by AlicetheCurious » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:25 am
Seventhsonjr, I think we're gonna have to rescue our language, because it's been hijacked and tortured beyond recognition. Maybe we should provide a glossary of terms as a prelude to any discussion, or we'll end up with a lot of misunderstandings.<br><br>I thought that by putting apostrophes around 'the Jews', I was making it clear that I wasn't collectively referring to actual flesh and blood human beings of the Jewish faith or ethnic or cultural identity. <br><br>I meant the cluster of doublethink, that intellectual and moral black hole, that no-man's-land seeded with mental mine fields built by decades of propaganda, emotional blackmail and psychological manipulation by cynical, self-interested elites, that disintegrates coherent, rational thought on contact, and where normal standards of decency or morality and even the law, are turned upside-down.<br><br>Closely intertwined with, and feeding, the mystical concept of "the Jews" is the mystical concept of "The Holocaust". For example, Finklestein (whom I mentioned in an earlier post) distinguishes between the Nazi Holocaust, an actual historical event that exists within real parameters of time and space, a legitimate subject of study by historians, with 'The Holocaust' as a mystery religion.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Only a flea's hop separates the claim of Holocaust uniqueness from the claim that The Holocaust cannot be rationally apprehended. If The Holocaust is unprecedented in history, it must stand above and hence cannot be grasped by history. Indeed, The Holocaust is unique because it is inexplicable, and it is inexplicable because it is unique.<br><br>Dubbed by Novick "the sacralization of the Holocaust," this mystification's most practiced purveyor is Elie Wiesel. For Wiesel, Novick rightly observes, The Holocaust is effectively a "mystery" religion. <br><br>Thus Wiesel intones that the Holocaust "leads into darkness," "negates all answers," "lies outside, if not beyond, history," "defies both knowledge and description," "cannot be explained nor visualized," is "never to be comprehended or transmitted," marks a "destruction of history" and a "mutation on a cosmic scale." Only the survivor-priest (read: only Wiesel) is qualified to divine its mystery. <br><br>And yet, The Holocaust's mystery, Wiesel avows, is "noncommunicable"; "we cannot even talk about it." Thus, for his standard fee of $25,000 (plus chauffeured limousine), Wiesel lectures that the "secret" of Auschwitz's "truth lies in silence." <br><br>[chapt. 2, Hoaxers, Hucksters, and History; <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The Holocaust Industry</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->]<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Now, most peoples have fiddled with their history in order to influence the present, and national legends rarely have much in common with the gritty and often unfortunately sordid and inconveniently complex events of the past. I certainly don't begrudge people their little illusions if it helps to make their reality more bearable. (I snicker, but quietly, at all the turgid speeches that include "our ancestors, the pharaohs", drawing deeply from the well of history to water the rather arid current Egyptian realities.)<br><br>Where I draw the line, is the point at which national "mystery religions" become a blank cheque to oneself that draws upon the resources, freedom and lives of other people.<br><br>Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Few people would dispute that women have been victimized throughout history (herstory?), abused, violated, disenfranchised, enslaved and silenced, merely because they were women.<br><br>Yet, imagine a group of women appropriating this shameful history in the way that Zionist propagandists have, as a license to kill and pillage and terrorize with impunity, silencing dissent and declaring women who protest to be "self-hating women" and traitors. Killing little boys, using chemical weapons to burn them, would be justified as self-defence.<br><br>Or a group of Black people, claiming themselves as the sole creditor and collection agent for the infinite debts accumulated by centuries of injustice and the inestimable theft of lives, freedom and property.<br><br>Nobody would stand for it. And nobody would stand for this kind of abuse in the name of "the Jews" if it were not backed by powerful elite interests who wear sackcloth and ashes and weep tears of self-pity as they fill their bottomless pockets with the booty taken from their helpless victims.<br><br>Of course, the sackcloth and ashes are taken off as easily as they are put on, when an overwhelming show of power becomes a more effective weapon. Real victims, of course, don't have such a range of options.<br><br>When these criminals hide behind "the Jews", and set themselves up as THE representatives of "the Jews", obviously, they're hoping to sow confusion by framing the problem so that one either blames "the Jews" or shuts up.<br><br>What I'm arguing is that their frame is bogus, morally and legally. Criminals should not be permitted to hide behind their ethnicity, nor should innocent people be punished for the crimes of those who actually committed them. In civilised countries, killing the relatives of a suspect, let alone someone who happens to own what you want, is not considered legitimate law enforcement.<br><br>Yet this is precisely the 'logic' of Zionism. Just as Zionists commit war crimes and then cower behind "the Jews" to avoid prosecution, it is, not surprisingly, common for their soldiers to bomb entire buildings inhabited by civilians, and then disingenously explaining that a particular militant was 'known to be' in the building.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>