Having been molested as a child, doesn't justify becoming a paedophile

A long-time reader and at times hostile commentator sent me the following article. Written 38 years ago by American social philosopher Eric Hoffer shortly after Israel’s expansionist 6-day-war, this articles gives an excellent insight in the mindset of the apologists of the ethnically cleansing and genocide performed on the Palestinian people by the Jewish invaders. 

ISRAEL'S PECULIAR POSITION

by Eric Hoffer (LA Times, 26 May 1968)

The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.  

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.  Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman.  Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab.   Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.  Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967] he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews. No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him. The Swedes, who are ready to break off  diplomatic relations with America because of what  we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.

The Jews are alone in the world.  If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts  And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us.  And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their  Russian backers won the war,  to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.

I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so  will it go with all of us.   Should Israel perish,  the holocaust will be upon us all.

What the author is saying is that (a) nobody cared about – and tried to prevent – the Jewish Holocaust (a) nobody cares about what the Arabs would do to the Jews if they had their way, and (c) it’s unfair to criticise the Jews for what they are doing to the Arabs because other nationalities have done far worse to other people.

The Jewish Holocaust played obviously a catalytic role in the creation of Israel. The horrifying pictures of half-dead concentration camp prisoners, those piles of dead bodies and reports of industrial scale murdering of six millions Jews made it impossible to refuse the Zionists’ wish for  a Jewish state. The entire world felt too guilty of not having prevented it all.

Eric Hoffer’s article plays on the same sentiment. The world didn’t care what the Nazis were doing to the Jews. Not allowing the Jews to do whatever it takes to ensure their safety, he implies,  amounts to the same lack of empathy.

Even if the Zionists didn’t lie about the Holocaust, this line of argument is not only extremely manipulative but logically flawed. Having been molested as a child, doesn’t justify becoming a paedophile. Whatever the European Jews had to suffer from the Nazis, doesn’t justify what they are doing to the Palestinians who had no part in the Nazi persecution.

What is more, Israel’s ‘right to exist’ and the future of the Israeli Jews are two completely different questions. ‘Wiping Israel off the map’ does not imply killing all Israeli Jews, nor does stopping Israel from ethnically cleansing and committing genocide on the Palestinians mean not caring about whether the Arabs kill all Israeli Jews.

While you could excuse all of the above nonsense as Holocaust induced paranoia,  I have no sympathy for Hoffer’s “why can’t the Jews commit the same crimes as everybody else”. Since when does a crime become less evil by the fact that someone else got away with doing the same? What the European colonists did to the native Americans, the Turks to the Armenians or the Czechs to the Sudetendeutschen was unacceptable. To use those atrocities to justify what the Jews are doing to the Palestinians is obscene.

Andrew Winkler is the editor/publisher of Sydney based dissident blog ZioPedia.org and founder of Jews Anonymous. He can be contacted on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it You can find more of his articles in the Editorial Section of the ZioPedia.org site.

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