Have You Hugged A Holocaust Survivor Lately?

My Assemblymember Ira Ruskin sent me an email this morning. He informed that as part of the Holocaust Remembrance Week, the California State Assembly had a Holocaust Memorial Ceremony at the Capitol on April 28 of this year. Ira described how 60 bona fide holocaust survivors were paired with 60 young students. The students were told to interview the survivors and then write an essay about the genocide and mistreatment of Jews. The younsters were being sensitized to the Jewish plight. Lunch was provided by California taxpayers.

I didn't vote for Ira Ruskin. But Assemblymembers of California should be preoccupied with California affairs. Reps shouldn't be a tool to indoctrinate unsuspecting youngsters about the Jewish condition without giving equal time to victims of the Jewish experience like the Palestinians as one example. Ira Ruskin didn't do this.

If Ira wants to perpetuate the holocaust story let him do it on his own time. He should get together with the Jewish elders and plan for the day when all the holocaust survivors are gone. After all they are getting quite old. How about marketing the holocaust remembrance with a joint effort with corporate sponsors? For instance, Costco could private label a "Holocaust Charcoal" with a portion of the proceeds going to the srvivors of the holocaust survivors and their reps in government? Lenscrafters could provide special recycle bins in their outlets for used eyeglasses. The Zales Jewelry Store chain could have recepticles for used rings and necklaces. Then people who choose to remember can remember.

I have met decent Jews. They don't preach about the holocaust. The story of the Jewish experience has two sides.

Israel's Slow Motion Genocide Creates It's Own Slow Motion Suicide

" Ye reap what ye sow", so goes the biblical caveat. And so Israel's slow motion, 60 year-old genocide against the Palestinians creates a parallel slow motion Israeli suicide. It reminds of the Israeli mass suicide at Masada over 2000 years ago.

Consider Palestine as a plant and the policies of Israel as a herbacide that is administered in recurring , measured doses. Not enough for an outright kill off but enough for some killing but also a chance for mutant strains of Palestinian resistence to build up a tolerance. The new resitant strain takes the name of Hamas. And so the cynical Israelis and their counterparts in the Bush administration launch a new eradication campaign. And they arm Fatah against Hamas. Any Palestinians civilians caught in the middle can go to hell.

The doses of greed and conniving that created Israel and that have maintained it these past 60 years now show a half-life of toxicity that has built up in the Israeli state. The great greed now becomes an impediment to better judgement and peace so that Israel's existence is now in doubt.

Hey Norman Mailer, What About Genocide In Slow Motion?

Poor Norman Mailer. With his 84th birthday approaching, one would think he would have some wisdom to share with his readers. But his latest book," The Castle In The Forest" is just more shock at Hitler and the Holocaust.

According to reviewers, Mailer's explanation of Hitler is couched in Freudian and devilish, dark forces. This includes incest. I wonder what Mailer thinks about Prime Ministers of Israel? From Ben-Gurion through Olmert, a slow motion genocide against Palestinians has been perpetrated versus Hitler's Blitzkrieg style. Does incest or the devil have anything to do with slow motion genocide?

America: Israel And Zionist's Slave

Mark Twain once observed, " Ninty percent of people would rather do anything but think". By implication he described those same people as being more comfortable in being led and/or being quasi-slaves. He also is describing the relationship America has with Israel and it's Zionist supporters.

How slave-like or stupid is American foreign policy vis a vis Israel? Well, to follow the tasks set out by Israel, America must forgo most other postive relationships in the Middle East. This includes, but is not limited to, supporting Israel's constructive genocide of the Palestinians. It includes the Iraqi invasion. It includes supporting Israel's barbaric war crimes in Lebanon. It includes the prospective bombing of Iran and/or Syria.

Jimmy Carter's recent book, " Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid", is a serious examination of Israeli atrocites against the Palestinians. For his efforts, he has been called anti-semitic. Nothing could be further from the truth. Israelis and Zionists will get more criticism and deservedly so. If they want to make the world over into their selfish view, severe criticism goes with the territory.