Tip of the hat to Mike D. for forwarding this interesting piece by Solly Ganor (an Israeli and Dachau survivor). In it, Solly recounts his meeting with a Christian Arab. I’ve excerpted a passage where the Arab lectures Solly about Iran:
“Now is the time to stop them, not only because they are developing nuclear bombs, but because Iran has become the base for all Islamic terrorist. They supply, money, men, and weapons to Islamic terrorist around the world, quite often through their diplomatic mail. Billions of petro-dollars that are pouring into Iran are being funneled into terrorist organizations world-wide. They believe, and perhaps rightly so, that the West will do nothing to stop them in achieving their goals. Is history repeating itself? Are the Iranians making the same mistake that Hitler made when he attacked Poland? Is the situation similar?"
“As a history teacher who studied the subject thoroughly I can tell you that Western victory in World War Two was not all certain. Hitler could have won the war if he would have gone ahead with the atomic bomb development before the Americans. The Germans began working on it in the thirties, and it was Hitler’s decision to prefer building more conventional arms, as he considered atomic weapons sheer fantasy. Hitler made the wrong decision, but had he made the right decision the world would have been a different type of world today, wouldn’t it? The West won the war against Hitler by sheer chance. Very few people seem to realize that.”
I must say that his last words shook me up quite a bit. Had Hitler made a different decision, I would have died in Dachau, there wouldn’t have been a Jewish state called Israel, and most likely there wouldn’t have been any Jews left in the world. The idea that the Western democracies in general and the fate of the Jewish people in particular could have hinged on Hitler’s one decision, is a scenario of the worst nightmare.
Read the whole thing.
Solly’s Arab is much less optimistic than I am about the certainty of our eventual conflict with Iran — but he is just as certain as I am that there will be such a conflict…
In the old blog, Anonymous said:
ReplyDeleteWhy do not check in Google who is the real Solly Ganor: a fake and a cheat.He is as much a Dachau Holocaust survivor as you or me.See the Holocaust Survivors' Network take on Solly Ganor at http://isurvived.org/SollyGanor_Case.htmlHis current conversation as all of his writings are nothing but fiction.Wake up!
In the old blog, SlighlyLoony said:
ReplyDeleteI just spent the last hour reading the site referenced in the preceding comment, and reading comments about that site from all over the Internet. My own impression of the isurvived.org site, formed before reading other’s comments, was that its authors were delusional. That impression is only reinforced by reading other comments — including academic sites — about isurvived.org. I could find no credible references to the alleged fakery anywhere other than isurvived.org or sites that referred to isurvived.org. The preponderance of the evidence I can muster is that Solly Ganor’s history is well studied and well substantiated by scores of independent academics, and the authors of the isurvived.org site are (to be charitable) deluded or (to be rude) barking mad.