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late a convincing line of defense. As Joan Peters writes so perceptively in her wonderful book From Time Immemorial, "Goebbels, Nazi exponent of Hitler's Big Lie, averred that if a lie were repeated often enough and long enough, it would come to be perceived as truth. What he did not add was that the victim of the lie may also grow to believe it." As Peters points out, many young Jews grow to believe in "the myth of the three-or-four million Arab Palestinians excluded from their homeland inhabited by them since time immemorial" and "feel they must bear that guilt."Interviewed recently by a woman for a Dutch programme, after I had related the terrible violence and murders the Israeli people have to live with, I was asked whether it was not also true that the Israelis are sometimes guilty of using excessive force. My answer was that though the Allied forces bombed whole cities in Germany as a response to Nazi violence and aggression, I had never heard this kind of criticism of excessive force by the Allies in freeing Europe from the scourge of Nazism.
Why, then, does Israel subject herself again and again to this worldly wise criticism by nations who, when it came to the defense of their own best interest, used far more force and destruction that Israel has ever allowed herself to use against those who, like Hitler, threaten her with extinction through gas and other weapons of mass destruction that will soon be in their hands...? Has Israel bombed and obliterated whole cities as the Allied forces did to Dresden, Darmstadt, Berlin and others? Or has Israel done what the U.S. did to bring Japan to her knees by flattening Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus killing 250,000 Japanese civilians? And yet it is Israel, who does not thus defend herself as the West has done, which is blamed, scolded and censured by the governments of these very same Western nations. It is truly amazing how hypocritical nations can be when it comes to Israel. There is a word for this double standard: Anti-Semitism.
For those in and outside Israel who would still scorn the accuracy of these facts, it may be good to end this article with a quote from Egyptian Dr. Yahya al-Rakhawi in Al-Ahrar, the organ of the so-called Liberal Party (July 19, 1982). He wrote:
"When the State of Israel was established and won the good-will of the world and was recognized by many in both East and West, one of the reasons for this recognition was the desire of the people in the East and West to get rid of as many as possible of the representatives of that human error known as 'the Jews.' Behind this motive there was an additional, secret purpose; to concentrate them in one place, so that it would be easier to strike them at the right moment. There can be no doubt that such hopes occupy the thoughts of politicians more intelligent than Hitler but at the same time more cowardly than he was. And for us, we must remember, among both bombardments and negotiations, both speeches and land mines, that we are all--once again--face to face with the Jewish problem, not just the Zionist problem; and we must reassess all those studies which made a distinction between 'the Jew' and 'the Israeli' and we must redefine the meaning of the word 'Jew' so that we do not imagine that we are speaking of a divinely revealed religion, or a minority persecuted by mankind....
"We thus find ourselves face to face with the essence of a problem which has recently donned the gown of religion and concentrated itself on a piece of land. In this confrontation we cannot help but see before us the figure of that great man Hitler, may Allah have mercy on him, who was the wisest of those who confronted this problem and who, out of compassion for humanity, tried to exterminate every Jew, but despaired of curing this cancerous growth on the body of mankind. And now they virtually confirm the accuracy of his intuition."
May Israel be wiser in relation to this death wish of her neighbours than the Jews in Europe were. They belittled the writings and speeches of Hitler and the Nazis and were massacred as a result. May it not happen again!
Jan Willem vander Hoeven is director of the International Christian Zionist Center.
...The Egyptian government newspaper Al Ahbar, describing Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit to Yad Vashem, reported that Powell "stood humble, a Jewish yarmulke on his head, in front of the memorial of the false Holocaust of the Jews in World War II..."
...Palestinian human rights activist Bassam Eid, recently told the Washington Post that he would prefer a "non-violent" intifada; then Eid explained to IMRA that rock-throwing "is not violence"...
...According to Yasser Arafat, the recent
incident in which a Palestinian Arab terrorist confessed
to having deliberately run down a crowd of Israelis
with a stolen bus in order to kill them (eight died),
was "a traffic accident"...
...The official web site of Fatah, Arafat's faction of the PLO, ran an editorial on March 5 which referred to Israel as "the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948"...
...Syria is actively developing its nuclear program with help from Russia, and a recent CIA report notes that "broader access to Russian scientists could provide opportunities (for Syria) to pursue a nuclear weapons option"...
...Intifada leader Marwan Barghouti told the London-based newspaper A-Sharq Al Aswat that Arafat has never given him an order to stop the violence against Israel...
Outpost - 6 - March 2001