Posted on 02/01/2008 9:01:44 AM PST by kronos77
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday, the UN put on display an exhibit paying tribute to the Righteous of Albania who risked all to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust. The exhibit arrived at the UN from Yad Vashem, where it was on display for two months. While the Righteous of any nation indeed should be acknowledged and commemorated, the problem with the exhibit is its underlying agenda. Jews, along with the Albanian Righteous of WWII, are being used by the Albanians of today to advance a racially supremacist end game in the Balkans, where world wars start—and cost principally Jewish and Serbian lives.
The timing on this exhibit is very specific. An independent Kosovo is within Albanian grasp, and the Albanians learned early on—starting with the Bosnian and Croatian wars followed by the Kosovo war—that selling the Jews on your version of an ethnic rivalry can open doors. Indeed, 70 million Croatian, Bosnian and Albanian dollars spent on PR firms targeting major Jewish organizations managed to bring Jewish support on the side of an openly Nazi-nostalgist Croatia of the 1990s whose president (Franjo Tudjman) had written a Holocaust-denying book implicating the Jews themselves in Holocaust deaths. The PR also succeeded in bringing Jewish support to the side of a Muslim Bosnia whose president (Alija Izetbegovic) had written the Islamic Declaration (affirming the incompatibility of a Muslim state and Western values). And it brought Jewish support on board a Hezbollah-assisted, bin Laden-financed and -trained Kosovo Liberation Army—against the Serbs, who were killed together with Jews in concentration camps.
Behind the Jews, the Serbs were also targeted people for elimination during WWII, and while Jews and Serbs died together in Axis power Croatia’s Jasenovac camp complex, Albanians and Bosnians formed their own volunteer SS units.
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Kronos, I thought I had pledged this sorority.
World Wars cost principally Jewish and Serbian lives? 22 million dead Russians would probably dispute that contention, if they could.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
Yes. However, because Russia played on both sides -- first Germany's, then the Allied side -- no one sees them as "victims".
And because Russia sees itself as "the victor of WWII", they don't even really see themselves as "victims" or promote that idea.
The thinking today is quite different than the thinking of times past. In earlier times, those who were killed while battling for their country used to be seen as "dead heroes for the cause". Today, identical events would produce "victims".
Also millions of dead Japanese, Germans, Chinese, etc.
I have no personal stake in Balkan rivalries; it was just a very bizarre claim that the author made!
""Jews, along with the Albanian Righteous of WWII, are being used by the Albanians of today to advance a racially supremacist end game in the Balkans, where world wars startand cost principally Jewish and Serbian lives."
"In the Balkans", Julia is absolutely correct.
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I hadn’t applied the modifier to the sentence after the dash.
“World wars start in the Balkans, where they cost principally Jewish and Serbian lives.”
The Nazis not only targeted Serbs, but also Poles and Russians. Concentration camps in Poland were full of both of them, in addition to Jews.
Now the same Slavophobic ideology not only reigns among Balkan muslims, but in a different form in our own State Department, and among many professional Balkan and East European “experts”.
And, unfortunately we Christians have counterparts to the Jewish muslim described in the article—”mainline” dhimmis and even worse—islamoChristians like the late George Habash. Then there are those islamoChristian “bishops” of the Lutheran, Anglican etc. churches in the Holy Land.
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1 February 2008 | 09:50 -> 12:22 | Source: Beta
BRUSSELS -- Javier Solanas spokeswoman says it is not time yet to consider a date for determining Kosovos future status.
"These are not the days for dates," the EU high representative's spokeswoman Christina Gallach told Tanjug in Brussels, adding that a number of dates had been touted for sending a future EU police and justice mission to the province, not to mention for the independence declaration, but that for the time being they were all in the realm of "speculation."
However, we are making preparations for action in the field, whatever the future may hold, she pointed out, stressing that "the key is for everyone to stay calm, and for the process to be conducted in a coordinated manner."
Asked when the EU would debate the issue of the mission to Kosovo, Gallach said that the topic would be broached in the coming months, including at the upcoming meeting of the European Union Council of Ministers on February 18.
Romania to oppose Kosovo independence
Romanian President Traian Basescu has reiterated that his country will not recognize Kosovo independence.
He said that recognizing Kosovo would send a bad message to minorities, and would represent a violation of international law.
My country will not be able to recognize an independence proclamation by Kosovo on any level whether coordinated or unilaterally proclaimed, Basescu told reporters in Brussels after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
What kind of message is that to send a multi-ethnic society or countries faced with ethnic problems or frozen conflicts? the Romanian president asked.
We could be violating the UN charter and Helsinki Act which have guaranteed 60 years of peace in Europe, he continued.
He met with Scheffer to discuss the forthcoming NATO summit scheduled to be held in Bucharest in April.
Meanwhile, in Helsinki, Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis has said that her country will not withdraw its opposition to Kosovo independence under any circumstances.
Spain continues to maintain its reserved line towards the problem as it fears that Kosovo independence "could stir Basque and other national minority separatist tension in Spain," said Prime Minister Jose Zapatero.
There are differences between civilian war causalities and those deliberately exterminated for belonging to a particular faith or race.
Jews, Orthodox Christian Serbs and Roma were targeted because of who they were.
True, true, true.
Sure, that's true. I had just misinterpreted the author's statement about numbers of deaths.
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