Showing posts with label It's 1938 and Iran is Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It's 1938 and Iran is Germany. Show all posts
Friday, November 5, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Are “moderate” muslims any different from Germans who stood by in the 1930s? The Complacent Muslim and Your Obedience to Mohammed
It is often said in defense of 21st Century Islam in this current climate of conflict, in fact, war between the world of Islam and the West, that most Muslims do not participate in, nor support, the actions of the extremists acting in the name of that religion. That is a misguided and tragic defense, as history has proven again and again that in a totalitarian regime, the silent become irrelevant when the terrorists take power. It doesn’t matter what the complacent want or don’t want, feel or don’t feel, agree or don’t agree, they are part of what the extremists control in large part as a result of the inaction of this majority. Those who do not speak up in the Muslim world today should understand that what they become, as a result of this silence, are the compatriots of the Islamic extremists who incinerate American civilians, behead their own homosexuals, stone to death Muslim female rape victims, and who are authorized by their religious leaders to brutally torture and murder anyone else who isn’t a doctrinaire follower of the prophet Mohammed according to the Koran.
It is the observable, and repeated, facts of history that tell us this. The same thing happened in Soviet Russia, in Nazi Germany and in imperial Japan, among many other examples.
In Bolshevik Russia, remarkably few individuals took over the leadership of the nation from a centuries’ old monarchy, using tactics that were modern at the time, and were not yet fully understood by the distracted rulers in power until it was too late. All it took initially was a small group of anarchists who knew what they were doing in the troubled, war-torn Russia of the first decade of the Century, and after annihilating the intelligentsia and either murdering or exiling as many of the upper classes as they could as expeditiously as they could, the Communists took control of whatever passed for the media at the time. Accepting the lovely and completely false words (you know, hopey-changey stuff) about what they wanted to accomplish ‘for the workers,’ the rest of the populace remained silent. The majority of the Russian people didn’t really know what was happening in their own country during this time of war, revolution, and famine. They were known to repeatedly call for “Papa! Papa!” to help them, as this is what the Russian people had always called their Tsar. Before they knew it, the people of Russia had been conscripted into the nightmare of Communism, and by the time they did comprehend the nature of this beast that had captured them, there was nothing they or any other Russian could do about it, for all freedom had been taken from them. The complacent paid a severe price for their inaction, as everyone in that tragic nation, except of course the ruling elites, suffered nothing but misery, cruelty and horror in the almost century long totalitarian regime.
It was not until the former USSR, as statist systems always do, collapsed in on itself that the Russian people and so many other of the Eastern European nations behind the Iron Curtain, were released from captivity. Yet another such experiment that failed totally, as socialist states always do.
Nazi Germany is another example of a peoples’ silent acceptance of the tyranny of a terrorist few. This can be perhaps best described by a German citizen whose family was of the German aristocracy prior to World War II, and who owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism: “Very few people were true Nazis, but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”
The silent in Germany have often been described in history as “good Germans,” but it was so much more than that. As the majority of the populace of one of the most civilized nations the world had ever seen remained complacent as the National Socialist Workers’ Party rose in prominence and gained power, the silent became irrelevant. Actions of the extremists authorized by those in power, the Nazis, resulted in total control of everything and everyone under their aegis, thus determining the fate of all.
In this case, the results of the silence of the majority was not limited to national borders. It brought about a global Armegeddon, a brutal decade-long world war killing millions and the near total destruction of the nation of Germany.
No less is intended by those who currently wish to destroy us.
This fatal danger on the part of the silent has been demonstrated again and again throughout the annals of history wherever tyranny is the victor. The extremists seem to ever know how to capitalize on the complacency of the majority in ensuring the victory they will stop at nothing to achieve. They know full well how to make the silent majority completely irrelevant in their plans for domination and power, and it is always then the fanatics who determine the future of the nation, or movement, they have come to control.
The same tragedy of unbelievable proportions occurred in China; the same occurred in Cuba; the same occurred in Rwanda and it was the same in pre-Second World War Japan. Wherever the fanatics took control, those who stayed silent became irrelevant, then by nature of the process, complicit, and then, they became the ultimate victims of these always cruel tyrannies.
As our German observer states of the most recent manifestation of this paradox: “We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.”
“The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority', is cowed, and extraneous.“
And when you are extraneous in a totalitarian country, you’re dead.
Just look at own home grown experiment in totalitarian rule: Obamacare. Under this government takeover of our medical system, when you are no longer deemed necessary and/or even helpful to the cause by appropriately designated government officials, “you don’t have the surgery, you take the pain pill.” In Bolshevik Russia, those determined by the ruling class to be irrelevant to the state came to number more than 40 milllion dead; in China, over 70 million died for the good of that Communist regime. Most of these millions had remained silent, and by the time they knew that they should speak up, there was no one left to pay attention to them.
Our German historian continues: “..for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life. Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious…is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and (work to see) that thousands, world-wide, (act) before it's too late.”
History lessons are often incredibly simple, and powerful in their simplicity. Yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. These are that peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence, and that peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
According to some in the Muslim world, this, actually, may have already happened.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until the die was cast.
As for we who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life. Anyone who doubts (which includes all the appeasers on the left) that the issue is serious and as such decides to just carry on, is contributing to the blindness and passivity that allows these problems to expand. Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, realize that peaceful passivity is not the answer, and react to the fanatics - before there is no more time, and no one left, to stop them.
It is the observable, and repeated, facts of history that tell us this. The same thing happened in Soviet Russia, in Nazi Germany and in imperial Japan, among many other examples.
In Bolshevik Russia, remarkably few individuals took over the leadership of the nation from a centuries’ old monarchy, using tactics that were modern at the time, and were not yet fully understood by the distracted rulers in power until it was too late. All it took initially was a small group of anarchists who knew what they were doing in the troubled, war-torn Russia of the first decade of the Century, and after annihilating the intelligentsia and either murdering or exiling as many of the upper classes as they could as expeditiously as they could, the Communists took control of whatever passed for the media at the time. Accepting the lovely and completely false words (you know, hopey-changey stuff) about what they wanted to accomplish ‘for the workers,’ the rest of the populace remained silent. The majority of the Russian people didn’t really know what was happening in their own country during this time of war, revolution, and famine. They were known to repeatedly call for “Papa! Papa!” to help them, as this is what the Russian people had always called their Tsar. Before they knew it, the people of Russia had been conscripted into the nightmare of Communism, and by the time they did comprehend the nature of this beast that had captured them, there was nothing they or any other Russian could do about it, for all freedom had been taken from them. The complacent paid a severe price for their inaction, as everyone in that tragic nation, except of course the ruling elites, suffered nothing but misery, cruelty and horror in the almost century long totalitarian regime.
It was not until the former USSR, as statist systems always do, collapsed in on itself that the Russian people and so many other of the Eastern European nations behind the Iron Curtain, were released from captivity. Yet another such experiment that failed totally, as socialist states always do.
Nazi Germany is another example of a peoples’ silent acceptance of the tyranny of a terrorist few. This can be perhaps best described by a German citizen whose family was of the German aristocracy prior to World War II, and who owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism: “Very few people were true Nazis, but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”
The silent in Germany have often been described in history as “good Germans,” but it was so much more than that. As the majority of the populace of one of the most civilized nations the world had ever seen remained complacent as the National Socialist Workers’ Party rose in prominence and gained power, the silent became irrelevant. Actions of the extremists authorized by those in power, the Nazis, resulted in total control of everything and everyone under their aegis, thus determining the fate of all.
In this case, the results of the silence of the majority was not limited to national borders. It brought about a global Armegeddon, a brutal decade-long world war killing millions and the near total destruction of the nation of Germany.
No less is intended by those who currently wish to destroy us.
This fatal danger on the part of the silent has been demonstrated again and again throughout the annals of history wherever tyranny is the victor. The extremists seem to ever know how to capitalize on the complacency of the majority in ensuring the victory they will stop at nothing to achieve. They know full well how to make the silent majority completely irrelevant in their plans for domination and power, and it is always then the fanatics who determine the future of the nation, or movement, they have come to control.
The same tragedy of unbelievable proportions occurred in China; the same occurred in Cuba; the same occurred in Rwanda and it was the same in pre-Second World War Japan. Wherever the fanatics took control, those who stayed silent became irrelevant, then by nature of the process, complicit, and then, they became the ultimate victims of these always cruel tyrannies.
As our German observer states of the most recent manifestation of this paradox: “We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.”
“The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority', is cowed, and extraneous.“
And when you are extraneous in a totalitarian country, you’re dead.
Just look at own home grown experiment in totalitarian rule: Obamacare. Under this government takeover of our medical system, when you are no longer deemed necessary and/or even helpful to the cause by appropriately designated government officials, “you don’t have the surgery, you take the pain pill.” In Bolshevik Russia, those determined by the ruling class to be irrelevant to the state came to number more than 40 milllion dead; in China, over 70 million died for the good of that Communist regime. Most of these millions had remained silent, and by the time they knew that they should speak up, there was no one left to pay attention to them.
Our German historian continues: “..for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life. Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious…is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and (work to see) that thousands, world-wide, (act) before it's too late.”
History lessons are often incredibly simple, and powerful in their simplicity. Yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. These are that peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence, and that peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
According to some in the Muslim world, this, actually, may have already happened.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until the die was cast.
As for we who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life. Anyone who doubts (which includes all the appeasers on the left) that the issue is serious and as such decides to just carry on, is contributing to the blindness and passivity that allows these problems to expand. Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, realize that peaceful passivity is not the answer, and react to the fanatics - before there is no more time, and no one left, to stop them.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Will Israel seize Ahmadinejad when it gets the chance? How can Netanyahu refrain from an action to stop Hitler's heir, Ahmadinejad, when the year is already 1939, if not 1940?
Benjamin Netanyahu's comeback campaign focused on the Iranian threat. "The year is 1938 and Iran is Germany," he warned as head of the opposition. "When [Iranian President] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, he is preparing a second holocaust against the Jewish people. Believe him and stop him."Netanyahu did not content himself with warnings, and called for putting Ahmadinejad on trial in The Hague on charges of incitement to genocide. He and other supporters collected threatening utterances from the Iranian president against Israel, determined they violated the international Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and set out to enlist support in the West."In 1938 Hitler did not say he wanted to destroy. Here Ahmadinejad is saying clearly that this is his intention and we are not even crying out. At least say a crime against humanity. It is necessary to put this issue right in the world's face, that here is a matter of a program for genocide," said Netanyahu four years ago.Jewish organizations held show trials, American congressmen and British members of parliament expressed support and jurists fired off letters. "Had the world listened to Hitler's words and watched his actions, the Holocaust could have been prevented," wrote Los Angeles lawyer Baruch Cohen on his blog American Trial Attorneys in Defense of Israel, in an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Ahmadinejad did not take fright. He kept on with his hate speeches, threats and Holocaust denial; he traveled the world unperturbed and the Iranian nuclear program moved forward.In Israel, however, a change occurred and Netanyahu moved from the television screens to the Prime Minister's Office. Now he was given a mandate to act and not just talk against the Iranian threat.Three weeks from now, Netanyahu will have a one-time opportunity to stop the new Hitler and thwart the incitement to genocide. Ahmadinejad will pay his first visit to Lebanon and devote an entire day to a tour of the southern part of that country. He will visit sites where Hezbollah waged battles against Israel and, according to one report, he will also pop over to Fatima Gate, just beyond the border fence at Metula. The route is known, the range is close and it is possible to send a detail across the border to seize the president of Iran and bring him to trial in Israel as an inciter to genocide and Holocaust denier.The media effect will be dramatic: Ahmadinejad in a glass cage in Jerusalem, with the simultaneous translation earphones, facing grim Israeli judges. In the spirit of the times, it will also be possible to have foreign observers join them (David Trimble of the Turkel commission was a leader of the "try the Iranian president" initiative ).There are also operational advantages: Iran will hesitate to react to its president's arrest by flinging missiles, out of fear for their leader's life. It will also be possible to capture Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who will no doubt emerge from his hiding place and accompany Ahmadinejad. Israel will have high-ranking hostages it will be able to exchange for Gilad Shalit.And if the world has any complaints, it will be reminded that the Americans invaded Panama in order to arrest its ruler Manuel Noriega - and only for dealing drugs, a far smaller offense than incitement to genocide.Of course, the idea also has disadvantages. Ahmadinejad might be killed in the action and Iran would embark on a cruel war of revenge. The precedent of arresting leaders would endanger Israeli personages suspected abroad of crimes against humanity or murder (according to the Goldstone report and the flotilla report ). Ahmadinejad could be acquitted and make Israel look like a bully and Netanyahu a fool.Nevertheless, how can Netanyahu refrain from an action to stop Hitler's heir, when the year is already 1939, if not 1940? According to Netanyahu's reasoning, if he refrains from acting history will condemn him for "not preventing a crime," as with Margalit Har-Shefi, who didn't stop Yigal Amir from assassinating Yitzhak Rabin.This, of course, is not going to happen. The risks are too great and the intention here is not to give operational advice but rather to demonstrate the gap between those shouting from the opposition and those in power, and between "public diplomacy" - Israel's latest official translation for the term hasbara, which is something between self-justification and propaganda - and statesmanship.When you are talking and looking for messages to get yourself into prime time, you can say anything without taking risks. But when you are the prime minister, the constraints of reality become clear and the gap between talk and deeds is revealed. Therefore, it is best to be cautious in speech and to remember that not everything is hasbara, as even a media gimmick can come back to haunt you.And perhaps I'm wrong. Could it be the elite special operations unit is training and Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah are on their way to secret detention facility 1391, to the cell that served the captives Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid and Mustafa Dirani?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Netanyahu: It's 1938 and Iran is Germany
LOS ANGELES - Drawing a direct analogy between Iran and Nazi Germany, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu asserted Monday that the Iranian nuclear program posed a threat not only to Israel, but to the entire western world. There was "still time," however, to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, he said.
"It's 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs," Netanyahu told delegates to the annual United Jewish Communities General Assembly, repeating the line several times, like a chorus, during his address. "Believe him and stop him," the opposition leader said of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "This is what we must do. Everything else pales before this."
While the Iranian president "denies the Holocaust," Netanyahu said, "he is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state."
Speaking on Army Radio on Tuesday, Netanyahu hinted that Israel possesses the military capabilities necessary for curbing by itself the Iranian nuclear threat, declining to specify what these entail.
The Likud chairman said "I don't want to analyze the capability required to eliminate [the Iranian] threat, but this capability exists," when told by host Razi Barkai that Israel lacks the ability to eliminate Tehran's nuclear program by military means.
"This capability is eroded over time, and if we wait years then obviously this capability would not exist anymore ... but right now I disagree with the claim that nothing can be done against Iran," he added.
When asked if Bush could afford embarking on another "military adventure" after Iraq, Netanyahu said acting on the Iranian nuclear program would not be adventurous but necessary.
"... Israel would certainly be the first stop on Iran's tour of destruction, but at the planned production rate of 25 nuclear bombs a year ... [the arsenal] will be directed against 'the big Satan,' the U.S., and the 'moderate Satan,' Europe," Netanyahu said.
"Iran is developing ballistic missiles that would reach America, and now they prepare missiles with an adequate range to cover the whole of Europe," he added.
"No one cared" Criticizing the international community in his GA speech for not acting more forcefully in trying to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power - "No one cared then and no one seems to care now," he said, again drawing on the Nazi parallel - Netanyahu warned that Tehran's nuclear and missile program "goes way beyond the destruction of Israel - it is directed to achieve world-wide range. It's a global program in the service of a mad ideology."
Large sections of the international community, he said, also misunderstood the nature of radical Islam and its role in the Mideast conflict. "What happens in Iran affects what happens in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not the other way round," he said.
Netanyahu said he believed that Iran could still be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons. "There is still time. All ways must be considered. We can't let this thing happen," he said, but did not outline specific measures he thought should be taken.
Referring to Israel's preemptive strike in the 1967 War, he did say that stopping Iran required "preemptive leadership. Preemption requires will and vision."
"Noone will defend the Jews if the Jews don't defend themselves," he said to loud applause. "Iran's nuclear ambitions have to be stopped."
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