Brit-Am Historical Reports (25 October 2015, 12 Cheshvan, 5776)
Contents:
A. Some Articles of Interest
1. The Love Affair Between British Jews and the Royals
2. The British Royal Family's Circumcision Tradition
3. Is The British Royal Family Secretly Jewish?
B. Historical Data
4. Full official record: What the mufti said to Hitler
5. Polish author reopens minefield of who killed Jedwabne's Jews
6. Cimmerians in Shinar meaning Pontus: Place of Israelite Exile.
7. The Celts: not quite the barbarians history would have us believe
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A. Some Articles of Interest
Note below are listed articles of interest. We do not fully agree with most of them but all of them may be worth looking at.
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1. The Love Affair Between British Jews and the Royals
British Jews are celebrating the new-born prince's arrival - but the Anglo-Jewish infatuation with the British monarchy is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Geoffrey Alderman
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.537458
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2. The British Royal Family's Circumcision Tradition
Genesis and Evolution of a Contemporary Legend
Robert Darby, John Cozijn
http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/3/4/2158244013508960
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3. Is The British Royal Family Secretly Jewish?
https://cigpapers.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/is-the-british-royal-family-secretly-jewish/
[Note: This is an anti-Semitic Conspiracy Fantasy article but read it anyway.]
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B. Historical Data
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4. Full official record: What the mufti said to Hitler
http://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=d7295bde84-2015_10_2210_22_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-d7295bde84-55063645
HITLER:
The Fuhrer replied that Germany's fundamental attitude on these questions, as the Mufti himself had already stated, was clear. Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews. That naturally included active opposition to the Jewish national home in Palestine, which was nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests. Germany was also aware that the assertion that the Jews were carrying out the functions of economic pioneers in Palestine was a lie. The work there was done only by the Arabs, not by the Jews. Germany was resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time to direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well.
Germany was at the present time engaged in a life and death struggle with two citadels of Jewish power: Great Britain and Soviet Russia. Theoretically there was a difference between England's capitalism and Soviet Russia's communism; actually, however, the Jews in both countries were pursuing a common goal. This was the decisive struggle; on the political plane, it presented itself in the main as a conflict between Germany and England, but ideologically it was a battle between National Socialism and the Jews. It went without saying that Germany would furnish positive and practical aid to the Arabs involved in the same struggle, because platonic promises were useless in a war for survival or destruction in which the Jews were able to mobilize all of England's power for their ends.
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5. Polish author reopens minefield of who killed Jedwabne's Jews
http://www.timesofisrael.com/polish-author-reopens-minefield-of-who-killed-jedwabnes-jews/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=c036cf5c05-2015_10_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-c036cf5c05-55237018
In an English translation of her book 'The Crime and the Silence,' journalist Anna Bikont sheds more light on the WWII massacre of hundreds of Jews in occupied Poland
By JP O' Malley
October 15, 2015, 4:15 am 9
Extracts:
LONDON , In 2001, American historian Jan T. Gross set off a maelstrom of passionate historical debate upon the publication of his book about the massacre of hundreds of Jews during World War II, 'Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.' There were already numerous history books about WWII's brutal atrocities, but what set Gross's book apart was its revelation that these murders were not committed by the Nazis, but by the Poles themselves.
Published in Polish in 2004, 'The Crime and The Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne' is a mixture of journalistic memoir and historical analyses. It includes in-depth interviews from both the victims and those who carried out the crimes.
In the 1930s, with anti-Semitism raging across Europe, Bikont claims Polish Catholics organized their entire social fabric around a deep mistrust and hatred for the Jews.
'Even children at the time would play anti-Semitic games such as the'Jew is the thief,'' she explains. 'So the Church taught Poles to have hostility and contempt for Jews from early childhood.'
Bikont documents in her book how the Soviet occupation of wartime Poland also played an important role in stirring up a strong anti-Semitic feeling, especially in Jedwabne.
In 1939, both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia invaded Poland, carving up the country between them. The two occupying armies coordinated their efforts against Poland until 1941�s Operation Barbarossa in which Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, causing a complete shift in their relationships.
Called 'the reign of terror,' the Soviet occupation destroyed the entire fabric of social life built up by the Jewish community for centuries, Â the Jewish municipal government was liquidated, Hebrew schools were closed, Yom Kippur became a normal work day, political parties were dissolved and Zionist activists were put on deportation lists.
But the occupation was beneficial for Jews too, says Bikont. Many began to experience equal rights for the first time in their lives and were given the right to attend public school, to study, or to pursue professional careers in medicine or education.
'Many young Jews were particularly happy about the Soviets coming into Poland,' says Bikont. 'But when the Poles saw these Jews who had a normal life, that was not full of humiliation, they really resented that. So hatred for Jews from the Poles became far greater in the Soviet times.'
During this time, many Poles were involved in the Soviet underground, where Poles often betrayed other Poles. But, Bikont says, it was easier for many to say that it was the Jews who denounced the Poles, so it didn't look like Poles were betraying each other.
'Jews were given the blame for a lot of things in these paranoid and suspicious times,' she says.
This helps to explain why the Jews, who were systematically rounded up to be torched alive in the barn on July 10, 1941, were paraded around the marketplace in Jedwabne beforehand. Crucially, though, they were made to carry a statue of Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin, just before they perished. This was seen both as a sign of humiliation, and to indicate Jewish-Soviet collaboration.
The Soviet iconography was extremely significant in representing feelings of far-right Polish nationalism at the time, says Bikont.
In all of the accounts that Bikont heard, both directly from her own research and from secondary sources about the Jedwabne massacre, Â the names of Zygmunt Lauda ski and Jerzy Lauda ski were always mentioned as the most active participants in the crime.
Both brothers were sentenced to prison for the massacre. Zygmunt was sentenced to 12 years, but served just six, while Jerzy served just eight of a 15-year sentence.
As part of her research Bikont interviewed both brothers.
'It was the most horrible thing I have ever had to do in my career,' she says, looking extremely distressed as she thinks back to the interviews.
'Both brothers seemed very content in what they saw as achievements in their lives,' Bikont tells The Times of Israel. 'I saw that they were happy remembering how they raped and killed Jewish women. They showed no remorse in these interviews and they were completely cynical.'
Even though both brothers served time in a communist prison, Bikont says after their release they were greeted as heroes in their local community.
'This is very difficult to think about for a Polish person, to be both a victim and a perpetrator at the same time'
'The Lauda ski brothers were liberated because most people who were in the prison were involved in anti-communist activities. It's very difficult for Polish people to admit to any of these things, because all the time during the war the narrative was the same: that it was the Germans who committed the crimes, and not the Poles, who were always seen as the victims.'
Many people in Jedwabne think that the Germans ordered the Polish to carry out these crimes, Bikont notes. But she says it's untrue.
'There is a mythology out there that the people who committed these crimes in Jedwabne were the poor and the marginalized. Sure, there were also some people who were criminals who joined in on the pogroms. But it was not organized by them. It was organized by the local nationalistic Polish elites.'
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6. Cimmerians in Shinar meaning Pontus: Place of Israelite Exile.
The Aramaic Tragum Yehonatan (an authoritative source) translates Shinar as Pontus in Genesis 10:10, 14:1, 14:14 though in Genesis 14:2 it renders Shinar as Babel i.e. Babylon. others also render Shinar as Pontus, see:
Targum and Scripture: Studies in Aramaic Translations and Interpretation in ...
edited by Ernest Ernest George Clarke, Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher 2002 netherlands
https://books.google.co.il/books?id=NgLgtvgP70MC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=shinar+pontus&source=bl&ots=xvYCZd0TSi&sig=i7PnOF2tYjhQ7OAJiviB2sHjRLQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAGoVChMIiNzi166KyAIVxF0UCh2ucg4g#v=onepage&q=shinar%20pontus&f=false
Shinar (Isaiah 11:11) could therefore also be identified with Pontus meaning the area otherwise known as Gamir and associated with the Cimmerians.
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7. The Celts: not quite the barbarians history would have us believe
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/04/celts-great-torque-snettisham-hoard-british-museum-alice-roberts