ZGram - 7/29/2001 - "Revisionist Week in Review"

[Ingrid Rimland]

Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

July 16, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

The CBC Newsworld Network broadcast an encore presentation of the ambiguous
Errol Morris documentary 'Mr. Death',  starring prominent Revisionists like
Fred Leuchter, David Irving and Ernst Zundel, on Sunday, July 22 on The
Passionate Eye, a program that features 'award-winning documentaries.'

The documentary film was shown ***twice*** last week ***without any
interruption*** at 10:10 p.m. EDT (7:10 p.m. PDT) and, again, at 1:10 p.m.
EDT (10:10 p.m. PDT).

How desperate our enemies must be that the public believe their version of
the "Holocaust"!

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In 1994 alone, Germany paid $172 million to Russia as "compensation for
Nazi-era victims".  However, an audit showed that at least $36 million of
that money has simply disappeared.

The Russian prosecutor-general's office is reported to be investigating -
although they won't confirm that it is so.

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Citing a "lack of positive response" from the Vatican to a request for
additional Holocaust-era documents, a joint Catholic-Jewish panel of
historians suspended a study of the Church's activities during World War
II.

"Not surprising," says Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center in Jerusalem, in an interview with JPost Radio's Nina Solomin.

The Wiesenthalers are on record that they aren't happy about the purported
censorship.

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In a press release dated July 20, 2000, the American Jewish Committee
applauded the British Appellate Court ruling against "Holocaust Denier"
David Irving.

The Court of Appeal ruling upheld Judge Charles Gray's lower court judgment
that Irving had "distorted and manipulated history in order to promote his
anti-Semitic, racist, and far-right politics, and that Irving is a pro-Nazi
polemicist".

Judge Gray held that Dr. Lipstadt was justified in calling Mr. Irving a
Holocaust denier in her book ``Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault
on Truth and Memory.''

Irving has to come up with the first payment of costs assessed against him
in just a couple of weeks - or face bankruptcy.

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The big story on the international scene is that Denmark threatened to
arrest the new Israeli ambassador, former Shin Bet chief Carmi Gillon,
because of his public stand on torture.

The Danish Danish Justice Minister, Franc Hensen, stated that Denmark must
arrest Gillon because  the country is committed to the United Nations to
arrest persons responsible for torturing prisoners.

Foreign minister Shimon Peres's response:  "How Do You Fight Terrorism"?
Calling upon "our friends in Denmark," Peres said, cheekily:  "Do you have
a different way to fight terror?"

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What are described as "French student groups" and "anti-racist
organizations" are trying to draw attention to a university "long known as
a breeding ground for Holocaust denial and other far-right activities."

The university so targeted is Jean Moulin, named for a leader of the French
Resistance during World War II.

 Late last month,  two professors who in 1990 approved with honors a thesis
attempting to disprove the Holocaust changed their evaluation of the work
to "unacceptable." The dissertation, completed under the guidance of a
history professor, attempted to validate the theories of Paul Rassinier,
the father of French Holocaust revisionism.

The agitating students are not happy with what they consider a partial
concession.  Although Holocaust denial is on the wane in France, at least
that is their claim, the university provides it "with the trappings of
legitimacy", student leaders warn.

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CNSNews of July 25, 2001 reported how Israel and a major American Jewish
organization sought to enlist the support of the diplomatic community ahead
of an international conference against racism, fearing that the conference
would blast Israel and the Jewish people for the ongoing
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

To quote CNSNews reporter, Julie Stahl:

"The resolution, prepared in Tehran last February, revives the
controversial "Zionism is racism" resolution that was adopted by the U.N.
General Assembly in 1975 at the urging of Arab States, and then finally
repealed in 1991.

"Zionism is the national self-determination movement on which the existence
of the State of Israel is based. But Arab states argue that Israel's very
existence is racist because Jews from around the world are permitted to
become citizens by virtue of their Jewishness while others aren't.

"Draft texts prepared ahead of the conference also refer to "holocausts"
rather than the Holocaust, while anti-Semitism has been left off a list of
forms of racism."

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In that same report, the ADL's director, Abe Foxman, also delivered a
memorable quote.

Treatment of the Jewish people, Foxman opined sagely, was like a barometer
of society. Like canaries miners used to send into the mines to test if the
air was healthy to breathe, Jews were treated in society in a way that
tested civility, decency and democracy in the world.

Question:  What "barometer" is applied to Israel's treatment of the
Palestinians?  Certainly not "civility, decency and democracy"!

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To its eternal shame, the US Justice Department has found another
octogenarian to hound.  Officials have begun deportation proceedings
against a former US citizen accused of persecuting Jews during World War II
in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.

In filings in a Tampa, Florida, federal immigration court, the department's
Office of Special Investigations accused Algimantas Dailide, 80, of joining
the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police, known as Saugumas, in their
arrest and search for Jews who tried to escape the Vilnius ghetto.

Sixty-four people have been denaturalized and 54 removed from their US
residences since the O.S.I. initiated its program in 1979 to take legal
action against former Nazi collaborators residing in the United States.
Among them was John Demjanjuk, 81, a Ukrainian-born retired auto worker
whose US citizenship was restored in 1998 after an Israeli appeals court
overturned his conviction and death sentence on charges later proved to be
a case of mistaken identity.

Demjanjuk has been dragged one more time before the courts by the same
O.S.I. - which used forged ID cards and falsified Soviet "evidence" to
railroad him the last time!

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Scottish authorities have been obliging the "Nazi Hunters'" demands as
well.  Officials have began extradition proceedings against Anton Gecas, a
resident of Edinburgh accused of Nazi-era genocide.

Gecas, 85, is wanted in Lithuania, which last March formally asked Britain
to extradite him to face charges of murdering Jews in World War Two.

 The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which has been pressing Scottish
authorities to speed up the extradition process, greeted the decision to
issue the arrest warrant with "great satisfaction".

Meanwhile, Solomon Morrell, the torturer and serial killer of over 1,000
Silesian Germans after the war, fled to Israel, after Polish authorities
wanted to prosecute him for these crimes.  Israel is refusing to extradite
this proven mass murderer.  Ask your librarian to get you the John Sack
book, "An Eye for an Eye".

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Moshe Weizman of the Associated press reports that Israel has compiled a
list of countries where its political and military leaders - including
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon - could face legal challenges under war crimes
laws.  This list was prompted by concerns expressed by current and retired
security officials

"...who wanted to know whether they might be arrested or prosecuted while
traveling abroad, ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said."

Nachshon did not elaborate which countries would be considered problematic
for Israeli officials, but chances are he was thinking of the very
countries where it is illegal to question anything related to the
"Holocaust".

Dov Weissglas, legal advisor to Prime Minister Sharon, says Jews could be
arrested and prosecuted for crimes they did way back to pre-"independence"
(1948) days!

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Many suspect that a closet Revisionist must have been up to some mischief
in the hilarious sign that appeared in posters all over Berlin.

"Den Holocaust hat es nie gegeben" - (The Holocaust never happened) - it
claims in a country where people get arrested and fined, and sometimes even
thrown in jail, for less provocative statements found in private
correspondence after government-inspired midnight raids.

Der Spiegel, Germany's most important news magazine with over 4 million
readers, ran a supercilious article asking, tongue-in-cheek:  "What
poster?"  describing the indifference of passersby.

"I do not wish to condemn [the poster]," said Paul Spiegel president of the
central council of German Jews, although he did warn that "provocation has
its limits".

Spiegel claims he only knew of this campaign a day before it started.
"Garish, provocative gags are not appropriate for the Holocaust," he wailed.

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NewsMax.com of July 27, 2001 reports that

"...(c)alling Palestinians "snakes" and "vipers" apparently passes for
political correctness in Israel, where a rabbi whose political party holds
17 seats in parliament lashed out at Arabs and warned that the Messiah
would come and promptly  'send them on their way' to hell.

"In the old city of Jerusalem they're swarming like ants. They should go
to hell - and the Messiah will speed them on their way," said Rabbi Ovadia
Yossef during his a weekly sermon broadcast over Israeli army radio."

Is it any wonder, then, that the Israeli Army behaves towards the
Palestinians with such contempt and in such brutal ways - when one of their
most visible rabbis calls these unfortunate people "snakes" and "vipers"?

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