Re: As for the rest, a lot of data up for interpretation. What's your personal take on that?
I personally agree with the author's revisionist viewpoint... I suspect that, in the context surrounding the establishment of the Israeli state in the late 1940s, the plight of the European Jewry was cunningly blown out of proportion --and of historical veracity... Somehow, the mere fact that it's illegal --in Western countries, at least-- to profess such revisionist musings is itself the best clue to the official story's dubiousness. I mean, anybody could carelessly claim that the Belgians didn't kill millions of native Congolese in the Belgian Congo and get away with it; anybody could likewise claim that no nukes were ever dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and get away with it; the genocide of Indians in the Americas? A joke! Even questioning the Nazis' massacre of Gypsies and other "misfits" is somehow acceptable and open to debate --but don't dare mess with the Jewish Holocaust!
Now, having said that, I've always been of the opinion that the gruesome fate of European Jews during WWII was already foreboded by the yellow star itself. I mean, Hitler's decision to tag the Jews --and the Gypsies, homosexuals,...-- with a distinctive badge portended in itself their eventual liquidation. Just like the branding of cattle is but a first step to their ulterior slaughter, the official stigmatizing of minorities is always an omen to their ultimate doom.... The Nazi tags that the Reich's misfits were compelled to wear were basically, if cryptically, death warrants. The stigmatizing of loathly minorities is never an end unto itself, but always a first step to their elimination.
Finally, I'd like to say that I concur with the following reflection:
Idolatry
We have nothing to gain by denying anything. I despise the whole concept of "denial." We have absolutely nothing to gain by pretending that Nazi Germany was not what it was, or by pretending that anything is not what it is.
This also applies to the Jews. They have nothing to gain by lying. I think the Jews will eventually realize that the gas chamber lie is hurting their own cause, and they will abandon it. I don't know how they will manage this, since they have painted themselves into a corner that's going to be very difficult to get out of, but they will find a way. They have to find a way. Their position is untenable. If they persist with what they are doing, there is going to be a huge backlash.
They may not care about the backlash, but they should care about the effect lies have on their own minds. It's almost impossible to keep repeating a lie over and over for 50+ years without believing it yourself. If they believe their own lies, and no longer care about staying in touch with reality, then they are in more trouble than they know. They have given up their best weapon.
Who may ascend the hill of the Lord?
Who may stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who does not lift up his soul to an idol,
Or swear by what is false.
He will receive blessing from the Lord
And vindication from God his Saviour.
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A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who pours out lies will perish.
This isn't just empty moralizing. It's literally true. Idolatry means taking something to be real that isn't real. One of the basic ideas of the Old Testament is that idolatry is self-defeating. "Blessing" and "vindication" mean victory on the battlefield (among other things). The way to win battles is to see reality more clearly than your opponent.
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