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IAm I Gonna Catch It For This One!
22.5.2007
By Gerald A. Honigman May 21, eKurd.net Contributing Writer
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May
22, 2007
What the heck.
Here goes anyway…
A friend sent me an article the other day from the
May 18th Jewish Daily Forward, “Foxman, Wiesel
Upbraid Israel For Pace of Peace Effort.”
Elie Wiesel co-hosted the third annual Petra
Conference (“for improving the world”) of Nobel
Laureates and others in Jordan. Abraham Foxman
participated in a panel discussion at Bar-Ilan
University in Israel. Both men are Holocaust
survivors and have made a lucrative career out of
Jewish victimization. Indeed, besides Moses in the
bulrushes and Jesus on the cross, Wiesel has become
the Gentile’s favorite Jewish victim.
Wiesel’s writings have no doubt served an important
purpose…and perhaps, in the Eternal Plan, he was
spared for this. Both he and Foxman have sired much
good in a post-Auschwitz world.
But human both are… |
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has done extensive
doctoral studies in Middle Eastern Affairs. He has created and
conducted counter-Arab propaganda programs for college youth, has
lectured on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has publicly
debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles and op-eds have been
published in dozens of newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. |
Now please bear with me for a moment.
Oprah Winfrey has been listed as one of Time
Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the
World.” On both her April 25, 2005 widely-viewed
television show and in her almost three million
readers a month June 2005 edition of O Magazine, she
showcased alleged Arab victimization at the hands of
Israelis. Both were blatantly one-sided depictions
of reality.
In case you haven’t heard yet from the Arabs and
their assorted derriere kissers, the Jews have
become the new Nazis.
A favorite theme…victims now victimizers.
That someone as influential as Oprah lends support
to this nauseating lie is tragic. But it gets worse…
To shut the Jews up afterwards, she soon dragged out
guess who?
The world’s third most famous Jew victim!
On her May 24th and 25th 2006 shows, she strolled
arm-in-arm with Wiesel to Auschwitz.
So, the Jews were victimized too. Oprah says so…How
‘bout that!
But Wiesel’s return to Auschwitz did nothing to
counter Oprah’s anti-Israel endeavors.
Some things need to be spelled out very clearly.
The differences between what happened to stateless
Jews for millennia and what is happening to Arabs in
their attempt to create their 22nd state on the
ashes of--not along side--the Jews’ sole,
resurrected nation were definitely not.
As both Foxman and Wiesel know, time after time
Arabs have shown that they seek to replace the Jew
of the Nations with a purely Arab one. So-called
Arab moderates themselves have repeatedly stated
that their “moderation” was/is simply a Trojan
Horse. Arafat called it “the Peace of the Quraysh,”
the pagan tribe Muhammad temporarily made a hudna
with until he felt strong enough to deal the final
blow.
The State Department and the West’s darling, Mahmoud
Abbas, is Arafat in a suit. He ran on a platform for
Israel’s destruction…but by more acceptable means.
As I like to point out, blown buses bring bad press.
He still holds to this…no matter what Foggy Bottom
says. The latter needs an Arab good cop to present
along side the Hamas bad cop to shove virtual
suicide and/or total dependence upon others’ support
down the Jews’ collective throat.
Despite the periodic infighting, the difference
between Fatah and Hamas, when it comes to a Jewish
Israel, is tactical, not strategic. Any real Arab
moderates on this issue go the way of Isam Sartawi…they’re
dispatched from this world. Others, like Wiesel’s
conference colleague, Yasser Abed Rabbo--whether
serious or (probably) not--are temporarily tolerated
for the assorted mileage they achieve in Western
eyes. For such sweet talk, the Jews are expected to
bare the necks of their kids and give away the
store.
Withdraw, Jew, from (disputed) territories and the
conflict will end. Agree to return to your pre-‘67
nine-mile wide armistice line (not border) existence
as a rump state and the Arabs will grant you peace
(of the grave).
Like in Gaza…
And I’m Santa Claus.
Keep in mind that Wiesel knowingly played right into
all of this.
At the conference, he even made Israeli Prime
Minister, Ehud Olmert (arguably the Arabs’ best
buddy), the brunt of mockery and laughter. The
latter deserves this…but not for the reasons Wiesel
& Co. charge.
Think about it…
While placing blame for the lack of real progress
towards peace on the Jews themselves for not caving
in to all that Arabs demand, elsewhere both he and
Oprah speak of Darfur and the Sudan and never
mention the word Arab. I guess the Martians are
responsible…
Again, some things need to be spelled out very
clearly.
Had those “oppressive Jews” used Arab techniques
against black Africans in the Sudan, against Kurds
in Iraq and Syria, and so forth, their Arab headache
could have largely been resolved long ago. Millions
of black Africans have been killed, maimed, raped,
enslaved, murdered, and so forth on behalf of purely
Arab patrimony.
Decades ago, President Nimeiry’s stated during the
earlier Arab slaughter of blacks in the Sudan in the
1960s and 1970s (and now several times more ever
since) that...
“…the Sudan is the basis of the Arab thrust
into...black Africa, the Arab civilizing mission “
(Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics,
Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 11, #2,
1973, pp. 177-78).
Why is it that, for Oprah and far too many others,
the Arab Man’s Burden is acceptable, but the White
Man’s Burden isn’t?
Back to Wiesel’s virtual anti-Israel pandering and,
to a lesser extent, Foxman’s more vague statements
about Israel’s “seriousness.”
While there’s always room for improvement, and
mistakes are surely made by both sides in any
conflict, surely both men--one of whom I know
personally, worked with for years, and so
forth--understand the real facts of life here.
Given real and even not-so-real peace partners,
Israel has repeatedly bent over backwards, forwards,
and sideways to reach honorable compromise and
accommodation…certainly far more than Arabs have
ever done with their own ethno-nationalist
competitors. So, indulging in such things as
pointing the finger at Israel during a conference
like that in Petra (very likely filled with Israel
bashers) is nothing short of self-serving and
cowardly.
Both Foxman and Wiesel know that the root cause of
this conflict has always been an Arab refusal to
accept that anyone but themselves be granted
political rights in “their” region. Again, scores of
millions of Kurds, Copts, Assyrians, black Africans,
Berbers, Semitic but non-Arab Lebanese, native and
whom the Arabs call kilab yahud--Jew dogs--have been
murdered, gassed, subjugated, enslaved, turned into
refugees, and so forth for daring to disagree.
The conflict Israel was criticized for at Petra
could have been solved long ago had Arabs been
willing to grant Jews a mere microscopic slice of
the very rights they demand for themselves. And,
again, both men know this very well.
So, given such an enemy, it is hard to conceive of
what they were thinking when they willingly
participated in shifting the spotlight onto Israel.
Will either take up permanent residence in Israel’s
Sderot, blasted daily by Arab rockets and adjacent
to Arab-controlled and now Judenrein Gaza, or in
Israel’s narrow waist (where most of its population
and industry are located) after it’s forced to
return to its 1949 Auschwitz, er armistice, lines
and next agrees to accept millions of allegedly
“returning” jihadist Arab refugees?
Sure…
But if the answer to my question just happen--by
some small chance--to be in the negative, then
perhaps its time to put the period of perpetual
Jewish victimization behind us…despite what these
two famous Holocaust survivors now assert.
Their approach will, no doubt, only perpetuate this
further. Maybe afterwards Wiesel can then get the
world to weep for
yet millions of more dead Jews.
Maybe…
But while this may be good for the Jewish
victimization business, it’s not good for Jews.
I’ll demand empathy over sympathy any time…
And Israel better do likewise.
Copyright by Gerald A. Honigman, honigman6 (at) msn.com .
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has
done extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern
Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab
propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured
on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has
publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles
and op-eds have been published in dozens of
newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. Visit his
website at
http://www.geraldahonigman.com/
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