The way the state of Israel makes use of and is allowed to hijack International Holocaust Day is an absolute disgrace. A Catholic priest somewhere has caused a stir because he apparently said that Israel uses the holocaust as a propaganda tool. I hope he said it because he is spot on.
That scumbag Netanyahu supposedly remembers those who died at Auschwitz by making anti-Iranian statements and comparing that nation to Nazi Germany. If it was not Iran it would be some other nation. What respect does this really show to victims of the holocaust by making outrageous political point-scoring which could just lead to the destruction of yet another of Israel's unfortunate neighbours.
As for the survivors of the holocaust, I do not believe Netanyahu or the state of Israel really gives a damn about them. They are just useful.
Israel is a nation which strictly speaking should not exist. It forced itself into existence by terrorism. This is a simple fact. However, having done so, it is accepted by the so-called United Nations, including the Arab countries and the Palestinians. Furthermore, I think it is probably the case that any claim that Iran wants to wipe out Israel is a wilful manipulation of the truth. Although why any Arab or Persian country would want to wipe out Israel is perfectly understandable to me. It is completely focussed on wiping out them.
Meanwhile are there independent Jewish voices expressing dismay at Israel's misuse of the holocaust? I am sure there are but they certainly are not allowed into the news. Nor is Israel's bestial treatment of Palestinians allowed to spoil International Holocaust Day. The holocaust survivors who were part of the Free Gaza convoy were not news either.
I quote that wonderful American Jewish journalist I.F.Stone back in 1971: "While the Palestinian Arabs are beginning in their homelessness to talk like Jews in a new Diaspora, the Israeli leadership is beginning to sound more and more like unfeeling goyim. This reversal of roles is the cruellest prank God ever played on His Chosen People."
And if that sounds a little too much like an ambiguous self-indulgent Jewish joke how about the Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibovitz who in 1969 anticipated that in the occupied territories " concentration camps would be erected by the Israeli rulers......Israel would be a state that would not deserve to exist, and it will not be worthwhile to preserve it". We are way past that date.
