Saturday, May 30, 2020

Let's honor Fatou (Wiesenthal) Bensouda

It took a rabbi to show the world how the Jews habitually perform the ultimate act of self-dishonor. He is Rabbi Abraham Cooper who is an official of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

What Abraham Cooper did is nothing less than abuse his association with the name of a man whom the world came to revere for the suffering he endured as a Holocaust victim; a man that lived to tell his story, and then decided to fight back against those who inflicted pain on himself and his family.

As ignoble as Cooper's stance has been, he did even worse by practicing the Jewish habit of beating up the innocent and slandering them as if the habit of adding insult to injury were a regular Jewish prayer mandating that it be endlessly repeated like a rosary in the hand of a catholic nun. What Cooper did this time, is a variation on that Jewish prayer: He denigrated the very concept of Justice, and slandered both the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper did all of that and worse in an article he wrote under the title: “Justice under assault in the International Criminal Court (ICC)” and the subtitle: “A warning from Simon Wiesenthal.” The article was published on May 28, 2020 in The Washington Times.

The rabbi began his presentation by telling the story of Simon Wiesenthal's liberation as a concentration camp inmate 75 years ago. Instead of doing the honest thing and drawing the parallel between the Nazis who mistreated the Jews they did not like, and the Zionists who now mistreat the Palestinians they do not like, and instead of applauding Bensouda and the ICC for seeking to investigate how far that mistreatment has reached, Abraham Cooper opened the spigot of hate and spewed his usual dose of Jewish venom.

In so doing, the rabbi has savagely attacked the concept of justice, and desecrated the memory of Simon Wiesenthal who tried in vain to explain to him the concept by defining it as follows:

“I resolved that the world needed to deal with the Nazis differently. We needed trials to teach young people the truth, we needed convicted criminals to warn those who might consider behaving in the future like the Nazis that they would be held accountable. You have to understand that beyond the destruction of the Jews, the Nazis almost succeeded in destroying the very concept of justice. Through these trials I was helping to reconstruct a world that again could rely on the fundamentals of justice to secure a better future for all”.

The trouble is that Simon Wiesenthal could just as well have been talking to a wall. Instead of seeing Fatou Bensouda as the new Wiesenthal that's trying to bring to justice those who might have repeated the horrible acts of the Nazis, Abraham Cooper huffed and puffed and howled that there should not even be an investigation lest Fatou (Wiesenthal) Bensouda discover that the Zionists in Israel have been behaving like the Nazi disciples of Adolph Hitler.

And when you comb through Abraham Cooper's article looking for a reason as to why he says Israel should not be investigated, all you find is the out-of-the-blue childish accusations that (1) Fatou Bensouda has a vendetta against Israel, and that (2) she treats the current American administration with contempt, oblivious of the fact that such is the sentiment expressed by the rest of the world, and not by the International Criminal Court or any of its members.

Moreover, in a glaring display of ignorance as to the due process that's required for the administration of justice, Rabbi Abraham Cooper believed he could discredit Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda by quoting her as saying the following: “I am satisfied that war crimes have been or are being committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip”.

This being a reference to the existence of prima facie evidence, which is the necessary factor that compels every prosecutor to proceed further with an investigation, the rabbi has inadvertently demonstrated that Bensouda is doing her job as professionally and dispassionately as can be.

What this slip does, is expose as phony all the technical excuses that Abraham Cooper has raised about the International Criminal Court taking up a case it should not have taken, and must therefore dismiss at once, never to revisit again.

Simon Wiesenthal would not have approved of such cop out on the part of the ICC because it would render meaningless everything that he did to expose the war criminals, and bring them to justice.