To hell with Robert Fisk
Fisk is criticizing Hezbollah and calling it anti Semitic for objecting to the teaching of Anne Frank Diaries in Lebanese schools. we don’t need to read the Jewish sufferings here, we have enough suffering at the hand of the Jews to deal with. How popular would a book on German sufferings under French rule have been in the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi occupation?
Fisk is better than most western journalists but he still sees things with a western perspective which is normal and we do not blame him for it. What I do blame him for is being a puppy of the Hariri oligarchic clan and not seeing that Hariri is an Arab version of Berlusconi. And now that he calls Hezbollah anti-semitic for this, he is way out of line.
It is only normal that we want to protect our children at schools from being brainwashed by books like that. It is a tool in Zionist hands to create pity and they have been using that all through their wars against us. When our Children are being slaughtered by the Zionists regularly they have to be taught about how Jews suffered? people have to realize that we are targeted in our conciousness, and that this is warfare, psychological warfare. this whole machine of lamentation is put to work in order to justify ethnic cleansing in palestine and massacres beyond, not to mention the existence of the occupation state.
Teaching that to our kids at early age is unacceptable when we are at war with the people claiming Anne Frank. When this war is over, then they can teach anything they want and even open a holocaust museum in Beirut for all I care. But as long as we are in the thick of an existence war with these people such things should be dealt with as propaganda tools, and school is no place for that.
December 5th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
As often (not always
) brother, I agree 100%
Fisk can not blame ignorance or stupidity for what he says. He sells himself as an expert on Arab issues in the West (lately on Phara’s show in Belgium aswell), but when he starts selling crap like Hizb’Allah is anti-semitic than he’s bowing down himself to the pressure of the zionist powers and lobby everywhere in the West, and now also in the Arab world (cfr. morocco and holocaust teachings in public schools).
I believe indeed that a war on the mediatic and psychological level has started, more powerfull than ever in order to infiltrate Arab public opinion by teaching about the holocaust and their victims to Arab children and students, and even making it compulsory. Our puppet regimes are willingly bowing down to this pressure and manipulation to stay in the grace of the West and their jewsuffering-worshipping zombies…
December 5th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Karim : Wat heeft onderricht over de Holocaust in Marokkaanse scholen met Zionisme te maken ?
December 5th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I agree. It is a shame to say such a thing.
December 6th, 2009 at 1:56 am
It’s even more stupid to compare the Holocaust with the suffering of the Palestinian people.
December 7th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
You are right Danny, it’s more accurate to compare the sufferings of the Palestinians with the genocide on the native Americans.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
The genocides committed by nazi’s certainly can’t be left out of history teachings anywhere in the world.
But I believe there’s a problem in the narrow way of presenting these historical facts, and history in general.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Sorry for this fragmented reaction.
The use of the word holocaust is a historical lie on it’s self. It became in use together with a TV series of the same name. It gives a false image of what the nazi extermination really was, and connects it to a religious concept of sacrifice, which is false. The murdered jews did not sacrifice themselves for political Israel, as is suggested by the word “holocaust”.
Besides that it’s a historical lie to present the extermination of jews as different to the extermination of the communists and the Roma. These same historical lies make it difficult for the average citizen, living in the blob produced by our media, to realise that the actual hatred against muslims is much like the hatred of the nazi’s against anything that deviated from what they considered norm.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:40 am
It wouldnt be sensible of sub continent indians to learn about British suffering during the world war before the liberation of India (1947) and neither it wouldnt make sense for Afghans to learn of British suffering during world wars at this point in time when they are faced with such a massive neo imperiast powers on their soil ,despite the anti-… See MoreBritish sentiments in Public (which were natural for Indians before Independence and as they are for many ordinary Afghans today. After the removal of threat from such enemies there can be better exchange of information .Of all the people the Britishers being so prescriptive about other people’s affairs is just sad…
I agree that we need to challenge racism anywhere but I dont think Fisk is the person to be doing that and I dont think his article is a particularly good way of doing that. ..
I dont even think its necessary to shout ‘anti semitism’ because hezbollah dont want to teach about the holocaust. I think that there are reasons other than racism, and its better to begin a proper discussion about that.
I dont see what good a patronising article about anti semitism in ‘the arab world’ published in the Independant is going to do …
February 14th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
It’s a tric, When you keeping repeating things over and over and over again, then people will remember this regardless the content.
When you keep saying to a child that he or she is bad then I can guarantee you that this child will behave like it.