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Op-Ed: Schoene Zeiten? Who longs for the old good days?”
Published: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:52 AM
To quote the psychiatrist Zvi Rex: “Europe will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz." The Jews and Israel are living reminders of the moral failure of Europe.

Giulio Meotti
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary.
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There is a German caption, “Schoene Zeiten”, taken from the photo album of Kurt Franz, Treblinka’s last commandant. It means literally “beautiful times”, or idiomatically “the good old days”.

It’s the days when the Nazis were pommeling Jews with their clubs, machine-gunning them en masse into freshly dug pits and herding them into gas chambers.

Who is longing for the “good old days?”

While the Holocaust is not only being denied, but it’s also being stolen, the world is commemorating the Holocaust Day, with all the morbid tastelessness of this kind of Disneyland recreation of Auschwitz.

With their Nakba Day, funded by Europe and the United Nations, the Palestinians continue to deliberately corrupt the meaning of what happened between them and the Jews between 1920 and 1948. The Arabs continue to subsist on lies, distortions and evasions all intended to continue fueling their hatred in anticipation of what they pray will be their great day of final revenge.

Anti-Semitism today has many faces. It may openly incite to murder, or it may be as subtle as a spider’s web, and just as deadly.

While the tactics may have changed, the true intentions remain the same.

The concept that Zionism is racism is just as unsubstantiated and dangerous as the propagation of the notion that the Holocaust is a Jewish invention.

But all the viciousness of today’s world aside, we also witnessed the birth of a new anti-Semitic invention: the claim that the Holocaust has made Israelis impervious to the sufferings of others.

Since few people admit to believing in the devil anymore, the state of Israel is a handy substitute, a convenient secular replacement for Satan.

The Jewish state has become the object of unremitting demonology; Israel, the Collective Jew, has become the purveyor of all ills; Zionists are the instigators of every type of disorder.

Today the Jews are described as sub-humans by expressions like “pig”, “cancer,” “filth”, “microbes” or “vermin”; hate material and school maps without Israel are being disseminated; the Jewish right to self-determination is denied in the most important global forums; comparisons are drawn between Israeli policy and the Nazis; world Jewry is being held responsible, collectively, for the actions of Israel that are criticized endlessly.

The call for Israel’s destruction echoes through schools and mosques, textbooks and newspapers, TV series and pseudo “documentaries”.

And not only in the Arab world. Thanks to satellite channels, Hizbullah’s al-Manar and Hamas’ al-Aqsa TV stations can beam their incitement and hatred for the Jews into European living rooms.

History has demonstrated with cruel regularity that Jews’ enemies never let up: the slavery in Egypt, the Babylonian Captivity, the Roman conquest, the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian pogroms, the Nazi gas chambers, the two Intifadas… Jews are guilty. Guilty in Palestine, guilty in the Diaspora, guilty in Europe of going to the slaughter like sheep, guilty in Israel of taking up arms so they will never be slaughtered again.

Anyone who fails to understand this after Auschwitz has learned nothing. It’s the most important lesson of the Holocaust Day.

Mighty nations stood by indifferently while a defenceless people in their midst was put to death. Day after day. Jew after Jew.

When Islamic leaders vow to wipe Israel off the map and drive the Jews into the sea, Israel must literally believe them. To do otherwise would be a suicidal form of deafness to the obvious lessons of the past.

It is only the Jews of the region who now face annihilation. Hizbullah, Hamas and Iran are waiting for the right moment to attack.

And on the Holocaust Day, Israel should not count on world’s piety.

In 1967 Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian dictator, justified his intention of “driving the Jews into the sea” by declaring that “Israel’s existence is itself an aggression”. And when Egypt precipitated the war by blockading the straits of Tiran, Washington “could not find” President Eisenhower’s written commitment to David Ben-Gurion to secure free navigation in that waterway vital to Israel’s existence.

Arab past actions, combined with the Western abandonment of the Jewish state, and Iran’s promises should remind again both Jewish victims and Gentile bystanders of how the Jews of Europe, in their hour of greatest need, had been abandoned to Hitler by the Allies.

Now to quote the psychiatrist Zvi Rex: “Europe will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz”.

It means that Europe doesn’t want to live under the psychological burden of Auschwitz forever. The Jews and Israel are living reminders of the moral failure of Europe. This leads to the projection of guilt on Israel. This will let Europe turn to the other side when Israel will face a new impending genocide.

Let’s be very honest and say: it’s the global conscience who is longing for the “schoene Zeiten”. The old good days.
Thy destroyers and they that make thee waste shall go forth of thee.  Isaiah 49:17

 
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