Belgian minister compares terrorists to Jews who hid in World War II
What's wrong with Europe is anti-Semitism and it's no wonder that it's rotting from within. Meet Belgian Interior Minister @JanJambon who thinks
terrorists are like Jews who hid in World War II.
Jan Jambon, the Belgian interior minister, aroused a storm of controversy in the country Wednesday when, in a television interview, he compared the Muslim terrorists who hid in Brussels for months to “the Jews who hid here during the Nazi occupation,” later clarifying that his comments pertained to "the mechanism of hiding."
Jambon, a member of the right-wing Flemish party N-VA (New Flemish Alliance), spoke on a news program of the Flemish VTM channel in Antwerp. At first his words attracted no attention, but when Antwerp City Council member Claude Marinower learned of them, he posted them on social networks and the reactions began.
Marinower, a former MP, told the Jewish news website Regards: “At first when they told me about it I didn’t believe it was possible. I asked to watch the video – and realized that Jambon really did make this dubious comparison… It’s inconceivable, it’s shocking for all those who hid Jews during the occupation while endangering their lives. How can you compare the jihadist criminals who are hiding today with the innocent Jews who wanted to flee from the Nazi manhunt?”
In an initial response Wednesday, the interior minister’s spokesperson said, “Jambon had no intention of offending the Belgian Jews, on the contrary. He isn’t comparing Jews and terrorists, he was only referring to a factual element of Belgian history: that providing a refuge, hiding people, was something positive, but what is happening today in Brussels is not. Jambon’s statement refers only to the technical aspect of finding the refuge.”
Right.... Technical aspects.... Europe is rotting from within and one can only hope that they don't take the rest of the West with them.
Labels: Belgium, European anti-Semitism, Islamic terrorism, World War II
If Pearl Harbor happened today
So it's December 7, 2015, the 74th anniversary of what FDR called "a day that will live in infamy."
Can you imagine what it would be like if God Forbid that happened today?
Here's an idea (Hat Tip:
Jack W).
Heh.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, gun control, humor, Japan, United States Congress, World War II
Israel honors non-Jewish American soldier who told German commandant 'We are all Jews'
How one man saved the lives of 200 Jewish American POW's.
Maybe we Israelis should follow up by labeling all our products as originating in Judea and Samaria.
Labels: anti-Semitism, Israel, Nazis, US Army, World War II
'One of the tensest meetings I can ever remember'
The legacy of Stephen Wise - who chose his personal relationship with FDR over
saving Jews during World War II - must have been on the minds of many of the rabbis who attended a meeting with President Hussein Obama regarding Iran on Monday. Perhaps that's why one rabbi described it to Lee Smith as '
one of the tensest meetings I can ever remember' (Hat Tip:
Gershon D).
“It was one of the tensest meetings I can
ever remember,” said one participant who has been invited to many White
House sit-downs over the years and requested anonymity. “The president
spoke for 25 minutes, without notes,” he told me. “It was very
impressive. Some people said very nice things, others expressed
concerns, and talked about the role of Congress, and he talked about
presidential prerogative, and cited other precedents for it. Lots of
people challenged him very strongly, like about taking the threats of
dictators seriously when Khamenei says death to America, death to
Israel, death to the Jews. The president said he knows what the regime
is, which is why he is trying to take away their weapons. He didn’t
dismiss what the Iranians say, he just didn’t really address it.”
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal center,
who also attended the meeting, was willing to speak on the record to
Tablet. “Speaking for myself,” said Hier, “I was not satisfied.” Hier
declined to describe the president’s comments but told me the point he
made in the meeting. “Mr. President,” he said, “in a few weeks, you and
others will be going to Germany to commemorate the 70th anniversary of
the liberation of the concentration camps. What meaning does that have
when while negotiating over the nuclear treaty with Iran, none of the
six powers said a word when the ayatollah Tweeted about annihilating the
state of Israel, or a leading general in the IRGC said this is the
regime’s raison d’etre? What meaning does the 70th anniversary have? Hitler said he was going to murder all the Jews in a letter
from 1919, and he wound up doing it. If you hear the ayatollah saying
that, every world leader should repudiate it immediately.”
What Obama is doing may be even worse than what Roosevelt did 70 years ago.
Roosevelt never lifted a finger to save European
Jews, but he did defeat the Nazis. Obama writes letters to the man who
threatens to exterminate Jews and promises him peace. American Jewish
leaders have plenty to worry about. The cost to American political life
of legitimizing exterminationist anti-Semitism may turn out to be one of
the worst parts of a bad deal.
Obama isn't even going to fight Iran, and he is attempting to hogtie his successor into abstaining from a fight as well.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Lee Smith, P 5+1, World War II
Lunatic Navi Pillay condemns Israel and US for not sharing Iron Dome with Hamas
Navi Pillay, the chairwoman of the United Nations 'human rights council,' President Hussein Obama's favorite international body, has condemned has
condemned the United States and Israel for not sharing Iron Dome with Hamas!
Among the UN’s long bill of particulars against the beleaguered Jewish state comes the almost unbelievable accusation that Israel’s refusal to share its Iron Dome ballistic missile defense shield with the "governing authority" of Gaza – i.e. Hamas, the terror group created to pursue the extermination of the Jewish state and now waging a terrorist war against it – constitutes a war crime against the civilians of Gaza.
The UN chairwoman criticized the U.S. for helping fund Israel's Iron Dome system which has saved countless Israeli and Palestinian lives. "No such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling," she said.
Just because Hamas fires rockets indiscriminately aimed at Israeli civilian population centers without provocation and fires them from within its own population centers does not “absolve” Israel from its own legal violations, Pillay told reporters Thursday.
Had Navi Pillay and the 'human rights council' been around in 1945, she would have condemned the United States for not sharing the atomic bomb with Germany and Japan.
Labels: Hamas, Iron Dome, morons, Navi Pillay, United Nations Human Rights Council, World War II
America in freefall
Caroline Glick writes that the scariest thing about the collapse of the United States as a superpower is that
Americans don't seem to care.
The growing worldwide contempt for US power and authority would be
bad enough in and of itself. The newfound confidence of aggressors
imperils international security and threatens the lives of hundreds of
millions of people.
What makes the situation worse is the US response to what is
happening. The Obama administration is responding to the
ever-multiplying crises by pretending that there is nothing to worry
about and insisting that failures are successes.
And the problem is not limited to Obama and his advisers or even to
the political Left. Their delusional view that the US will suffer no
consequences for its consistent record of failure and defeat is shared
by a growing chorus of conservatives.
Some, like the anti-Semitic conservative pundit Patrick Buchanan,
laud Putin as a cultural hero. Others, like Sen. Rand Paul, who is
increasingly presenting himself as the man to beat in the 2016
Republican presidential primaries, indicate that the US has no business
interfering with Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
Iran as well is a country the US should be less concerned about, in Paul’s opinion.
Leaders like Sen. Ted Cruz who call for a US foreign policy based on
standing by allies and opposing foes in order to ensure US leadership
and US national security are being drowned out in a chorus of “Who
cares?”
Six years into Obama’s presidency, the US public as a whole is
largely opposed to taking any action on behalf of Ukraine or the Baltic
states, regardless of what inaction, or worse, feckless action means for
the US’s ability to protect its interests and national security.
And the generation coming of age today is similarly uninterested in US global leadership.
During the Cold War and in the immediate aftermath of the September
11 attacks, the predominant view among American university students
studying international affairs was that US world leadership is essential
to ensure global stability and US national interests and values.
Today this is no longer the case.
Much of the Obama administration’s shuttle diplomacy in recent years
has involved sending senior officials, including Obama, on overseas
trips with the goal of reassuring jittery allies that they can continue
to trust US security guarantees.
These protestations convince fewer and fewer people today.
It is because of this that US allies like Japan, South Korea and
Saudi Arabia, that lack nuclear weapons, are considering their options
on the nuclear front.
It is because of this that Israeli officials are openly stating for
the first time that the US cannot be depended on to either secure
Israel’s eastern frontier in the event that an accord is reached with
the Palestinians, or to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
It is because of this that the world is more likely than it has been
since 1939 to experience a world war of catastrophic proportions.
This reminds me of two dates in American history: September 11, 2001 and December 7, 1941. But this time the slumber seems deep. In 1941, Roosevelt (for whom I have much criticism for his failure to save Jewish lives) was trying to overcome the isolationism by getting the United States into World War II via the back door.
And in 2001, GW Bush was a brand new President who had yet to set his course in international affairs. 9/11 set the course for him.
Obama fits neither of those molds. He is five and a half years into his Presidency, and he shows no signs of understanding or being interested in international affairs. Catastrophe ahead?
Read the whole thing.
Labels: 9/11, Barack Hussein Obama, degrading US military capabilities, World War II
'Worse than Munich'
Bret Stephens writes that the P 5+1 deal with Iran sets a new standard for the
most given away for the least by the many and the strong.
Consider: Britain and France came to Munich
as military weaklings. The U.S. and its allies face Iran from a position
of overwhelming strength. Britain and France won time to rearm. The
U.S. and its allies have given Iran more time to stockpile uranium and
develop its nuclear infrastructure. Britain and France had overwhelming
domestic constituencies in favor of any deal that would avoid war. The
Obama
administration is defying broad bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress for the sake of a deal.
As
for the Vietnam parallels, the U.S. showed military resolve in the
run-up to the
Paris Accords
with a massive bombing and mining campaign of the North that
demonstrated presidential resolve and forced Hanoi to sign the deal. The
administration comes to Geneva fresh from worming its way out of its
own threat to use force to punish Syria's
Bashar Assad
for his use of chemical weapons against his own people.
The
Nixon
administration also exited Vietnam in the context of a durable
opening to Beijing that helped tilt the global balance of power against
Moscow. Now the U.S. is attempting a fleeting opening with Tehran at the
expense of a durable alliance of values with Israel and interests with
Saudi Arabia. "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" is the title of a
hilarious memoir by British author
Toby Young
—but it could equally be the history of Barack Obama's foreign
policy.
That's where the differences
end between Geneva and the previous accords. What they have in common is
that each deal was a betrayal of small countries—Czechoslovakia, South
Vietnam, Israel—that had relied on Western security guarantees. Each was
a victory for the dictatorships: "No matter the world wants it or not,"
Iranian President
Hasan Rouhani
said Sunday, "this path will, God willingly, continue to the peak
that has been considered by the martyred nuclear scientists." Each deal
increased the contempt of the dictatorships for the democracies: "If
ever that silly old man comes interfering here again with his umbrella,"
Hitler is reported to have said of Chamberlain after Munich, "I'll kick
him downstairs and jump on his stomach."
And
each deal was a prelude to worse. After Munich came the conquest of
Czechoslovakia, the Nazi-Soviet pact and World War II. After Paris came
the fall of Saigon and Phnom Penh and the humiliating exit from the
embassy rooftop. After Geneva there will come a new, chaotic Mideast
reality in which the United States will lose leverage over enemies and
friends alike.
Read the whole thing. Sadly, he's spot on.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Czech Republic, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Israel, Neville Chamberlain, plutonium, Richard Nixon, uranium enrichment, Vietnam, World War II
Hitler's bodyguard dies, wife may have been Jewish
Rochus Misch, who was one of Adolph Hitler's two bodyguards, has died at the age of 96.
YNet publishes excerpts of a
fascinating interview (via AP) which apparently dates to the mid-90's.
Misch and comrade
Johannes Hentschel accompanied Hitler almost everywhere he went,
including his Alpine retreat in Berchtesgaden and his forward "Wolf's
Lair" headquarters.
He lived between the Fuehrer's apartments in the New Reich
Chancellery and the home in a working-class Berlin neighborhood that he
kept until his death.
"He was a wonderful boss," Misch said. "I lived with him for
five years. We were the closest people who worked with him ... we were
always there. Hitler was never without us day and night."
In the last days of Hitler's life, Misch followed him to live
underground, protected by the so-called Fuehrerbunker's heavily
reinforced concrete ceilings and walls.
"Hentschel ran the lights, air and water and I did the
telephones – there was nobody else," he said. "When someone would come
downstairs we couldn't even offer them a place to sit. It was far too
small."
After the Soviet assault began, Misch remembered generals and
Nazi brass coming and going as they tried desperately to cobble together
a defense of the capital with the ragtag remains of the German
military.
He recalled that on April 22, two days before two Soviet armies
completed their encirclement of the city, Hitler said: "That's it. The
war is lost. Everybody can go."
"Everyone except those who still had jobs to do like us – we had
to stay," Misch said. "The lights, water, telephone ... those had to be
kept going but everybody else was allowed to go and almost all were
gone immediately."
However, Hitler clung to a report – false, as it turned out –
that the Western Allies had called upon Germany to hold Berlin for two
more weeks against the Soviets so that they could battle communism
together.
"He still believed in a union between West and East," Misch
said. "Hitler liked England – except for (then-Prime Minister Winston)
Churchill -- and didn't think that a people like the English would bind
themselves with the communists to crush Germany."
If you can stand more of this sycophant,
read the whole thing.
The New York Times adds a couple of pieces that aren't in the AP account. One is the
murder of the six Goebbels children by their mother (Magda and Joseph Goebbels committed suicide shortly thereafter), and the other is this little tidbit.
Mr. Misch’s wife, Gerda, whom he married in 1942, died in 1997. In 2009, the BBC
quoted their daughter, Brigitta Jacob-Engelken, as saying that she had
been told by her maternal grandmother that Gerda Misch was originally
Jewish.
“He is still saying, ‘No, I won’t believe that!’ ” Ms. Jacob-Engelken,
describing her father, then 92, told the BBC. “But I know it from my
grandma.”
Ms. Jacob-Engelken, an architect who lives in Germany and who has long
been estranged from her father, is among his survivors. According to the
BBC report, Ms. Jacob-Engelken learned Hebrew and lived for a time on
an Israeli kibbutz. In Germany, her work has included the restoration of
local synagogues.
Hmmm.
For the record, like all good Germans of that era, Misch claims that he didn't know anything about the murder of six million Jews. Misch is probably being roasted even as you read this....
Labels: Adolph Hitler, Holocaust, World War II
Archives of French Jews deported to Auschwitz made public for the first time
70 years ago,
Paris' police collaborated with the Nazis to deport about half of the city's Jews (the rest escaped). Now,
they want people to know how that happened.
They are among France’s darkest days: Police dragged over 13,000 Jews
from their homes, confined them in a Paris cycling stadium with little
food or water, and then deported them to their deaths in the
concentration camp at Auschwitz. But even in France, one of the most
brazen collaborations between authorities and the Nazis during World War
II is unknown to many in the younger generation.
Police are hoping to change that, opening up their archives on
France’s biggest single deportation of French Jews for the first time to
the public on Thursday.
The often chilling records are being exhibited in the Paris Jewish
district’s city hall to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the
two-day “Vel d’Hiv” roundup, named for the Velodrome d’Hiver, or Winter
Velodrome. Many thousands were rounded up on July 16 and 17, 1942, then
holed up in miserable conditions in the stadium, just a stone’s throw
from the Eiffel Tower, before being bused to the French camp at Drancy
and then taken by train to Auschwitz.
Tallies list the daily count of men, women and children detained,
alongside stark black and white photographs of deportees. A registry of
those forced to wear the yellow star and a Jewish census show how police
knew who to take. Meticulous handwritten lists detail personal
possessions handed over to police. Others list the value of property,
such as jewelry, confiscated — often forcibly — during the deportation.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: France, Holocaust, Nazi collaborator, Paris, World War II
The German Jew who bombed Berlin
Georg Franz Hein knew who he was: A German Jew who had been sent to London by his mother and gambled away the family fortune. But to everyone else, he was Peter Stevens, a pilot in the Royal Air Force who became one of the best escape artists among allied prisoners of war.
'Stevens' eventually settled in Canada, and it was not until some 17 years after his death that his son discovered his true identity.
Read the whole thing. It's a fascinating story.
Labels: Jews, World War II
She's Jewish too
Well,
what do you know?
The
nurse in the famous 1945 Kissing Sailor photograph is an Austrian Jew
who lost her parents in the Holocaust, and herself barely escaped to the
US in 1939. The photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt, was also Jewish.
Labels: Times Square, World War II
