Beware the Poles

 Of the 3.3 million Jews in Poland before World War 2, only 11 percent remained alive in 1945. Almost three million men, women, and children were murdered in the six death camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Particularly beginning in 1941, with the Nazi invasion of Poland, both SS and Wehrmacht units were dispatched by Heinrich Himmler to roam the countryside and towns and villages, dragging humans from their homes and executing them. It was only after murdering staggering numbers that the Germans realized they were using too much ammunition; this led to the infrastructure of the Holocaust, the gas chambers and ovens. Apparently demons roamed the area at that time, as neighboring countries took part in the butchery. Lithuania, Ukraine, and others along with the Poles committed barbaric acts against the Jews.

To say that Poland has a checkered past with Jews is an understatement.

So it was particularly disgusting recently when a Polish contingent visited Israel, taking plenty of the time to slobber over the Palestinian Authority/PLO, even going so far as to advocate for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions).

Franek Sterczewski of the Civic Coalition Party (whatever that means) paid tribute to the arch-terrorist, Yasser Arafat, who mercifully died in 2004.

“Referring to Israel as an apartheid state, he explained that ‘This is why I wholeheartedly support a boycott and sanction the Israeli settlement in the West Bank. One must not be indifferent to unprecedented and systematic violence.’”

Unprecedented? We again point out Poland’s bloodthirsty history when it comes to murdering Jewish men, women, and children.

Sterczewski also revised history again in remembering Arafat:

“’The Polish parliamentary delegation honored the memory of the first President of Palestine and the leader of the nation. Yasser Arafat was also a friend of Poland,’ the tweet read. Among those tagged in the tweet was the PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department.”

It was also noted that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch believe Israel meets the standard of an apartheid system! This is all classic anti-Semitism.

There was also the usual talk of “The Occupation.”

Now, while there were individual Poles that helped Jews as they could during the Nazi reign of terror, it has also been established by historian Jan Grabowski that Poles killed and turned over 200,000 Jews during the war. Grabowski also said:

“As a Polish historian, I think that trying to cover up the less glorious aspects of our own national past – something that’s being done today in Poland with a lot of enthusiasm – is a crime against our profession. It is also unethical and, in the long run, counterproductive and silly.”

A report in Haaretz noted that:

“Grabowski’s book concentrates on a rural region of southeastern Poland called Dabrowa Tarnowska. Of its population of 60,000 on the eve of the war, 5,000 were Jews, almost all of whom were deported to the death camp Belzec. Of 500 who managed to escape and hide among the Poles, only 38 survived the war. All the others, as Grabowski discovered, were betrayed and murdered in direct or indirect ways by their Polish neighbors. The events described in ‘Hunt for the Jews,’ notes the historian Timothy Snyder (author of ‘Bloodlands’), constitute ‘an inquiry into human behavior in dark times from which all can learn.’”

Thirty eight of 5,000. And modern Polish politicians have the gall to visit the Jewish State and allege they are cruel to the Palestinians.

This is where our world is today. Just as I believe the sweeping apostasy (seen most especially in America) is exemplified by 2 Timothy 3, the growing anti-Semitic fervor worldwide is surely an indication we are living in the last days.

For decades after the Holocaust, the international community was either truly shamed by the sheer magnitude of the carnage, or they realized it was politically incorrect—for a while—to sanction it. As time has slipped by however, the Jew haters have crawled out from under their rocks.

The question of how willing the European populations were to help kill Jews 80 years ago has always fascinated me. Further, the lengths they will go to claim they knew nothing is grotesque.

The Polish delegation to Israel has shown us, though, that many don’t even try to hide or deny their Jew hatred.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com

 

 

 

 

Biden’s catastrophe

The title is almost misleading, because there are so many.

Biden catastrophes, that is.

The criminal in the White House is more malevolent than incompetent, in my view, and that’s why his recent trip to Israel is problematic. The entire brief visit was embarrassing for Americans and I’m sure curious and dismaying to the Israelis. To go from Trump to this in so short a time…well, it’s disorienting.

Caroline Glick, as usual the best commentator in the region, wrote about Biden’s interactions with both Israelis and Palestinians.

Writing for the Jewish News Syndicate, Glick warned that Biden’s words don’t match his policies, which of course put Israel in a bind, to say the least. Glick noted the worst moment of the trip:

“Arguably, the moment U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel crashed and burned was on Friday morning during his remarks at Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

“Biden’s visit to the all-Arab hospital was the most controversial stop during Biden’s visit to the Jewish state, because it signaled an about-face on America’s long standing support for an undivided Jerusalem.

“Not only did Biden refuse to permit Israeli officials to accompany him on his visit to the Jerusalem hospital, but his team removed the Israeli flag from Biden’s limousine as he made his way to it, and refused to permit Israeli reporters to participate in the press pool.”

Despite the fact that Biden almost constantly touts his alleged love of Israel, Glick noted it is anything but love:

“In his words: ‘My background and the background of my family is Irish America, and we have a long history of … not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people with Great Britain and their attitude toward Irish-Catholics over the years, for 400 years.’

“Whereas the rest of the speech was so incoherent it is hard to imagine it was anything other than off the cuff, Biden’s slander of Israel as a colonialist power was clearly prepared because it was followed by a quote from an Irish poem.

“The idea that Israel is a harsh colonial overlord in someone else’s land is the essence of the anti-Zionist slander. The false claim that Jews have no history in their historic homeland and no national rights as the indigenous people of the land of Israel is inherent to the narrative.”

American politicians for generations have made stupid statements about the Arab-Israeli conflict. “Condi” Rice, the Russian “expert” in George W. Bush’s White House was woefully ignorant of the Middle East and she once likened the Palestinians’ experience RE Israel to the American blacks’ harsh treatment at the hands of Bull Connor.

Such nonsense is not historically true, and it marginalizes Israel in dangerous ways. It also is carefully crafted propaganda from the Left and their Palestinian friends. In other words, a lie can be every bit as dangerous as a bullet.

I watched a video clip this week of Palestinians celebrating Israeli deaths. Men, women, and children cheered as a children’s program featured kids murdering Jews. This horrific display is never mentioned by the Biden Set. Instead, they continue on down the path of folly with the Oslo Accords, rewarding Palestinian violence.

At the same time Biden was in essence attacking Israel on her own territory, he was meddling in the Abraham Accords. This was predictable since he wouldn’t allow a major Trump victory to stand.

This is so because Biden is showing weakness to Iran, at a time when the mullahs are very, very close to having nuclear weapons. Biden has made it clear to caretaker Israeli PM Yair Lapid that the U.S. will not only not support a strike on Iran’s facilities, but they will oppose Israeli efforts to carry out such a strike.

That Israel is in the middle of an existential threat from a state sponsor of terrorism—at the same time Biden puts the Jewish state in a bind—tells you all you need to know about Biden’s true intentions and lies.

The Gulf States that have moved toward Israel in cooperation (a monumental deal put together by Trump and Netanyahu) will now realize that they are alone against Iran and so will move to pander to the thugs in Tehran. This weakens the Abraham Accords, an outcome coveted by Iran.

A stolen election has far-reaching consequences, to the point of endangering people that don’t live in our country. The malicious and devious Joe Biden is still well capable of sabotaging our beloved ally, Israel. While he bumbles through gaffe-filled days and “endures” the heckling and mocking of the public (and even some press), he single-mindedly undermines Israel. Every chance he gets.

Jim1fletcher@yahoo.com