http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12511#.ULkVcu-3oxE Op-Ed: I Stand Ashamed that My Country Voted for the New Nazis
Published: Friday, November 30, 2012 12:18 AM
am ashamed that my country could vote for the PLO, an organization of murderers and Holocaust deniers, that tortures inmates in prison and more.
Giulio Meotti
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-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. He is at work on a book about the Vatican and Israel.
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At the United Nations we are witnessing the creation ex nihilo of a foreign country, which never existed, and accepting the claims of the “Palestinian Arabs”, by giving them the land whose memory kept the Jews together as a people and brought them back to Jerusalem after the Holocaust.
The Western community at the United Nations, including my miserable Italy, just adopted the Nazis' strateg. Cunning in wickedness, the Germans dangled before their victims the possibility of saving themselves at the expense of other Jews.
In this case, the Jews to be sacrified are all of those living in Judea and Samaria, but ultimately it is the entire State of Israel, since a Palestinian State would only arise upon the fall of Israel.
I am ashamed that my country will vote for the first step towards officially prohibiting Jews or any other faith from living in a certain area, the first since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was “jüdenrein”, or cleansed of Jews.
I am ashamed that my country will vote for those who plan to take down Theodor Herzl’s picture from the wall of the Knesset, remove the seven-branched candelabra which is the expression of Am Yisrael, abolish the Chief Rabbinate and turn the name of the state into Falastin.
I am ashamed that my country will vote for the PLO, an organization of murderers and Holocaust deniers now officially dedicated to the mass deportation of Israel’s Jews.
I am ashamed that my country will vote for a state that tortures inmates in prisons, that throws political dissidents from the roofs of public buildings, that puts to death human beings simply because they are guilty of apostasy and that will be a combination of corruption, dictatorship, Islamic theology and “Bin-Ladenism ".
On September 29, 1938, the Czechoslovak state was truncated and deprived of defensible borders by the “Munich agreement”. Six months later, abandoned by its allies England and France, and bullied by Hitler, Czechoslovakia lay down and died. Like Israel today, the Czechs were accused of “intransigence” and of being “disturbers of the peace.” They were so disheartened that in the end they chose not to fight, but to surrender. “Peace” meant capitulation. The same situation exists today.
Czechoslovakia’s situation in 1938 is in fact similar to Israel’s in 2012.
Like Israel’s IDF, the Czechs had one of the strongest armies in Europe. Like Israel, Czechoslovakia was a very young and vibrant state.
And like the Westn pressing Israel to give up its land to the Arabs, the Nazis demanded the annexation of the Sudeten, settled by three million Germans.
And the Sudeten mountains, like Israel’s “occupied territories,” were the only position from which the Bohemian plain, and the capital Prague, was defensible.
And does anyone remember how Lord Trenchard got up in the British parliament after Munich and declared that the Czechs didn’t need the Sudeten territories for security? “The best security border,” Trenchard said, “is peace.”
Sound familiar?
A Palestinian state, to not mention Hamas, is a mortal danger to Israel because it will immediately absorb 700,000 Palestinians who are living in Syria, another 750,000 Palestinians who live in Lebanon and hundreds of thousands of others who will flock to the new state from all over the world. They will settle in villages that overlook Jaffa, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, Kfar Saba and Jerusalem.
I am ashamed that my country adopted the same method used by the Sudeten Nazis in Czekoslovakia in the late 30s, destroying the country from within. Yesterday it was then the SS, today it's the PLO, which murdered at least 1,500 Jews (comparable to 82,000 American fatalities).
Who will guarantee that the moment a Palestinian state is declared, the rifles won't start shooting again? The Italian police?
Will bloody attacks be planned against Jews at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem?
Will the Jewish holy sites – Rachel’s tomb in Bethlehem, Cave of Patriarchs in Hevron and Joseph’s tomb in Nablus – be destroyed by local mobs?
Will Jewish areas in eastern Jerusalem be subjected to Arab sniper fire?
Will Katyusha rockets start falling on runways at Ben-Gurion Airport or on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, so that Israel’s economy would simply cease to exist?
Will the Hebron Jews could be the victims of a new Jihadist pogrom like in 1929?
I am ashamed that my country wpuld vote for a state that will conclude treaties with Arab countries and with Iran serving as a tripwire for a pan-Islamic attack to exterminate Israel.
I am ashamed that my country will vote for a state where the "Mein Kampf" is a best seller.
I am ashamed that my country will be remembered among those who legitimized Palestinian terrorists as "victims", that tacitly maligned Israel as the villains, letting off the true villains with a single objective: the "final solution" of the Jewish problem.
Seventy years ago, in what had become one of the opening acts of the greatest tragedy in European history, Italy betrayed its own Jews. Very few came back from Birkenau.
Today, Italy capitulated again in the battle against those who seek to finish the job started by the Nazis.
Now that we are approaching Israel's Stalingrad, where have all the "allies" gone?
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