Children at Play

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children play outside their school in the religious neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, on 16 June 2008 in East Jerusalem.

This area is where the multicultural housing development is being built, as housing for everyone in Palestine and to help elevate the Arab Palestinian refugee problem.

Nevertheless, I send a wave to the children, with a smile.

A Time of Sorrow a Time to Remember

Polish born Jewish Holocaust survivor Mordechai Fuchs wears the Star of David with 'Jude', German for Jew, written on it during the official Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem on 1 May 2008.

1 May 2008
by HRM Deborah

This is a time of great sorrow and a time to remember, it also reminds me of something I said to a young woman yesterday, that all people in Palestine, whether they are Jewish or Arab Palestinian deserve to live in peace and be free. That sorrows like the remembrance of this day, would one day be only in the history books and one day no longer be current events.

All people deserve to be free, have their dignity and not have to suffer because they are different then those that have caused the Semitic people harm.

It seems while I may be a little slower then usual today, because of not only thinking what happened to the six million Jews that perished in the holocaust, but a 108 year war that should have never been and all those martyrs that also perished in this violence.

There is probably not one family because of these two atrocities that have not lost family members, so this is not just a day of silence and remembrance, but also one of great tears.

For instance, my family did not just loose members because of the war, many also perished along with the Jewish people in the holocaust. So in this turn, I actually do along with the majority of Palestinians, feel the great sorrow the Jewish people, I am sure is feeling.

In the past, when the war was raging, the previous Queens of Palestine, where no longer called, “Mother,” this titled was usually bestowed for centuries because of honest love for all that lived in Palestine. One thing that tugs at my heart these days, is that title for a Queen, has now returned. The previous Queens, it was not because they where bad people, but so vastly misunderstood.

Furthermore, I do have to admit, far too many times, I have wished to put out my arms around everyone in Palestine no matter who they are and make them not only safe and warm, but happy.

It a great hope of mine, that all these wounds one day will heal and we can wipe each other’s tears, so in time they would be no more.

'Gate to Hell'

Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, holds the hand of a Holocaust survivor as they take part in a Peace March at the Nazi Concentration Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on 30 April 2008 in Krakow, Poland.

From 1942 Auschwitz became the biggest center for the mass extermination of Jews. Figures vary but a conservative estimate puts the number of murdered Jews at an approximate 1.5 million.

The entrance to Auschwitz I.The now notorious motto over the gate, "Arbeit macht frei" translates to: "Work makes you free." This is probably the most famous gate, associated to the Jewish Holocaust.
Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing center where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...

9 out of 10 were Jews. In addition, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and prisoners of all nationalities died in the gas chambers. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 148 trains. This was probably the largest single mass deportation during the Holocaust.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of Oshwiecim in Galacia, and was established by order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940. Private diaries of Goebbels and Himmler unearthed from the secret Soviet archives show that Adolf Hitler personally ordered the mass extermination of the Jews during a meeting of Nazi German regional governors in the chancellery. As Goebbels wrote "With regards to the Jewish question, the Fuhrer decided to make a clean sweep ..."

At Auschwitz children were often killed upon arrival. Children born in the camp were generally killed on the spot. Near the end of the war, in order to cut expenses and save gas, cost-accountant considerations led to an order to place living children directly into the ovens or throw them into open burning pits.

So called camp doctors, especially the notorious Josef Mengele, would torture and inflict incredible suffering on Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. Patients were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death, and exposed to various other traumas.

During World War 2 only one man managed to get prisoners out of Auschwitz his name was Oskar Schindler.

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Commentary

Shedding the Tears

By HRM Deborah

When I was a young girl, I had the opportunity to know someone that had survived Auschwitz, while they had lost their whole family.

Even to this very day, I had never wished for the Jewish people to ever suffer this type of atrocity ever again. I will even go so far as to say, that both the Jewish and Palestinian people never suffer the sorrow of any heinous violence perpetrated against them, because they are Semantic in origin.

It has been in my thoughts a lot these days, how several times throughout history, that the Jewish and Palestinian people was subjected to suffering by some means together.

Even at this very time, there are people that wish to harm the Jewish and Palestinian people through lies and other types of manipulation, that is not only a falsehood, but also an outright despicable situation.

Especially in regards to the Palestinian people, saying they are a people of violence and wish harm to others, when this is the farthest from the truth; even to go so far as using terminology to sway certain people, to wish to hurt the Palestinian people.

For thousands of years the Palestinian people have always been a people that believed in love as well as peace and this virtue has never changed even to this very day.

Furthermore, accusing the Palestinian people of wishing to harm anyone is not only an insult, that while it is not true, is deployable to say the least.

May one day, the people of the world, learn to love and have peace for each other, so no one would ever wish to cause any harm to another, no matter who they are.

Palestinian in Iraq Attacked by Anti-Semitic U.S. Marine’s

A Palestinian businessman living in Basra, Iraq stands by the gate of his bullet riddled home on 18 April 2008.

19 April 2008

A Palestinian businessman, in celebration of Palestine Independence, which occurred 14 March 2008 and to show respect to the Jewish people painted a Jewish flag on the ground outside of his home in the southern city of Basra, Iraq.

On the 18 April 2008, a group of U.S. Marines on maneuver’s came by the front of the wall to his home and upon seeing the Jewish flag, apparently out of disgust, sprayed the front of the Palestinian mans wall causing it to be bullet riddled.

This incident because of the Jewish flag being shown and the type of aggression, is considered Anti-Semitism on the part of the U.S. Marine’s, by not just many of the Jewish people, but also Arab Palestinians.

Germany - Anti-Semitic Attacks in 2008

Anti-Semitism in Germany (1960)

The world is a dangerous place to live;

not because of the people who are evil,

but because of the people

who don't do anything about it ~ Albert Einstein

January: A group of youths in central Berlin shouted anti-Semitic slurs and set a dog on five students who were leaving a Jewish school yesterday, according to police. Two main suspects, age 27 and 31, were to appear in court today after police arrested four "punks'' following the incident, police spokesman Klaus Schubert said. The students, age 15 to 17, were leaving their school on Grosse Hamburger Strasse in Berlin's Mitte district at around 2:45 p.m. local time. As the students approached a nearby corner, the suspects began shouting anti-Semitic words and had a dog chase one of the Jewish students to a local bakery, Schubert said. Witnesses called the police; the students were unhurt.

January: In Angermuende - A gravestone in the Jewish cemetery of Angermuende, near Berlin, was vandalized with a swastika.

January: In Berlin - In a Jewish cemetery in the eastern part of Berlin, vandals damaged a window of the Lapidarium building, which houses gravestones dating to the 19th and early 20th century.

January: In Berlin - A window of a Jewish institution in the western part of Berlin was damaged by gunfire, according to police reports.

February: Unknown perpetrators have attacked and vandalized a Jewish nursery school in the German capital. The Jewish community in Berlin is now calling on Germans to join them in a prayer service on Thursday. Representatives from the Gan-Israel Jewish Nursery School in Berlin have invited Germans to join Jewish leaders in prayer for "tolerance and solidarity" on Thursday. The call came after unidentified assailants sprayed swastikas and other Nazi symbols on the school walls and threw a smoke flare into the building at the weekend. "The attempt to burn down and lay waste to a Jewish nursery school is a dangerous escalation of intolerance and right-wing radicalism," the school in the western district of Charlottenburg said in a statement. "This attack was not only aimed at Jews, but against everyone who cherishes freedom and democracy." Gideon Joffe, the head of the Jewish community in Berlin, said the attack was connected to growing anti-Semitism in Germany.

February: Vandals daubed a swastika on one of the slabs that make up the Holocaust memorial in downtown Berlin towards the end of February, police said. A security service worker found the symbol, and authorities ordered it removed, police said in a statement. There was no immediate word on who might have been responsible.

Other Countries with alleged ties to Anti-Semitism :

Australia
Brazil
England
Former Soviet Union (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, etc.)
France
Hungary
Switzerland
United States

Source

A Question about Anti-Semitism

4 March 2008

by HRM Deborah

Something seems to keep coming to mind, when Theodor Herzl went to Anti-Semitic nations to harm the Jewish people, that eventually all Semitic people would come under the fire of the Anti-Semitic suffering; which includes all Semitic ( Jewish, Palestinian etc.) people?

Because, what was the real motive to see the type of war that went on in Palestine and the lie’s to pit two Semitic groups against each other, that would have normally had very good relations.

Which the groundwork today, is hopefully renewing the return of these good relations, to even combat Anti-Semitism; which any form of racism against any people is always an unacceptable idea.

Furthermore, I ask this not out of any disrespect to anyone, I just hope one day to know the truth; because in the future, I hope these kinds of situations never happens again to any Semitic people.