WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN ?

Today marked the seventieth anniversary of the relief of Auschwitz, that notorious Nazi concentration camp where Jews, Romany Gypsies , Homosexuals and Political prisoners were sent to the gas chambers ,or starved to death.

This was ethnic cleansing on a massive scale with millions dying horrible deaths for no reason other than their race and their faith.

It is right to remember, to ensure that what happened during that dreadful time is never forgotten. One survivor, old now and frail wept as he said. “We do not want our yesterdays to be our grand children's tomorrow.” With this sentiment we must all surely agree, and yet another said. “We must remind the world of what took place here to ensure that such a terrible thing never happens again.”

Yet it is happening, even as the ceremony took place, it is happening in Palestine and the aggressors this time are of the same Jewish faith as those poor souls, the destruction of whom we remembered today.

Ethnic cleansing is happening in Palestine, and the fact that it is being carried out by the very people who constantly exhort us to remember their own similar suffering, seems to me to be unpardonable.Tired of waiting for their God to give them their “promised land” the Jews decided to help themselves......and we aided and abetted them in this criminal act.

Yes the Palestinians fight back..as best they can... against the might of the Isreali Army, they fight to keep what remains of their land after it was so basely given away by Britain and America after the Second World War; to ease their bad consciences of the burden of guilt they felt for refusing to give homes to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in the years before the war:

They fight back against tanks and air raids, they fight back against the bombing of schools and hospitals, well, wouldn't you fight if your country was being annexed by an aggressor and you were being forced out of your home to make room for interlopers?

Wouldn't you fight back if your children were being killed or deprived of their birth right by these same marauders? Of course you would, and yet many in the West support the Isreali's with arms and money allowing them to continue the killing of innocent people in Palestine.

Strange then that when others give funds to the Palestinians they are accused of aiding terrorists, strange and not a little hypocritical.

I have often written condemning the activities of Radical Islamists for acts such as the recent shootings in Paris, but this is much, much worse, this is the systematic destruction of a nation and it's people and I cannot sit quiet and say nothing in the face of such hypocrisy as I have witnessed today at the Auschwitz Memorial service.

Dignitaries from the Israeli Government, the same men who are daily ordering the killing of Palestinians and the invasion of their homeland sat solemnly through a service in which the very similar actions of the Nazis was deplored. They listened to the stories told by the survivors of their terrible experiences with tears in their eyes. Do they truly not see the anomaly, they must and most assuredly they do.

So what is it that they wish the rest of us to remember and how can they ask for our pity when they themselves have become the murders of another race ? They believe themselves to be “The chosen of God” but does this give them exclusivity when it comes to what happened at places like Auschwitz?

Some years ago when memorials were being erected in remembrance of those who dies in one of the camps the Israeli’s objected to the names of Gypsies who were killed there being carved in to the same memorial and this objection proves that they have learned nothing from their experiences at the hands of the Nazis. They wish us to remember and to learn while they blind themselves to the truth , that they are no better than those whose victims they themselves were all those years ago!

Although many in the west will for their own reasons not wish to assist the Paestinians in the fight for survival ,yet they should not condemn them for their actions, to do so is to admit that we have learned nothing,in spite of our promise of”Never Again”.