His New Career
By Israel Shamir
The reckless words of the Malaysian PM sent
waves around the globe and caused some quite
unexpected consequences. For sure, the US
Congress objected to the unheard-of idea of
Jewish influence, and approved a multibillion
loan to Israel. JINSA rejected Dr M’s saying the
Jews promote wars, for the wars promoted by the
Jews are called ‘democratisation’, or at least,
‘the war to end all wars’.
Only the French President Jacques Chirac delayed
his response, and found himself on the line of
fire. The oh, so non-existent ‘Jewish influence’
could cause his political demise, as it did to
Charles de Gaulle after his ill-calculated
weapon embargo on Israel in 1967 (the great
general lasted just one year). Jacques Chirac
took the first flight to Canossa and eventually
sent a letter of condemnation to the old Dr M.
Like Emperor Henry IV, he preferred to submit to
the power that replaced Papacy in the minds of
Europeans and Americans.
Still, he was attacked by the Maariv, an Israeli
tabloid. This rag did not care much for a
far-away Malaysia, but had printed grotesquely
distorted face of Jacques Chirac above the
caption, Antisemitic Mug of France. (See below
in French, by AFP). Hysterical comparisons of
Chirac with Marshal Petain were made by Amnon
Dankner, the Maariv chief editor. His editorial
and other articles, notably by Nahum Barnea (he
called Chirac ‘the collaborator’), were aiming
at the French Jews, pouring inflammatory venom
in order to set them against their non-Jewish
neighbours and against France.
However, the Jews of France (predominantly
Sephardi descendents of Maghreb immigrants)
could consider the personality of Amnon Dankner,
the chief editor of Maariv, before following his
orders. A few years ago this fighter for the
Jewish cause published a long essay called I’ve
Got No Sister (Ein Li Achot) , where he
described the Sephardis as ‘baboons’ and
‘barbarians from the periphery of the degraded
French culture’. Do you recognise yourself,
Derrida? Is it your portrait, Albert Memmi?
In the time of tension between Maghrebis (‘Arab
Jews’) of Israel and the Ashkenazi elite,
Dankner wrote: “There is no chance for a
fratricidal war (between Ashkenazim and
Sephardim), for I do not consider these baboons
my brothers”. He expressed the gut feeling of
the Ashkenazi elite, of the people who now try
to bring the French Jews to their side: the
Sephardim are at the bottom of the Israeli
society, they are hardly represented in the
universities and the media, while their party is
out of power, their leaders are ostracised and
their culture destroyed.
Dankner and Barnea of the Maariv dared to speak
of ‘the collaborationist [with Nazis] past of
France’. Well, they should know everything about
the Nazis. A few days ago, when Maariv was
engaged in ferocious witch-hunt of the Air Force
pilots refusing to fly assassination missions, a
long article appeared in one of the newspaper
supplements.
Ostensibly condemning the pilots, an unknown
patriot wrote:
“Those who want to live, let them fight, and
those who do not want to fight in this world of
eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
"What we must fight for is to safeguard the
existence of our people, the sustenance of our
children and the freedom and independence of our
country, so that our people may fulfil the
mission allotted it by the Creator.
"The war against our enemies cannot be conducted
in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of
different attitudes to life, and will have to be
conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and
unrelenting harshness. It must be thoroughly
understood that the land will never be won by
solemn appeals to God, nor by hopes in any
United Nations, but only by the force of arms.
"A single blow must destroy the enemy, without
regard of losses. A gigantic all-destroying
blow. Our message does not have multiple
shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love
or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never
half this way and half that way. Lord God, let
us never hesitate or play the coward. If we are
forced to send the flower of the nation into the
hell of war without the smallest fear, then
surely we have the right to remove millions of
another race that breeds like vermin. For we are
fighting not for ourselves but for the whole
world.”
The article attracted very little attention, for
it was an exact match to the rest of the
write-up produced by Messrs Dankner and Barnea.
Only a few days later, a sharp-eyed retiree paid
notice to the by-line: the article in question
was signed A. Schickelgruber, a real-life name
of Adolf Hitler, and every single sentence was
taken from Hitler’s speeches and books.
This new posthumous career of the Nazi leader as
a Zionist columnist served a sterling proof of
advanced Nazification of Israeli society. The
Zionist sympathisers affect their indignation
whenever their black deeds are compared with
those of Nazis, but publication of Hitler’s
article and following lack of response by the
Israeli public staged a convincing experiment:
the Israeli discourse fully inverted and
appropriated the Nazi propaganda. This discovery
could act as sobering cold shower to the hot
heads of Zionist fanatics, but it did not.
Instead of tearing their tailor-made dress
shirts and pouring ashes on their balding heads,
Dankner and his henchman Barnea fired the brave
journalist Yehuda Nuriel who composed the
article in question and brought the mirror up to
the ugly face of Israel.
But here is a good sign: the Sephardi
intellectuals (http://www.kedma.co.il/),
rebelled against their Ashkenazi Zionist mentors
and supported Nuriel. Could it be the beginning
of Sephardi awakening? Maybe. From Haim Baram in
Jerusalem to David Shasha in New York, the
Sephardis look for their own way. Let them serve
as a guiding light for their brethren in France,
and as the bridge of peace between the
communities of Palestine.
1.
http://www.iasa.jlm.k12.il/images/fnisrael/dankner1.gif
2.
http://www.kedma.co.il/opinion/opinionfile/NurielYeoda121003.htm |
