Comments on: Friedman Says Iran Is Best Model For Human Rights For Children

By: Well

Well — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:50:23 +0000

His children should not be attacked just because he has some serious mental problems. Really. That’s out of line.

By: roundabout7725

roundabout7725 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:50:06 +0000

Joseph,
FDR ddn’t help much, if at all.
Today, I am sure you are very concerned about the genocide in Dafur and other areas of Africa. I supposed you wept about genocide in other parts of the world since WW II.
We haven’t seen the same way or level as the Holocaust; still millions dead since..
Lesson has not been learned..

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:40:56 +0000

FDR indeed has blood on his hands for purposely failing to act, despite his knowledge of the Nazi genocide. In fact sending Jews who had escaped BACK to the Nazis. No difference over there.

By: roundabout

roundabout — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:42:27 +0000

Joseph,
Justing saying my point is factually incorrect doesn’t make it so. And your view is not colored by your anti-Israel/zionism? You base you view on Hecht. Still, you seem to want to blame Zionists for the murderous acts of the Nazis. Why stop there? How about FDR or the Catholic Church? Or how about the people who didn’t fight back?
Here’s something novel: Blame the murderers! The Nazis.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:41:02 +0000

Your point of view is colored by political zionism, and is factually incorrect.

By: roundabout

roundabout — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:56:55 +0000

Joseph,
Again, one person’s comments and beliefs does not truth make. History shows, that overall, Zionists worked to save Jews from the Nazis. And this propaganda blaming Zionists for the Nazi atrocities is nonsense, just a way for anti-Zionists to spread their lies. It would be like getting someone to criticize a particular jewish religious group; doesn’t make it so.

In April 1944, Adolph Eichmann ordered the removal of 400,000 Jews from the provincial towns, cities and villages around Hungary to ghettos. Deportation to Auschwitz began in May 1944. All communities besides those in Budapest were put in ghettos or concentration camps. In June, the first group of deportees (about 7,000 of the city’s 12,000 Jews) from Debrecen were sent to Austria and about one-half of these survived the war. Most of the other Jews were deported to Auschwitz.

Hannah Szenes
About 2,000-2,500 Jews were able to escape to Romania during the ghettoization period. Others escaped to Budapest. Relief efforts were sponsored by the Zionists, who helped Jews with fake passports, food, clothing and places to hide. The Haganah was actively involved in trying to save Hungarian Jewry. Two famous paratroopers that attempted to save lives included Hannah Szenes and Perez Goldstein.

Another 1,658 Jews were bought and were delivered to Switzerland for $1,000 a person. The fate of the Hungarian Jews was published in the Swiss press and in other neutral countries, leading to a suspension of deportation ordered by Heinrich Himmler. Many Hungarian Jews were placed in the protection of neutral states, Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal.

Two well-known individuals involved in saving Hungary’s Jews were Charles Lutz, a Swiss diplomat in Hungary, and Raoul Wallenberg, secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest.

The deportation process of Budapest’s Jews began in October 1944. The majority of the Budapest Jews were sent to a central ghetto, while some managed to live in “protected ghettos” in quarters protected by various neural states.

Death marches to Austria were ordered for the Budapest Jews and it is estimated that about 98,000 Jews from Budapest lost their lives in these marches by January 1945.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:23:16 +0000

roundabout, The point about Perfidy is exactly that a zionist himself admits to their own crimes against humanity.

In any event, it is widely documented, aside from Perfidy, how the zionist sold Hungarian Jewry to Adolf Eichmann.

By: roundabout

roundabout — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:58:14 +0000

33,
I don’t put too much stock in Ben Hecht’s “Perfidy.” It is one book and his facts are questionable, at best, though controversiable. And to taint one movement with this Hungarian issue is rather unfair. Just like not all Hasidim think like Friedman and to say so would be unfair.
Here’s some background on Hecht:
Ben Hecht was a great supporter of Zeev Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Zionism movement of Menachem Begin. He subsequently wrote the book Perfidy, dramatizing the failure to rescue Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, and the roles of the Zionist leader Rudolf Kastner and others in leadership positions in the Hungarian Jewish community. This issue was the subject of a libel trial, when the Israeli government sued a writer who accused Kastner, at the time a government minister, of having collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust. Although the court initially held that these accusations were correct, on appeal the verdict of collaboration was reversed by a split 3-2 decision in the Supreme Court. However the Supreme court upheld the decision of the lower court that Kastner saved Kurt Becher, a major German war criminal, from the punishment awaiting him at Nurenberg. The case remains controversial and it is not universally accepted that Hecht’s account can be accepted as fair. Hecht also opposed the social-democratic policies of Israel’s first two prime ministers David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett, and of the Jewish Agency for what he regarded as their complicit silence and co-operation with the British during World War II in not doing more to rescue Jews and open the doors of Palestine to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and occupied Europe. He spoke out against the lack of interest in saving the Jews trapped in Europe during the Holocaust. He purchased newspaper advertising in New York’s newspapers to publicize the fate of Hitler’s victims. In one such “advertisement” with the headline: “FOR SALE: 70,000 JEWS AT $50 APIECE GUARANTEED HUMAN BEINGS” explaining that three and a half million dollars would rescue the then trapped Romanian Jews (quoted in his work Perfidy, pp. 191-192). However, Stephen Wise made a public statement in the name of the American Jewish Congress denying the “confirmation” of the offer from the Romanian government.

By: chassi

chassi — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:41:25 +0000

I think Mr. Friedman deserves credit for bringing together klal yisroel in this forum. Articles about him get the most responses

By: Yeshivish Hocker

Yeshivish Hocker — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:33:59 +0000

Dm
I’ts really sad the way you think.If you think life is better for the Iranian jews, then why does he still want to wipe out Israel,isn’t friedman turning him into a jew lover like you think? It’s about time you wake up from your loving world and stop being Don Lkaf Zchus rashaim gmurim..it’s usser!