Letters to the Editor
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Zionism
Unfortunately, Zionism is the main form or support for Israel in the Republican and Democratic parties. Nothing else matters, so we should not be surprised Bollinger approached the issue the way he did.
Given that, Ahmandinejad said some stupid things about the Holocaust and homosexuals, and one smart thing. And that was, why are the Palestinians bearing the brunt of blame for the Holocaust? Because they are.
The ruling circles of Germany and Italy escaped attention, and their companies still exist to this day. The massive anti-fascist parties in Germany, the Social Democrats and Communists, were not supported by the governments of England or the U.S at the time. The U.S. government refused to allow Jews to land in the United States. The 'allies,' except the USSR, refused to aide the anti-fascist struggle in Spain, and handed that country to the fascists and their German/Italian allies. These people have far more to do with the triumph of the 'final solution' than anything the Palestinians have done.
Thoughts are different. The reactionary Muslims that moved to Palestine from Egypt brought anti-semitism with them. They supported the Germans in the war. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Amin al-Husseini, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and IIRC) traveled to Berlin. Fundamentalist Islam, like fundamentalist Christianity or Catholicism, has always had an anti-semitic strain. But we cannot confuse the two.
We should really look at the 'plan' by British imperialism, infused by Christian end-times dogmas and the most right wing elements of Judaism, to create an Israeli state in the middle of the middle east. History will judge it to have been a very bad idea.