday protested the "unacceptable" payments.
The dispute centers on the UN Development Program's payment for materials produced by the Palestinian Authority for Israel's disengagement from Gaza which include banners saying: 
    "Gaza Today. The West Bank and Jerusalem Tomorrow."
The irony is exact. The French Left remained passive in what Churchill called the last moment in which Second World War could have been prevented. Instead it allowed that Hitler had a legitimate grievance and met him with renunciations of militarism and expressions of understanding. For what, they asked, could be more German than the Rhineland? One could have rhetorically asked whether a Nazi Rhineland was the same thing. But then:
    Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
    The more that changes, the more it is the same thing
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2005/08/memory-lane.html

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