- In recent months there has been a major push in Europe
and elsewhere to prosecute and jail "Holocaust Revisionists",
i.e., individuals who assert that the "Holocaust of Six-Million European
Jews" either did not happen or was grossly inflated. This view has
even been taken up by the Iranian Government, probably because it recognizes
that this "Holocaust" will be used as the justification for any
potential Israeli nuclear strike on it. (A cynic might think the sudden
blossoming of "Holocaust" prosecutions might also be a harbinger
of a coming war.)
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- As both a journalist and former PR man, I've looked at
the "Holocaust" for a number of years and think it's time revisionists
and others recognize that the debate will never be settled--partially because
it's illegal in many countries to be a "Holocaust Denier" or
even a "Holocaust disbeliever". More importantly, the belief
in the "Holocaust" represents a new religion that bridges traditional
Judaism, Zionism and Christian Zionism. And perhaps that's why it receives
so much protection.
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- In the U.S. this religion has taken on the dimensions
of an (unconstitutional) state religion, with public funds going to various
"Holocaust" memorials and public displays, and trillions of U.S.
taxpayer dollars going to Israel in various forms on the basis of this
cult.
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- And the "Holocaust" cult has grown in Israel
ever since the 1961 trial and execution of Adolph Eichmann, serving as
the justification of numerous atrocities and human-rights violations against
the Palestinians and other Mid-Eastern peoples, who, nevertheless, had
nothing to do with any "Holocaust" that did take place. (One
Israeli writer describes the cult as a "mass pathology" in Israel
that serves to distort the strategic thinking of both the government and
general population.)
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- Revisionism has failed to have an impact on the new religion
because disproof of strongly-held religious beliefs is a virtual impossibility--and
thus denial is seen to be a form of persecution that serves to further
popularize the religious belief. For instance, Jesus' miracle of he loaves
and fishes is an impossibility by conventional scientific wisdom, yet hundreds
of millions of people believe Jesus fed the multitude with just a few fish
and loaves of bread.
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- Likewise, demonstrating that Hitler never had control
of six-million Jews (4.5-million is probably more likely) and that some
2.5-million European Jews survived the war (including many of Israel's
first citizens) will do nothing to dissuade the strongly held religious
belief that "...six million perished". So also will the frequent
revisions of casualty figures at different camps and the delisting of some
camps as "death camps" do nothing to shake the religious conviction
of hundreds of millions worldwide--and most of the citizens of today's
Israel.
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- Further demonstrating the religious nature of "Holocaust"
belief is the fact that the apparently sacrosanct "six million"
figure was also used in World War I and its aftermath to justify Jewish
demands for a promised homeland and more political power in Europe. The
"First Holocaust"--which paved the way for the unfair Versailles
Treaty that bankrupted Germany--is detailed by Don Heddesheimer in his
book "The First Holocaust. Jewish Fund Raising Campaigns with Holocaust
Claims During and After World War I" (ISBN: 0967985676, Copyright
2003, Castle Hill Publishers, N.Y.C.)
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- Perhaps the best approach at this juncture is to treat
the "Holocaust" believer with the same courtesy that one would
treat the adherent of any other religion, recognizing that the subject
matter of the religion is faith. However, the adherents of this religion
must also understand that while Judaism may divide the world into Jew and
Goyim, it does not follow that a Palestinian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Iranian
or Syrian is guilty of a "Holocaust" allegedly committed by unrelated
peoples more than half a century ago. Likewise, it does not follow that
Poles are financially responsible for the "Holocaust" because
their country--which was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union at the
time (and therefore NOT under their control)--may have been the site of
"death camps".
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- Ultimately, however, accepting the unreasonable demands
of this new religion may come to haunt citizens of the U.S., and U.K.:
"Holocaust" groups have been discussing financial responsibility
of these countries for the "Holocaust" because they did not come
to the rescue of the Jews soon enough.
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