Get this, my friend, the bunch of clowns calling themselves
“Foundation for Defense of Democracies” are asking for an apology from the
Austrian authorities, and they are calling on “a great many world leaders [to
do] a more full-throated condemnation” of something. Apparently this is what
these clowns do to make themselves believe they are defending the democracies –
the ones that are in existence today, and the ones that are expected to
materialize in the future. But what's the apology for? And what's the
condemnation about?
Well, you'll know what that is when you read an article
that's written under the title: “The U.N.'s Anti-Semitic Alliance” and the
subtitle: “The Turkish prime minister's recent slander about Zionism occurred
at a U.N. organization event.” Published in National Review Online on March 1,
2013, the article was authored by Claudia Rosett who is with the above
mentioned Foundation serving as journalist-in-residence. She also heads what
they call the Investigative Reporting Project – whatever that means.
In any case, the occasion for this latest tempest is that
“the prime minister of Turkey delivered a speech in which he called Zionism 'a
crime against humanity' – equating it with fascism.” And what seems to gall Ms.
Rosett the most is that the prime minister was “thanked and applauded” by the
attendees. Apparently the clowns of the Foundation want to control not only
what you think and say, they want to control how other people react to what you
say. Do you now see why it is thought that the prime minister of Turkey was
generous when he equated Zionism with Fascism? When he did so, he elevated
Zionism a notch to the higher level of Fascism.
That incident unfolded when at the end of February in the
year 2013, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations met in Vienna, the
capital of Austria, a meeting it holds every year somewhere in the World. This
being the Alliance of Civilizations, the prime minister of Turkey saw it
appropriate to denounce Zionism which is recognized the world over as the most
uncivilized movement plaguing the human race today.
For the record, what the prime minister of Turkey did this
time is something he did previously at another forum, and did it in the
presence of the president of Israel, Shimon Perez. It happened that the latter
was denouncing terrorism without mentioning that Jewish terrorism was the most
lethal of all, and that Israel was the base from where all acts of terror were
originating. Yes, some responses may have come from elsewhere but they would
not have come at all were it not for the fact that the original acts were
committed to begin with.
Responding to Shimon Perez, the Turkish prime minister spoke
his mind with honesty and with clarity. This caused a spat between him and the
president of Israel who was sitting beside him. And the relationship between
the two countries has been going downhill ever since. Yet, the Rosett article
says this: “it was left to a private monitoring group … to blow the whistle on
Erdogan's remarks.” Hey miss, get it through your head once and for all that
nobody blows the whistle on something that is said honestly, clearly and in the
open by honorable men and women who speak their mind freely in a forum of
civilized people. The cloak and dagger stuff, and the hush hush come from where
you come, not from where the civilized members of the human race come.
Rosett goes on to write disparagingly about the Vienna
meeting, mentioning the celebrities of the diplomatic circuit who were in
attendance – among them Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general on the UN; Irina
Bokova, the director general of UNESCO and Ali Akbar Salehi, the Iranian
foreign minister. She tells of the history of the Alliance, pointing out that
it was launched by former secretary general of the UN, Kofi Annan “for the
purpose of 'bridging divides.'”
She then asks: What exactly is this U.N. Alliance of
Civilizations? And she answers the question by giving a historic rundown of an
organization whose stated purpose is to promote global “respect and tolerance.”
But you know immediately that she is not going to praise the Alliance because
she quickly throws at it the biggest insult you'll find in circulation today.
What she does is accuse it of being a matchmaking service between – get this
now: “the left wing of Western politics and … the 57-member Organization of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC).” There, my friend, it is that damned left wing
again! Are you horrified yet?
Still, Claudia Rosett cannot hide the fact that the Alliance
has had a number of great successes. And so, she reports on this reality by
first asking a question in a mournful tone: How is it that the otherwise
obscure Alliance seems to attract so much top brass? Sadly, however, she does a
poor job at explaining how the organizers went about doing their work to
succeed as brilliantly as they did. No doubt, the young aspiring organizers of
the future who will look for an example to follow will be unhappy with her
shortcoming.
Perhaps the reason why she performed so badly in this
endeavor is that she did the thing that Jews always do – which is that she
viewed and she explained everything in material terms. In fact, not once in her
response did she attempt to explain how the message of bridging the divides was
spread so widely and so expertly by the organizers of the Alliance, that the
top brass from around the world were attracted to it. Instead of attempting to
do what was expected of her, she used nearly 500 words to write about the most
favored subject of the Jews: money, money, money. And that's how she ended her
dissertation.
Here is a taste of that: “For … $4.08 million … what Turkey
has paid into the Alliance … since … 2005, Erdogan was able to stand … before a
world audience, and denounce the Jews.”
Fair enough but wait a minute! Wait a minute! Did you
realize what just happened here? Look what the woman did. She came right out
and reported that Erdogan stood before a world audience and said what he wanted
to say. She thus admitted that the whole thing was done in the open, and this
prompts the question: Who needs a whistle blower in a case like this?
Given that this reality contradicts the impression she tried
to give earlier, you can only conclude that these people have a lot to learn
about being truthful with themselves and honest with their audiences. And they
have a lot to learn about a world that runs on moral principles more than it
does on the principle of money being the prime mover of everything that
happens.
If and when they will have learned this much, they will be
ready to join the club of civilized peoples and civilized nations.
In the meantime, they should perish the thought that they
can defend the democracies by barking one thing or another, or by having
someone else bark it for them. What they should do instead is seek to reform
their ways to avoid being dumped into freight cars yet again, and shipped to
concentration camps.
This has been their history everywhere they set foot on this
planet, each time they tried to adapt the world to their ways instead of
adapting themselves to the ways of the world.
It's been bad for them and bad for humanity; let's not have
anymore of that. Let it be: Never again.