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Left-wing Israeli newspaper publishes a Warsaw Ghetto revisionist screed

by Mojambo ( 140 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, History, Holocaust, Israel, Judaism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance at January 3rd, 2014 - 7:00 am

Ha’aretz, (aka Ha’Hamas) a miserable left-wing. post-Zionist newspaper (financially kept going by  European NGO’s)  recently published a revisionist screed about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April, 1943.  Ha’aretz is a newspaper that publishes the vile calumnies of Amira Hass and Gideon Levy (just Google their names as see the type of Internet sites that link to them) and is dedicated to the destruction of the nation which guarantees them the free speech that they abuse. By the way, the Nazis had already decided by the Summer of 1942 to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto and had already shipped to Treblinka over 80% of the Warsaw Ghetto population so to blame the Uprising for the deaths of 50,000 Jews (who were condemned to death any way) is absurd.

Warsaw Ghetto: Żelazna Street (looking East) from the intersection with Chłodna Street, June 1942.

Warsaw Ghetto: Żelazna Street (looking East) from the intersection with Chłodna Street, June 1942. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

by Isi Leibler

I rubbed my eyes in disbelief this week when I read an article prominently featured on Haaretz’s website entitled “The Warsaw Ghetto Myth.” The story asserts that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest single revolt by Jews under Nazi occupation, was extremely limited in in scope and duration. The most obscene aspect of the article is the allegation that the fighters were responsible for the death of the 50,000 Jews in the ghetto who had not yet been deported.

This unquestionably distorted interpretation of events typifies the historical revisionism to which Haaretz is predisposed, not only with regard to post-Zionism but now also to Jewish history. That such an article is given prominence in an Israeli daily newspaper with a wide Internet English readership reflects adversely on us all.

The author, Eli Gat, is a Holocaust survivor who in 2009 privately published a shoddy book called Not Just Another Holocaust describing his sufferings and alluding to the revisionist nonsense incorporated in his current article. His book was completely ignored and very few people would have even heard his name until Haaretz published his article.

In his article Gat dishonors the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and diminishes its historical and symbolic significance. He insists that there were fewer than 700 ghetto fighters and that the revolt lasted a mere two days, after which time many fighters fled. Gat has the gall to repudiate the accepted view that the most significant portion of the uprising took place over the course of a month and specifically dismisses the assertion confirming this by the late Professor Israel Gutman, a respected Holocaust historian and participant in the uprising.

The most obscene aspect of “The Warsaw Ghetto Myth” is the allegation that the ghetto fighters were responsible for the death of the 50,000 Jews who remained in the ghetto and were engaged in factories producing goods for the Nazi war effort, claiming that these Jews may have survived had the revolt not taken place. He justifies the tragically mistaken and failed policies of most of the Judenrats (Nazi-appointed Jewish committees to oversee the ghetto inhabitants) who opposed resistance and were convinced that acquiescing to the Nazis demands might save them.

The unqualified fact, however, is that the Nazis were unaffected by the Warsaw Ghetto heroes’ decision to die with honor rather than be led to slaughter; their commitment to a program of complete extermination was already absolute.

This article is only one example of Haaretz’s irresponsible and biased journalism. Over recent years the newspaper has served as the primary vehicle for promoting destructive post-Zionism. It has engaged in deliberate campaigns to demonize Israel and frequently published articles promoting the BDS movement.

Indeed, its online edition now represents one of the principal sources of fodder for global hatred against the Jewish state by the hostile international media and anti-Israeli politicians. It has inflicted, and continues to inflict enormous damage on Israel.

A most blatant example of Haaretz’s self-hating approach was its vitriolic campaign against the IDF, in which it published numerous examples of alleged war crimes committed by individual soldiers. These allegations were subsequently proven to be unfounded, but only after the damage had been done: the stories were reproduced on the front pages of the major media outlets throughout the world, fermenting the hostile climate which paved the way for the notorious Goldstone Report.

There are a number of Haaretz journalists who are often indistinguishable from Palestinian propagandists.

For example, in April this year, after an incident in which a three-year-old Israeli girl was critically wounded when a car driven by her mother was struck by a stone, Amira Haas, notorious for her pro-Palestinian bias, justified the act by stating, “Throwing stones is the hereditary right and duty of someone under a foreign power.” Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken defended her, stating, “sometimes you have to fight violence with violence.”

Gideon Levy, who regularly churns out articles that quote verbatim obscene Palestinian allegations of Israeli oppression and criminality, in October of last year produced a front-page story entitled “Most Israelis Support Apartheid Regime in Israel.”

Israelis were outraged and five days later Haaretz was forced to publish an apology. But again, the damage was done and newspapers throughout the world widely disseminated this lie.

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But in recent years, the newspaper has extended its post-Zionism to promoting a revisionist narrative which undermines the core of Jewish continuity, questions links of today’s Jewish people with the biblical era, and challenges the validity of a Jewish nation.

Last year it published an article resurrecting the theory that the majority of today’s Jews are descendants of Turkic Khazars converted in the eighth century, who allegedly now represent the bulk of European Jewry. This absurd notion was employed in the past by anti-Semites and is now heavily promoted by the Arabs to “prove” that the Jews of today have no link to the biblical land of Israel.

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In its zeal to undermine the core principles of Zionism, it has done irrevocable damage. The distortion of facts, and outright lies, have aided our enemies and confused our friends, including Jews living in the Diaspora with limited understanding of Jewish or Israeli history. The Gat article demonstrates to what depths Haaretz will sink, twisting the facts – even of Holocaust history – to provoke its readers and disallow them even the smallest measure of Jewish pride.
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Read the rest – Debasing the Warsaw Ghetto

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American Jewish leaders need to stop the decay now

by Mojambo ( 65 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Hamas, Israel at April 23rd, 2013 - 11:30 am

Giving the rabid anti-Semite Jimmy Carter an award makes about as much sense as giving Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an award. Carter is a vicious, vindictive, bigoted terrorist enabler.

by Isi Leibler

Visiting New York this week, I sought to assess the broader implications of the recent “International Peace Award” bestowed on former president Jimmy Carter by Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School. This unsavory display of groveling by a major Jewish institution to a committed foe of the Jewish people is not merely a stain on the entire Jewish community but highlights a dramatic erosion of Jewish values and Jewish dignity.

Many consider it a wake-up call and believe that alarm bells should be ringing in the conference rooms of major Jewish organizations.

Yeshiva University, created 127 years ago, is the crown jewel of America’s modern Orthodox establishment. Its Rabbinical Seminary was headed by the revered Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. Its Cardozo Law School has evolved into one of the most preeminent legal educational institutions.

Although it caters to all Americans, Cardozo prides itself on being a Jewish institution, serves only kosher food and is closed on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.

Since his electoral defeat, Carter has emerged as one of the most vicious opponents of the Jewish state, whose vile bias appears to stem from traditional Christian anti-Semitism. His theological approach even retains the odium of Jewish deicide and he is on record stating that Jews hate Christians because they are “unclean, uncircumcised,” and view them as “dogs.”

He was one of the principal architects of the campaign to demonize Israel as an “apartheid state” which led to 14 members of the Carter Center, including his former close adviser, Kenneth Stein, resigning and unequivocally accusing him of maliciously lying about Israel. Carter meets and embraces Hamas leaders, urging the US to negotiate with them. He also opposes efforts to deny Iran nuclear weapons.

Alan Dershowitz said that he could not “imagine a worse person to honor for conflict resolution.”

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He accused him of having “more blood on his hands than practically any other president” and could not understand how such a person, who “never met a terrorist he didn’t like,” could become the recipient of such an award.

Yet the administrators of Yeshiva University refused to rescind or even condemn the award to Carter. Their principal concern was to display political correctness and avoid being accused of restricting “academic freedom” or infringing on the rights of their students.

Chancellor Richard Joel declined to endorse the decision and unlike the dean of Cardozo, Professor Matthew Diller, courageously announced that he would absent himself from the proceedings. But he stressed that “Yeshiva University both celebrates and takes seriously its obligation at the university to thrive as a free marketplace of ideas, while remaining committed to its unique mission as a proud Jewish university.”

Needless to say, it would have been highly unlikely for Yeshiva University authorities to have stood aside and mumbled clichés about academic freedom had one of their student affiliates sought to honor a racist or right-wing extremist.

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There were major protests from Yeshiva University alumni and students. But the Jewish leadership establishment itself was incredibly restrained. Other than the Zionist Organization of America, no Jewish organization of substance called on the authorities at Yeshiva University to intervene or rescind the award.

ADL’s Abe Foxman remarked that the award was wrong, that it was inappropriate to honor Carter and that there was a need to “instill values” to ensure that “future mistakes like this will not be made.” But he stressed that “the university responded properly” by not intervening.

Even the outspoken Simon Wiesenthal Center, while blaming the students for failing to “exercise due diligence,” avoided calling on the university authorities to rescind the award.

IN CONTRAST, when a Jewish institution invites or honors controversial personalities on the radical political Right, or anyone out of favor with the liberal set, there are invariably widespread protests and condemnations. This was exemplified by the recent histrionic pressures and threats which led to the cancellation of the invitation extended to Pamela Geller, the outspoken campaigner against Islamic fundamentalism, to address Jewish organizations.  [………]

Regrettably, when it comes to those demonizing and delegitimizing Israel, the trend is for mainstream leaders to bury their heads in the sand, babble about freedom of expression and the need for dialogue and avoid confrontations. They rationalize this by insisting that the overriding objective must be to create a “big tent” encompassing the widest possible range of viewpoints, including those previously considered beyond the pale of the mainstream Jewish community.

During the Cold War, Jewish communists served as apologists for Stalinism and even applauded the execution of Jews on trumped-up charges. But they were deemed rogue elements.

In contrast, their successors who today engage in vicious anti-Israeli rhetoric, promote BDS (Boycotts, Divestments, Sanctions) and campaign to persuade the American administration to exert pressure on Israel are becoming integrated as legitimate components of the mainstream Jewish community, or are simply regarded as just another facet of a “pluralistic” Jewish community.

Yeshiva University is one of the most committed bastions of the Jewish community. When its management declines to overrule the unconscionable decision of its students to honor an anti-Semite, it highlights the extent to which the rot has already advanced and penetrated organizations purportedly promoting Jewish values and Jewish interests.

Thus one should not be surprised to learn that Hillel branches on some campuses host disgusting, Israel-demonizing groups such as “Breaking the Silence” and engage in kumbaya with Muslims hostile to the Jewish state.

Even a number of federations have set aside funds for anti-Israeli institutions and initiatives.

Increasingly, radical rabbis, synagogues and Jewish cultural organizations are hosting speakers who shamelessly defame Israel.

Most current Diaspora Jewish religious, political and cultural leaders were molded during an era when the Holocaust and the struggle to create a Jewish state still dominated public consciousness.

Now, many of these are reaching the age of retirement.

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When Jewish leaders stand aside or remain silent as elements hostile to the Jewish people and Israel are hosted or honored within the Jewish community, this invariably impacts on their core values. It will also legitimize and embolden Israel’s adversaries to intensify efforts to impose BDS, as exemplified last week when UC Berkeley student senators carried a resolution to that effect.

Jewish leaders committed to Jewish continuity who proclaim their love for Israel must agree upon certain codes of conduct. This has no bearing on freedom of expression. Nobody seeks to deny anyone the right to say what they please.

But if a community fails to draw red lines for its constituents, it will face chaos and anarchy and undermine the shared values which enabled the Jewish people to survive throughout the ages.

Read the rest –  American Jewish leaders: Stop the rot now

 

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Germans veering towards Anti-Semitism thanks to Progressives and Muslims

by Mojambo ( 72 Comments › )
Filed under Ahmadinejad, Anti-semitism, Germany, History, Holocaust, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Palestinians, World War II at March 5th, 2013 - 8:00 am

Given the left-wing culture running rampant through Western Europe, combined with a long and sad history of Jew hatred,  and a growing militant Muslim population, I cannot say that I am surprised. As the author states, Angela Merkel may be the last Chancellor of Germany even remotely sympathetic towards Jews and Israel.

by Isi Leibler

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, successive German governments have meticulously upheld their obligations to the Jewish people. Study of the Holocaust is a mandatory component of the German state education curriculum, Holocaust denial is classified as a crime and restitution commitments were honored and even exceeded.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is a genuine friend of the Jews and despite intense political pressures and occasional minor vacillations, has consistently supported Israel, describing its security as “part of my country’s raison d’etre”. However in recent years, as in other European countries, German public opinion has turned against Israel, perceiving it as the principal threat to global stability and peace. This hostility has increasingly assumed overt anti-Semitic tones.

There is growing resentment against Jews, who are blamed for imposing excessive emphasis on collective German national guilt for the Holocaust.

Anti-Jewish hostility is often expressed in the more ‘politically respectable’ demonization of the Jewish nation state, allegedly not related to anti-Semitism although the “Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe” (OSCE) explicitly defines such behavior as anti-Semitic.

The German left has accused Israel of war crimes, occupation and racism and also engages in inverse Holocaust imagery, enthusiastically condemning Israel for allegedly behaving towards the Palestinians as its Nazi forebears did to the Jews.

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These trends are fortified by the sizable Islamic migrant community – now numbering over four million – which aggressively agitates against Israel, utilizing obscene placards at demonstrations chanting “gas the Jews” or “death to the Jews”. Moslems are at the forefront of violence directed at identifiable Jews in urban areas, especially in Berlin, where some Jewish communal leaders are now recommending to avoid wearing kipot in public.

Yet, the government has welcomed the immigration of almost 200,000 former Soviet Jews and invested major funds to resurrect a vigorous Jewish communal life and foster Jewish education.

Despite receiving state subsidies, the Jewish leadership displays its independence and frequently speaks out if it considers the government is not fulfilling its obligations to the Jewish community or fails to act evenhandedly towards Israel.

However the intensification of extreme anti-Israeli hostility combined with a recent spate of disconcerting incidents has created angst within the Jewish community.

Last year, there was a traumatic national debate which assumed ugly anti-Semitic overtones after a judgment in Cologne ruled that male circumcision causes “bodily harm” and declared the practice illegal. The matter was only resolved following the direct intervention of Chancellor Merkel who initiated the passage of legislation legalizing circumcision.

In April 2012, in a provocative outburst, 84 year old Nobel Prize laureate Gunter Grass bitterly accused the Israeli government of seeking to obliterate the Iranian population. He warned that the Jewish state, which he considers ‘insane and unscrupulous’, represents the principal obstacle to peace in the region and called on his government to cancel delivery to Israel of the last Dolphin submarine.

Despite being discredited for having initially concealed that he had served as a member of the Nazi Waffen SS, Grass’s vicious attack on Israel, whilst condemned by numerous politicians and journalists, was enthusiastically endorsed by many Germans.

Shortly after that incident, the state-sponsored Berlin Jewish Museum invited Judith Butler, a notorious Jewish promoter of BDS against Israel, as a guest lecturer. Butler received enthusiastic applause from the 700-strong audience when, purporting to act in accordance with the highest Jewish moral values, she renewed calls to boycott Israel and ‘abolish political Zionism’ in order to create a bi-national Palestinian state.

To provide a platform for such an outspoken anti-Israeli activist at a state-sponsored Jewish Museum in Berlin is surely obscene but not unprecedented. Former Israeli communist Felicia Langer, lives in Germany where she condemns the German government for supporting Israel, constantly equates Israelis with Nazis, calls for Israeli leaders to be tried as war criminals, describes Israel as an apartheid regime and even praises Iranian President Ahmadinejad. In August 2009, German President Horst Kohler, who four years earlier had addressed the Knesset, shocked the Jewish community by honoring Langer with the Federal Cross of Merit, Germany’s most prestigious award.

In 2010, despite protests from the Israeli Embassy, Frankfurt’s Mayor Petra Roth invited Alfred Grosser, a German-born Jew known to be frenziedly hostile to Israel, to give the annual Kristallnacht oration in the Paul’s Church. He used the occasion to draw parallels between the behavior of Israelis and Nazis and was lauded by the media.

Another ongoing scandal prevails at the German Center on anti-Semitism in Berlin, considered the most important German institute engaged with the subject. Until last year it was headed by Professor Wolfgang Benz, who received his PhD from Professor Karl Bosl, a former Nazi storm trooper who maintains an ongoing association with right wing extremist groups. To this day, Benz continues defending his mentor.

Benz equates Islamophobia with anti-Semitism, alleging that critics of Islamic practice are reminiscent of Nazi anti-Semites attacking the Talmud. He recently challenged the fact that the Muslim terrorist murders in Toulouse had an “anti-Semitic dimension”. He dismisses concerns about the Moslem Brotherhood as being reminiscent of anti-Semitic phobias like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and bizarrely complains that drawing attention to the fact that Moslems comprise 70% of Berlin prison inmates is comparable to Hitler’s ravings over “the fact that 89% of Berlin pediatricians in the 1930s were Jews”.

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The most recent upheaval erupted in response to a list compiled by the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, purporting to identify the ten worst anti-Semitic statements of 2012. It included President Ahmadinejad, the Moslem Brotherhood, Nation of Islam founder, Louis Farrakhan and European anti-Semites. Ninth on the list was Jakob Augstein, publisher of the magazine Der Freitag, who also provides columns to Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading weekly, founded by his father.

I have an aversion to simplistic lists prioritizing bigots and having reviewed some of Augstein’s outbursts, I consider that bracketing him with Ahmadinejad or Farrakhan absurdly magnifies his standing and impact.  […….]

Augstein alleges that when “Jerusalem calls, Berlin bows its will”; that US presidents were obliged to “secure the support of Jewish lobby groups”; that American Republicans and the Israeli government profit from violence in Libya, Sudan and Yemen; that “the Netanyahu government keeps the world on a leash with an ever swelling war chant”; that “Israel incubates its opponents in Gaza”; that the recent Prophet Mohammed video provoking riots was initiated by Israel; that ultra-Orthodox Jews are like Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and “follow the law of revenge”.

Even the broadest interpretation of the OSCE definition would qualify such demonization of Israel and allusions to Jewish global power as anti-Semitic.

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Prominent German Jewish writer and commentator, Henryk Broder, was sufficiently outraged to describe Augstein as “a pure anti-Semite… who only missed the opportunity to make his career with the Gestapo because he was born after the war”.

The president of the Jewish Central Council of Jews, Dieter Graumann, whilst condemning his “horrible, hideous” articles on Israel, criticized his placement on such a list. His vice president, Salomon Korn, went further and foolishly defended Augstein against charges of anti-Semitism.

Juliane Wetzel from the German Center on anti-Semitism was amongst those who rejected suggestions that Augstein was disseminating hatred of Jews. Overall, the bulk of the German media, as well as both leftist and CDU politicians defended him, insisting that he was merely expressing legitimate criticism of Israel.

It was significant that in 2010, two Bundestag leftist representatives were aboard the Turkish Marvi Marmara and that for the first time, the left and the right united in parliament to carry a unanimous resolution censuring Israel for the Gaza flotilla episode.  […….]

For Jews, the positive side of Germany is the evident abundance of pro-Israeli and even philo-Semitic rank and file Germans in all walks of life. Yet, simultaneously the intensifying efforts by left wing activists uniting with Moslem extremists and occasionally even Nazis, to demonize Israel and promote anti-Semitism, provide valid grounds for concern about a future for Jews in Germany.

The situation is likely to further deteriorate drastically after the culmination of Angela Merkel’s term as Chancellor.

Read the rest – Germans lurching towards Anti-Semitism

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Argentina’s involvement in a cynical plot to whitewash the murder of its own citizens

by Mojambo ( 165 Comments › )
Filed under Argentina, Hezballah, Iran, Islamic Terrorism, Israel at February 13th, 2013 - 11:00 am

Cristina Kirchner is rapidly becoming one of the more repellant leaders in Latin America.  The Iranian tentacles in South America thanks to Hugo Chavez seem to be growing.

by Isi Liebler

Argentina’s President Cristina Kirchner has jettisoned whatever was left of her country’s moral standing by consummating a devil’s pact with Iran, whose leaders were responsible for having inflicted the worst ever act of terrorism on her citizen.

In March 1992, the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires suffered a terrorist bombing attack which killed 29 and wounded 242 people. Two years later, in July 1994, a second bombing attack targeted the Jewish community center (AMIA) killing 85 and injuring hundreds.

There were protracted investigations and eventually two Argentinian prosecutors, Alberto Nisman and Marcelo Burgos, formally accused the Iranian government of orchestrating the attacks. In 2007 the Argentinian government even issued arrest warrants for six Iranians accused of involvement, one of whom is currently the Defense Minister, Ahmad Vahidi and another is former President Ali Rafsanjani. […..] None of them were apprehended and, not surprisingly, Iran adamantly refused to cooperate.

Over time, evidence emerged exposing corruption and indicating that a cover up had taken place. A judge was impeached for bribery and there were allegations that the Iranian intelligence service had deposited $10 million in a Swiss bank account held by former President Carlos Menem in return for his hushing up the affair. In March 2012, Menem was ordered to stand trial for obstruction of justice, but to date there has been no further progress.

In 2005, President Nester Kirchner, the late husband of the current president, described Argentina’s failure to move forward in this matter as a “national disgrace”.

But now, his widow and successor, President Cristina Kirchner, in a shocking reversal, has brought Argentinian political decadence to a climax by consummating a pact with the Iranians to create a joint “truth commission” in order to investigate the AMIA terrorist attack by the “judicial authorities of Argentina and Iran… and issue a report with recommendations about how the case should proceed”. Lest there were any doubts as to the outcome, the statement unashamedly stressed that the project would be “based on the laws and regulations of both countries”.

Ironically, President Kirchner announced this diabolical pact with the murderers of Argentinian civilians who were targeted as Jews – on January 27, International Holocaust Memorial Day.

Furthermore, in her statement President Kirchner stressed that she would “never allow the AMIA tragedy to be used as a chess piece in a game of faraway geopolitical interests” – clearly conveying Argentina’s opposition to efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.

That the Argentinian leaders could collaborate with such a cynical whitewashing of the murder of their own citizens and create a “truth commission” with a wretched despotic regime promoting Holocaust denial, should lead to the condemnation of the Argentinian government by the civilized world.  [……..]

Underlying this move are the economic problems Argentina is facing in relation to its debts to the World Bank and other global institutions. As far back as March 2011, there were media reports alleging that Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timmerman had offered to freeze the AMIA inquiry in return for an upgrade in economic relations with Iran. It was also alleged that Timmerman had proposed that Syrian President Bashar Assad could act as an intermediary to facilitate such a deal. A purportedly leaked cable from Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Salehi was quoted stating “Argentina is no longer interested in solving those two attacks, but in exchange prefers improving its economic relations with Iran”.

The current Argentinian Jewish communal leaders are a far cry from their courageous predecessors who led the community until the 1980s. Yet, despite being intimidated by Timmerman, they still conveyed muted distress concerning their government’s shameful whitewash of the Iranians responsible for cold-blooded murder of their kinsmen.

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According to a report in Ha’aretz, this resulted in an enraged almost hysterical response by Foreign Minister Timmerman who summoned the Israeli ambassador, Dorit Shavit, and accused her government of providing “ammunition to anti-Semites who accused Jews of dual loyalties”. He added “Israel has no right to demand explanations. We are a sovereign state and Israel is not entitled to speak on behalf of the Jewish people and does not represent it”.

Shavit responded that Israel was entitled to be concerned about the welfare of Jews throughout the world and reminded Timmerman about his own family’s relationship with Israel.

Timmerman’s father Jacobo, an Argentinian Jew, had been the editor of “La Opinion” a leftist weekly newsmagazine. His involvement with a questionable investment banker was either the basis or the pretext for being arrested by the right wing military junta controlling the country at the time. He was subject to torture and held in solitary confinement. He alleged, probably with just cause, that anti-Semitism was a factor in his arrest but lost the plot when he argued that the right-wing military dictatorship represented a genocidal threat to the Jews.

It was as a result of the secret intervention of Israeli authorities, including the ambassador, that he was released in 1979 and came to Israel where he wrote a book outlining his persecution in Argentina titled “Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number”.

However, a few years later in 1983 he published a second book brutally attacking Israel’s policies in relation to the Lebanon war and accusing Prime Minister Menahem Begin of destroying the moral integrity of the Jewish people and transforming Israelis into “efficient criminals”. [……..] Shortly after publishing his tirade, he left Israel and died in Buenos Aires in 1999.

His hatred and lack of appreciation to Israel for saving his life was bequeathed to his son Hector. Prior to becoming Foreign Minister, Hector’s Jewish background is alleged to have been a major factor contributing to his appointment as Argentina’s Consul General in New York where he developed relations with influential members of the Jewish community.

As Foreign Minister, Timmerman presents himself as a devoted supporter of human rights. Yet he played a central role on behalf of the Argentinian regime in sanitizing the Iranian murderers of his own people. Orchestrating such a pact with one of the world’s worst abusers of human rights makes a mockery of his fake moral pretensions.

He also clearly relishes attacking Israel, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the Jewish state was responsible for saving his father’s life. Only last month, he compared the UK’s control of the Falkland Islands, which Argentina claims, to Israel’s “colonial” control of the West bank.

It is nauseating to see such despicable behavior by the Argentinian government being implemented by a politically far left Jewish scoundrel.

Read the rest – Argentina’s pact with the devil

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