POLAND, its politicians and at least a few of is Jews, took umbrage when Israel’s interim foreign minister, Israel Katz, repeated what former prime minister Yitzak Shamir said about Poles: "Shamir said that every Pole suckled anti-Semitism with his mother's milk. Nobody will tell us how to express out stance and how to honor the dead." .
Consider that most of death camps were in Poland.
On the other hand, All generalities are lies..
What triggered this flap?
The Polish government passed a law basically stating that it is against Polish law to talk about the holocaust and Poland’s substantial role in it.
As far as Poland is concerned, it was the Germans and Hungarians, and anyone else they can point a finger.
As it happens, I know a Polish woman who, to the best of my knowledge, is not anti-Semetic; if she is, I have not encountered it.
Aside from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, I don’t know of anyone who claims the Holocaust didn’t happen. Pole or otherwise and an adult at the time, who can honestly claim “I didn’t know.”
You can’t hide trainloads of people off-loaded at the death camps.
You can’t hide pogroms.
You cannot dispute the number of Poles (and others) who took over Jewish property and refused to return it to any survivors of the owners.
Image above of Philosopher George Santayana and the quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
The Poles, along with all the other anti-Semetic opportunists in Europe — not ignoring the French — NEED to be reminded. As Dwayne F. Schneider (Pat Harrington Jr.) oft said : Always remember and never forget
I don’t think I would say every Pole suckled anti-Semitism with his mother's milk, but I take exception to Poland’s new law that basically states: We were innocent bystanders.
That is a blatant lie.
Certainly not ALL Poles ran to cooperate with the nazis, but many did.
To ignore that fact to prove Poland’s anti-Semitism — then and now.
I AM curious about the Polish Jews defending Poland. Did they learn NOTHING from the war years. Their neighbors will NOT protect them. These “bury our head in the sand” Jews are, alas, typical of too many European Jews — and far too many American Jews “from the old country.”
Like the Poles, “all generalities are lies’ but there is more than a grain of truth in this.
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
