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| Jonathan Bassi, head of Sharon's SELA expulsion authority |
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By Gail Winston
August 10, 2005
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| President Bush serves Ariel Sharon "Israeli cookies" on his Texas ranch. (AP) |
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We should not allow the understandable controversy over use of Concentration camp imagery with relation to the planned retreat from Gaza to obscure deeper, genuine issues.
A favorite tactic of the Germans was to use Jews, known as the Judenrat in the ghettos and in the concentration camps as Kapos, to break the will of their fellow Jews. The Germans never really needed these functionaries. The Germans took men, women and children from their homes in their "special actions" quite effectively without the Judenrat.
The terror-stricken functionaries of the Judenrat were promised life or escape for their families and themselves in return for turning in their fellow Jews. Some even felt "altruistic", imagining they were helping to save the many at the expense of the "few" they turned over to the Germans.
The terror of the situation actually convinced the Judenrat that they were doing the right thing. In one account, a member of the Judenrat burst into the hiding place of his son-in-law, daughter and child. He handed them over to the waiting "safe transport" to a "work camp." Other tried to convince him that the "work camp" was really a "death camp." After he had done his deed and the transport left, the Judenrat member sought reassurance from others. "They're really going to a work camp, aren't they? Aren't they?" he asked, pleading, begging for reassurance. Those around him tried to avoid his gaze as he became more hysterical in his entreaties.
Of course, the Germans were experts at deception and most members of the Judenrat were eventually liquidated. So much for deals with the Devil.
Ariel Sharon did not decide to retreat from Gaza because of left-wing tendencies. Even setting aside the legal difficulties he and his family faced, the Prime Minister was clearly threatened with tremendous damage to the State of Israel if he did not produce a "sacrificial lamb" as demanded by Europe and the State Department.
His mistake, which all might now suffer for, is believing he could "play ball" with these ideological descendants of the Germans by sacrificing the "few" to save the many.
Getting the Jews to remove other Jews from a part of Israel as they and the expected influx of 3,000 reporters watch with abundant glee may remind them of the "good old days" in Germany.
Sharon is trying his best. He was certainly threatened with dire consequences for the country if he did not find a "solution" to this very "Jewish problem." He also stands to lose. His ranch is right next to the Gaza border, near Sderot. Terrorists will now be able to sidle right up close and launch a barrage upon him.
The nations of the world are also laughing at the Left. They have succeeded in getting the Jews to do their dirty work. No demands for Israel to withdraw: that Congress would fight. No charges of anti-Semitism. Just use the Left to force Jews to remove other Jews from their ancestral, G-d given homeland.
What indeed is the Left so enthusiastic about? When Israel gives away the homes and farms of Jews in Gaza, will the world suddenly like us? Did they like us before 1967? If we gave away everything, would Hamas stop firing missiles at Israel?
The anti-Semites of the world must be laughing. They must be clucking and chuckle about those stupid, gullible Jews and seemingly broken faith: "Where is your G-d now?"
I would caution: Don't laugh too hard. My belief is that G-d will render justice, whether in this world or the next. Germans and Germany did not escape punishment. Nor will those who are forcing Sharon to dance to their oh-so-quiet tune.
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