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If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural. We have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to me, but what does it matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it is true, but two thousand years ago, and what is it to them? There have been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, and Auschwitz but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country.
The establishment of such a Jewish state will serve as a means in our historical effort to redeem the country in its entirety We shall organize a modern defense force We will expel the Arabs and take their place It is being used by Jewish and Christian financiers in the United States and Great Britain, to make Jews believe that Palestine will be ruled by a descendant of King David who will ultimately rule the world.
What delusion! It will lead to war between Arabs and Jews and eventually to war between Muslims and non-Muslims. That will be the turning point of history. How have presidents and prime ministers been led to compete for the approval of this faction like bridesmaids for the bride's bouquet?
Why do leading men suffer themselves to be paraded at hundred-dollar-a-plate banquets for Zion, or to be herded on to Zionist platforms to receive "plaques" for services rendered? Douglas Reed in his book "The Controversy of Zion" [published in the s]. Israel is a key member of the American empire.
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What we are doing in the occupied territories [since ] has aroused the Palestinians. I understand them.
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During the late s, the German economy began to recover, and there was less interest in the Nazis. If good times had continued, Hitler might have been forgotten. The crisis came as a succession of misguided policies created obstacles to enterprise and brought on the Great Depression. As the number of unemployed went up, more Germans voted for the Nazis, and the number of Nazi members went up again.
Hitler maintained non-stop agitation for power.
Every night, there were Nazi rallies and marches. Although Hitler echoed Soviet-style central economic planning with a Four Year Plan, his method was suffocating regulation rather than outright expropriation. Hitler added secret police, death camps and another war machine. The German educational system, which had inspired so many American progressives, played a major role in all this.
They have arisen among prosperous, educated and cultured people who seemed safe from a dictatorship — in Europe, Asia and South America. If any educational system could inoculate people from barbarism, surely Germany would have led the way. It had early childhood education -- kindergarten. Secondary schools emphasized cultural training. Germans developed modern research universities. Government provided full scholarships for poor students with ability. Russia, after all, had pogroms — anti-Jewish rioting and persecution — for decades.
The short answer is that bad policies caused economic, military and political crises — chow time for tyrants.
The German government led their people to believe they were winning , so everybody was shocked when the truth came out. Then U. They felt betrayed and humiliated. He denounced Jews, capitalists and other alleged villains, vowing to rebuild German greatness. Victorious Allies demanded that Germany pay steep reparations, apparently without giving much thought about how the Germans would get the money for that.
Determined to extract reparations from the Germans, in January the French sent troops into the Ruhr where much of German industry was located.
The German government responded by subsidizing those who pursued passive resistance against the French. Consequently, German budget deficits soared. Almost 90 percent of German government spending went for a big bureaucracy, social programs, money-losing nationalized businesses and other subsidies -- a portfolio of obligations uncomfortably familiar to us. The German government subsidized municipalities, much as U.
Germany had a troubled government-run pension system like our Social Security. The German government provided health insurance for millions of people. There were German government programs for 1. The government lavished subsidies on the arts.