“The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Also, the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bowing to you, and all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 60:3,14)
A veritable procession of kings, princes, presidents and prime ministers representing more than 45 nations came to Jerusalem on January 23, 2020.
According to the theme chosen by the 5th World Holocaust Forum, under which they convened, they had come to “Remember the Holocaust [and] Fight Antisemitism”.
Yes, they were here to honour the memory of those murdered in the Shoah (Holocaust) the worst-ever expression of Jew-hatred; to renew their pledge as Gentile nations to “Never Again” permit a genocidal war against the Jewish people.
And they came to show their awareness of—and determination to act decisively against—the antisemitism that has increased to record levels in their lands worldwide.
Those nations that had permitted, perpetuated and/or participated in the Holocaust expressed their remorse; the heaviness of the guilt they carried.
All laid wreaths in memory of the Six Million.
The correlation—between Antisemitism and the Holocaust—is, of course, incontestably clear.
But the contemporary expression of what happened in the 1930s and ‘40s is not in the acts of antisemitism perpetrated in our time by individuals on British streets or in French supermarkets or Australian coffeeshops.
The glaring modern manifestation of Nazi Germany is not the shooting up of synagogues, the beating up of rabbis or the forcing of Jewish schoolboys to kiss their classmate’s shoes.
Licenced Israeli Tour Guide, Stan Goodenough (far right) giving orientation of the model in the entrance of the
Yad Vashem Holocaust Mueseum to Australian tour group (Vision Christian Tours).
Repugnant and hateful as these actions are, and as forcefully condemned and prosecuted as they should be, they are not laying the groundwork for another Holocaust.
That groundwork is being laid—has already been under construction for years—in Iran
And yet, except for the United States, none of the nations present at Yad Vashem is prepared to call out and confront the most evident counterpart of Nazi Germany on the planet today.
The comparisons between Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Germany and Ali Khamenei’s Islamic Republic of Iran couldn’t be clearer.
Both fed on and were fueled by ideologies of hatred.
Before he possessed the capability of killing Europe’s six million Jews, Hitler publicised his plan to exterminate them.
While Iran is still in pursuit of the means to kill Israel’s nearly seven million Jews, Khamenei publicises his plan to annihilate them.
The Nazis brainwashed the Germans into believing themselves a super race, and poisoned their minds against the Jews by depicting them as sub-human.
Their [Holocaust Deniers] very willingness to ignore what is undeniable is evidence of the deep-seated antisemitism
The Ayatollahs indoctrinate the Persians into believing themselves Allah’s chosen, and poisons their minds against the Jews by calling them—as per the Quran—sons of pigs and apes.
Hitler seduced his people with promises of a 1000-year Reich that would be Judenrein.
Khamenei seduces his people with promises of a Middle East that will be Judenrein.
Germany designed and perfected the machinery of genocide—the ghettoes, delivery systems (trains), gas chambers and crematoria.
Iran is developing and pursuing the machinery of genocide—the centrifuges, delivery systems and nuclear warheads.
At Yad Vashem, Prime Minister Netanyahu appealed to the world leaders,
“We have yet to see a unified and resolute stance against the most anti-Semitic regime on the planet, a regime that openly seeks to develop nuclear weapons and annihilate the one and only Jewish state. Israel will do whatever it must do to defend our state, defend our people, and defend the Jewish future,” he said. “There will not be another Holocaust”.
Vice President Mike Pence added his voice:
“[W]e must also stand strong against the leading state purveyor of anti-Semitism, against the one government in the world that denies the Holocaust as a matter of state policy and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The world must stand strong against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Talk about deaf ears.
None as blind as those who insist they will not hear. Their very willingness to ignore what is undeniable is evidence of the deep-seated antisemitism they carry themselves.
The joint Israeli-American appeal was panned by journalists and commentators in news studios from Germany to France to England to the United States.
What a shame, they said, that Netanyahu and Pence had chosen to “politicise” the forum.
They have a choice, the nations of the world, the Gentiles. They always have had.
From the Pharaohs of Egypt, Phoenicia’s Hiram, Assyria’s Sennacherib, Babylon’s Nebuchadnezzar and Persia’s Cyrus, through Alexander’s Greece and the Caesars’ Rome—they could choose either to live in harmony with the nation of Israel, or to abuse her.
Most opted to abuse her.
Then, when the Jews were in captivity (outside their land), nations among whom they found themselves—Portugal, Spain, England, France, Germany, and then, eastern European states, the Ukraine and Russia—could choose to care for, or curse them. Most elected to curse. Germany cursed most of all.
Since Israel’s 1948 rebirth, nations have had that same choice, now still in regard to how they host the Jews living among them, and very much in how they relate to the Jews back in their land in what is today the State of Israel.
Ultimately, the LORD is determined to utterly do away with every nation that does not serve the people He calls the Apple of His Eye. (Isaiah 60:12). He warns that He will seek to destroy every nation that comes against Jerusalem— (Zechariah 12:9)
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