The independent Zurich campus blog reports:

One wouldn’t presume much malice behind the activity, “Morals and Ethics in Groups,” being carried out by the Psychological Instute of the University of Zurich. The docent Bettina Ryf, by means of the Mideast conflict, sets her aim on dealing with the subject. …

A compilation of articles from a German-Palestinian women’s association, a lobbying organization tha advocates national Arab-Muslim interests, serve as an introduction to the subject. We can’t deal with all the details of this propaganda work here. A few examples, however, should be enough:

“In its course (Israeli War for Independence 1947/48), the paramilitary Israeli units secured their own territory and large parts of the areas promised by the UN to the Arab state. Thus the intrusion of the Arab states the day after the founding of the State changed nothing. After its consolidation, the Jewish State eventually comprised 78% of the Palestinian region instead of the 56% called for by the UN Partition Resolution.”

As a whole, it needs to be said of this document, that it uses no scientific criteria and also doesn’t claim to be neutral: massacres and acts of violence against Jews before the founding of the State remain unmentioned, as also the more than one million Jewish refugees that have been driven from Arab lands and Iran. Most apparently, the document deals with cementing the the not so accurate fables from the rolls of Arab victims. Bettina Ryf is visibly attempting to spread this very lie of Arab-Muslim nationalism among her students. Is this really the level that can be expected from the University of Zurich?

Hardly! Even though the unfoundable horror stories about the Jews Israel have become socially acceptable again, they should not be allowed to be propagated as “science” among students.

» Contact the Psychological Institute of the University of Zurich at: rwidmer@sozpsy.uzh.ch

» Contact Bettina Ryf at: beryf@sozpsy.uzh.ch

20 Minuten Schweiz reports:

Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the acquisition of fighter planes for up to four billion dollars (3.1 milliard euros), his office communicated on Sunday. According to military information, Israel intends to purchase 20 stealth bombers of the type F-35I from the the US Lockheed Martin group. They are thus to be financed with US military aid.

In a comment on Sunday, Barak stated that the fighter plain would enable Israel to maintain its superiority in the air. The F-35I machine cannot be detected by enemy radar. As observers have noted, the stealth bombers could aid Israel in attacking Iranian nuclear facilities.

The planes have arrived to late for an attack on the Iranian nuclear reactor Busher that could become an important part of the Iranian nuclear weapons arsenal. According to media reports, the structurally complete reactor surprisingly is to commence operation at the end of August already, being supported by fuel through aid from Russia. The window of opportunity is now closed for the destruction of the construction without the danger of releasing large quantities of radioactive materials.

The reason for this imposed ban by the Iranian team? The 16-year-old would have to fight against Israeli Gili Haimovitz. This has to be stopped by all means possible, even if it would mean that the opponent receives the victory without a fight. In order not to have to stand under the Israeli flag, the Iranian delegation disclosed that Soleimani was so seriously injured that he had to be brought to the hospital.

To my country with love?

He was therefore suspected of also being a “spy” for the Israeli enemy — a crime punishable by death or life imprisonment in Lebanon.

Die Welt reports:

The engineer was responsible for the technical upkeep of the machines in the dairy. The German embassy in Beirut made no statement whether the engineer was registered as a German worker there in Lebanon. Where exactly the German was detained wasn’t known right away. According to Lebanese statements, he was “not in prison.”

The Lebanese authorities have detained a good 70 people since last year under suspicion of espionage for Israel. Because of espionage, the Lebanese cabinet registered a complaint against Israel with the UN Security Council last week. Israel still has given no statement regarding the Lebanese accusations.

What comes next? Anyone who has a travel visa for Israel stamped in their passport will be put to death in Lebanon as a spy for the enemy?

(Hat Tip UN Gesandter / Translation: Anders Denken)

Thus, they would have to relinquish the delivery of electricity, gas, foodstuffs, medicines and special aid by the hated Jews, and as is normal with countries, care for their own population. This is such a horrible idea to do-gooders who constantly remind Israel of its duties, but break out in screaming when it makes use of its sovereign rights, like the pursuit of terrorists or the monitoring of the sea passage.

Whoever thought of such a thing would have to be an “ultra right-wing” politician, as die Welt reports. N-TV tries a quiter approach in their report:

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman apparently has plans of great significance. He would like to see recognition of the de facto Hamas government in the Gaza Strip by the EU. In order that Hamas can take complete control of the Gaza Strip, he apparently intends to ask the international community to erect a power station for the production of electricity. International commando units, the French foreign legion among them, are to put a stop to weapons smuggling. Ships will be able to arrive at the Gaza harbor, but will have to be inspected for weapons in Limassol in Cyprus or in Greek harbors. Inasmuch as that would be set up, Israel would hermetically seal its own borders with the Gaza Strip; Israel would deliever neither electricity nor water or any other goods to Gaza, and would be absolved of any other responsibility for that stretch of land. (…)

In the background talks, the officer however asserted that these ideas of Liebermans have been coursing around “for weeks” in Israel’s foreign ministry. Lieberman has even delivered them to his Italian colleague Franco Frattini and intends to present them on July 28th to the EU foreign ministers under invitation, among them Guido Westerwelle. Lieberman invited both of them to Israel and recommended that they visit the Gaza Strip. Just a short while ago, Minister of Development Dirk Niebel had not been allowed to do this.

Lieberman’s idea of a “second and ultimate separation” of the Gaza Strip still hasn’t received approval from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, it was said.

The recommendation that Lieberman apparently passed on to the newspaper as a weather balloon would mean that Israel would have to give up inspecitions of the outer borders in the case of the Gaza strip. In addition Israel is not under obligation on the basis of the Oslo accords, which have never been recognized by Hamas. Lieberman’s desired recognition of the Hamas government by the Europeans would seal the political division of the Palestinians in a “Hamastan” in Gaza and a “Fatah Land” in West Jordan, and mean a partial termination of the Oslo accords because in them, Gaza and West Jordan are seen as a unit.

That would also signify an end to the peace process that Israel along with American and other agents at any rate could carry out with only West Jordan since the 2007 Hamas putsch. In the end, the autonomic authorities of Mahmoud Abbas were thrown out of Gaza in July 2007 while Hamas doesn’t intend to allow any more elections at the behest of Abbass. Lieberman’s Plan would also bury the idea of a two-state solution because there would, in fact, already be an independent Hamas state, while in West Jordan, negotiations would still have to be made regarding the founding of a future second Palestinian state. If Israel should in fact “hermetically seal” its borders to the Gaza Strip, as Lieberman was cited, then on the land route there would be access to nothing but Egypt.

Egypt doesn’t appear in the plan. The idea of Transportation Minister Israel Katz of putting the Gaza strip completely under Egyptian responsibility was meanwhile indignantly rejected by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Lieberman is indeed going on without Egypt’s approval. Since the Gaza Strip can be reached by ship, then the Europeans, for example, would have to guarantee a provision for the strip of land in case even Egypt, besides Israel, should close its borders out of fear of Islamic fundamentalists.

According to statements of the newspaper, Lieberman expects approval for his plan, for it would mean the end of the blockade demanded by all sides, end Israel’s occupation, and for the caged-in population of the Gaza Strip it would mean mobility that would no longer be checked by Israel, for example, when going by ferry to Greece or Cyprus.

The suggestions certainly cannot please the European sorcerer’s apprentices, however through this, they just might have to allow the consequences of their own moral presumptuousness, instead of the usual rude admonishings of Israel.

For Israel, though, there would be only advantages: The national border with Gaza could be more secured than can be found anywhere else in the world — not only between enemy states like Korea, but also between the US and Mexico, or like the border between the EU and Morocco in the Spanish enclave Ceuta (photo above).

Its own government would be responsible for the provisions of the new state, which up until now has been hindered by the total supply of power, water, gas, medical supplies and the daily delivery of tons of aid supplies as much as possible by Israel. The border crossing to the Islamic brethren nation in Egypt would serve as a means of supply, and, of course, the open sea way that would be navigated daily by the colorfully bannered aid flotillas full of prominent do-gooders from all over the world — only as long as an independent Pali state, that is no longer a thorn in the flesh for Israel, is still of interest to “international aid organizations.”

However, the best is this: Israel could finally react to military attacks from the neighboring country, for example by rocket fire, just as any country in this world would when they are militarily attacked by a neighboring country.

» Dr. Gudrun Eussner: The Eviction of Gaza. Jubilee!

(Photo: Example for Gaza? A 10-km long border fence separates the EU from its Muslim neighbors at the Spanish enclave Ceuta / Translation: Anders Denken)

Evangelisch.de reports:

Jerusalem-born Younan is seen as a valiant fighter for a suitable peace in the Middle East and developer of interreligious dialog. Because of his sharp criticism of Israeli occupation policy and the fence that separates Israel from West Jordan, Younan, who comes from a refugee family, has also had the career as an advocate of Palestinian liberation theology since 1998. …

In an appeal cosigned by Younan at the end of 2009, the authors label the occupation of the Palestinian areas “as sin against God and the people.” It states further, “We believe that we as Christians must exercise resistance against the Israeli occupation.”

The Lutheran World Alliance has also voted for a man at the top who intends to help the Arabs drive the Jews into the sea, and who signifies the Jewish presence in the “Holy Land” as “sin against God (Allah) and the people.” Nobody seems to be upset over this: In Germany his election garnered applause from the Evangelical as well as from the Catholic side.

The churches in Germany welcomed the election of Younan. As bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and in the Holy Land, he comes from a small church that in addition has to confirm that it is in a difficult situation, the officiating head of council for the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Nikolaus Schneider, stated. He guaranteed Younan the support of the EKD in his difficult duty as the new head of the Lutheran Church Alliance of 70 million Christians.

The head of the Catholic German Bishops Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, expressed his hope in a congratulatory letter that “the dialog between the Catholic Church and the Lutheran Alliance will also be advanced in constructive fashion in the future.” Zollitsch wished the new president God’s blessings, “above all also in your responsibility as bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land.”

And there again is “Holy Land” — as if one would have to burn his tongue for saying Israel and not one single spark of the lightest criticism is allowed for the Grand Muft Bishop of Jerusalem…

(Thanks to all contributors / Translation: Anders Denken)

The Gaza Mall covers over 16,000 square meters, is split into four 4,000 square meter levels. It contains a large supermarket, a department store, play areas for children, restaurants and boutiques:

The following pictures come from the inside of the shopping paradise – click to enlarge:

The interior of the shopping palace in the “Jew-free Zone” (a.k.a. Palestinian Autonomous Region) in Hebron looks similar :

You can find more pictures from the luxury resort “Palestine” here.

Melody, what do you think of Benjamin Netanyahu?

Politicians don’t act in a vacuum. They are always under political pressure, and in the case of Israel, facing constant geopolitical threats. Netanyahu is under pressure by his right-wing coalition. He is committed to bring peace to Israel. His interview with Larry King after the meeting with Barack Obama last week, is a clear indication for this. He wants peace for Israel and stands behind the idea of a Palestinian State.

Would another government have reacted any better to the Gaza Flotilla?

A political leader unfortunately is not an avatar that can be patched together with ideal qualities and superior powers, there is no such thing as an ideal prime minister. Besides Netanyahu there are no real alternatives at the moment. The current political leadership in Israel is not ideal, but they struggle with most complicated circumstances.

What do you think of the Two-State Solution?

A Palestinian state is inevitable for both sides; most people in Israel wish the Palestinians their own country, whatever the motivation may be. Any alternative would lead to catastrophe for the Jewish State.

Fatah and Hamas fight each other. Is a solution even feasible?

That is a problem. An agreement between Abbas and Netanyahu would be possible, if Abbas would finally agree to engage in direct talks, but whatever the outcome, Hamas won’t accept it. A two-state solution would only be practical in the West Bank. But Gaza would remain unchanged — a danger for Israel and for the Palestinians there, thus not a feasible solution. In theory, an economic confederation between the West Bank, Israel and Jordan would be an option. The contrast between a legitimate, economically flourishing Palestinian state in the West bank, and a terror regime in Gaza that undermines any flourishing but misery, would be immense. In fact, it already is. The question is whether the Palestinians in Gaza would then gather the strength and determination necessary to ‘disarm’ Hamas and its terror against its own people.

The blockade on Gaza is not implemented as collective punishment as some ‘human rights’ organizations like to claim. It is meant to block the establishment of a terror base, to limit the threat against Israeli civilians. Hamas established a terror regime based on dictatorship and oppression. They have an Islamic moral police like in Iran. Christians are murdered if they don’t convert to Islam. Fatah members are lynched and thrown off roofs. But that doesn’t seem to interest the ‘human rights activists.’ The misery in Gaza is not the result of Israeli policy.

As long as Hamas functions as a proxy for Iran, doesn’t accept the existence of Israel, and demands that Sharia rules the world, a solution is unfeasible.

Even though some dubious media and NGOs like to present it otherwise, Israel’s Gaza policy is anything but ‘imperialistically’ motivated — why would Ariel Sharon have gone through the trouble of disengaging out of Gaza in 2005?

What do you think of the Israel policy of US President Barack Obama?

So far, Obama’s policy hasn’t been too effective. His strategic paradigm shift towards appeasement hasn’t been fruitful, and at the same time it had a counterproductive impact on US relations with Israel. Obama’s inaugural address in Cairo contained some problematic allusions. He – hopefully unintentionally – set equal the meaning of the Holocaust for the Jews with the meaning of the establishment of the State of Israel for the Palestinians. Taking into account this speech’s main target audience, this was as dangerous as absurd a euphemism. It legitimizes the fight against Israel by radical elements in the Arab world. The reason for this problematic stance is probably a mixture between Obama’s ‘socialization’ into the Middle East conflict via questionable ‘agents’ such as his ex-pastor and mentor Jeremiah Wright and his desire to effectively appease the Muslim world.

However, the last meeting between Obama and Netanyahu was a good one and gives reason for optimism. It looks like Obama’s positions towards Israel and his potential influence on the conflict is taking a refreshingly constructive turn.

How do you assess the Iranian threat?

The Iranian threat is serious. Israel, Europe and the US cannot afford a nuclear Ayatollah regime under Ahmadinejad. Diplomatic dialog should not become a goal in itself. If it leads to nothing — and currently, this is what it looks like despite the new sanctions — then Plan B is necessary.

Whether a military intervention by Israel is possible? Anything is possible if Israel finds itself in a situation of existential threat, which a nuclear Iran would imply. We hope this will not happen.

At least the Ayatollah regime’s ambitions are transparent. For Ahmadinejad, Hamas and the remaining fundamentalist club, the annihilation of Israel is only an intermediate goal. In the minds of these lunatics world peace is secure once Sharia rules all over the globe, then Christians and Jews may coexist in safety – as subordinates.

What do you say about the resolution by the German Bundestag that Israel must give up the Gaza blockade?

Like many others, I was perplexed. Some of the parliamentarians’ quotes surprised me too. More than anything, there was a lot of self-satisfaction about the unusually unanimous vote of all four fractions. Was this a constructive contribution to the Middle East conflict? No. It strengthens Hamas and other radical groups that instrumentalize the ‘photogenic’ situation of the Palestinians in Gaza to delegitimize Israel. This brings neither peace nor freedom to the Palestinians.

The resolution is probably the result of the usual information vacuum: Israel doesn’t perform fast or well enough when it comes to reflecting the reality. Any Bundestag member who would have sat in a helicopter above the Mavi Marmara and seen how a mob of 40 terrorists with iron rods and knives attacked the Israeli soldiers, and how the soldiers received the command to shoot only when three of them were almost lynched to death; had this same parliamentarian further seen the videos in which members of the Turkish mob declared their chief objective in this trip with broad smiles and gleaming eyes, namely to die as Shahids for Allah – then most likely this very fellow would not have voted for the resolution.

It is similar with the immediate call to end the blockade of the Gaza Strip. This is an easy thing to demand when one lives in peaceful Germany and has never been paid a visit by Qassam rockets or bloodthirsty suicide attackers. Criticism, especially by an important ally like Germany, is important — when it is constructive, fair and based on detailed, balanced facts. I doubt that all of these criteria were fulfilled in this resolution. For example, it demands an improvement of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, but not the release of Gilad Shalit, or even improvement of his ‘humanitarian situation’, through access by the Red Cross. Also, the question remains why the Bundestag, of all relevant foreign affairs events, singles out Israel’s Gaza policy.

Could Israel fill the information vacuum by documenting even more aggressively and with communicating even more evidence?

Of course. The vacuum is our deficit. Politically, too, Israel must adapt to the YouTube, Facebook and Twitter age, where information is wrapped into sound bites that travel the world at the speed of light. Consequently, the genuineness of contents is often compromised— this age is the paradise of the propagandists. But not for the only Western democracy that has been facing geopolitical threats since its existence. The priority of the Israeli governments has always been military defense, the protection of its civilian population. The fact that the media war is no less a strategic threat is now slowly catching on. This is a quite late but crucial paradigm shift.

Israel still lacks the necessary infrastructure for relevant videos, images and information to be proactively transmitted by good spokespeople. Furthermore, Israel won’t compromise its moral standards as a democratic Jewish state to score public opinion points. Israel will never ‘sell’ photos of its children that were mutilated or killed by Hamas terror, or like Hezbollah did in 2006, direct children and women to pose as ‘freshly shot’ extras in different settings. An example of the cynical use of human life for hate propaganda is the story of Mohammad al Dura. Fortunately, this will never be the case in Israel.

Reality is on Israel’s side, it just needs to be transmitted. This doesn’t imply that every political decision is the right one; however, we should keep in mind the context in which these decisions are made. I grew up in Munich and know how difficult it is to imagine within this green, pristine, peaceful safe haven how it feels to be surrounded by Islamic terror organizations. Only he who experienced a cruel terror attack in close proximity, or once had to run for his life into a bunker, can understand the insane situation Israelis have been living in and Israeli governments have been operating in for over 60 years.

Why aren’t foreign journalists even taken along to incidents like the storming of the Gaza flotilla?

Foreign journalists are often not taken along for security reasons. There were foreign journalists on the navy vessels surrounding the flotilla, but — since they needed to stay in a safe zone they could not see what was happening way up on the ship’s deck.

Other countries are not under such extreme scrutiny concerning possible ‘misbehaviors’

Yes, in Sudan hundred thousands of people are slaughtered by Islamists, but the human rights activists have nothing to say about it, same with the persecution of the Baha’i or the mutilation of women in Iran. The ‘human rights activists’ don’t say one word about it. But the naked, last resort self-defense of Israeli soldiers against a band of bloodthirsty Jihadists turns into a world-wide scandal. Is this not a perversion of reality? Israel, o Israel, how could you? Same with the UN Human Rights Council whose biased Israel obsession is so counterproductive, whereas a constructive, balanced facts-driven version of this institution would be so crucial.

Are pro-Israeli demonstrations — for example in Germany — even noticed in Israel?

Pro-Israel demonstrations still are not yet sufficiently noticed in Israel. At the Israel demo on June 13th in Berlin, I heard unbelievably touching words of support. People who proactively inform themselves, who acquire knowledge and understand the situation in depth, who support Israel with their hearts and minds as the only democracy in the Middle East. They are extremely important — for Israel and for Germany. In times like these, inspite of all strength, Israelis feel threatened – not just in terms of security, but also by public opinion. I wish every single Israeli would know what kind of important support PI, for example, grants. And I don’t say that to flatter: The moral support though the systematic exposure of crucial facts by PI is remarkable. For Israel is as threatened as misunderstood.

The greatest crime committed by obsessive and uninformed Israel critics is that they polarize only further. Instead of European student groups, for example, joining forces to make a constructive contribution, by encouraging understanding between Israeli and Palestinian students, many students fall victim to propaganda campaigns that turn peace into utopia. Here, the easiest solution simply isn’t a solution. The majority of European youth had the luxury to grow up in complete peace. With this luxury comes a moral responsibility of engaging in building bridges in conflict regions, rather than destroying them.

Is there a question you wanted to be asked for a while, but weren’t asked by me today?

Yes, there is such a question. What is Israel really like, and what do I love about it.

What is Israel like? What do you love about it?

It’s a combination of elements that make everyday life an inspiration. I grew up in a very privileged way in Munich. I had fantastic friends, a great school, lived in peace and knew no problems. Since I got to know Israel — and this has nothing to do with Zionism — I fell in love. I love the Mediterranean, in spite of the current jellyfish invasion (Paul, call back your cousins!), I love Jaffa, this Ottoman pearl, and I find living together with Israeli Arabs exciting.

I grew up with a self-created image of Israel as a small paradise. Living here, with the painful experiences of the second intifada, wars and constant threats, this paradise image crumbled, it even seems cynical. My greatest wish is to experience this Israel, already exploding of lust for live, creativity and innovation, in total peace. As the paradise I’ve been carrying in my heart since I was a child. This requires the release of Gilad Shalit.

In the meantime, support like the courageous work of PI, is like oxygen to us.

Melody Sucharewicz, we cordially thank for this interview. We wish you and Israel all the best and God’s blessings.

(Photo credit: Metin Cherasi / Translation: Anders Denken)

An adult encourages the children in the prayers of Allah, and that Allah loves shahids above all.

“May Allah watch over the children of Palestine. Allah will hear our prayers.”

You can see and listen to the Birds of Paradise song here:

(Hat Tip: Daniel Katz)

(Photo report by B. Sham / Translation: Anders Denken)

Sederot — on first look, a small pioneer city that is trying to hold its ground between its pioneer days and modern times.

Under normal conditions, that would be difficult enough, but under the hail of rockets from the neighboring Arab Hamas community in Gaza, it needs special perseverance in order not to give up. There indeed exists a pretty reliably functioning early “red alert” warning system against the rocket attacks by strictly Muslim Hamas in Gaza now, however, there are only about 15 seconds for running to cover. There, the normal little dangers of everyday appear more as an ironic contrast.

In fact, a second look, however, shows a few special characteristics of this city on the edge of the Negev desert: Wherever one goes and stands, bunkers and protective structures have been inconspicuously integrated more or less with street life — a quasi-normality during the hail of rockets.

Every bus stop, every kindergarten, every post office — everything has to be armored against the terror from the neighboring Muslim Hamas community.

Apartments lately have all been outfitted with armored security rooms (Israeli: ‘mamad’) — with poured concrete against the terrorism.

The large local Yeshiva Sederot (Jewish Bible school) stands firm against the terror: one will not allow oneself to be driven out. In contrast, on the roof of the large school, students built a nine-armed Chanukkah lamp out of rocket parts through which visitors can catch a view in the direction of Gaza.

Are the attacks demonstrations of thanksgiving by the really devoted followers of the “Religion of Peace” that the Israelis voluntarily vacated the Gaza strip in 2005, sprinkled throughout with all its magnificent settlement areas? It was the previous Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who pushed this through.

The few Israeli military actions, targeted against the rocket terrorists in the Gaza strip, were rabidly judged by this world’s “quality media”: it was irresponsible Israeli war mongering, etc., etc., etc., in defending themselves militarily against the Religion of Peace and its rockets instead of being constantly chafed by unending, ineffective negotiations. Ineffective? Really, why indeed? Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu once expressed it with total clarity and simplicity, “With a Hamas, we Israelis could only negotiate about our annihilation.”

Hamas Video regarding this:

These rockets have absolutely no military value, since they are inaccurate. They are only useful for terror weapons against localities where they might land.

The modest town hall in Sederot has suggestions ready for visitors on how to behave in case of attack, as well as a brochure in stock about the attacks that have gone on for years and about the victims of the terrorists from the Gaza strip:

Then the visitors are referred to the police station where the remainders of the Kassam rockets are kept on exhibit.

The blockade of the Gaza strip is seen, in terms of the militarily use goods, as an absolute necessity; the recent decline in rocket attacks can be traced back, on the one side, to the targeted anti-terror actions by the Israeli military, and on the other, to the thorough inspection of the large multitude of goods allowed into Gaza. The Sederot residents can only grab their heads over so much lack of reality and over the ideological stubbornness in much of the quality medias’ one-sided reporting having the overtones of an Israeli attack on a “peace flotilla” and the “supplies for the residents” in Gaza.

But Sederot demonstrates a nearly calm power notwithstanding — with the the oversized Jewish symbol of the Shofar

and the positive tenacity that shows in the confidence in the Israeli community.

They will never be broken by the Arab terrorists.

“KRAKOW, Poland – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration will seek $15 million contribution to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. She made the pledge while visiting the Oskar Shchindler [sic!] enamel factory where the German protected Jews from the Holocaust.”

(By the Editrix)

“Today I am proud to announce the intention of the Obama Administration to work with Congress to secure $15 million in funding for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation,” she said.

“We encourage other nations to join us in contributing to this fund. In just one year, 2009 alone, more than 1.3 million people from around the world visited the museum and memorial of Auschwitz,” Clinton added during a sombre speech.

“Our contribution will help preserve the camp so that future generations can see for themselves why the world must never again allow a place of such hatred to scar the soul of humankind,” she said.

So while the empathy for and solidarity with dead Jews is strong (and cheap), the same Obama administration that gets quite dewy-eyed and sombre over a world that must never again allow a place of such hatred to scar the soul of humankind, is blocking key weapons projects for Israel, rejecting requests for AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters, while at exactly the same time happily approving advanced F-16 multi-role fighters for Egypt plus approving more than $10 billion worth of arms sales to Arab League states, including Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates who all have a key interest in the survival of the Jewish people and not to allow ever again a place of such hatred to scar the soul of humankind.

And to let no doubt whatsoever that this ilk is totally unembarrassable, she goes on:

“We see here the two realities of the Holocaust. One involves the cold, mechanized slaughter of millions of men, and women, and children, many of them wrenched from their communities, herded into boxcars by their neighbors and sent to die, including, not far from here, in the gas chambers of Auschwitz,” Clinton said.

“And yet we also see and are heightened by the stories of the righteous, the thousands who risked lives, fortunes, and reputations to rescue friends and strangers from the horrors of the Shoah,” she added.

“The courage of Oskar Schindler and Minister Bartoszewski gives us proof that, in the face of the worst that humanity is capable of, there are amongst us individuals who are defiant, and who are unwilling to accept that alternative reality.

“We have an obligation to remember both sides of that experience of the Holocaust,” she said.

First, dear Hillary, only Jews use the term “Shoa”. Gentiles who do so show a deplorable lack of taste, distance, discernment and respect. And no, there are NOT “two realities of the Holocaust”. It was NOT not about “scars on the souls of humankind”, but about six million dead Jews. Remembrance isn’t, either, about restaging “thousands who risked lives, fortunes, and reputations to rescue friends and strangers” who wouldn’t have needed to do that in the first place, hadn’t millions of others, the overwhelming majority, done nothing — or gleefully complied. Trust anybody as debased as yourself and the faux Messiah in the White House to turn remembrance of the Holocaust into a feel good experience for gentiles.