In JPost today Efraim Zuroff spoke his piece. Zuroff is the successor to Simon Wiesenthal as head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center whose mission remains hunting down and bringing to trial still living Nazis. Zuroff is clearly and I think rightly disturbed by the fact that this current president of the Bundesrepublic of Germany signed off in 2008 on the so-called Prague Declaration which equated Soviet brutality post-War with Nazi brutality, a comparison which in effect strips the Holocaust of its uniquely Jewish and crazy character.

This linkage has now become fashionable in certain European circles which also has the advantage of being able to smear the Jewish Communist oppressors, namely the traitorous Jews who became Communist big shots and did their evil deeds.

This is a view on a par with the perception of the Holocaust as one of numerous genocides, which view also strips it of its uniquely Jewish features. You know who thinks like this? Samantha Power, vizier to Emir Barack Hussein, she who was born in Ireland, emigrated to the US at age 9 and is now married to Cass Sunstein, another Jewish antiJew policy intellectual in the mold of LTF or Martin Indyk; a radical policy intellectual.

Samantha Power even wrote a book called Genocides in the plural which in effect stripped the Holocaust of its uniquely Jewish identity.

So Efraim Zuroff was right to alert people in Israel to this dangerous situation when the President of Germany thinks this way too.

As I’ve opined about the massacre of millions of Armenians: that is what it was: a massacre, but that it not a synonym for genocide. The word “genocide” was invented by Polish Jewish survivor Raphael Lemkin precisely because massacre and its synonyms would not do. The Holocaust was new and deserved a new term.

The Holocaust was the effort to find, hunt down and murder every Jew on Planet Earth. The Turks, by contrast, had no such desire vis-a-vis the Armenians. They just wanted the land the Armenians wanted and the Turks had no scruples about how to dispossess them of it. The Turks are barbarians and acted barbarically toward the Armenians, but they did not produce propaganda films likening Armenians to rats, or vermin or viruses; people possessed of an evil nature determined to rule the world and exterminate the people of Turkey. The Turks did not produce pseudo-intellectual theories about why the Armenians were inherently hateable and dangerous not only to Turks but all mankind.

Likewise anyone like Samantha Power who equates massive cases of massacres to the Holocaust is possibly a malicious enemy of the Jewish people, like Samantha Power, but one hopes not today’s president of Deutschland…