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Politics : Middle East Politics

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To: Machaon who wrote (4870)11/5/2003 6:16:44 PM
From: Elmer Flugum  Read Replies (1) of 6945
 
You use the same reasoning the Christians used to missionize the "heathens" around the globe. Slave owners used the same device to rationalize slavery.

Good deeds or not, Zionists, trying to represent Judaism, have no special claim on Palestine. Good deeds by Jews anywhere gives Zionists (some Jewish, some not) no special privileges as it pertains to human and civil rights.

The Holocaust has been designed to indicate Jewish victims only. The term Holocaust is synonymous with Jewish suffering alone.

Now back to Daniel Goldhagen and his indictment against the whole German society in his book, "'Hitler's Willing Executioner: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust", as it pertains to others who tread into the same position...

November 5, 2003

German General Fired for Backing Slur on Jews

By RICHARD BERNSTEIN

BERLIN, Nov. 4 — The commander of a German special forces army unit was dismissed Tuesday after he praised a conservative member of Parliament for a speech that has been widely criticized here as anti-Semitic.

The dismissed officer, Gen. Reinhard Günzel, was relieved of his command by Defense Minister Peter Struck, who called him a "lone, confused general who agreed with an even more confused statement made by a conservative member of Parliament."

"His remarks damaged the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the German Army," Mr. Struck said.

The firing of General Günzel is the latest event in a scandal that has been simmering in Germany in the few days since the disclosure of remarks about Jews made by Martin Hohmann, an otherwise obscure member of the German Parliament who belongs to the opposition Christian Democratic Union.

In his speech, made in early October to local constituents, Mr. Hohmann called Jews "a race of perpetrators." Mr. Hohmann was making the argument that Germans still labor under the burden of responsibility for the crimes of the Nazis, while other people who have committed atrocities present themselves as "innocent lambs."

The Jews, he said, were prominent in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, during which millions were killed.

"Thus one could describe Jews with some justification as a nation of perpetrators," Mr. Hohmann said. "That may sound horrible, but it would follow the same logic with which one describes the Germans as a race of perpetrators."


Mr. Hohmann was widely criticized for his remarks by German political figures and the leaders of the organized Jewish community, as well as by leading Christian Democrats, though the party did not dismiss him from his seat in Parliament despite widespread demands that it do so. Jewish groups threatened to bring a lawsuit against Mr. Hohmann for violating Germany's laws against inciting racial hatred.

In the days after his remarks became publicly known, Mr. Hohmann, reportedly under pressure from his party, said that his words had been taken out of context and that he did not intend to disparage Jews or to deny the unique character of the Holocaust. Then, on Monday night, German television reported that General Günzel had written a letter to Mr. Hohmann in which he expressed agreement with his opinions and praised him for his courage in expressing them.

"It was an excellent speech, of a courage, truth and clarity that one seldom hears or reads in our country," General Günzel's letter said. "And even if all those who agree with me or even clearly articulate this opinion will be referred to as right-wing extremists by the media, I can assure you that the majority of our people share your thoughts."
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