Via Hotair, David Schwammenthal’s article on the hatred of Jews is pretty much spot on with one exception. The word Returns.
The irrational hatred of Jews is very old, it never left Europe particularly among the chattering classes that now thrive within the structure of the European Union.
And lets go one step farther, the west and Europe didn’t give a damn about the extermination of Jews in Europe. One can make the argument that as a military matter it was secondary to winning the war, but does anyone seriously believe that any European Power would have gone to war over the death camps alone?
The Holocaust’s confirmation by the average US soldier and the outrage they felt is what became the elite’s “never again” mantra. It dressed an already just war with an incredible moral cloak that will never be lost. Europe’s used their memorializing of the Holocaust to wash away their own mistrust of the Jews in the same way that, in my opinion many people have used the last US election as an act of contrition for their own racism.
The difference as has been said on many blogs in the last few weeks is as follows: When Europe said “never again” they meant that never would they be at fault for the extermination of millions. This statement however hasn’t prevented them from ignoring and or enabling slaughter in the former Yugoslavia or Rwanda Darfur or anywhere else.
When European and other Jews said never again they meant that never again would they be so weak and so vulnerable that they would allow themselves to be slaughtered. Israel has kept that promise despite the best efforts of Arabs and the indifference and or opposition of Europeans for over 50 years.
They will continue to do so.
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