On 2/5/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> > Doug:
> > > I really don't see the point of having an open mind or critical
> > > spirit about the Holocaust.
> >
> > agreed, but how about the issue of German jailing of H deniers?
> > --
> > Jim Devine
>
>
> There is a parallel between the Muslim power elite recalling
> ambassadors from European countries where newspapers published racist
> Danish cartoons and Germany jailing Holocaust deniers.
>
> What might be called "state anti-imperialism" serves as a cover for
> the total capitulation of the Muslim power elite on issues
> (Palestine, Iraq, Iran, etc., etc. in international politics and
> democracy, civil rights, economy, etc. at home) that matter far more
> than the racist cartoons.
>
> What might be called "state anti-Semitism" serves as an anti-racist
> cover for the German government's own contemporary racist policies
> (which are targeted against non-European immigrants, mainly Turks,
> Kurds, etc., not Jews); Germany's reemergence as a military power
> (through the affairs of Yugoslavia, etc.); the world power elite's
> actually having happily lived with most fascists (those who actually
> committed fascist deeds, not younger apologists for Nazis who were
> just children or weren't even born during WW2) after the war -- some
> of them in high places, like Hirohito, Kishi, Sasakawa, Franco, etc.;
> the world power elite _still_ paying homage to fascists (e.g., Reagan
> visiting Bitburg; Koizumi visiting Yasukuni; "Zuroff complained that
> while Latvia has managed to prosecute several former Soviet
> functionaries for Communist crimes, not a single Nazi collaborator
> has been tried since the country became independent. In 2000 Zuroff
> discovered that at least forty-one Latvian members of the Arajs
> Kommando, a notorious Latvian security unit implicated in the
> shootings of thousands of Jews, had just been officially
> rehabilitated and rewarded with increased pensions . . . Both the
> Latvian Parliament and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga--whom Zuroff
> labeled a "metaphor for the whole problem"--at one time considered
> combining the day of the SS march with the national memorial
> holiday" [at <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050523/ames>]; "Remember
> all the frothy praise of Viktor Yuschenko and what a great democrat
> he was -- back when he was the leader of the so-called Orange
> Revolution that toppled the corrupt Ukrainian regime of President
> Leonid Kuchma (left) -- from George Bush, the neocons, Freedom House,
> and the Western press in general? Well, this week a little-noticed
> dispatch from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (the worldwide Jewish
> news service founded in 1917) related how now-President Yushchenko
> (above right) has just awarded Ukraine's highest honor -- the "Hero
> of Ukraine" medal -- to a notorious anti-Semite, Ivan Spodarenko. But
> not a word of this outrage has appeared in the major U.S.
> dailies." [<http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/02/
> ukraines_yusche.html>], etc.).
>
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi
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> <http://mrzine.org>
>
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-- Jim Devine
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