Haaretz – by Gili Cohen and Barak Ravid
In an unusual speech in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday evening, IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen.Yair Golan likened recent developments in Israeli society to processes that unfolded in Europe before the Holocaust.
“If there’s something that frightens me about Holocaust remembrance it’s the recognition of the revolting processes that occurred in Europe in general, and particularly in Germany, back then – 70, 80 and 90 years ago – and finding signs of them here among us today in 2016.”
Golan said that the Holocaust “must make us think deeply about the responsibility of leadership, the quality of society, and it must lead us to fundamental thinking about how we, here and now, treat the stranger, the orphan and the widow, and all who are like them.”
“There is nothing easier than hating the stranger, nothing easier than to stir fears and intimidate. There is nothing easier than to behave like an animal and to act sanctimoniously,” he added.
“On Holocaust Remembrance Day we ought to discuss our ability to uproot the seeds of intolerance, violence, self-destruction and moral deterioration,” Golan said.
Just as Yom Kippur is a day for personal atonement, Golan said, “it ought to be and in fact it’s actually essential” for Holocaust Remembrance Day to be a national day of atonement.
“National atonement ought to include unsettling issues,” he said. “A few weeks ago the public began to debate purity of arms, and I’d like to say a few words about that. The abnormal use of weapons and harm to purity of arms have occurred in the history of the IDF since its establishment. The IDF has always taken pride in its ability to investigate difficult events impartially and to take full responsibility for what is good but also for what is bad and unacceptable.”
“We didn’t justify ourselves, cover up, smooth things over, dismiss with a wink or make excuses. Our path was always that of truth and taking responsibility, even when the truth is difficult and the responsibility weighty. We believe very much in the justice of our path, but not everything we do is just. We trust the IDF’s moral standards as an organization, but we do not ignore individual deviations.”
Habayit Hayehudi head and Education Minister Naftali Bennett rebuked Golan for his comments. “The deputy chief of staff made a mistake and he must correct it immediately,” he said, “before Holocaust deniers will raise these erroneous words as a standard, before our soldiers will be compared to Nazis, God forbid, with legitimization from high above.”
Golan clarified overnight on Thursday that he had no intention to compare between the IDF and Israel and processes that took place in Germany 70 years ago.
Such a comparison is absurd and baseless, and there was no intention to create such a comparison or criticize the political leadership, said a statement. The IDF is a moral army that maintains purity of arms and human dignity, it added.
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But the Holocaust never happened and there has never been a single “Nazi” in real life. Nazis are 100 percent fictitious creations, developed for post-war propaganda purposes. People assume (make an ass out of you and me) that “Nazi” is the acronym for the political party that Hitler led. Wrong! the acronym for the “National Socialist German Worker’s Party” is NSDAP, not Nazi. “Nazi” is pure fiction and people who use the term as though it ever existed in real life display their ignorance of reality.
I’ve never heard anyone claim that “Nazi” is an acronym. It’s just a slang term used to refer to National Socialism and its adherents.
TEDx, what ever your smoking please let me know.
While you’re technically correct about the Nat’l Socialist Party. The Gestapo or “Geheime Staatspolizei” was commonly referred to as Nazi’s and Heinrich Himmler was their leader.
And as a matter of reference, Germany was often referred to as Nazi Germany since it was the SS (Nazi’s) who ran the country.
The very existence of the state of Israel is a revolting trend.
The Jews have been the bane of humanity for thousands of years, and they’ve been successfully fleecing the rest of the human race by keeping them confused, distracted, and misinformed.
Whenever a Jew tries to tell you something, sell you something, convince you of anything, or even talk to you at all, you really have to turn your back, close your ears, and not even listen to a word of it.
ANY INFORMATION THAT COMES FROM A JEW IS A LIE. That’s all these “people” have done for two thousand goddamn years, and if you’re still listening to them, or getting any information from them at all, it’s because you’re an idiot who WANTS to be deceived.
Wasn’t it P.T, Barnum who said “the people want to be fooled”? He was absolutely right, and Kike culture has evolved to do exactly that.
If you’re still getting information from the Jew-TV, the Jew-news, or Jewish “political activists” you’re a moron.
ITS A CRYING ASSED SHAME THAT JR IS RIGHT. FOR THE MOST PART, THESE PEOPLE ARE PARASITES.
Too bad he didn’t reference Exodus 22:21 and 23:9 when he talked about Israeli Jew treatment of “strangers” (that is, Palestinians), which in these verses God told Israel to NOT oppress the stranger (that is, Palestinian), because Israel were strangers in Egypt. And Jews in Israel wonder why they are cursed (drought, lack of water, and the world turning against them, let alone God).
“On Holocaust Remembrance Day we ought to discuss our ability to uproot the seeds of intolerance, violence, self-destruction and moral deterioration,” Golan said.”
Uproot what YOU yourselves ‘PLANTED’???
Black is white, white is black when it comes to you thieving, murdering scum!!!