In Europe today, there are chilling echoes of 1938.
The infamous pogrom known as Kristallnacht -- "the Night of Broken Glass" -- rocked Germany's Jewish neighborhoods on the nights of November 9th and 10th. Nazi youth gangs destroyed thousands of Jewish homes and businesses and more than a hundred synagogues were razed.
Item: In Brussels, a synagogue on Monday was firebombed by unknown assailants. No injuries were reported, but there was considerable damage.
Item: In Marseilles, the Or Aviv synagogue was destroyed Sunday night. It was burnt to the ground.
Item: In Lyons, during the wee hours of Saturday morning, over a dozen masked youths, in two stolen cars, crashed the gates of a synagogue, setting the cars ablaze in the inner courtyard. Thankfully, in this instance, firemen arrived in time.
But there's more.
Again on Saturday, a kosher butcher shop in Toulouse was fired upon by a gunman, while in Berlin, on Tuesday, two Jewish American tourists were beaten to the ground by a gang of Mideast assailants who first asked the couple if they were Jewish. The attackers remain at large.
In Strasbourg, arson destroyed the wooden doors to a Jewish prayer house, the fifth such attack in four days.
What's happening here?
For years, Europe had fostered a climate of anti-Semitism with its unabashed support for "Palestinian" nationalism and by its relentless Jew-bashing in the press (always, of course, in the clever guise of criticism of Israel).
Europe is reaping the whirlwind for blatant anti-Semitism -- that's what's happening here.
Yet, Europe still doesn't 'get it'. Despite the mounting evidence -- damning evidence -- implicating their darling golden-boy Arafat as a terrorist, they continue to mouth-off worn platitudes about a "peace process" demanding greater 'engagement' from us.
Meanwhile, Europe continues in its orgy of Sharon-bashing, even as waves of suicide bombers attack crowded Pizzerias, malls, shopping centers, buses and night clubs.
"Nie Wieder" is German for 'Never again'. Survivors of the Holocaust vowed that it would never happen again. Auschwitz -- never again. Treblinka -- never again. Birkenau -- never again. Buchenwald -- never again.
Without this historical background, it is impossible to understand Israel's gallant, dauntless determination to survive. Even in the face of international condemnation and censure, this tiny country remains resolute, unwavering, unflinching. Israel has been blacklisted, upbraided, lectured at, reproached, rebuked, castigated and decried, but her people remain tenacious as ever.
In fact, the louder the fulminations -- the more the world gangs up on her -- the stauncher, the firmer Israel's people become.
Small wonder they're not fooled by Arafat in the least. They know that behind that carefully crafted public persona, lies a terrorist.
And how right they are.
Arafat is a murderer, a cruel and pitiless brute bereft of even a smidgen of human compassion. He is the implacable archenemy of peace, if peace means tolerance or acceptance of Jews, whom he loathes with venom -- the poison of a thousand vipers.
Arafat is an insatiable cutthroat, a serial killer, whose voracious complicity in genocide marks him -- not as a statesman -- but an international war criminal, every bit like the cracked Nazi butchers he emulates.
From Arafat's deathly hands, drips the blood of innocents, spilled by a madman's unfettered hate, his animus to rout from his fiefdom all traces of Jewry.
Arafat is ethnic-cleansing-xenophobia personified, whose zero-tolerance vision is of "Palestine" purged of Jewish "infidels" where Jews are told to "get out, and stay out!"
To Arafat, this callous, caustic, cold-hearted fiend, Jews are not human beings.
You heard right.
I'll repeat: Jews, to Arafat, are not human beings.
Arafat is a preacher of hate. Like Hitler, he poisons young minds with fear -- fear of Jews. Like the Nazis, he wraps his "cause" in the cloak of victimization, of nationalist "struggle" against "Zionist" "oppression" -- the Jewish "menance". From Arafat's paranoid rantings, "Palestinians" are molded to think that Jews are "conspiring" to "rule" the world.
He wields this fear and hate as bridges to action. But before he can muster his storm-troopers into waves of suicide bombers, he methodically dehumanizes the "enemy" -- the Jews.
The process of dehumanization is enabled by Arafat's stranglehold monopoly over the media. In the "territories," the airwaves are saturated with torrents of anti-Jewish hate-mongering, laced in the fervor of radical Islam. Propaganda is everywhere. Radio and television, as well as newspapers, books and magazines all reinforce Arafat's message of hate.
Killing Jews is not only sanctioned, it is elevated to an act of religious duty, with promises of rich rewards in the "hereafter".
Bottom line: Israel followed every jot and tittle of the phony Oslo Accords. Israel offered "Palestinians" almost everything they said they wanted. But what did Israel get for her troubles?
Twenty-one months of murder, mayhem, death and destruction -- that's what.
It's not fair, it's not right, it's not moral.
And it will not stand.
Never again.
My two cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Copyright Enrique N. ©2001
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