Anti-Semitism Alive and Well

I have to give Adolf Hitler credit for one thing: no one can claim he wasn't clear about his feelings toward Jews. Hitler made it clear that he wanted Jews wiped off the planet, and was willing to do his part in accomplishing this. Unfortunately, anti-semitism did not begin or end with Hitler. There is still a good chunk of humanity that blames Jews, and often the nation of Israel, for many of the evils in today's world. Some, like the murderers of Hezbollah, Hamas, and al-Qaeda, and the current president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are, like Hitler, quite clear about their rabid hatred for Jews and Israel. But, sadly, there is a pervasive prejudice against Jews and Israel found among many nations, organizations, and individuals who purport to be fair and who claim to want peace and justice in the world.

Take the United Nations. This body is supposed to be an impartial arbiter between the different nations and people groups of the world. Yet in the 62 year history of the modern nation of Israel, the UN has passed over 65 resolutions against the nation of Israel and NONE against the Palestinians and Arabs who oppose Israel's existence. Israel is a democracy which grants basic human and civil rights to its citizens, whether Jewish or not. Israel respects the rights of women, minorities, gays, religious people, secular people, blacks, Arabs, and others who live within its borders. By contrast, all of Israel's neighbors, along with the Hamas-led Palestinians in Gaza, do not recognize similar rights for women, gays, non-Muslims, and people who recognize Israel's right to exist. Over and over again, representatives of Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the PLO, and other terrorist groups, have killed and maimed innocent Israeli civilians. None of these groups recognize Israel's right to exist, and clearly express their desire to see the Jewish nation destroyed. Yet it is Israel who has consistently borne the brunt of UN condemnation for actions taken to defend its people, not the groups who seek Israel's destruction.

In fact, of the world's 195 countries, there is only 1 whose right to exist is questioned at all, and that nation is Israel. Is it a coincidence that the only nation on earth whose very existence is daily questioned and threatened is a nation established for the Jewish people? Shortly after taking power in Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel should be "wiped out from the map." He added, "And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism." Compare these statements with the one made by Hitler in a speech delivered to the Reichstag shortly before World War 2 began. In Hitler's speech of January 30, 1939, he said:

Today I want to be a prophet once more: if international finance Jewry inside and outside of Europe should succeed once more in plunging nations into another world war, theconsequence will not be the Bolshevization of the earth and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.

Sadly, the world stood by and watched Hitler and his Nazi thugs murder 6 millions Jews before they were stopped. As a result, Jews and those who support them should take seriously threats made by the likes of Hitler to try to wipe Jews out. Where is the UN's and the world's condemnation for Ahmadinejad for his threats to wipe out Israel? Where is the outrage at his desire to see the United States, the best friend of the Jewish nation and people, and the greatest force for good on earth, destroyed? Why is the United Nations idly watching Iran equip itself with the capability to build and deliver nuclear weapons that can bring massive death and destruction to Israel? It is time for good people, Jewish and Gentile, to stand up to the evil of anti-semitism. Failure to do so is cowardice and is itself evil. Israel, unlike the Jews in Europe under Hitler, thankfully has the power to do a lot of damage to her enemies. The good nations and people around the world, especially free democracies like the U.S., need to stand with Israel and the Jewish people against the evil that would love to repeat the Nazi genocide of the Holocaust.

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