leftist anti semitism is a hateful thing.

“The Grand Mufti’s cooperation with the Nazis extended beyond making speeches. He urgend the Foreign Ministry, as well as Adolf Eichmann, not to allow Jews from Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to escape to Palestine, but to send them instead to Poland. He worked with Himmler to establish an SS division of Muslims from Bosnia, appealed to the Germans to bomb Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and received financial support from the Nazi regime in these years.” p 243/244

“On July 27, 1944 the Grand Mufti wrote to Himmler to urge him “to do what was necessary to prevent the wandering of Jews to Palestine.” Doing so would be a “practical example of the allied and friendly stance” of Germany toward Arabs and Moslems.” p 244

What intrigues me about both the anti-Israel rantings of Burg and of Olmert, is that in both cases, what they say seems copied from Western enemies of Israel, like Mearsheimer. It’s as if somebody like W or M or maybe Samantha Power or Jimmy Carter’s ghostwriter, were writing the script for olmert or the “book” for Burg. Mearsheimer asks in one of his posts, why Burg’s tome is not a “national bestseller” in Israel. Again, John M surely knows but does not tell his readers that Burg is widely despised in Israel for his obvious moral corruption. Just a few weeks before one of his anti-Israel outbursts a couple of years ago [I think it was May or June 2006], Burg lost a suit in court in which he tried to get special pension payments from the Jewish Agency plus a car and driver put at his disposal. The anti-Israel outburst came after losing his suit. As for Olmert, surely John M knows that he faces six or seven criminal investigations, and that Attorney General Mazuz, who seems to have been protecting him for the last two and a half years, recently notified Olmert that he plans to issue an indictment against him for the Rishontours scandal unless a hearing for Olmert convinces him, Mazuz, that he may be innocent. Mazuz has been very credulous towards Olmert up till now but Rishontours may have been too much for even him.

Now the pattern here seems to be that both Olmert and Burg make anti-Israel statements, curiously echoing hostile and hypocritical anti-Israel statements in the West after running into trouble with the law or being publicly shamed as corrupt or losing a lawsuit.

By the way, I quote Walt and Mearsheimer making a false claim that the Palestinian Arabs were “largely innocent” of doing any harm to Jews or harboring any prejudice against them at the time that Israel became independent. I do so in a recent article posted on the History News Network [see link]. Apparently W & M do not consider Holocaust collaboration by much of the Palestinian Arab leadership [led by Husseini] to make those Arabs not innocent at all.
http://hnn.us/articles/56698.html

I dislike also how you use the word Zionist in a pejorative way. Zionism today means that you advocate the existence of a Jewish state. Most Jews in the world do.

Why should we forget, something that happened in our lifetime? Why should I forget my 36 near relatives who were killed only because they were borne Jews?

It would be unfair to take away the only thing Neoconservatives, Likudniks, and Zionists possess.

You can watch on http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1940.htm

what the leader of Muslim brotherhood in Jordan is saying: “And you, people of Hebron – you are now waging a war against the Jews. You are well-versed in this. We saw how, on a day in 1929, you slaughtered the Jews in Hebron. Today, slaughter them on the land of Hebron. Kill them in Palestine.”

And the representative of Hamas in Lebanon (a branch of Muslim brotherhood) says: “Our goal is to liberate all of Palestine, from the river to the sea, from Rosh Hanikra to Umm Al-Rashrash [Eilat]. From Gaza, gentlemen… We do not want a state 364 square kilometers in size, nor do we want a state for which we had to beg at the negotiating table. Such a state will never come to be. What we want is a free state, which maintains its dignity, 27,000 square kilometers in size – the size of Palestine in its entirety.”

So if you have such neighbors, it is not a surprise that the Jews of Israel are concerned.

“Mearsheimer uses Burg’s work to advance his own “instrumentalist” claim: that supporters of Israel “use” the Holocaust to “fend off criticism and to allow Israel to continue committing crimes against the Palestinians.” In short, remembering the Holocaust is – in and of itself – the problem”

absolutely illogical statment. the brutality of the occupation is the problem, not using the holocaust as an excuse to strike out whenever you feeel like it.

After all, we can see the rush of goodwill flowing towards Israel when it withdrew unconditionally from Gaza. We can see that Palestinian civil and religious leaders, Palestinian-controlled media, Palestinian schoolbooks…all of them identify to their people that the sole roadblock between now and a fair and just peace is the occupation. Were it not for that everything would be peachy.

And why, oh why, do the Israelis persist in using the Holocaust trope in responding to ordinary political discourse, such as Ahmadinejad’s threats to wipe out Israel along with proclamations that the ingathering would save Israel’s enemies from having to hunt down Jews all over the world?

Yet again it is clear that only Israeli intransigence prevents a just and lasting peace.

The same AB who took out French citizenship and voted in the last presidential election that saw Sarkozy come to power!

http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/avraham-burg-no-more-never-again/

http://blog.z-word.com/2008/11/the-holocaust-mindset/

He doesn’t actually say that. He’s arguing that Zionist fanatics use the Holocaust as a bludgeon against anyone who dares to criticize Israeli policy vis a vis the Palestinians.

The lesson of the Holocaust is when people say they want to kill you, listen.