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Simon Wiesenthal, famed for his pursuit of justice, caught fewer war criminals than he claimed and fabricated much of his own Holocaust story:
Since the early 1960s Simon Wiesenthal’s name has become synonymous with Nazi hunting. His standing is that of a secular saint. Nominated four times for the Nobel peace prize, the recipient of a British honorary knighthood, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Légion d’honneur and at least 53 other distinctions, he was often credited with some 1,100 Nazi “scalps”. He is remembered, above all, for his efforts to track down Adolf Eichmann, one of the most notorious war criminals.
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The Angry Arab's comment:
"Not in the US press: the lies of Simon Wiesenthal
The lies of Simon Wisenthal: (but his staunch and unconditional support for Israeli wars and aggression, make his lies acceptable in the US press). Centers are named after him in the US. (thanks Shakib)"
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I read this yesterday and could not believe. I wonder how long this has been known and by whom?
ReplyDeleteI read this yesterday and could not believe it. I wonder how long this has been known and by whom?
ReplyDelete"His figure is a complex and important one. If there was a motive for his duplicity, it may well have been rooted in good intentions. For his untruths are not the only shocking discoveries I have made researching the escape of Nazi war criminals. I found a lack of political will for hunting them. Many could have been brought to justice had governments allocated even comparatively meagre resources to their pursuit"
ReplyDeletefor a long time, by those who pushed the myth
ReplyDeleteI have never been of the mind to pounce upon and expose this
ReplyDeleteThe angryarb has occasionally made sarcastic comments about him and I never understood why.
ReplyDeleteThe angryarab has occasionally made sarcastic comments about him and I never understood why.
ReplyDeleteI know, I try to stay away from it - because reality of the Holocaust is so horrendous, I just cannot participate in the "sarcastic comments."
ReplyDeleteThere are things that you wish for so hard vza, because you are undone by your powerlessness, and sometimes this is "remedied" by myths of sorts. I barely got out of death camp tours without collapsing, and I just shy away from this issue.
Yes, I understand and I thnk you are quite right. I am surprised anyone who survived those camps was able to hold on to their sanity at all. I can't judge this poor man.
ReplyDeleteYes, I understand and I think you are quite right. I am surprised anyone who survived those camps was able to hold on to their sanity at all. I can't judge this poor man.
ReplyDeleteNow on something off topic, but not unrelated -
ReplyDelete<h3 class="entry-header">Afghanistan mass grave coverup: update on evidence.</h3>
"Following up on last week's post about our government's attempts to block investigation into mass killings in Afghanistan by a US-backed warlord (see this NYT article by James Risen):
There is an update to the story today from Mark Benjamin at Salon, where you can also read through the archive of related FBI documents in PDF form.
And Ben Greenberg writes in from Physicians for Human Rights, the organization that discovered the mass grave where the victims were buried. They've been investigating the case and advocating for appropriate action since 2001. Ben says:
We've produced a 10 minute documentary video about the massacre and the three federal investigations that were impeded by the Bush Administration. It's called War Crimes and the White House: The Bush Administration's Cover-Up of the Dasht-e-Leili Massacre
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science has also produced a report based on high resolution satellite imagery that shows evidence of when and how the mass grave site was subsequently dug up. A blog post on the satellite imagery report is here and the main images from the report are available here, along with a .kml file that can be used with Google Earth"
“At the White House, nobody said no to an investigation, but nobody ever said yes, either,” said Pierre Prosper, the former American ambassador for war crimes issues. “The first reaction of everybody there was, ‘Oh, this is a sensitive issue; this is a touchy issue politically.’ ”
ReplyDeleteHardly conclusive evidence the U.S. covered it up.
I never could stomach warlord Dostum involved with the government but it was probably as a result of a deal to get support for Karzai. We were also in the middle of a war. Bush was probably afraid that if we put heat on Dostum he would use his considerable resources against us....which is a reasonable assessment. I wonder if the conditions are any better now for doing something about it. This guy is quite capable of turning around and supporting the Taliban. None of this is ever clean and simple. I can recall some of the despicable things we looked the other way about with regard to our "ally", the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
and the relevance this has for liberation of palestinians is ... ?
ReplyDeleteI think we need a break, I do anyway...
ReplyDeleteHere is the lighter side of ... well ...
torture. :-E
http://www.youtube.com/v/5v0d25QydCU&feature
Aah!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Aah! for. Jemmy Hope?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Aah! for, Jemmy Hope?
ReplyDeleteSplinter in the toe :)
ReplyDeleteAah! "This poor man".
ReplyDeleteDo you know the story of Wiesenthal, Kurt Waldheim, and the Israeli government?
No.
ReplyDeleteIn a nutshell -
ReplyDeleteWiesenthal was informed of Waldheim's dodgy war record - rounding people up for transportaion to the death camps - before Waldheim became UN secretary general. He did nothing because the Israelis wanted Waldheim to get the post, someone they could blackmail with threats of exposure.
Ugh. That's horrible. Well, so much for "poor man" Thanks.
ReplyDeleteUgh. That's horrible. Well, so much for "poor man". Thanks
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