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Las conversaciones de paz con el negociador palestino Saeb Erekat
Las conversaciones de paz con el negociador palestino Saeb Erekat
Take-A-Pen for Israel - 2010
El Dr. Saeb Erekat, es el principal negociador oficial de la Autoridad Palestina en las consversaciones de paz
Las recientes conversaciones de paz entre Israel y los palestinos avanzan lentamente a través de la mediación de EE.UU y Erekat, ha sido el principal opositor a ellas .
La mera palabra PAZ abre nuestros corazones y mentes. Pero, por desgracia, esta palabra también se utiliza con frecuencia con fines demagógicos. Los dos dictaduras más sangrientasde la historia moderna, la Alemania nazi y La Unión Soviética Stalinista, fueron campeones sin rival de la demagogia por la paz y la predicaban a diario sólo para encubrir sus malas acciones y sus perversos propósitos .
Por esta razón, es vital entender quién es el socio en las conversacionesde paz y cuales son sus objetivos reales. Las conversaciones de paz entre Israel y los palestinos podrían ser, como lo han sido hasta ahora, un mero encubrirmiento e incluso una justificación para las peores olas de terrorismo por parte de los árabes en la historia del conflicto árabe-israelí. Recordemos que, tanto el Acuerdo de Paz de Oslo como las Negociaciones de Paz de Camp David, fueron seguidos por oleadas terroristas sin precedentes, --"Intifadas"-- las que habían sido planeadas mucho antes de que las negociaciones hubieran comenzado.
¿Quién es entonces el verdaderonegociador árabe Saeb Erekat ?
Él es un político árabe que habla el Inglés en forma clara, concisa y elocuente. Nació en 1955 dentro de una familia musulmana muy conocida en Jerusalem. Sus seis hermanos y hermanas han estado viviendo fuera de Israel y ajenos a la Autoridad Palestina por décadas. Erekat fue educado en Occidente, estudió en los EE.UU., hizo su doctorado en Inglaterra y entró en la política "palestina" como funcionario de alto nivel durante las negociaciones de paz en Oslo.
¿Qué aspecto tiene? No hay mayores discrepancias sobre esto. Durante dos décadas desde que regresó de los EE.UU. para unirse a líderes palestinos, él apareció en público y se mostró al exclusivo "estilo Arafat" llevando una barba de siete días -- obviamente, para complacer a su público radical-- En 2010 esto ha cambiado, y un recientemente afeitado, más viejo pero caballeroso y aún apuesto Saeb Erekat emergió ahora para complacer a Occidente.
Sus palabras son mucho más controversiales que su aspecto físico. Wikipedia dice brevemente que "Erekat, acusó al ejército israelí en 2002 de cometer un asalto sobre la ciudad árabe de Jenin y lo tildó como una" masacre" y un "crimen de guerra ', acusaciones que el ejército israelí ha negado repetidamente [hoy se sabe la verdad] .
El periodista Bret Stephens, ex-editor en jefe del Jerusalem Post en aquel momento (hoy en el Wall Street Journal) escribió acerca de Saeb Erekat y dijo: " ' Cada palabra [s] que dice es una mentira, incluyendo 'y' , ' pero' y 'si ' ".
Lo que Mary McCarthy dijo de Lillian Hellman es lo que se podría decir de Saeb Erekat : "¿Por qué semejante atropello? ".
Vamos a demostrar aquí que la acusación de Erekat sobre el número de caídos en la "supuesta masacre" fue muy inferior : en abril de 2002 Saeb Erekat dio un informe personal dramático para el Servicio Mundial de la BBC transmitido en 40 idiomas. El afirmó que unos 3.000 civiles palestinos habían sido "masacrados por Israel". Tres días más tarde, sus números descendieron a una "masacre" de 500 civiles" .
Luego ,el informe Oficial del Comité Investigativo de la ONU -- que se publicó en agosto y que está disponible para verificar su exactitud --reportó oficialmente : "el número de caídos en Jenin asciende a 52, de los cuales la mayoría eran hombres jóvenes y armados ".
Erekat, nunca se retractó de sus falsas acusaciones ni admitió sus distorsiones.
Así es como diferenciamos una mentira deliberada de un error : una mentira deliberada es una acusación falsa que nunca es corregida después que los hechos oficiales han demostrado lo contrario .
En los años siguientes a la difamación de Saeb Erekat acerca de Jenin, Take-A-Pen lo encontró mintiendo deliberadamente con fines propagandísticos otra vez.
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Conclusión:
En los últimos meses, tras las convocatorias del presidente Obama, todo el mundo está hablando nuevamente de la paz -- Saeb Erekat incluido--. La pregunta crucial es: ¿quién es sincero acerca de la paz y quién miente ?
Como mínimo falta un detalle para poder considerar a Erekat como un negociador serio y como un socio aceptable para las conversaciones de paz : Saeb Erekat, tiene que admitir y luego condenar sus propias calumnias e incitaciones contra Israel y los Judios que viven allí.
NO se puede creer ni una sola palabra dicha por Saeb Erekat . Cuando comience un nuevo capítulo en las negociaciones y se haga con honestidad , recién entonces y con suerte, ello conducirá a nuevos, y tal vez sinceros acuerdos para una paz duradera .
* Por Endre (Andre) Mozes y Dvoretzky Zelda, TakeAPen4israel, http://www.takeapen.org/
Take-A-Pen for Israel - 2010
El Dr. Saeb Erekat, es el principal negociador oficial de la Autoridad Palestina en las consversaciones de paz
Las recientes conversaciones de paz entre Israel y los palestinos avanzan lentamente a través de la mediación de EE.UU y Erekat, ha sido el principal opositor a ellas .
La mera palabra PAZ abre nuestros corazones y mentes. Pero, por desgracia, esta palabra también se utiliza con frecuencia con fines demagógicos. Los dos dictaduras más sangrientasde la historia moderna, la Alemania nazi y La Unión Soviética Stalinista, fueron campeones sin rival de la demagogia por la paz y la predicaban a diario sólo para encubrir sus malas acciones y sus perversos propósitos .
Por esta razón, es vital entender quién es el socio en las conversacionesde paz y cuales son sus objetivos reales. Las conversaciones de paz entre Israel y los palestinos podrían ser, como lo han sido hasta ahora, un mero encubrirmiento e incluso una justificación para las peores olas de terrorismo por parte de los árabes en la historia del conflicto árabe-israelí. Recordemos que, tanto el Acuerdo de Paz de Oslo como las Negociaciones de Paz de Camp David, fueron seguidos por oleadas terroristas sin precedentes, --"Intifadas"-- las que habían sido planeadas mucho antes de que las negociaciones hubieran comenzado.
¿Quién es entonces el verdaderonegociador árabe Saeb Erekat ?
Él es un político árabe que habla el Inglés en forma clara, concisa y elocuente. Nació en 1955 dentro de una familia musulmana muy conocida en Jerusalem. Sus seis hermanos y hermanas han estado viviendo fuera de Israel y ajenos a la Autoridad Palestina por décadas. Erekat fue educado en Occidente, estudió en los EE.UU., hizo su doctorado en Inglaterra y entró en la política "palestina" como funcionario de alto nivel durante las negociaciones de paz en Oslo.
¿Qué aspecto tiene? No hay mayores discrepancias sobre esto. Durante dos décadas desde que regresó de los EE.UU. para unirse a líderes palestinos, él apareció en público y se mostró al exclusivo "estilo Arafat" llevando una barba de siete días -- obviamente, para complacer a su público radical-- En 2010 esto ha cambiado, y un recientemente afeitado, más viejo pero caballeroso y aún apuesto Saeb Erekat emergió ahora para complacer a Occidente.
Sus palabras son mucho más controversiales que su aspecto físico. Wikipedia dice brevemente que "Erekat, acusó al ejército israelí en 2002 de cometer un asalto sobre la ciudad árabe de Jenin y lo tildó como una" masacre" y un "crimen de guerra ', acusaciones que el ejército israelí ha negado repetidamente [hoy se sabe la verdad] .
El periodista Bret Stephens, ex-editor en jefe del Jerusalem Post en aquel momento (hoy en el Wall Street Journal) escribió acerca de Saeb Erekat y dijo: " ' Cada palabra [s] que dice es una mentira, incluyendo 'y' , ' pero' y 'si ' ".
Lo que Mary McCarthy dijo de Lillian Hellman es lo que se podría decir de Saeb Erekat : "¿Por qué semejante atropello? ".
Vamos a demostrar aquí que la acusación de Erekat sobre el número de caídos en la "supuesta masacre" fue muy inferior : en abril de 2002 Saeb Erekat dio un informe personal dramático para el Servicio Mundial de la BBC transmitido en 40 idiomas. El afirmó que unos 3.000 civiles palestinos habían sido "masacrados por Israel". Tres días más tarde, sus números descendieron a una "masacre" de 500 civiles" .
Luego ,el informe Oficial del Comité Investigativo de la ONU -- que se publicó en agosto y que está disponible para verificar su exactitud --reportó oficialmente : "el número de caídos en Jenin asciende a 52, de los cuales la mayoría eran hombres jóvenes y armados ".
Erekat, nunca se retractó de sus falsas acusaciones ni admitió sus distorsiones.
Así es como diferenciamos una mentira deliberada de un error : una mentira deliberada es una acusación falsa que nunca es corregida después que los hechos oficiales han demostrado lo contrario .
En los años siguientes a la difamación de Saeb Erekat acerca de Jenin, Take-A-Pen lo encontró mintiendo deliberadamente con fines propagandísticos otra vez.
-----------------------------------
Conclusión:
En los últimos meses, tras las convocatorias del presidente Obama, todo el mundo está hablando nuevamente de la paz -- Saeb Erekat incluido--. La pregunta crucial es: ¿quién es sincero acerca de la paz y quién miente ?
Como mínimo falta un detalle para poder considerar a Erekat como un negociador serio y como un socio aceptable para las conversaciones de paz : Saeb Erekat, tiene que admitir y luego condenar sus propias calumnias e incitaciones contra Israel y los Judios que viven allí.
NO se puede creer ni una sola palabra dicha por Saeb Erekat . Cuando comience un nuevo capítulo en las negociaciones y se haga con honestidad , recién entonces y con suerte, ello conducirá a nuevos, y tal vez sinceros acuerdos para una paz duradera .
* Por Endre (Andre) Mozes y Dvoretzky Zelda, TakeAPen4israel, http://www.takeapen.org/
Friday, December 24, 2010
Shame on you Kissinger!!
And esp. if said to an antisemite as Nixon !!, Jews in foreign governments are a disgrace to their people !!
Kissinger apologizes for 'gassing Jews' remark
By JPOST.COM STAFF
12/25/2010 01:37
Former US secretary of state writes opinion piece regretting comments regarding Soviet Union Jews; says taken out of context.
Talkbacks (4)
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger apologized on Friday for saying it wouldn’t be an American concern if the Soviet Union sent its Jews to the gas chambers during a conversation with then US President Richard Nixon in 1973.
Kissinger made the apology in a Washington Post opinion piece and said "references to gas chambers have no place in political discourse, and I am sorry I made that remark 37 years ago."
RELATED:
Kissinger: Gassing Jews would not be a US problem
Kissinger urges gas chamber remark be taken in context
Kissinger's conversation with Nixon, had been recorded and he could be heard saying "the emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."
The former secretary of state argued in his opinion piece that his comment was largely taken out of context, while emphasizing that the Nixon administration had worked at helping Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union.
"For someone who lost in the Holocaust many members of my immediate family and a large proportion of those with whom I grew up, it is hurtful to see an out-of-context remark being taken so contrary to its intentions and to my convictions, which were profoundly shaped by these events," Kissinger wrote.
Referring to his conversation with Nixon, where his gas chambers remark was made, Kissinger wrote "the conversation at issue arose not as a policy statement by me but in response to a request by the president that I should appeal to Senators Javits and Jackson and explain why we thought their approach unwise."
More about: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, The Washington Post, President of the United States
Kissinger apologizes for 'gassing Jews' remark
By JPOST.COM STAFF
12/25/2010 01:37
Former US secretary of state writes opinion piece regretting comments regarding Soviet Union Jews; says taken out of context.
Talkbacks (4)
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger apologized on Friday for saying it wouldn’t be an American concern if the Soviet Union sent its Jews to the gas chambers during a conversation with then US President Richard Nixon in 1973.
Kissinger made the apology in a Washington Post opinion piece and said "references to gas chambers have no place in political discourse, and I am sorry I made that remark 37 years ago."
RELATED:
Kissinger: Gassing Jews would not be a US problem
Kissinger urges gas chamber remark be taken in context
Kissinger's conversation with Nixon, had been recorded and he could be heard saying "the emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."
The former secretary of state argued in his opinion piece that his comment was largely taken out of context, while emphasizing that the Nixon administration had worked at helping Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union.
"For someone who lost in the Holocaust many members of my immediate family and a large proportion of those with whom I grew up, it is hurtful to see an out-of-context remark being taken so contrary to its intentions and to my convictions, which were profoundly shaped by these events," Kissinger wrote.
Referring to his conversation with Nixon, where his gas chambers remark was made, Kissinger wrote "the conversation at issue arose not as a policy statement by me but in response to a request by the president that I should appeal to Senators Javits and Jackson and explain why we thought their approach unwise."
More about: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, The Washington Post, President of the United States
Sunday, December 5, 2010
An open letter to the Managing director of Saley's
When a muslim-owned South African store refused to fill an order from a Jewish organization, Maurice Ostroff sent them the open letter reproduced below. It's worth saving (and editing somewhat) for use in future situations of a similar nature - and there WILL be others!
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Jewish Chronicle 2 Nov 2010
Hall of Infamy: Saley's Travel Goods
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa --
Saleys, a Muslim-owned supplier in Johannesburg canceled an order placed by a South African Jewish group with comments about "blood money." The South African Zionist Federation had ordered conference bags from Saley's Travel Goods previously without problems, and had received a confirmation from them the day prior to their hate-filled rejection of Jewish business. Saley's faxed a hand-written cancellation of the confirmation, on which they printed these phrases:
"Please don't pay! Don't contaminate our account with your blood money
"We cannot supply you any of our goods as we don't want or need your blood money! Please do not contact us any more."
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An open letter to the Managing director of Saley's
From Maurice Ostroff
Congratulations on your brave refusal to continue to do business with a long-standing customer because of your antagonism to Zionism. To ensure that your action is not a meaningless gesture, we look forward with great interest to seeing you demonstrate your sincerity and consistency by following through with a complete boycott of all Israeli products.
You can make an immediate start by examining your computer and throwing it out if it contains software or an Intel Pentium chip that was developed in Israel. Of course you should also avoid instant messaging based on ICQ, that was invented by Israeli teenager Arik Vardi and three friends. And you will of course avoid mobile telephony, developed in Israel by Motorola, the camera telephone chip and Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) as used in Skype and similar applications.
You will be hard pressed to locate all the Zionist components in your Security Software, Network Firewalls, Anti-virus programs, System Software, Microsoft Operating Systems (XP and Vista), Google, Disk on Key and Wi-Fi, but I am sure you will assiduously check your equipment and rule out everything with Zionist roots. Unless you do so thoroughly, it will appear that you don't have the courage of your convictions and that your refusal of the small SAZF order was an insincere gesture playing to the anti-Israel gallery.
I could go on and on about the items you must avoid to be consistent in your attitude, but for humanitarian reasons you will be excused if for medical reasons you or members of your family use the "camera pill" developed in Israel to investigate the intestines painlessly by swallowing a pill containing a mini camera and transmitter.
Despite your anti-Zionist feelings, if you have a heart attack, don't hesitate to let the surgeon insert a stent, which was developed in Israel.
You will also be excused if you or members of your anti-Zionist business use new Israeli methods to measure and inject insulin for diabetics or Copaxone to reduce the physical breakdown caused by MS and other MS medicines such as Betaseron and Avonex. Similarly you will be excused for using Israeli developments in computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance systems (MRI), ultrasound scanners, nuclear medical cameras and laser surgery.
You will be excused too, if you use the Israeli developed Resperate, an interactive breathing device, for lowering blood pressure as well as treatments for cancer, diabetes, AIDS, auto immune diseases, Alzheimer, cardiovascular diseases and aging as well as the ReWalk, a robot suit that enables wheelchair users to walk, sit and stand again.
On second thoughts I suggest that it would be more rational to re-examine your prejudices and enter into a civil discourse with the Zionists. You may be pleasantly surprised to find that we have much in common and I would be happy to enter into a dialog with you about the issues on which you feel so strongly.
This letter is being publicized as will the response I hope to receive from you.
Sincerely
Maurice Ostroff
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Jewish Chronicle 2 Nov 2010
Hall of Infamy: Saley's Travel Goods
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa --
Saleys, a Muslim-owned supplier in Johannesburg canceled an order placed by a South African Jewish group with comments about "blood money." The South African Zionist Federation had ordered conference bags from Saley's Travel Goods previously without problems, and had received a confirmation from them the day prior to their hate-filled rejection of Jewish business. Saley's faxed a hand-written cancellation of the confirmation, on which they printed these phrases:
"Please don't pay! Don't contaminate our account with your blood money
"We cannot supply you any of our goods as we don't want or need your blood money! Please do not contact us any more."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An open letter to the Managing director of Saley's
From Maurice Ostroff
Congratulations on your brave refusal to continue to do business with a long-standing customer because of your antagonism to Zionism. To ensure that your action is not a meaningless gesture, we look forward with great interest to seeing you demonstrate your sincerity and consistency by following through with a complete boycott of all Israeli products.
You can make an immediate start by examining your computer and throwing it out if it contains software or an Intel Pentium chip that was developed in Israel. Of course you should also avoid instant messaging based on ICQ, that was invented by Israeli teenager Arik Vardi and three friends. And you will of course avoid mobile telephony, developed in Israel by Motorola, the camera telephone chip and Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) as used in Skype and similar applications.
You will be hard pressed to locate all the Zionist components in your Security Software, Network Firewalls, Anti-virus programs, System Software, Microsoft Operating Systems (XP and Vista), Google, Disk on Key and Wi-Fi, but I am sure you will assiduously check your equipment and rule out everything with Zionist roots. Unless you do so thoroughly, it will appear that you don't have the courage of your convictions and that your refusal of the small SAZF order was an insincere gesture playing to the anti-Israel gallery.
I could go on and on about the items you must avoid to be consistent in your attitude, but for humanitarian reasons you will be excused if for medical reasons you or members of your family use the "camera pill" developed in Israel to investigate the intestines painlessly by swallowing a pill containing a mini camera and transmitter.
Despite your anti-Zionist feelings, if you have a heart attack, don't hesitate to let the surgeon insert a stent, which was developed in Israel.
You will also be excused if you or members of your anti-Zionist business use new Israeli methods to measure and inject insulin for diabetics or Copaxone to reduce the physical breakdown caused by MS and other MS medicines such as Betaseron and Avonex. Similarly you will be excused for using Israeli developments in computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance systems (MRI), ultrasound scanners, nuclear medical cameras and laser surgery.
You will be excused too, if you use the Israeli developed Resperate, an interactive breathing device, for lowering blood pressure as well as treatments for cancer, diabetes, AIDS, auto immune diseases, Alzheimer, cardiovascular diseases and aging as well as the ReWalk, a robot suit that enables wheelchair users to walk, sit and stand again.
On second thoughts I suggest that it would be more rational to re-examine your prejudices and enter into a civil discourse with the Zionists. You may be pleasantly surprised to find that we have much in common and I would be happy to enter into a dialog with you about the issues on which you feel so strongly.
This letter is being publicized as will the response I hope to receive from you.
Sincerely
Maurice Ostroff
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
A Holocaust Survivor's View on Islam
A Holocaust Survivor's View on Islam
Emanuel Tanay, M.D. - 1913 Intel, March 6th, 2010
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=5482
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates . When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism . 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care . I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools . So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen . Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come . My family lost everything . I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'
We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace . Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant . It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history . It is the fanatics who march . . . It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide . It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave . It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill . It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque . It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals . It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ’silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people . The peaceful majority were irrelevant . China ’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist . Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery . Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late . As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts — the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand . So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on – before it’s too late.
Emanuel Tanay, M . D . 2980 Provincial St . Ann Arbor , MI 48104
Dr . Emanuel Tanay MD is a well-known forensic psychiatrist who has been an expert witness in many famous cases . He has served as an officer or committee member on the Michigan Psychiatric Society, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and others . He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and of the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry and a distinguished fellow of the APA and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFC).
A Holocaust survivor himself, Dr Tanay coauthored a book about the survivors of the Holocaust and was asked by the German government to consult on just compensation for the Holocaust survivors . Dr . Tanay has served on several journal editorial boards, authored many publications, and presented countless times on forensic medicine . His efforts have also produced many awards and commendations from groups such as the Michigan State Medical Society, APA, the Detroit Institute of Technology, and AAFC, among others.
Emanuel Tanay, M.D. - 1913 Intel, March 6th, 2010
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=5482
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates . When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism . 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care . I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools . So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen . Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come . My family lost everything . I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'
We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace . Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant . It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history . It is the fanatics who march . . . It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide . It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave . It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill . It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque . It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals . It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the ’silent majority,’ is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people . The peaceful majority were irrelevant . China ’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist . Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.
And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery . Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were ‘peace loving’?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:
Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.
Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late . As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts — the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand . So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on – before it’s too late.
Emanuel Tanay, M . D . 2980 Provincial St . Ann Arbor , MI 48104
Dr . Emanuel Tanay MD is a well-known forensic psychiatrist who has been an expert witness in many famous cases . He has served as an officer or committee member on the Michigan Psychiatric Society, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the American Psychiatric Association (APA), and others . He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and of the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry and a distinguished fellow of the APA and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFC).
A Holocaust survivor himself, Dr Tanay coauthored a book about the survivors of the Holocaust and was asked by the German government to consult on just compensation for the Holocaust survivors . Dr . Tanay has served on several journal editorial boards, authored many publications, and presented countless times on forensic medicine . His efforts have also produced many awards and commendations from groups such as the Michigan State Medical Society, APA, the Detroit Institute of Technology, and AAFC, among others.
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