← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Demigorgona
Thread ID: 11645 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-12-29
2003-12-29 07:23 | User Profile
In effect, the central question is where the greatest danger to Jews in Europe comes from today: from the incidental groups of young people consumed by hatred, who occasionally desecrate a Jewish cemetery, or from the academic and cultural elites, which are well aware of the history of the Old World? The answer would seem to be clear.
When Mikis Theodorakis, the creator of the masterpiece "Mauthausen," calls the Jewish people "the root of evil," he isn't doing so from lack of knowledge about the Holocaust. Even an arch-anti-Semite such as the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammed, didn't deny the Holocaust in his famous speech of incitement; on the contrary, he specifically mentioned it when he pointed out that it didn't prevent Jewish domination of the world. And Portuguese Nobel Prize laureate Jose Saramago knows exactly what Auschwitz was, but that didn't prevent him from saying the abominable things we recall from his last visit to our region.
Entire Article: [url]http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/377000.html[/url]
2003-12-29 11:27 | User Profile
The problem with the Holocaust is that it is just a silly religious word that covers many unrelated actions and happenings. Just so terms like Holocaust Denier really has no possible definition. And it looks like someone just threw the word Mauthausen in even though it wasn't a Jewish camp.