The NJDC’s full response entitled “Sen. Grassley Must Apologize for Hitler Tweet” was: \u00a0“Senator Grassley’s Hitler comparison is absolutely inappropriate. Grassley’s remark unfortunately places him among the usual cranks spouting similar nonsense every day on Twitter and is unbefitting of a U.S. Senator. Grassley should apologize immediately for his tweet and realize the very real dangers of making such extreme comparisons.”<\/p>\n
The NJDC\u2019s Grassley tweet objection from a Jewish organization inextricably evokes, as a principal unstated reference point and its legitimacy, an undeniable Jewish Holocaust component.<\/p>\n
As such, I have problems with self-anointed “Hitler” and\/or “Holocaust” gate-keepers. Despite my\u00a0pointed published remarks\u00a0attacking the NJDC’s Grassley attack, the NJDC failed to publicly retract, or modify, its Grassley attack.<\/p>\n
Now as a preface, I’m sure the NJDC does a lot of good things for Israel, America, and for Jewish values. And despite the organization’s partisan nature, I, in no way, am ascribing malicious motives to the NJDC’s Grassley press release.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, just because the NJDC does some good things doesn’t exempt it from criticism for making serious mistakes that could have catastrophic, unimaginable results for the safety and security of Israel and of America. I believe this NJDC attack is just such a serious mistake.<\/p>\n
Now, let’s put aside the issue that mainstream American Jews and Jewish Organizations were, at best, passive and failed during the Holocaust. But, don’t take my word; see Yad Vashem’s published analysis:<\/p>\n
“Nonetheless, after the US government confirmed reports of the \u2018Final Solution\u2019 in the fall of 1942, the American Jewish community felt compelled to do something. An organization called the American Jewish Conference was created in August 1943 by the major American Jewish organizations for the purpose of planning their postwar policy.”<\/p>\n
So, even though the “U.S. government” in the fall of 1942 “confirmed reports of the \u2018Final Solution,\u2019” the American mainstream Jewish reaction was (drumroll, please) to create yet another Jewish organization that did nothing but plan for “postwar,” post-Holocaust “policy.”<\/p>\n
But let’s examine the \u00a0substance of the NJDC-Grassley matter. . .<\/p>\n
First, Grassley only mentioned “Hitler” invading Poland in 1939. He didn’t even mention the unspeakable “H-word,” dare I say it: the Holocaust! So, who elected NJDC the appointed “gatekeeper” of the use of “Hitler” historical analogies by American congressmen and senators?<\/p>\n
An elected US Senator can’t publicly warn that he sees a waxing, menacing Hitler-type world threat without the NJDC’s imprimatur? Did I miss something, or did the NJDC copyright the “Hitler” threat?<\/p>\n
Or, put more bluntly, if this were the 1930’s, when, according to the NJDC’s \u201cinformed\u201d sense of “appropriate,” could Grassley have \u201cappropriately\u201d called Hitler a “Hitler,” or warned of a grievous Hitler-type \u201cextreme comparison\u201d threat (especially because Roosevelt was a totally radical “Democrat” president)?<\/p>\n
Before Dec. 7, 1941, many Americans, in fact, attacked US congressmen for calling Hitler “Hitler.” In fact, in 1940, Americans, shockingly, actually hung Sen. Claude Pepper (D-AL) in effigy in front of the Capitol because he voted for the 1940 “Selective Service\u00a0Bill” that helped save the United States and the world.<\/p>\n
Or, how about after Dec. 7, 1941, when 416,800 US soldiers died fighting in World War II? So, let’s forget, for the moment, that 6,000,000 Jews were mass-murdered by the Nazis.<\/p>\n
Put the Jews aside. A current U.S. senator doesn’t have the unalloyed right and absolute obligation to warn his fellow-countrymen of what he believes to be an analogous Hitler-like danger where Americans could soon lose their lives in a World War without a Jewish organization excoriating him? Of course Grassley does. Yet, the NJDC, in the sacred name of its Jewish cause, dares verbally assault and harangue him for his stark warning that many American soldiers might soon have to die because of what the Senator believes is an idiotic or non-existent Obama foreign policy?<\/p>\n
Second, or, as President Obama\u00a0recently sagely stated\u00a0in Jerusalem, “Put yourself in their shoes.” .<\/p>\n
Let’s assume a neo-isolationist Republican President was in office and, a hypothetical Democratic Senator tweeted the same exact “It was Sept 1939 Hitler started WWII Poland…<\/em>” tweet against the Republican neo-isolationist President. Would the NJDC’s doppelganger, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), have been morally and ethically right, in the sacred name of a Jewish organization, to have attacked the hypothetical Democrat Senator who tweeted the anti-Republican President tweet with the same incendiary and caustic criticism the NJDC has used against Grassley?<\/p>\n Of course not! In fact, such hypothetical RJC criticism against the brave senator would be as insanely ludicrous as the NJDC’s actual criticism against Grassley was.<\/p>\n Third, I thought the whole point of “Never again” is to warn people of looming possible severe dangers so a future\u00a0Holocaust can be averted in time. The world of 2013 moves at light speed compared to 1942, and Israel is a “one-nuke” country.<\/p>\n So, if you don’t warn people quickly enough, Israel might not be there three minutes later. So, to the exact opposite point of the NDJC Grassley rant, there could be “very real dangers of” not “making such extreme comparisons.”<\/p>\n Did the NJDC ever think of the “very real dangers” that might occur to America, to Israel, or to the Jews, if Sen. Grassley, and other like-minded elected officials, didn’t feel free to warn of fairly perceived Hitler-like dangers? Jews should have the backs of such brave senators and not stab them in the back.<\/p>\n If the Holocaust taught us anything, it is “believe what your enemies say,” and yell “Fire!” when you smell smoke.<\/p>\n Under the NJDC’s Democratic President Obama, Iran started with virtually no fissile U235 material\u00a0and Iran now has about 6, or more, gun-type nuclear bombs\u2019 worth of uranium U235 (8271kg UF6 5% U235, 280kg UF6 20% U235), if Iran further enriched its U235 enriched\u00a0stock. (IAEA 2013 Unclassified Report\u00a0<\/a>-)<\/p>\n Hence, virtually all, I repeat ALL, of Iran’s fissile U235 was enriched under Obama’s watch. And both of Iran’s biggest leaders have publicly promised to annihilate the “cancerous” Israel. Iran’s skating close to even one nuke doesn’t just call for tweeting “Hitler,” it demands screaming “Holocaust!”<\/p>\n Fourth, and most ominously, with the NJDC’s Grassley pit-bull attack, there now clearly exists a new and infinitely dangerous breed of possible Holocaust deniers. These new deniers deny and belittle the palpable real dangers of a would-be\u00a0future-Holocaust.<\/p>\n In many ways, these new Holocaust deniers are a thousand times worse than the previous Holocaust deniers, like Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and David Irving, who mock and revile the 6,000,000 Jewish dead.<\/p>\n By muzzling urgent warnings of a possible new Holocaust and cudgeling righteous Gentiles into silence, these deniers expose current living people to be mass-murdered by a new-Hitler, or Nazi-like regime.\u00a0What’s worse, these deniers are often Jewish, ostensibly “mean well” and actually are under a grave delusion they are doing Tikkun olam<\/em> (“heal the world”).<\/p>\n These deniers even convince themselves that it is more important to vacuously pimp for a president’s bankrupt and dangerous foreign policies, than it is to warn of the new “Hitler” before he becomes an actual unstoppable Hitler.<\/p>\n In conclusion, instead of viciously maligning a righteous man like Grassley, who is clearly and honestly warning of a terrible future danger, the NJDC should have called and asked him how they could help him warn President Obama of the dangers he sees.<\/p>\n The NJDC should have acted as a Jewish bridge from the Legislative branch to the Executive branch of government instead of being a partisan Democratic attack dog. New Hitlers and new Holocausts are not partisan Democratic-Republican issues, but bipartisan American and Jewish issues.<\/p>\n (Mark Langfan has created an original educational 3-D Topographic Map System of Israel to facilitate clear understanding of the dangers facing Israel and its water supply. It has been studied by US lawmakers and can be seen here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Share](\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\")