Well, I am relieved that even a pedestrian got the message.

“You don’t have the right to speak for Gemany…”

Where did I say I speak “for Germany”? Dumb, are you?

Dear Mr. Rosenthal, I have a hunch that we have an old friend of mine here. Everybody even remotely familiar with this particular branch of the blogosphere knows my blog and my real name. The use of the word “Herrenreiter” indicates both, that he is German and that he knows me and my blog. He is either too daft to understand what I write or deliberately slanderous. For both cases I have a very appropriate saying straight out of the Herrenreiter’s book: “What does it matter to a German Oak if a swine scrapes against it?”

However, thank you for your kind words. They are very much appreciated.

The suggestion that the Editrix is somehow anti-Semitic is beyond ludicrous. Anyone who cares to do so, can check out her blog for themselves: http://editrixblog.blogspot.com/. The blog is written in English. One would be hard-pressed to find a German blog that is more explicit about the dangers of anti-Semitism in Germany. The charge that the Editrix is “well known as follower if not ideologue of a movement in germany, which is extremely racist and of fascist nature” is presumably a reference to “Pro-Cologne,” the “citizens’ movement” that has famously made combating “islamisation” its battle cry. But, as it happens, the Editrix is a critic of “Pro-Cologne,” which she herself accuses of having at least definite affinities with racist and even anti-Semitic currents in Germany. This hardly qualifies her for being described as a “follower,” much less an “ideologue” of Pro-Cologne.

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I’m certainly no fan of austria’s history of antisemitism and particularly how it behaved from the time of the anschluss until now. Who could not be disgusted with this nation’s behavior?

But no, my lack of respect for you is not simply because you are born in austria, but because you have no integrity and display such sneering indiffernce towards austria’s destruction of european Jewry. You can’t even be bothered to care whether or not your grandparents or neighbors perpetrated war crimes.
You’re a liar. You first say that austrians did indeed convict fellow austrians for war crimes. I asked you for an example and you simply ignore your original claim. You delude yourself into believing that Simon Wiesenthal’s presence in austria was proof of how Jews are tolerated in this country of unrepentant nazis. When I point out that this is a lie, you simply pretend not to hear. You are resolute in your will to never discuss austria’s nazi past, yet you unthinkingly defend the election of a nazi like waldheim by saying ‘why can’t austrians elect who they want?” and ‘nothing was ever proven anyway.’
If you can’t respect the truth how can anyone respect you?

You’re right about the math. But for all the people studying what happened in Europe 7 or 8 decades ago, I remind you of my final paragraph in the last comment – as it applies to us now – today. We Jews can no longer afford to look at ourselves as victims or to expect any sympathy from an uncaring world. We are no longer victims, and it is our job to make sure that nobody ever makes us victims again. This requires a much colder, and frankly, much more brutal approach to world affairs.

Rumors have it that Netanyahu will reshuffle the cabinet and appoint a far more “Obama-friendly” regime in the near future.

Such a government will not last. Netanyahu provokes confrontation (he doesn’t know any better) and if he provokes hard, enough actual war will break between Jews in Israel. Once Jews die shooting at each other, Netanyahu’s government of traitors and appeasers will lose its legitmacy in the eyes of too much of the public here to last. He will be brought down, and the traitors on the left will be brought down as well. The American puppets may find that it is better to run like dogs overseas than to stay and fight. I hope so, for their sakes. Otherwise, they will die like the dogs in the Securitate in Romania died in 1989-90.

And then you will see a very different attitude coming out of Jerusalem.

15 years ago was also well after the fact and the survivors and perpetrators were already well into old age. Actually, Hitler was born in 1889, so he would have turned 112 eight years ago, not today. The point is, establishing the truth is something that exists outside of politics. Austrians didn’t even acknowledge their true role in the Holocaust until the 1990s, and they still resist the truth. So do a lot of other european societies. Lithuania has yet to even reach the anemic level of acceptance that austrians have. This is a subject that exists entirely outside of whatever political realities color our personal lives, and with each passing year, there are more people studying the Holocaust, not less. This is a definitive event in european and western history, and as time goes on interest will not simply die off as the direct perpetrators and victims die off.

After a time worshiping victimization (the real religion of most “liberal” American Jews) gets tiresome. Twenty years ago was not yet time to let go of the enemies’ pockets – nor was it yet time to move on from his evil. But now, it is barely worth the candle. Those who were teenagers fighing in WWII are in their 70′s and 80′s now. If Hitler had survived, he’d be 112 years old.

We cannot afford to forget these barbaric scum – their spiritual descendants use the same Sieg und Heil! salutes today in Arab countries and in Persia. We have no reason to forgive the. And speaking for myself, I have NO reason to ever set foot in the country of those who killed my father’s family in Poland. I will not so contaminate myself.

But we Jews can no longer afford to look at ouselves as victims or to expect any sympathy from an uncaring world. We are no longer victims, and it is our job to make sure that nobody ever makes us victims. This requires a much colder, and frankly, much more brutal approach to world affairs.

Anyway, I’m glad the world hasn’t decided to simply let austria off the hook. Sure, no austrian war criminal that I know of was ever sentenced for his crimes by the state of austria (unless foreigner wants to back up his claim that they did), but in recent years world pressure and disgust with austria has forced them to finally recognize their shameful secret to some extent.
Here is an excerpt from wiki:
In July 1991 the Austrian government recognized its role in the crimes of the third Reich during the Second World War. In 1993, the Austrian government reconstructed the Jewish synagogue in Innsbruck which was destroyed during Kristallnacht and in 1994 they reconstructed the Jewish library in Vienna which was then reopened.
Neo-Nazism and anti-Semitism did not vanish entirely from public life in Austria. In the 1990s many threat letters were sent to politicians and reporters, and some Austrian public figures have occasionally shown sympathy to Nazism.
Kurt Waldheim was appointed as the Austrian president in 1986 despite serving as an officer in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. He remained the president of Austria until 1992. During his term he was considered a persona non grata in many countries.
The Austrian government was sued over Austria’s involvement in the Holocaust and required to compensate its Jewish survivors. Initially the government postponed the compensation matters, until the United States started putting pressure on the matter as well. In November 2005 the Austrian government sent out compensation letters to 19,300 Austrian Holocaust survivors.

Incredibly, it took them into the 1990s to make even the crudest of acknowledgments of their national crimes. But at least it’s something. It makes it that much harder for the next generation to deny or ignore this nation’s crimes. And of course, none of this would have happened without international pressure. So, it’s a good thing not everybody took Ruvy’s words literally fifteen and twenty years ago.