Mike Sylwester – The Sudeten Germans brought the expulsion upon themselves. They had plenty of opportunity to live peacefully in Czechoslovakia. They demanded all or nothing, and so they ended up with nothing.

Actually, the history is quite different than you seem to believe. The Sudetan Lands were Germanic from Roman times. The Sudetans had always been a part of some Germanic regime until after WWI, when France – primarily – insisted that that part of German territory be given to the Czechs, as well as Slovakia and part of Ruthene in order to cobble together a new nation.

The vengeful victors also took the Rhineland, Alsace-Lorraine, and German territories to the East, including parts awarded to the newly created Poland – half the Silesian lands, and the Hanseatic territories which included Danzig.

There was never an option for Sudetan Germans, or honestly the Slovaks and Ruthenians – to live peacefully in Czechoslovakia. From the start, the Czechs repressed those minorities hard and barred them from autonomy or holding office or most gov’t jobs in the new nation.

From the start, Sudetan Germans then pitched for a return, like the Rhineland, like other Germans to the East now under foreign oppression – to Germany. The Slovaks were also very unhappy to be with the Czechs.

Moreover, ignored in the “Munich!” myth pitched only to credulous Americans, both the Sudetans and Slovaks had a legal case under “self-determination” clauses of the League of Nations, created from Wilson’s 14 Points of Freedom. And Brits opposing French over helping “freedom-lovers!!” – The Brits generally sympathetic to revanchist claims arising. A sense that the Victors had gone too far and, with both colonial empires weakened from the Great War, the Global Depression, and in great fear of the Russian-Jewish Bolsheviks that they knew had already killed millions and threatened West Europe – in no mood to get Britain in another war over lands not in the UK’s vital interest.

At Munich, remember, the Poles and Slovaks also backed Hitler’s effort to get minorities and seized land returned to self-determination. The outcome of which was not only liberation of the Sudetan Germans, but a return of Poles and Polish land to Poland, and Slovakia given autonomy from Czech oppression.

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Of course we know Hitler’s ambition went past legitimate efforts to reclaim lands and people taken from it by the WWI Victors…but the fact it was Hitler who went far past those legitimate grievances later does not magically make his earlier actions illegitimate in 20-20 hindsight. Or make a case that Poland, the UK, Slovakia should have had crystal balls that saw WWII, and thus “sided” with “The Hero of Munich”.

The idea that later actions that aren’t legitimate – then wipe away past actions that were legitimate basis for grievance is naturally beloved by Zionists. Who push the Munich!! myth hard and have used their sway with media and publishers in America to construct the Munich!! narrative and also create the “Legitimate Cleansing narrative” of Israel’s creation. From elementary school onwards, Americans are fed both myths to bolster sympathy for “America’s Special Friend”.

The “Legitimate Cleansing Narrative” was that Zionist cleansing of Palestinians in areas apportioned to the Jews was legitimized by Pals refusing the Partition Deal, then later acts.

For “people of the law” – their notion of law is very slippery.

Something like violating present law is justifiable if in the future, the people you screwed or bilk retaliate. Or do their own bad acts in the future – which then magically “cancel out” Zionist’s earlier bad acts.

But with a large Muslim population in the USA, thanks in large part to Open Borders Corporatists like Bush II, as well as the heavily liberal Jewish ACLU (what irony) – Americans will no longer have one-sided Zionist propaganda in their media or textbooks go unchallenged. In case no one at Belmont Club has noticed, Muslim Americans and much of our scholars are now not letting false Zionist claims go without rebuttal.

No more will Zionist lies such as these go unchallenged:

1. “A land without a people, for a people without a land”
2. 5 Arab armies suddenly attacked peaceful Israelis
3. Israel only wants peace. Arabs started the 5 major wars Israel has fought.
4. Compensation does not have to be given for any Palestinian land and property because all the Christian and Muslim inhabitants voluntarily left following Radio Broadcasts.
5. No Jews left Muslim lands voluntarily for Aliya. They were forced out, and stuff stole from them nullifies stuff we stole from Palestinians.
6. Unlike other Muslims, Israeli Muslims are real happy campers. Friendly neighbors, happy to be in a Jewish State that takes such good care of them.
7. Settlements and water appropriation is just reclaiming what was ‘traditional Jewish’ property.
8. Only Muslims are terrorists. Jews, as one of, if not the highest moral people on the planet…would never do such a thing.
9. Israel is America’s best, most loyal, most indispensible ally.

And part of the modern, and correct historical revisionism is rejecting the Jewish narrative about “Munich!” as the basis of the collective guilt of the West – thus causing the deaths of Jews because they failed to “stop Hitler” at a morally clear point and side with the Hero of Munich, Edvard Benes.

It wasn’t that clear at all.
And the use of Munich! as a “guilt trip” to make nations outside Germany guilty and complicit of “failing to save the Jews”
(and 32 million ‘lesser’ humans that never seem to be included in the discussion) is going away.
As is the Neocon use of Munich!
as code to incite conservatives that militarism is the best path – since “No More Munichs!” and thus preemptive war is somehow now our sacred obligation – so we won’t “fail Our Special Friends” like the bad Old Europeans did. That false narrative is now also under huge scrutinity after the Iraq debacle, the unraveling of long time alliances and influence America once had, and the destroyed Presidency of Bush.

We can see it in those last military Triumphalists now screaming “No More Munichs!” trying to rally the American people into the wisdom of starting a 3rd major war against Iran. To little enthusiasm or agreement that at this moment – Iran is a clear and present danger to Americans.