Sincerity vs Blind Spots
"We pay particular attention to anti-Semitism, which threatens Jewish life in Germany, in Europe and beyond."
"Being here today and speaking to you as German chancellor is anything but easy for me. I am deeply ashamed of the barbaric crimes perpetrated here by Germans -- crimes that transcend the limits of all things."
"In horror at what has been done to women, men and children in this place, you have to be silent ... And yet silence must not be our only answer. This place obliges us to keep the memory alive."
"We need to remember the crimes that were committed here."
"Remembering the crimes, naming the perpetrators, and giving the victims a dignified commemoration, that is a responsibility that does not end."
"It is not negotiable, and it is inseparable from our country. Being aware of this responsibility is an integral part of our national identity."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Auschwitz, Poland
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| Mrs Merkel acknowledged the rise of anti-Semitism in her country EPA |
It is difficult to assess Frau Merkel's sentiments as anything less than genuinely felt and expressed. Her mournfully expressed feeling of remorse in reproaching the National Socialist government of Germany for its persecution of Jews and its leap from threat toward full-scale genocidal success leaving present-day Germany a legacy of blood and tears -- not Germany's, but those of the survivors of the massive destruction of European Jewry during the Holocaust -- cannot be faulted for sincerity.
What can and should be faulted is her immense blind spot. That opening Germany like the insatiable maw of a Black Hole in the firmament of the globe to absorb millions of Muslims as immigrants, economic migrants, refugees escaping the murderous conflicts of Islamic countries has left the vulnerable German-Jewish population to the mercies of a psychopathic force as determined and blood-thirsty as the Third Reich to destroy the lives of Jews.
'That responsibility that does not end' has been forgotten in the more current climate of responding to the perceived urgency of opening the gates of haven for hordes of North Africans, West Asians and Middle Easterners searching for a more promising future, but bringing along with them the baggage that Islam has bestowed them with, of suspicion, hatred and violence toward other religions, societies and minority groups.
That 'not negotiable' responsibility has been set aside, even as Frau Merkel and other Germans of good conscience are witness to the recurrence of the Nazi ideal in Germany among Germans, and the plight of German Jews walking a tightrope of existential fear between hard-core fascists and left-wing 'progressives', having much, very much in common with the jihad that demands the endless murder of Jews, held to be unworthy of life.
So while sending a 'warning about rising anti-Semitism' to the world at large as though her personal compassion and her dedication to justice and human rights from that very special perspective that is her own, to put the world on notice that Jews urgently require protection from the same murderous forces that once decimated their population, she is handmaid to the forces she decries.
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| Merkel, Morawiecki and the Auschwitz museum director Piotr Cywinski walk past the "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate in the former Nazi death camp. |
Labels: Angela Merkel, Anti-Semitism, Auschwitz, Guilt, Nazi Germany
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, December 07, 2019
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