Polish-speaking historian Dr Inna Rogatchi, interviewed by Rochel Sylvetsky for Arutz Sheva, gives an insider’s perception of the new Polish Holocaust Law and Poland today.
With French historian George Bensoussan at the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris ( April 2015)
The Polish Holocaust Law, awaiting final signature, was a hot topic in the Polish media, as it was in Israel. And then the real Poland spoke up. Renowned European historian and Dr. Inna Rogatchi, shocked beyond belief, turned to Arutz Sheva for an opportunity to enlighten non-Polish speaking readers about the unknown aspects of the law and on what is happening in Poland.
Q: What is the significance of Poles using the term ‘Jewish death camps’ ?
IR: The whole process of passing the notorious Polish law that aims to censor the narrative on WWII, the Shoah and the activities around them, reveals the real face of modern-day Poland. And this face, in my opinion, is an ugly one.
Who could imagine that 74 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the world would hear the phrase ‘Jewish death camps’ followed by the mocking question asking ‘who actually did run the crematoria?’ in an exchange of ‘jests’ by two Polish authors on a TV broadcast dealing with the new law.
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Note how the UN condemns every room built in Judea and Samaria, but has stayed silent on the murder of two rabbis in just as many weeks.
While Turkish President Erdogan and Pope Francis were in Rome complimenting each other on Jerusalem and the European Union was rolling out red carpets to Mahmoud Abbas, Israel was protecting the West.
This small state has hitherto prevented Iran from manufacturing the atomic bomb, it has ruined the nuclear plans of Saddam Hussein and Bashar el Assad thanks to two solitary bombings, it guards the security of Jordan that without Israel would collapse today like a cooked pear, it has foiled attacks by ISIS on European civilian flights and we now discover that Egypt’s el Sisi has recently asked Israel to bomb ISIS’ posts in Sinai.
Israel today is the fireman of the Middle East. Imagine the region, from time to time, without Israel as the anti-Semites of the whole world dream of it. A Middle East of beheaders facing the Mediterranean, a Middle East of planes full of Westerners flying from Sharm el Sheikh and sinking in the Red Sea, a Middle East of a race to atomic weapons by dictatorships of all kinds, a Middle East of even more millions of refugees going to Europe. Tonight we will sleep more peacefully thanks to Israel.
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By Dr. Eitan Orkibi, ISRAEL HAYOM
Last Thursday, Poland’s parliament passed a controversial bill that would make it illegal to suggest that Poland bore any responsibility for crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis during the occupation of Poland during World War II. On Tuesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda said he would sign the bill into law. But we must not let the controversy surrounding the Holocaust bill overshadow the deep and meaningful work that the current Polish generation has undertaken in regard to the country’s past, specifically relating to the fate of its Jews under the Nazi occupation.
Be it the 2013 movie “Ida” or the successful play “Our Class,” contemporary Polish society is actively engaged in painful self-reflection in an effort to grapple with its sins. With astounding openness, today’s Poles are examining the unresolved relationship between their Polish identity and anti-Semitism.
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Greek Orthodox Patriarchate says municipality trying to ’empty’ city of Christian institutions; PA spokesman calls decision ‘a new aggression against our occupied capital’
Palestinians on Sunday strongly denounced an Israeli decision to collect taxes from churches and United Nations agencies in Jerusalem, saying the move was aimed at “emptying” the city of its Arab residents and Christian holy sites.
Some Palestinian officials even went as far as linking the decision to US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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A demonstration protesting price hikes in the Jordanian city of As-Salt, west of Amman, descended into a riot as protesters burned tyres and clashed with security forces over the weekend.
Witnesses from the city said the march, which rejected tax increases and subsidies cuts, began peacefully before protesters barricaded roads in the city centre.
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The Jewish state is proposing one of the largest relocations of citizens in the country’s recent history, exceeding the Gaza Strip withdrawal in 2005, when 8,000 citizens were forced to move.
More than ten thousand Beduin citizens living on and near land slated to become a phosphate mine in the Negev will be compelled to relocate, with most of them being “concentrated” in a new town nearby, the senior government policymaker for Beduin affairs has told the Jerusalem Post.
Yair Maayan, head of the Authority for Development and Settlement of the Beduin in the Negev, said the relocation plan was not motivated by the mine. But his disclosure of it comes just two weeks after plans including a mine at Sde Barir, near Arad, were approved by the interministerial cabinet for planning, building, land, and housing (Cabinet HaDiyur). The approval came despite the objections of the health ministry, which says mining at Sde Barir would pose a “health danger” to nearby communities.
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T. Belman. And while they are at it, how about a special counsel to investigate the crimes committed by Hillary Clinton, including perjury, destruction of evidence, Clinton Foundation pay to play, you name it.
On Monday, Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah told reporters on Air Force One that President Trump’s lawyers have already approved of the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate the FBI and DOJ’s actions during the 2016 Presidential election, Axios reports.
Axios reports:
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by Joshua Caplan, GATEWAY PUNDIT
According to legendary political operative and InfoWars correspondent, Roger Stone, lawyers for Gen. Michael Flynn are preparing legal action to have all charges against him dropped.
Credit: The Alex Jones Channel
STONE: “Lawyers for General Mike Flynn will shortly file a motion to dismiss all the charges filed against him, based on reports now confirmed by The Hill, Circa News and Infowars, that Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe told a teleconference of law enforcement officials, “first we f*ck Flynn, then we f*ck Trump.”
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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Bashar Assad used a European go-between to send this secret message to PM Binyamin Netanyahu. A similar note came from Beirut.
DEBKAfile’s exclusive intelligence sources report that late last week, a personal Note from Syrian ruler Bashar Assad was secretly handed to Prime Minister Netanyahu by a European intermediary. “War is not what I am after. All I want now is to focus on reunifying Syria and rebuilding the ruins of war.” A key phrase followed: “We are a sovereign nation. We shall not hand our borders over to the control of any forces other than Syrian.”
By Lynne Lechter, AMERICAN THINKER
Over the past year the United States and, secondarily, the rest of the world, have been bombarded with the Democratic Party’s take on “Russia collusion.” Democrats have persistently declared that President Donald J. Tramp’s political ascendancy signals Armageddon. The insults started with the snarky “he’s not one of us,” to myriad accusations of anti-Semitism, racism, serial sexual harassment, xenophobia, vulgar speech, facilitation of white supremacists and violence, a crashed economy, and soured foreign relations. When none of these accusations stuck, they settled on an unrelenting, unsubstantiated drumbeat of claims that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to affect the outcome of the presidential election.
At last, the truth regarding these false accusations has been uncovered. The declassified House memo has revealed the perfidy of the Democrats’ ‘accusations against Trump, and the illegality of the Special Counsel and his investigation.
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There is one crucial difference between Poland and the other nations of Europe that came under German occupation
The law passed by the Polish parliament, which calls for punishment of anyone blaming the Polish people for Nazi crimes, has stirred a debate about Poland’s role during the Holocaust. The debate is colored by the memory of the rampant anti-Semitism that existed in Poland before World War II, the widespread anti-Semitism that continued in Poland throughout the war, and the continuation of anti-Semitic outbreaks after the war when it was discovered that not all of Poland’s Jews had been exterminated during the Holocaust.
Yet it is important to differentiate between the behavior of individual Poles or groups of Poles and the actions of the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Home Army (AK) during the war.
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Cabinet approves boosting ceiling for foreign workers in construction industry by 6,000 from current 16,500
T. Belman. I am not at all concerned with the possibility that foreign workers won’t leave. In fact I hope they don’t at least until they retire. That’s not to say that I think they should form families here. I don’t. Laws must be passed that require them to leave. We will always need construction workers and they will never become citizens. Israel must have an alternative to Arab workers so that we are not vulnerable to political action they might take. If the Arab workers present as little problems to us as do the foreign workers, they are welcome too.
As Israel Deports Asylum Seekers, It Imports Thousands of Foreign Workers
Cabinet approves boosting ceiling for foreign workers in construction industry by 6,000 from current 16,500
Israel approved on Sunday boosting the ceiling for foreign workers in the construction industry by 6,000 from the current 16,500. The extra quota is specifically for workers employed by the foreign contractors now permitted to operate in Israel to help ease the housing shortage, while the first 16,500 are free to work wherever they please.
On Sunday, Israel began issuing deportation notices to asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan who are not held in the Holot detention facility.
T. Belman. The author seems to think that solving the Arab Israel conflict is central to American plans. I disagree. Not only has the US distanced themselves from the idea that solving the conflict is centeral to ME stability, it has also declared that it won’t force anyone.
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 731, February 4, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Though the recently released US National Security Strategy (NSS) is not intended to present a concrete and detailed set of American policies for the Middle East, it does reflect the general logic and goals of the Trump administration for the region – and indicates a convergence of US and Israeli views on the Middle East. Its substance and implications warrant close attention in Jerusalem.
The chapter in the new US National Security Strategy (NSS) document on the Middle East is short but powerful. It marks a significant departure from the Obama legacy and is thus of great interest to both America’s partners and its adversaries in the region.
The strategy recognizes that instability and an unfavorable balance of regional power in the Middle East adversely affect US interests. According to the NSS, the region’s instability derives from the interaction between Iranian expansion, violent jihadist terror and ideology, weak states, socioeconomic stagnation, and regional rivalries.
PM now backs proposal to apply sovereignty over towns in Judea, Samaria, says Likud MK. Bill to be brought up in two weeks.
Will a proposal adopted by the Likud party last month to apply Israeli sovereignty over Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria be adopted by the Israeli government?
One of the leading proponents in the Knesset of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, MK Yoav Kish (Likud) claims that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu supports the move – despite his failure to appear at a party conference in December which brought the issue to a vote.
On December 31st, members of the Likud Central Committee gathered at the Avenue Conference Center near Ben Gurion International Airport in central Israel to debate the formal adoption of a plank to the party platform calling for the application of Israeli sovereignty over Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.
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Once upon a time a seasoned political operative ran for President of the United States against a candidate who had virtually no political experience.
She––Democrat Ms. Hillary Clinton––former First Lady of Arkansas, former First Lady of the United States, former U.S. Senator from New York, former Secretary of State under the faux “president” Barack Obama, was clearly the favorite.
Her opponent––Republican Mr. Donald J. Trump––the billionaire builder who lived in the American version of the Palace of Versailles in Manhattan and in several other resplendent homes around the country and the world, who hosted two wildly successful TV shows, who owned casinos and built golf courses and was a favorite of tabloid magazines, and who had been lionized and courted by the Hollywood crowd, the media whores, and both Democrats and Republicans for his generous contributions, was the clear loser.
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This is a fascinating interview that is well worth the the 54 minutes to watch it.
Some parts of this interview were done a few months ago and so are not current.
T. Belman. I normally support any party that sees Islam for what it is and wants to stand up to it. These European parties are usually on the right and usually nationalistic. They are also pro-Israel. Of course, if any of their policies are threatening to Jews, that’s another story. Less so if only some of its members are proven antisemites. I have taken a lot of flack for being so open to them because, don’t you know, we should never support the extreme right because they are nationalistic and antisemetic. Many people including my daughter have taken me to task for this.
I would like to hear from our followers about your views on these parties in general and specifically what you know about whether AfD should be shunned, embraced or approached with caution. Any evidence you can bring to the table in support of their alleged antisemitism or in support of your views, would be appreciated.
I am much more worried about the threat to the West, including Israel, and its culture, represented by Islam including its systemic antisemitism, than I am of the far right antisemitism.
Legendary former Mossad agent Rafi Eitan, who led the operation to capture Adolf Eichmann, says Israel appreciates AfD’s “attitude toward Judaism” and endorses its hardline toward Muslims • Eitan: Confident AfD will help Israel on any matter we ask it to.
Legendary former Mossad agent who led the operation to capture Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann has expressed surprising support for the nationalist Alternative for Germany party.
The 91-year-old Rafi Eitan said in a video statement on his Facebook page Saturday that Israel appreciates the party’s “attitude toward Judaism.”
“In any case,” he said in the video, “I’m sure that if you work wisely strongly and most important realistically … I’m sure that instead of ‘Alternative for Germany,’ you might become an alternative for all of Europe.”
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Top PLO official rails against the Trump administration for criticisms of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, but insists Palestinians are not looking for confrontation with US
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat on Saturday accused the Trump administration of trying depose the Palestinian leadership in a “coup” and told the “impudent” US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley she should “shut up” with her criticism of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Erekat, who has led the Palestinian peace negotiations and is secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, singled out Haley, who slammed Abbas for a recent speech that was full of anti-Semitic tropes.
Erekat said that Haley’s “impudence” has gone as far as calling for removing Abbas from power.
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T. Belman. I authored Tiny Qatar casts a giant shadow in 2012.. Qatar is the worst of the worst. I haven’t seen anything since to suggest otherwise.
Qatar has broken its isolation not only in the region through outreach to Iran and Turkey but also in Washington, illustrating how it put together a successful strategy.
Rumors of war were in the air. The week after Saudi Arabia imposed a blockade on Qatar last June, Sigurd Neubauer, a Middle East expert based in Washington, recalls being in Doha.
“I did not realize how grave the crisis was,” he says. “A few days after the blockade, it became clear when we were there how dangerous the situation is, that there could be a real hard conflict.”
Down in the lobby of his hotel were ex-military types, perhaps advisers to Qatar’s military in case things got worse. Former British Marines lounged around. “It’s hard to say how many there were because I only saw them at the hotel I stayed at,” Neubauer recalls.
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