A history lesson too many choose to ignore

Note: Please excuse the syntax, punctuation and organization problems in the second half of the essay. I have an unsolvable problem with the blog program)

Six individual news stories recently appeared on my computer screen--at the same time of day, on the same date and on the same online news site. More important, these six stories may not appear to be related--but they are.  

These six stories, while very different, nevertheless suggest a chilling reality about Israel. The six stories are, in no real order, about: (1) former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir; (2) an Israeli official located in what Jews call Judea-Samaria (and what gentiles and others call 'the West Bank’); (3) an Israeli NGO (Non-Government Organization); (4) the World War Two era Auschwitz death camp; (5) a statement about the Arab-Israel conflict; and (6) another story about Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb.

If you are wise, you’ll take note of these stories. They remind us that we cannot ignore history, particularly an ugly history. If we ignore that ugliness, we will surely be doomed to repeat it.

A look at recent modern history tells us a grim lesson. The world ignores Jew-hate. The world seems indeed ready to repeat an old, murderous story. History has taught us nothing.

The six news stories above appeared during the morning hours of October 7, 2021. They all appeared on the online news site called, arutzsheva.  These stories were all new to the day’s news cycle. Nevertheless, the stories remind us of a modern 80+-year record of Jew-hate, a record that continues to this day.

The Holocaust was a period of history that ran from app 1939-April 1945, when World War Two engulfed the world. It was a period when Nazi Germany created a “Final Solution” for the “problem” of Europe’s Jews.

That Solution was simple. It would completely remove Jews from Europe once-and-for-all-time. Nazi Germany’s war and industrial machinery would work together to murder millions of Jews.

The problem of what to do with the hated Jews of Europe would finally be “solved”. Therefore, beginning in 1942, the already-existing Auschwitz concentration camp became the largest of the Nazi’s extermination camps (here). By the time World War Two ended in 1945, perhaps 1.1 million Jews had been murdered there (ibid). 1.1 million. In just one death camp alone.

Altogether, some 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazis and their friends in the Holocaust. This Holocaust is what too many choose to ignore.

The hate that made the Holocaust possible is back. Actually, it never went away.

That same Auschwitz of World War two was again in the news 76 years later--on October 7, 2021. Auschwitz was back in  the news because Jew-hate still exists. 

That hate has now reared its ugly head again inside Auschwitz itself, in the form of anti-Semitic slogans—and Holocaust denial epithets--painted on nine barracks in one of Auschwitz’s camps (here). Jews in Europe termed this statement, “an outrageous attack on the symbol of one of the great tragedies in human history” (ibid).

Jew-hate is alive-and-well in Auschwitz--again. It is a cancer that has never disappeared. 

The second story looked at another October day--October 6, 1973, when the Yom Kippur war broke out in Israel. Golda Meir was Israel Prime Minister at the time. Because October 6, 2021 was the 48^th anniversary of that war, dozens of documents from Israel’s state archive were released to the public (here). They reveal that Mrs. Meir was “depressed” by  pessimistic reports from the battlefield.  She is reported to have sent a message to US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger “begging him to send planes and tanks” to Israel” (ibid). 

Later that same day (October 6^th), archive documents further suggest she also “seemed pessimistic regarding the likelihood of obtaining financial and military assistance from abroad. ‘We have very little help from other countries … In general, people don’t like Jews, and especially not weak Jews. They’ve thrown us to the dogs’ (ibid).

Ask yourself, would any country today wish to throw Israel to the dogs? If you believe the answer is, no, you live in a fool’s Paradise.  

The third news story was about an Israeli leader who is probably little known outside Israel. He is Yossi Dagan, the Jewish leader of the Samaria Regional Council in what most outside Israel call, “the West Bank”. He was angry. He revealed that he had written a scathing letter to the UN Special coordinator for the Middle East (Tor Wennesland) (here).

It seems that in an August, 2021 speech to the UN Security Council, Wennesland had falsely accused Jews of Israel for having attacked “a Palestinian Arab when it turned out that the Palestinian was actually the one who had thrown stones at Jewish residents near the community of Homesh in Samaria” (ibid). Angrily, Dagan had demanded an apology. So far, there has been no apology (ibid).

At the UN, Jew hate lives on. That hate has never ended. The horrors of World War Two has had little impact on the UN's attitudes towards Jews. 

The fourth news story was about the anti-Israel NGO, B’Tselem. This NGO receives money from Europe specifically, it is charged, to find ways to delegitimize and to demonize Israel. B’Tselem is an anti-Israel Israeli organization. It supports Palestinian Jew-hate.

This B’Tselem story revealed that B’Tselem had accused Israeli Jews of setting fire to a building which in fact had been set ablaze by Palestinian Arabs (here). A video confirms that B’Tselem had lied about Jews,

That Jews anywhere would work so openly with Jewish enemies is disgusting. But it happens. It  happened in the

Holocaust. It happens today

he fifth story was a news video that had appeared originally

 on the pro-Israel site, MEMRI. It is a short video of a Palestinian who is (here) a member of the anti-Israel Palestinian Fatah Party. This Palestinian states that the Arab-Israel conflict was actually about the Palestinian struggle to remove the Jewish Israel “in its entirety” from all land between the [Jordan] River and the [Mediterranean] Sea (ibid).

If you look at a map of Jewish Israel, you will see that Israel currently sits on land that is between the “River and the Sea”. Therefore, whenever someone says –or more commonly, chants--‘From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free”, they refer to the complete removal—and erasure—of Israel from that tract of land; it is the chant of Arab conquest.

Jew-hate is alive. Many are eager to see Israel disappear. They incite Jew-hate to accomplish that goal. They sing for Israel to be erased. They would gladly cheer for another “Final Solution”.

For them, Hitler was a failure. He simply did not do a good enough job on the Jews.

The last of these six news stories was about Iran (here). Iran spends more time talking about erasing Israel from the world map than anyone else. Iran obsesses over destroying the world’s only Jewish state.

No one confronts Iran about this murderous obsession. Instead, nations court Iran—the same way England’s Neville Chamberlain courted Adolph Hitler—to appease.

What was true during the Holocaust is still true today. Preachers and academicians once again call to harm Jews.

 What was true during the 6-Day war is still true today: if Israel were seriously attacked, few nations would provide Israel with military assistance

Israel is alone. The reality of the Holocaust was that, beginning 80+ years ago, there was a widespread bloodlust to see Jews killed. Now, these six news stories—appearing at the same time on the same date in 2021—clearly remind us that that bloodlust may be as strong as ever

If the world chooses to ignore how yesterday’s Jew-hate revives, the world will be doomed to repeat the consequences of that hate. Only this time, the world won’t get off so easily.