Maryland historian links roots of radical Islam with Nazi propaganda

No doubt. Mohammedans were firmly in love with Hitler, so much so, that 20,000 Muslims volunteered to fight in the Muslim S.S. division named the Handzar" (scimitar) division, which was brutal in the ethnic cleansing of the Serbian regions in eastern Bosnia. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin el Husseini, in addition to the carnage he engineered against Jews during the murderous campaign against them in 1920, 1929 and 1936, willfully planned, assembled, organized, and killed Jews in Hungary and Croatia with the assistance of those 20,000 Muslims during World War II with Hitler's assistance. Via JPost:

"A confluence of Nazi anti-Semitism and Muslim fundamentalism did take place during the war which was a mixture of ideological affinity and shared political interests," said Prof. Jeffrey Herf of the University of Maryland during a recent lecture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism.

"Though Nazi Germany failed in its military and propaganda advances in the Middle East, the ideas it conveyed to the Arabs found adherence," Herf said, pointing to the charter of Hamas, which was established in 1987 and grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated calls for the destruction of Israel.

Herf, whose forthcoming book deals with Nazi Germany's propaganda aimed at the Middle East, said that while Islamic extremism could have emerged without Nazism it played an important role in its development.

Today in Jewish History - Shvat 3

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In 1933, Adolph Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. The November 1932 elections saw the Nazis emerge as the largest party in the Reichstag. Leading German politicians and businessmen persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor, as a way to stabilize the government and economy. Hindenburg reluctantly agreed. Two months later, the Nazis passed the Enabling Act, giving Hitler dictatorial authority. Hitler's government then banned all other political parties, and in July 1933, a Concordat (agreement) was signed with the Vatican. Hitler secured popular support by persuading Germans that he was their savior from the Depression, the Communists, the Versailles Treaty, and the Jews. Hitler would use this power to launch World War II and oversee the murder of 6 million Jews.

Hitler's Forgotten Castle: Finishing School for Nazis to Become Museum

From Der Spiegel:

A forgotten monument to Hitler's ideology has emerged from a 70-year time warp -- a castle built in the 1930s to train a new Nazi elite. Vacated by the Belgian army last year, it sheds light on the systematic brainwashing that churned out a generation of fanatics. Now it's being spruced up to teach visitors about the perils of indoctrination.

Deep in the Eifel region of western Germany, a stone-clad reminder of Hitler's racist ideology towers above the surrounding wooded hills -- the remains of a training college for aspiring Nazi leaders that was built in the style of a medieval castle.

"NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang" (Vogelsang National Socialist Castle) is a dour arrangement of barracks, community halls and sports arenas hugging a steep slope down to a scenic reservoir. It was built between 1934 and 1936 to give selected Nazi party members aged between 25 and 30 a solid grounding in the superiority of the German race and its need for "Lebensraum" in the east.

Vogelsang, which means "Birdsong," was off limits to the public until last year when it was handed back to the German government by the Belgian army, which had used it as a barracks and training area for almost 50 years after World War II.

The handover has confronted the German government with the difficult question of how to handle a sprawling 50,000 square meter site filled with an embarrassing wealth of more or less intact Nazi symbols, murals and statues including a monstrous five-meter high Germanic "Torch Bearer."

The whole place is Nazi ideology hewn into stone. It shows how the Nazis stole from ancient Greek and Roman styles, Christian symbols and Germanic legends and mixed them up with modern functional designs. The result was an architectural mishmash that was as ludicrous as the pseudo-religious philosophy it was supposed to represent.

Click here to read the full article.

Hitler May Be Stripped of German Citizenship

Yeah, I had to read the title more than once myself. An excerpt from Der Spiegel:

Almost 62 years after his death, Adolf Hitler could lose his German citizenship. A German politician from Braunschweig wants to revoke the Nazi leader's 1932 naturalization -- as a "symbolic step." Adolf Hitler became a German citizen in 1932. Now a German politician from Braunschweig -- a former stronghold of the Nazi party -- wants to strip him of his citizenship. When Adolf Hitler was awarded German citizenship, he abruptly brushedoff the congratulations: "You should congratulate Germany, not me!"

Three quarters of a century later, Isolde Saalmann, a Social Democratic member of Lower Saxony's regional parliament, would like nothing better than to rescind this momentous bureaucratic act. The Austrian-born Führer, who has been dead for almost 62 years, should no longer be a German, in her view. Stripping him of his citizenship would be a "symbolic step," Saalmann believes.

Who was Eddie Chapman?

See-Dubya, who is subbing in for Michele Malkin on her blog while she hunts down Jamil Hussein who might, or might not exist, writes about the Times of London which is suggesting the theory was that since Hitler's crazy-evil leadership was hampering the German war effort, it was in the Allies' interest to keep him alive and not let someone more competent take over. This may be the reasoning behind a real-life decision by the Brits not to promote a suicide mission to kill Hitler by a safecracker and explosives expert named Eddie Chapman. Chapman had been sprung from prison in the Jersey Islands by the Germans, who recruited him as a spy. Chapman promptly defected to MI5 and volunteered to use the trust of his German spymasters to get close to Hitler and blow him up. Instead, he went back and served out the war as a double agent working for England, but so convincing that the Germans gave him an Iron Cross. Read about it here.

Iranian official says Hitler was a founder of Israel

It is important to observe the desperate measures Jew-haters will resort to in order to villify their enemies. A senior advisor to Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed in an interview with the Iranian website "Baztab" that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's parents were both Jewish and that Hitler himself was one of the founders of the State of Israel, according to the translation of a report published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Wake Up America Before It's Too Late

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE:

In WWII, Hitler's leadership convinced the Neutral German People to

kill 6,000,000 Jews,
kill 6,000,000 Christians,
and kill 5,600,000 Polish people.

His leadership convinced the Neutral German People the Jews were responsible for Germany's economic problems.

If Hitler could create such carnage with his leadership, just imagine what Osama bin Laden's leadership can do with 23% of the entire world's population of Neutral Muslims, armed with human bombers and 21st Century Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Weapons.

The root of Bin Laden's leadership is based upon the entire Moslem religion being totally dysfunctional, by any standard of modern culture. Consequently, the dysfunctional fringe can be recruited as terrorist bombers to resolve their 1,400 years of shackled freedom.

Now, if there is a worldwide Economic collapse – which is highly probable - rendering the disenfranchised Muslims becoming even more isolated and culturally deprived, Bin Laden will have an even more willing Neutral Muslim population to recruit new bombers to help destroy Western Civilization.

And for icing on the cake, hundreds of millions of dollars of Middle East oil money will continue to fund the terrorists who are recruited. This means that large sums of money will continue to go to the families of martyred terrorists, thereby facilitating family approval of this inhuman cultural cancer.

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -- Winston Churchill

When it comes to Holocaust denial and other untruths, remember this

Holocaust denial is being treated as a legitimate alternative viewpoint when in fact it is a falsification of history. When you're speaking about indisputable historical facts, there is no alternative. Holocaust denial is nothing more than hatred disguised as an interpretation of history.

See, without such hatred, Arabs, Muslims, [and yes, Christians] wouldn't be able to incite and commit acts of violence against Jews. Their goal is to delegitimize Jews, Judaism, and of course, Israel. One must re-define Jews as "cancers", "virus", "Christ-killers", "hook-nosed kikes", "rats", "demons", "baby-killers", etc. in order to hate them so that it is easier to kill them. Goebbels knew this well and so did the Germans and the rest of Europe who inhaled Hitler's euphoria when he spoke about Jews and Germany's pressing need to rid itself of them.

See, the Arab world’s grievance against Israel has little to do with territory and political authority. It has to do instead with the very existence of Jews living in the Middle East. For others, it has to do with the very existence that Jews exist at all. Why then, did Arabs murder 67 Jews while they were praying in a synagogue in their Jewish Holy City of Hebron in 1929?

The Holocaust denial conference held this week - and don't be mistaken - there have been several dozen held over the years - is just another sick-minded expression by Islamists, but it's not unusual. Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic feasts are typical fare in the Islamic diet.

Irwin Cotler writes "Let there be no doubt about it, those who would seek to deny the Jewish people their past are the same people who, if given the chance, would deny the Jewish people their future."

Folks, I ask of you - and what you must ask of your friends, co-workers, and acquaintances - is to learn the background and history of the Middle East and the essence of the political movement of Islam. When you hear that "international law" is always violated by Israel, but terrorist attacks and suicide bombings merit no mention, bring that hypocrisy up. When someone mentions that Iran is a democracy, remind them that it is not a democracy but an Islamic theocracy and that women are stoned in Iran. Bring that up. If you hear that Jews and Christians are not persecuted in the Middle East then remind them that Jews and Christians are forced to pay the jiziya tax as part of their subjugation.

With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons, he can accomplish in one afternoon what it took Hitler six years to do: kill 6 million people. Moreso, everyone knows where Iran's nuclear weapons will be pointed, and everyone knows that if the button is ever pushed, it will be the end of Israel. And the end of Western civilization.

If you are exposed to ideas and comments that are patently untrue, such as the idea that the attacks on the 9/11 were justified or that they were America’s fault, or that Jews did it, then fight back. Only then can you verbally defend against terror and murder carried out in the name of Islam and help ensure the survival of Western civilization.

If you remain silent, then it would seem you prefer it that way. If I could, I would save your life. Would you try to save mine?

What is the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY)?

From Discover The Network:

The World Assembly of Muslim Youth, founded by bin Laden's nephew, this youth group seeks "to teach our children to love taking revenge on the Jews".

• Saudi-based Islamic organization with chapters in 55 countries
• Founded by Osama bin Laden’s nephew
• Holds conferences and distributes literature promoting jihad and anti-Semitism
• Raises funds for Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas
• Has been linked to both the 9/11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing

A non-governmental youth and student group affiliated with the United Nations, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) defines itself as "an independent organization and Islamic forum that supports the work of Muslim organizations and needy communities the world over." While WAMY's international headquarters are located in Saudi Arabia, the organization also maintains satellite chapters in 55 additional countries and is affiliated with some 500 other Muslim youth groups on five continents.

Specifically, WAMY aims to achieve the following: “Preserve the identity of Muslim youth and help overcome the problems they face in modern society”; “educate and train them in order for them to become active and positive citizens in their countries”; “introduce Islam to non-Muslims in its purest form as a comprehensive system and way of life”; “establish a relationship of dialogue, understanding and appreciation between Muslim organizations and the western societies”; and “provide assistance to Muslim and non-Muslim organizations to fulfil [sic] these goals through training and cooperation.”

Toward these ends, WAMY holds regional and local Muslim youth and student camps; helps to establish Muslim scout groups; organizes conferences, symposia, workshops and research circles “to address youth and students issues”; publishes books, brochures, reports, and exhibition material “that best introduce Islam to non-Muslims in its holistic vision”; organizes exchange visits, Hajj and Umra trips; and provides training and support to Muslim youth organizations around the world. These activities have earned WAMY the designation of “humanitarian and relief-works organization” from the United Nations.

The World Assembly of Muslim Youth is also one of the vehicles through which the Saudi Wahhabi government funds Islamic extremism and international terrorism. WAMY was co-founded by Kamal Helwabi, a former senior member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and by Osama bin Laden's nephew, Abdullah bin Laden (who served as WAMY's President through 2002 and is now its Treasurer). WAMY raises funds for the terrorist group Hamas, and in October 2002 made Hamas leader Khaled Mash'al an “honored guest” at a Muslim youth and globalization conference held in Riyadh. WAMY also helps finance the Kashmir insurgency against India, characterizing it as a "liberation" movement.

A Saudi opposition group reports that WAMY disseminates literature encouraging “religious hatred and violence against Jews, Christians, Shi’a and Ashaari Muslims.” As WAMY puts it, this literature is expressly designed "to teach our children to love taking revenge on the Jews and the oppressors, and teach them that our youngsters will liberate Palestine and Jerusalem when they go back to Islam and make jihad for the sake of Allah." Some WAMY publications have included interviews with Saudi clerics such as Ayed al-Qarni, an adviser to Saudi Prince Fahd. In one such interview, al-Qarni stated that he prays for America's destruction daily, that he encourages students to go to Iraq to fight against U.S. forces, and that those who cannot go should at least contribute money to the cause. Another WAMY publication features a list of "martyrs" who have attacked and murdered Israelis; one of the individuals on this list is a man who drove 14 bus passengers off a cliff as a member of the group "Heroes from Palestine."

Investigations of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center uncovered, in an apartment of one of the terrorists, an envelope marked "WAMY" along with a training manual on how to set up terrorist cells in other countries and stage attacks.WAMY came under FBI scrutiny after 9/11, when it was determined that a radiologist, Dr. Al Badr al-Hamzi, whose credit card was found among the possessions of the hijackers, was receiving funding from the organization. The Senate Finance Committee requested that the IRS examine WAMY's U.S. branch for links to terrorism. WAMY was also named in a trillion-dollar lawsuit by the families of the victims of 9/11.

In May 2004, federal law-enforcement, immigration, and anti-terrorism agents raided WAMY's Alexandria, Virginia office, seizing all of its computers and hard drives, and arresting a volunteer board member on immigration charges. WAMY had been operating out of the office of Jamal Barzinji, who was involved with a total of seven organizations that were raided by federal agents in connection with terrorist financing. After the raid on its office, WAMY likened itself to the YMCA, saying that it was interested only in "youth education, youth development, and serving the Muslim community."

Though WAMY's activities in the United States were derailed, its operations elsewhere in the world continue unabated -- in many instances with the help of other, likeminded organizations. For example, WAMY's efforts in Somalia are supported by the "Christian charities" Novib and Oxfam, which are based in the United Kingdom and Holland, respectively.

One of WAMY's closest affiliates is the European Council for Fatwa and Research, which aims to spread fundamentalist Islam and implement Shari'a (Islamic Law) worldwide. Another organization with intimate ties to WAMY is the Muslim Students' Association of the U.S. and Canada. And four directors of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) -- including Anwar Ibrahim, a terror-supporting Malaysian Islamist who co-founded IIIT -- are trustees of WAMY.

In December 1999, WAMY announced at a press conference in Saudi Arabia that it "was extending both moral and financial support to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) "to help it construct its $3.5 million headquarters in Washington, D.C." WAMY also agreed to "introduce CAIR to Saudi philanthropists and recommend their financial support for the headquarters project." In 2002, CAIR and WAMY jointly announced, again from Saudi Arabia, their collaboration on a $1 million public-relations campaign.

Islam scholar Stephen Schwartz calls WAMY “the Saudi equivalent of the Hitler Youth: a hate-mongering, ultra-extremist group preaching, among other niceties, that Shia Muslims are not real Muslims, but products of a Jewish conspiracy.” The website Militant Islam Monitor characterizes the organization as “part of the Saudi Wahhabist 'Jihad through conversion' drive.”

Pope Pius XII said in 1941 "Be proud to be a Jew!" + article from Palestine Post, 1944

(This newsflash will be followed by a full-scale commentary by Doino, in an upcoming issue of Inside the Vatican magazine, in which he evaluates the importance of this testimony for Pius XII studies, recounts the story of the shipwrecked Jewish refugees, the Vatican's support for them, and gives clues as to whom the anonymous Jewish author might be. To subscribe, click here or, in the USA, call the toll-free number 1-800-789-9494.)

Pope Pius XII: "Be proud to be a Jew!"

In a remarkable historical find, testimony has emerged revealing that, in 1941, Pope Pius XII received a German Jewish visitor at the Vatican who was seeking help for certain Jews who were being held in an Italian internment camp.

After welcoming the young man and promising him help, Pius told him not once but twice--in emotional language, in front of a large group that included German soldiers--"Be proud to be a Jew!"

The amazing testimony, written as a first-hand account by an anonymous Jewish author in wartime Palestine, originally appeared on April 28, 1944 in The Palestine Post (now, The Jerusalem Post), the most influential Jewish publication in the world at that time.

According to longtime Inside the Vatican contributor William Doino, who discovered the testimony in an archive, maintained by Tel Aviv University, "the testimony has apparently been forgotten, because, as far as I know, no leading Holocaust authority or biographer of Pius XII has ever cited it."

As the article reports, the Jewish author attended a papal audience in the autumn of 1941. He entered the papal chamber along with numerous other people, including a group of German soldiers. (It was common for soldiers to visit the Pope early in the war era. Later, when Hitler learned of what the Pope told them, he put an end to this practice.)

The author was the final individual to approach the Pope that day. He wanted to tell Pius about a group of Jews who were being interned by Italy's Fascist government on an island, in danger of starvation. He tried to speak in broken Italian, but the Pope invited him to use his native language, assuming that it would be German. "You are German, too, aren't you?" asked the Pope. The author then explained that he was born in Germany, but he was a Jew.

Pius invited the author to finish his story. He listened intently then said: "You have done well to come to me and tell me this. I have heard about it before. Come back tomorrow with a written report and give it to the Secretary of State who is dealing with the question. But now for you, my son. You are a young Jew. I know what that means and I hope you will always be proud to be a Jew!"

Pius then raised his voice so that everyone in the hall - including the German soldiers - could hear it and said (in a "pleasant voice"): "My son, whether you are worthier than others only the Lord knows, but believe me, you are at least as worthy as every other human being that lives on our earth! And now, my Jewish friend, go with the protection of the Lord, and never forget, you must always be proud to be a Jew!"

The significance of this testimony, particularly for the cause of Pius XII, is still too early to gage, but Doino believes "it may well be the most explicit single testimony about Pius's personal feelings toward Jews that has ever been recorded. It is not too far removed from Pius XI's famous declaration of September 1938:

"No, it is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism.... Spiritually, we are all Semites."

But Doino notes one great difference between the statements: "Pius XI's remark to a group of Belgian pilgrims was given wide publicity and is often quoted; Pius XII's statement has been lost to history -- until now."

"For Pius XII to make this statement to a German Jew, in 1941, in private, would have been remarkable enough," continued Doino. "That he did it in public, with his voice raised so that 'everybody in the hall' could 'hear it clearly,' in front of German soldiers, as well as cardinals, bishops and other high dignitaries of the Vatican government, is more astonishing still. It doesn't merely reveal Pius XII's kindness and Christian compassion; he goes well beyond that and affirms the young man's Jewishness, the very core and dignity of his being."

Attached below is the original article, as it first appeared in the pages of The Palestine Post, in 1944, describing events that had occurred three years earlier. This will be followed by a full-scale commentary by Doino, in an upcoming issue of Inside the Vatican magazine, in which he evaluates the importance of this testimony for Pius XII studies, recounts the story of the shipwrecked Jewish refugees, the Vatican's support for them, and gives clues as to whom the anonymous Jewish author might be -- the editors of Inside the Vatican

Note: the original article can be found online by accessing the archives of the "Palestine Post," run by Tel Aviv University, here.

Follow the instructions to access the April 28, 1944 issue of the Palestine Post, forward to page 6, and go to the article entitled, A Papal Audience in Wartime, by "Refugee."

Kristillnact, 1938

Folks, everyone knows about Munich, September 1938. What happened? Britain and France generously donated a big slice of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, in exchange for "peace with honor," "peace in our time".

What followed? Kristillnacht - in November of 1938. What caused Kristillnact besides the irrational hatred of Jews?

Appeasement.

Appeasement doesn't merely fail to prevent catastrophe, it provokes catastrophe.

King David made the city of Jerusalem his capital. Mohammed had never been to Jerusalem.

In the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem has many names: Salem (Shalem), Moriah, Jebuse (Yevuse), Jerusalem (Yerushalayim), and Zion (Tziyon). The most common term for the city, Yerushalayim, is mentioned 349 times in the Jewish Bible, while Tziyon is mentioned an additional 108 times.

The earliest mention of the site is Genesis 4:18, when Abraham interacts with Malchizedek, King of Shalem. According to Jewish tradition the story of the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19) also takes place in the "land of Moriah" on the site of the present-day Temple Mount. Abraham chooses the site specifically because he sensed how God's presence is strongly connected to this site.

When Jews pray three times a day, they always turn toward Jerusalem. Jerusalem is mentioned numerous times in Jewish daily prayers and in the "Grace After Meals." Jews close the Passover Seder with the words "Next Year in Jerusalem." These same words are invoked to conclude the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur. The Jewish national day of mourning, Tisha B'Av, commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples. During a Jewish wedding ceremony, the groom breaks a glass as a sign of mourning to commemorate the destruction of the two Temples which stood on Mount Moriah. The breaking of the glass is accompanied by the recitation of part of Psalm 137. Some religious Jews often keep a small section of one wall in their house unplastered and unpainted, as a sign of mourning for the destruction of the Temple.

For most of Islam's 1,400-year period, despite its status as the third holiest Islamic city, Jerusalem remained a backwater, run-down town under Islamic control. Exceptions were during both the Umayyid period (7th to mid-8th century) and the Mamluk period (mid-13th to early-16th century), when major Islamic building projects were carried out in the city.

It is worth noting that the inaugural PLO Covenant of 1964 does not mention Jerusalem. Only after the city fell back to Jewish control did the updated PLO Covenant of 1968 mention Jerusalem by name.

For all of these reasons, I refuse to bow down to the mythology of Islam and its canard that Jerusalem is holy to Muslims.

May G-d Forgive the Israeli government for giving Holy Jewish Land away to Muslim apostates, May G-d Forgive Muslims and their appeasers for participating in the spirit of Jihad and forcing the rest of the world to endure the trumped-up concoction of superstitions and deceit which is Islam and May G-d Forgive the world for investing in the pretense that Islam is more than terrorism, rioting, the death of free speech and artistic expression, homophobia, Jew-hatred, female genital mutilation, limb amputation, gang rape, stoning to death for victims of gang rape, hanging underage girls from cranes in public parks, and for killing, killing and killing innocent Jewish babies, women and men.

"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest Joy." -- Psalm 137.

In Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog's response To 'Zionism Is Racism' Resolution to the General Assembly of the United Nations on November 10, 1975, he said this about Kristillnacht:

"This was the night in 1938 when Hitler's Nazi storm-troopers launched a coordinated attack on the Jewish community in Germany, burned the synagogues in all its cities and made bonfires in the streets of the Holy Books and the Scrolls of the Holy Law and Bible. It was the night when Jewish homes were attacked and heads of families taken away, many of them never to return. It was the night when the windows of all Jewish businesses and stores were smashed, covering the streets in the cities of Germany with a film of broken glass which dissolved into the millions of crystals which gave that night its name. It was the night which led eventually to the crematoria and the gas chambers, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Dachau, Buchenwald, Theresienstadt and others. It was the night which led to the most terrifying holocaust in the history of man."

One organization called "Synagogue Memorial," is dedicated to memorializing all the houses of prayer that were destroyed on the infamous Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938 in Germany.

The official German position on the nights of rioting and murder, which were orchestrated by Goebbels, was that they were spontaneous outbursts. Goebbels reported "that such demonstrations are not to be prepared or organized by the party, but so far as they originate spontaneously, they are not to be discouraged either." (Conot, Robert E. Justice At Nuremberg. NY: Harper & Row, 1983:165)

Three days later, on November 12, Hermann Goering called a meeting of the top Nazi leadership to assess the damage done during the night and place responsibility for it. Present at the meeting were Goering, Goebbels, Reinhard Heydrich, Walter Funk and other ranking Nazi officials. The intent of this meeting was to make the Jews responsible for Kristallnacht and to use the events of the preceding days as a rationale for promulgating a series of antisemitic laws which would, in effect, remove Jews from the German economy.

An interpretive transcript of this meeting is provided by Robert Conot, Justice at Nuremberg, New York: Harper and Row, 1983:164-172):

Goering announced, 'Gentlemen! Today's meeting is of a decisive nature,'announced. 'I have received a letter written on the Fuehrer's orders requesting that the Jewish question be now, once and for all, oordinated and solved one way or another.'

'Since the problem is mainly an economic one, it is from the economic angle it shall have to be tackled. Because, gentlemen, I have had enough of these demonstrations! They don't harm the Jew but me, who is the final authority for coordinating the German economy. `If today a Jewish shop is destroyed, if goods are thrown into the street, the insurance companies will pay for the damages; and, furthermore, consumer goods belonging to the people are destroyed. If in the future, demonstrations which are necessary occur, then, I pray, that they be directed so as not to hurt us.

'Because it's insane to clean out and burn a Jewish warehouse, then have a German insurance company make good the loss. And the goods which I need desperately, whole bales of clothing and whatnot, are being burned. And I miss them everywhere. I may as well burn the raw materials before they arrive.

'I should not want to leave any doubt, gentlemen, as to the aim of today's meeting. We have not come together merely to talk again, but to make decisions, and I implore competent agencies to take all measures for the elimination of the Jew from the German economy, and to submit them to me.'

It was decided at the meeting that, since Jews were to blame for these events, they be held legally and financially responsible for the damages incurred by the pogrom. Accordingly, a "fine of 1 billion marks was levied and 6 million marks paid by insurance companies for broken windows was to be given to the state coffers. (Snyder, Louis L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, New York: Paragon House, 1989:201).

The night ushered in a new phase in the antisemetic activities of the Nazi state, leading to the deportation and the extermination of most of the Jewish people living in Germany.

This night began the horror of the Holocaust. And I still cry writing about it, 68 years later.

Vote Republican Today

Folks, it's very simple. If the Democrats win, the real John Kerry would be unmasked and free to play a pivotal role in supporting the United Nation's gun-banning agenda. George Soros, Michael Moore and the radical left would realize their lifelong ambition – to disarm the citizens of the United States. Before casting your vote, you must consider the ramifications of losing the right of self-defense, during wartime, with several-hundred thousand enemy sympathizers living within our borders. Our nation should not forget that it is Kerry's portrait that adorns the wall of the communist "War Crimes" museum in Saigon. So, please hold your nose and vote Republican. Don't be deceived into thinking you are noble to vote for a Democrat when in effect you are aiding the enemy. It is impossible to overstate just how important it is that President Bush deserves our support.

Remember that this election is occurring at a time when most Third World nations — individually and, in the United Nations, collectively — view the U.S. as the fount of evil, and when most of our World War II allies are part of a growing effort to challenge the hegemony the U.S. has enjoyed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It will be a time when well-financed fanatic fundamentalists from across the Muslim world, harbored and facilitated by Arab states, will continue their hit-and-run terrrorist attacks against the U.S., taking full advantage of the advances of technology and capitalizing on the unavoidably porous defenses of a democracy.

For those who accuse George Bush for "failing" to get Osama bin Laden, let me remind you that it took five years to get Adolph Hitler and we didn't really get him. He killed himself. Then we got him. And here's another fact; we think we got Hitler's body but we can't be sure; we didn't have DNA back then. We think we got it, he did commit suicide by shooting a hole out of his skull, and we burned the body and buried it, but we weren't sure it was him, but we guessed it was him. Do you see where I am going with this? Even though we weren't sure it was Hitler and the fact that it took five years to get him, well, according to Liberals, Democrats and other's who subscribe to faulty logic, I guess we were a failure back then too even though we won World War II.

Think, people, think.

Here's something else for the naysayers who want to vote for anyone but Republicans. We could take out bin Laden now. Do you know how? We can drop a nuke on his head. But, do you want that? Honestly, do you want the US to do that? Do you want to send 50,000 American infantrymen into the hills of Pakistan and Afghanistan the way the Soviets did in Afghanistan when thousands of Soviets died? Do you know how many troops Russia sent along with the British? This is the worst terrain in the world. You've seen video of it. Massive armies back then weren't able to do what we have done in three or four weeks.

So, think about voting Republican. Stop being puppets. Start recognizing that what Osama Bin Laden says on his tapes are sometimes actual quotes from Michael Moore. Bin Laden accused Bush of letting 50,000 Americans suffer in the towers while he sat in a children's schoolroom while two planes hit the towers. Osama Bin Laden must be taking his cues from Michael Moore. This is what happens when people go beyond the pale. Michael Moore, a Democrat, and his attacks on our president help the enemy! The enemy is speaking the Democrat's words back to us!

So please vote Republican. I ask you - will you be on the Michael Moore/bin Laden/John Kerry ticket or will you be on the pro-Bush/Defend America/On The March For Freedom ticket?

I don't know anything about war. But I do know a little bit about men who've gone to war. And none of them act the way John Kerry does. And no one I know acts the way Michael Moore, George Soros, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats act. Vote Republican because you must vote today as if your life depended on it.

Deja vu: Ariel’s Temple Mount visit sparks anger among Arab MK

The "palestinian" Arabs thought this tactic worked so well the first time - as you may recall, Ariel Sharon's visit to the Western Wall, the remnant of the Holiest site in Judaism was their excuse to start the second "infatadah" - so they thought they'd pull it out of their bag of dirty tricks and try it again. Guess what, it didn't work. Here's what happened. Uri Ariel visited Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Monday, the second intermediary day of the Sukkot holiday. The holiday visit sparked an angry reaction from Arab lawmaker MK (Ta’al) Talab el-Sana, who called the move a “provocation.” El-Sana added that the right-wing Jews are only seeking “war and bloodshed” by yearning to maintain a presence on the Mount. Meanwhile, masses turned out for prayers at the Western Wall for the traditional priestly blessing on Sukkot. Seventy thousand people, in fact. What a wonderful turnout, B"H. And, why shouldn't Jews be able to go back to their homeland, where the Roman's exiled them? Why shouldn't Jews be able to pray at their holy sites? Why not? The only religious argument that makes sense is to point out how so many Jewish holy places do exist in Israel. It's hardly irrational that Jews should want to live near the Wailing Wall or other sites of great importance in Jewish history and religion, particularly given how poorly Muslims have treated such sites.

See, folks, Jews have no less of a right to self-determination than any other peoples. And no one said palestinians can't go back, they only can't go back because they have terror organizations. If "palestinians" got rid of their terror organizations, then Israel would know peace. However, I doubt that "palestinians" would have that much integrity. The "palestinians" aided Hitler in his Final Solution for the Jews. They massacred Jews in 1929, and throughout the 30's and 40's. Let's not forget this. The Jews of course want peace. The Arabs also do. But they also think we stole their land. This is the source of the conflict. It is not citizenship they want, but a reactionary vision that would erase the "Nakba," the "Catastrophe," of Israel's creation by eliminating the Jewish state.

El-Sana and thugs like him solidify my belief that the only way for peace is that one side must go. See, the fact of the matter is that it's now Israel who gets to dictate her own policy, not Arabs, not palestinians, not Muslims and not Americans. So many people in high places believe that "Islamic fundamentalism" is a reaction to various factors. Yet before all those factors existed, jihad terror existed. But of course, they have no idea of that. Palestinians and their accomplices complain that Israel treats palestinians inhumanely. What a joke. Palestinians forfeited their humanity after assassinating military targets such as toddlers on buses and teenagers at malls. Palestinian terrorists are murderous brainwashed robots who must be stopped at all costs. The world would be a better place without their ilk.

Islamic Fascism 101

From Islamic Fascism 101: To read bin Laden's communiques is to be reminded of Admiral Yamamato assuring his peers that his years in the U.S. in the 1920s taught him that America, despite its fancy cars and skyscrapers, simply could not match the courage of the chosen Japanese.

Just as it was idle in the middle of World War II to speculate how many Germans, Japanese, or Italians really accepted the silly hatred of Hitler, Mussolini, or Tojo, so too it is a vain enterprise to worry over how many Muslims follow or support al-Qaeda. Most people have no ideology, but simply accommodate themselves to the prevailing sense of an agenda's success or failure. It doesn't matter whether Middle Easterners actually accept the tenets of bin Laden's worldview - not if they think he is on the ascendancy, can bring them a sense of restored pride, and humiliate the Jews and the West on the cheap.

The Guardian: An Atrocity Created Israel's Birth

The Guardian: An Atrocity Created Israel's Birth via FrontPage:

The obsession Britons have with the ‘atrocity’ that is the Jewish State can easily render one ill when attempting to deal with this national disease. In the past week the ‘Independent’ has been running a series of dramatic front pages with images of death and destruction caused by – you guessed it – America and Israel. The Guardian has had its usual hate-fest, whilst the media and British political party conferences have been filled with vituperation leveled at Tony Blair’s ‘caving in to Bush and the American Zionist lobby,’ hence allowing Israel to rain bombs down on Lebanon.

Recently the British journalist Melanie Phillips criticised the Anglo-Jewish community for its lack of robustness in dealing with the daily onslaught from white British anti-Semites, obsessed Israel-haters and the huge, loud, well-funded and vociferous Anglo-Muslim community. She was right, but…

If the tiny Jewish community of Britain is as tired, shell-shocked and blown away as I am by the constant attacks on everything Jews represent and care about post-Holocaust, then one cannot blame the Jewish community for being less than forceful. It has reached the stage that many Anglo-Jews feel kicked and stabbed every day. Their souls are eaten by the distorted and sneering articles, radio spots and TV appearances of an endless stream of men and women who have an irrational hatred of that – horror or horrors! – little Jew-filled country that has more symphony orchestras than all of the other nations in the Middle East and Africa put together.

The Independent, the Telegraph and the Guardian should be reminded that the British armed the Arabs prior to 1948 and hung the Jews for mere possession of weapons. The British sent Jews fleeing Hitler back to the gas chambers rather than let them enter their ancient homeland or risk offending their Arab friends. The British used to send Arabs into minefields to clear them to save their own soldiers from being blown to pieces and blew up Arab homes if they believed they were involved in terrorism. Less of this hypocrisy, Independent and the Telegraph and Guardian. The British nation's treatment of the Jews is shameful. Yes, the British were given a Mandate to create a Jewish state in Palestine, when it was both sides of the Jordan River. Yet, the British gave 83% to the Arabs to create another Arab state called Transjordan. The Jews ate the crumbs that fell from Britain's table and the Jews were prepared to accept a state from the remainder that was mostly desert. The Arabs considered this too much for them and tried to kill them all. I wish that the Independent and the Guardian and the Telegraph and their supporters would review their own history and take off their hypocritical blinders. When those rags can explain what England had to do with the Falkland Islands or India or the countless other countries it invaded or when England can explain - without fabrication - when it was threatened with extinction and genocide of the English people like the Jews and Israelis were by the Arab countries who waged seven wars of aggression against them, let me know.

For Bush and America – the clock is ticking

Stan Goodenough writes:

Since the late 1800s, the Jewish people have been returning to their treasured territory. Opposition to that return has been fierce and unrelenting. Nonetheless, in 1947, part of their land was restored to them by the United Nations.

Three major self-defensive wars against the Arabs (in 1948, 1967 and 1973) saw additional territory come back under Jewish control, in particular the cradle and crucible of their nationhood – Samaria and Judea with the cities of Shechem, Shiloh, Bethel, Bethlehem, Hebron, and Jerusalem with its Temple Mount – the holiest place on earth to both the Jews and their God.

Today, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah (marking the start of the Jewish New Year 5767) Israel’s population stands just short of 7,000,000. The breakdown is 5,3 million Jews, 1,4 million Muslim Arabs, 146,000 Christian Arabs, 115,200 Druze, and 272,000 citizens who remain unclassified by religion.

During the coming Jewish year, as the number of Israeli Jews heads towards six million – the same number murdered by Hitler 60 years ago – Israel will celebrate the 40th anniversary of her capital’s return.

And if President Bush and the world have their way, we could also see a final push to birth Palestine in the Holy Land.

Britain: Rise in anti-Semitic attacks since war

The Times British newspaper reported on Saturday that there has been a rise in attacks against Jews in Britain since the start of Israel's war against Hizbullah in Lebanon. Swastikas have been drawn on synagogues and Jewish leaders have received hate emails, while some Jews were attacked on the streets. A parliamentary inquiry is set to confirm on Thursday that anti-Semitic violence is "endemic in Britain," the newspaper reported.

Citing attacks in university campuses and city streets, the inquiry will recommend fast government action to reverse the trend. Mark Gardner, of the Community Security Trust, told the Times: “In July, when the conflict in Lebanon began, we received reports of 92 incidents, which was the third-worst month since records began in 1984.” In 2000, the monthly average was between 10 to 30 attacks. “These figures confirm the evidence given to us that anti-Semitic attacks are a very real problem,” said Denis McShane, a former minister who headed the inquiry.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews told the inquiry that anti-Semitism in Britain has reached an all-time worst. The July incidents “were more dispersed than usual”, Gardner said. “It is usually a small number responsible for a large number of attacks, but these were very widespread across the country and included graffiti attacks on synagogues in Edinburgh and Glasgow.”

Gardner added that when identified, the attackers represent all communities in Britain. “When it’s verbal abuse, it’s just ordinary people in the street, from middle-class women to working-class men. All colours and backgrounds. We hardly ever see incidents involving the classic neo-Nazi skinhead. Muslims are over-represented.”

In some hate emails, Jewish leaders have been blamed for the killing of innocent civilians in Lebanon. “There are also references to the Holocaust, saying that Hitler should have wiped out the Jews.”

Beyond Farce: the United Nations' relentless campaign to undermine the security of Israel

An excerpt from Beyond Farce:

Consider the following:

* Israel receives actionable intelligence concerning a specific shipment of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah near Bekaa Valley. This shipment is in flagrant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 (August 2006), and also of predecessor resolutions, including Resolution 1559 (2004). It is also a clear breach of the Taif Agreement (1989), which ended Lebanon's civil war. Finding that neither the 2,000 "peacekeepers" of the old, hapless UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) nor the new Lebanese forces deploying there are willing to interdict the shipment, Israel sends a crack commando unit to do the job. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan denounces the raid, of course, as a blatant Israeli transgression of the ceasefire resolution.

* France, which supplies the general in command of the old UNIFIL force that allowed Hezbollah to rule over South Lebanon (as we previously documented), now agrees to lead the expanded and robust international force meant to implement 1701. After agreeing t ospearhead the new force, what does President Jacques Chirac deem an appropriate contribution? A laughable contingent of 200 combat engineers who, according to French defense minister Michele Alliot-Marie, will remain in Lebanon for at most six months.

* One nation that has volunteered forces for the new UNIFIL is Malaysia. But Malaysia refuses to recognize the legitimacy of Israel. The Malaysian government has been a major sponsor of Murabitun, an Islamist sect headed by former actor Ian Dallas (a.k.a. Sheikh Abd al-Qadir al-Murabit) and headquartered in a mansion in Scotland. Murabitun celebrates Hitler as a "great genius" one of the foremost jihadists of all times. In 2003 Prime Minister Mohamad distributed copies of Henry Ford's anti-Semitic classic, The International Jew, to tens of thousands of delegates attending his party's annual convention. [Even Ford himself ultimately recognized his book was a fraud and apologized to the entire world for it.] This is one of the neutral "peacekeepers" that Israel is supposed to trust to enforce 1701.

UFB.

The Mufti and the Fuhrer

Hat tip to A Simple Jew from Jewlicious:

This is unusual footage in a brief report outlining some of the Grand Mufti’s relationship with the Nazis and Hitler, and briefly linking that past to present day groups seeking to destroy Israel such as Hamas (hat tip to LGF).

Stalin's "Crimes Against Peace and Conspiracy", August 1939

Received by email from Karl Huttenbauer:
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Sir:

On 19 August 1939, the Russian Dictator Stalin addressed "the Plenum of the Politburo of the Central Committee, the All-Union Organ of the Russian Communist Party"’

" On Questions of War or Peace"

"If we conclude the Treaty of Mutual Assistance with France and Great Britain, Germany will renounce its claim to Poland and seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers. The War will be set aside. However, if we accept Germany’s offer for the conclusion of a non-aggression pact, she will naturally attack Poland and the entry of Great Britain and France into the War will become inevitable".

"Western Europe will be caught up in serious troubles and disorders. The experience of the past twenty years demonstrates that in times of Peace the Communist movement in Europe has no chance of being strong enough to seize power. The dictatorship of a Communist Party may be envisaged only as a result of a Great War. Therefore we should accept the German proposal and politely send the Anglo-French mission home."

"The first advantage that we would gain would be the seizure of Poland up to the gates of Warsaw, including Ukrainian Galicia".

"Germany is reserving complete freedom of action for us in the Baltic States and will raise no objection to the return of Bessarabia to the USSR."

"Thus our task consists of in making sure that Germany should be involved in War as long as possible, so that England and France should be so exhausted that they would no longer be capable of presenting a threat to us. We shall maintain a position of neutrality, although the USSR will provide raw materials and general supplies to Germany".

"At the same time, we should carry out active Communist propaganda particularly in the Franco-British bloc – and above all in France. Our French comrades will not hesitate. The collapse and demoralization of the French Army and of defence in general will be part of the task".

Comrades it is in the interests of the USSR – the Fatherland of the Workers – that War should break out between the Third Reich and the Franco-British capitalist bloc. Therefore we must give priority to the approval of the conclusion of the Pact proposed by Germany, and to work so that this War,which will be declared within a few days, shall last as long is possible”. --- ("The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire", Brian Crozier, Forum 1999)

Around midnight August 23-24, Stalin and Hitler consecrated the infamous "Molotov- Ribbentrop" Pact (appending Secret Protocols in contravention of International Law).

The ceremony concluded with Stalin’s toast "to the longevity of Adolf Hitler".

Sixty-seven yars later (2006), Hezbollah conspired and committed crimes against peace attacking Israel's civilian population with "Stalin Organs" alias katyusha rockets.