Unfortunate Realities
In present-day Germany it is a crime to deny the Holocaust, and it is seen as a criminal offence to celebrate Nazism. Germany takes its responsibility for the Holocaust seriously indeed. The country grieves that it could have descended to such an abyss of human moral degradation, that its World War II government could have turned Europe into a charnel house. It holds sacred the memory of the six million Jews who perished in a deliberate and fairly successful dedication to remove world Jewry from existence.Germany, an entirely different country now, respects and holds dear its relationship with Israel. It has done penance for its monumental atrocities against its then-political adversaries, against the handicapped, against Gypsies, against homosexuals, against Europe's Jews. Germany now represents itself as a bulwark of stern antagonism against racism. And when the Berlin-based newspaper Bild purchased the historical Nazi blueprints representing 29 sketches of the Auschwitz death camp, and published them it did a great service to the world.
Setting at rest all those conspiracy theories that Jews invented the concept of the Holocaust, an event that never did occur, other than in the demented minds of the Jewish remnants of European Jewry. This week, in Germany, a ceremony took place whereby Bild placed those documents into the hands of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, to be removed to Israel, and to be placed at the memorial site of Yad VaShem, for all to see, the believers and the doubters.
The greatest doubter of all, an institutionalized doubter, the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose President Ahmadinejad is so fond of denying the existence of the event, and who enjoys declaring Iran's intent to destroy Israel, and who brandishes before the world the fact of Iran's nuclear installations and its dedicated uranium enrichment program leading to nuclear weaponization, might wish to visit Yad VaShem. Then again, he might, decidedly not wish to make that trip.
On his acceptance of the Auschwitz blueprints, Mr. Netanyahu stated "We cannot allow evil to cause massive death. We must stop evil in due time." Clearly, alluding both to the failures of the past, and the opportunities of the future. "There is a connection between despotism and terrorism, between freedom and peace ... military barbarism knows no limits. We must prevent the spread of these armies on time so that humanity can be saved."
For it is undeniably a fact that the destruction of Israel through nuclear weaponry in the hands of an fanatically Islamist Iran which oppresses and sacrifices its own people, has aspirations on a much wider scale than merely demolishing Israel. The Western world is quite well aware of this seemingly nebulous agenda, fraught with possibilities. "World leaders must act in time to avoid the fate of the Holocaust victims. We cannot allow those who are looking to cause mass death and threaten the Jewish State", Mr. Netanyahu pleaded.
How ironic then, it is that Germany, the source of the original Holocaust, finds itself in political and trade collusion with the very country recognized as "Aryan", the Nazi ideal, which gloats that although the original Holocaust never occurred, it is prepared to conduct another Holocaust. And is Germany horrified at this perpetuation of atrocious intent?
One might think so. On the other hand, an unfortunate reality impinges on the serene comfort that repentant Germany's offences against humanity could never be repeated.
Something is amiss in the State of Denmark - no, make that Germany; apologies to Denmark - for even while German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks on the world stage against economic ties with Iran, the country's own recently released statistics reveal that Germany has outranked France as Iran's largest trading partner. Giving aid and comfort where it is least due, in the larger interests of business and the bottom line.
Data released by Germany's Federal Statistical Office (Germans love their statistics) indicate an increase in exports to Iran, reaching a high of $6-billion in 2008. Wait, we're not finished, not yet. A joint German-Iranian business conference in Hamburg discussed the manner in which both countries could improve business relations, along with their political relationship. The current administration of Chancellor Merkel is subsidizing investments in Iran, providing German industry with $400-million in credit guarantees.
More latterly Basell Polyolefine, a German petrochemical company signed a $1.3-billion trade deal with Iran, and technology obtained from Siemens is being used by the Iranian regime to crack down on internal internet and cellphone access. Enabling Iran to better control the political malcontents causing grief to the ruling Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, and his acolyte, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Labels: Israel, Middle East, Traditions, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, August 27, 2009
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