Real History and Jewish-Arab Hatred Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) David Irving comments: YES, the meaning of words is becoming degraded. I suppose that when a national newspaper (owned I believe by Conrad Black ) calls for the murder of a foreign head of state it can indeed be called “a strong editorial stand.”
Particularly at a time when the world is mourning the assassination of the (incidentally, pro-Palestinian) Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh the day before. In normal times such a call would be open to prosecution as criminal incitement; when Jewish terrorists murdered Britain’s top Cabinet minister in the Middle East in 1944, they were hanged for it. But these are not normal times, and different rules apparently apply to different countries.
I do not recall Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevic ever having called, in a “strong editorial,” for the murder of either of the Bush presidents, let alone of their trigger-happy associates. I wonder if Mr Black ( above ) and his willing-to-wound-but-afraid – to-strike pals ever consider that their calls for blood may provoke an increased anti-Semitism in normal folks around the world, and that what went around may yet come around again, as sure as H follows G?
I recall that part of the justification offered by Dr Joseph Goebbels in his 1942 diary for murdering several hundred Berlin Jews was that the more of these that were done away with, the safer he felt: “I don’t want some Ostjude one day pumping bullets into my belly,” he wrote, or words to that effect. Some of us decent people yearn for a