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To: *balkans; Tamodaleko; Destro; joan
and all other Balkan freepers...

Sad but true...curious to hear some comments
2 posted on 11/23/2002 7:40:07 AM PST by kosta50
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To: kosta50; *balkans; Tamodaleko; Destro; joan
You have completely misread the content of the exhibit, and the article itself. If you are a Christian, you should know your commandments and not be so quick to defame people.

Firstly, the article is not about the Holocaust but about the exhibit, and half of it is about the content and background of the exhibit:

Officials hope the exhibit — 40 panels documenting the Holocaust, from the rise of Nazism in 1933 to survivors’ postwar struggles — will travel through Croatia after its stint in Zagreb.

Thus, the exhibit is about much, much more than one particular camp in any one country.

Secondly, the article gives extensive quotations to describe the view of the exhibit and the perceptions of Holocaust by the current government. It appears that there is a great deal of denial, which Mesic addressed thus: " This is not an exhibition for those who know but for those who do not know, and even more so for those who do not wish to know.” It is also clear that this is not without foundation: the article reports a demonstration that goes beyond denial by adopting the motto: “Jews out of Croatia.”

We are now at the last fifth of the article. It gives a positive note saying essentially that the current government has taken a moral position of true leadership: “President Mesic’s leadership role on these issues has been outstanding…" As is typical for newspaper articles, it gives the background, statistical data at the end. The third sentence from the end:
Some 75 percent of Croatia’s 40,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, most by Croatian collaborators.
This quantifies the size of the tragedy that befell the Jewish people.

Continuing the positive tone, that the current government does deal with the terrible past, the article cites this fact in the second sentence from the end:
Dinko Sakic, who served as one of the commanders of the Jasenovac concentration camp, was convicted in October 1999…
This is the first mention of a Jasenovac in the article.

Putting the tragedy of the Jewish people into the broader perspective of the suffering inflicted at the time, the article, in its last sentencegives background information on the camp:
About 85,000 people, including 18,000 Jews, were murdered at Jasenovac, considered the worst Croatian/Ustasha concentration camp.

The emphasis of the sentence is on people, and the numbers show clearly that the Jews were a minority of victims in that particular camp. Thus, you have completely misrepresented the article. If anything, you told us a great deal about yourself. To begin, you have no clue about the basic premises of writing. You could not even identify the topic of the article. You attributed a different objective to the article and then criticized it for the failure to achieve that objective. I do not know you and do not know your motives. But what you actually said is the exact pattern of those who yell "Jews out." Firstly, to you every article you see is about the Holocaust; this one was not. Secondly, suppose you were right and the article were poorly written -- why not to say so? Instead, to you it was about "the Jews." All of them. Just to leave us no doubt, you say,
"One can only wonder what sinister motive would a global Jewish news service have to do so..

Oh, I can tell you right away what motives: it's all a part of a vast Jewish conspiracy. Most Jews gather every Friday night and pretend that they are praying. Actually, they first go out and kill a few gentile children to make and then get together and hear reports on the progress of taking over the world.

This is a familiar story to which you have alluded. This is the company you keep.

Please drop pretenses: you are not after the matters of principle. If you were, and if you were a good Christian, you would be deeply ashamed of perpetrating a terrible accusation without a shred of evidence: this is a direct violation of a basic commandment.

Thank G-d that bigotry in people like you is so obvious. It's some others that I worry about.

4 posted on 11/23/2002 9:07:45 AM PST by TopQuark
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