good blog from damian penny:
It's hopeless, people
Whenever I find myself slipping and thinking the Arab world will abandon its pathological anti-Jewish hatred in my lifetime, a story like this usually sends me back to earth:
Recently, a manuscript museum opened at the new Alexandria Library, which was renovated by the Egyptian and Italian governments via UNESCO. In the November 17, 2003 issue of the Egyptian weekly Al-Usbu', correspondent Jihan Hussein reported that the museum had added "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to the display case of the holy books of the monotheistic religions, next to a Torah. The book on display is the first translation of the "Protocols" into Arabic, by Muhammad Khalifa Al-Tunisi, and its binding, according to the report, features "a Star of David, the Bolshevik Jewish symbol, surrounded by symbolic snakes."
From the accompanying interview with museum director Dr. Yousef Ziedan:
"When my eyes fell upon the rare copy of this dangerous book, I decided immediately to place it next to the Torah. Although it is not a monotheistic holy book, it has become one of the sacred [tenets] of the Jews, next to their first constitution, their religious law, [and] their way of life. In other words, it is not merely an ideological or theoretical book.
"Perhaps this book of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is more important to the Zionist Jews of the world than the Torah, because they conduct Zionist life according to it… It is only natural to place the book in the framework of an exhibit of Torah [scrolls]."
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In reality, 50,000,000 fell victim to the Nazis, among them 1,000,000 Jews and the rest Gypsies, Poles, and other nations. In reality, an analysis of samples from the purported gas chambers has proven that these were sterilization chambers, without a sufficient quantity of cyanide to kill.
"In reality, had Hitler wanted to annihilate the Jews of Europe, he would have. He had an opportunity. The distance between events and widespread knowledge about them is great."
This isn't some poverty-stricken religious fundamentalist lashing out his understandable rage at the Zionist oppressors, folks. It's a freaking museum director, in a country which had its "occupied" land returned by Israel in the late 1970s in exchange for a peace treaty.
That a man like this could advance to such an important position tells you all you need to know about what kind of deal the Israelis got.
There are people out there - many of them meeting in Geneva as we speak - who believe this kind of thing will just disappear if Israel left the West Bank and Gaza. There's a phrase for people like that, and it rhymes with "ucking idiots".
Wake up, morons. If Israel leaves the West Bank and Gaza, the Arabs will complain that Palestinian "refugees" haven't been allowed to return to Israel. If Israel, heaven forbid, decided to let these "refugees" return, they will complain about the "economic inequality" between the Arabs and the Jews. If the Jews gave all their money, property and power to the Palestinians, the complaint will be that the "legacy of oppression" makes it impossible for Palestinians to share a country with Israelis. And if the Jews were ethnically cleansed from the area altogether, they'll complain that the rest of the world is still "controlled" by them.
Barring military conquest and "de-Nazification" of the Middle East, this pathological hatred will not end until every Jew in the world - not just Israel, but the world - is slaughtered. And when the Jews can't be blamed anymore, they'll turn on Westerners. Then the Christians. Then the Sufis. Then the Shi'ites. And so on. (Why do I write about the Jews so often? Because eventually their persecutors, regardless of how much we try to appease them today, will come for the rest of us.)
There is one other way this madness might come to an end in our lifetime: if the rest of the world - especially the UN, which gave money to this museum - finally stands up and says, "Enough. We've seen where this madness leaves, and we're not going to tolerate it again."
Not only is that not going to happen, but the world seems to have thrown its support behind the hatemongers. And if this ends in yet another genocide, I'm not holding out hope that we will finally get the message.
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