Can
someone with impressive credentials commit an error of logic common to middle
school teenagers, causing him to shoot himself in the foot? The answer is yes,
this can happen if the character is a Jew and his credentials––authentic or
not––are worth no more than a toilet paper.
This
is what you'll come out with when you read the article that came under the
title: “Despite COVID-19, Syrian Atrocities Still Matter,” written by Dr. Rafael
Medoff, and published on April 14, 2020 in the Jewish publication Algemeiner.
Note that the doctor says he founded an institute for Holocaust studies, and
wrote more than 20 books as well as hundreds of essays about the Holocaust and
Jewish history.
This
sounds impressive but Medoff is a Jew and like the Jews of America who try to
denigrate Arabs or Muslims, he proved to be an out of control one-man hate
machine who shot himself in the foot trying to have it both ways. And like the
time when Jews of his low caliber attacked the Arabs, falsely accusing them of
behaving like Hitler who started WWII by annexing lands stolen from his
neighbors, Medoff is now saying that Syria's Assad has created a situation
resembling that of the 1930s.
But
it happened that this website came along and argued that it was the Jews of
Israel and not the Arabs who were annexing lands that belong to their
neighbors. Faced with a well-known reality they could not refute, the Jews of
America shut their foaming mouths on that subject ever since, and the world
improved a notch as a result. In a situation that's beginning to look similar
to that one, Medoff found himself vulnerable attacking Assad. The reality is
that Assad has triumphed over the hundred or so terrorist organizations––including
Israel's so-called 'White Helmets'––that were armed, financed and sent by
foreigners to destroy Syria. They lost because in the end, it was Assad that
destroyed the terrorists.
To
denigrate Assad's triumph, Medoff decided to fall back on the Jewish trick of
citing historical occurrences. He tweaked some of them when possible, mutilated
others when necessary, and used them all in a way that means nothing in the
context of the current discussion. In the end, he cited an incident that had to
do with someone refusing to take in refugees … but that occurrence reflected
badly on the Americans, not on Assad.
Still,
Rafael Medoff went on to make a case for the use of violence, citing the
example of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan whose bad regimes
were ended because violence was used against them. Medoff also cited recent
examples in which American presidents, that happen to be of the Democratic
bent, used violence to put an end to bad situations overseas.
Rafael
Medoff cited these examples to argue that it would be a perfectly good thing to
use violence against Assad. But why do that? And why do it now? Here is why,
according to Medoff: “The organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
last week announced that after an exhaustive study, it has concluded that the
Syrian government used chemical weapons in its attacks on a rebel town in
2017”.
That
was three years ago, so the question to ask is this: What happened then? Here
is what happened according to Medoff: “Reports at the time about the use of
sarin and chlorine were what prompted the United States to launch missile
strikes against Syrian factories.” Well then, justice was done, so to speak,
even before the truth was established. So, why be opportunistic now, and take
advantage of a serious worldwide pandemic, to bloviate a sea of anti-Syrian
hatred? Is it because Assad triumphed against the terrorists, including
Israel's White Helmets? Can this be a case of Jewish revanchism? If so, it can
only be a childish thing to do … which should not be surprising.
Aside
from that slip up, Rafael Medoff committed a colossal error of logic; one
that’s common to most Jewish writers. It is that they accuse other people
willy-nilly of all sorts of sins, which they should know apply to Israel more
readily than anyone else. And so, when the Jews suggest that others must be
punished for such sins, they automatically imply that Israel too must be
punished for committing the same kind of sins. And yet, Jews of the Medoff
mantle do not seem to have the presence of mind that should alert them of the
reality they are arguing against themselves as they inadvertently accuse Israel
of committing horrible sins.
Thus,
having argued that using violence against those who behave badly was a good
thing, Medoff may or may not have realized that he was adding his voice to
those at the UN and elsewhere who argue that it is not enough to condemn Israel
for the sins it commits against the Palestinians; the little thing must be
punished because only violence will put an end to its relentless criminal
behavior.