Greater Mankind is still in awe of America's power, wealth and technology, but no longer admires what Martin Luther King called "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world." This is mainly a result of using violence to further the country's commercial interests and routinely placing a cash value on life and living. Nevertheless, Israel has long been and probably was forced to be in lock step with a homicidal foreign policy by abetting a Christian U.S. superpower in Vietnam, Central America and Africa and now including six ongoing wars in Muslim countries.
With the majority of humanity sympathetic to the Palestinians, Israelis cling to the financial support of an ideological association with the Christian imperialism that persecuted Jews horribly over centuries and culminating in the Holocaust. At the same time Israel sees much of its fellow Semitic Arab world as its enemy, though it was Arabs who saved and protected Jews during three previous, infamous and dreadful mass persecutions by Christians.
Jews had been banned residence in Jerusalem for approximately 500 years by the Romans. The Byzantine Emperor Heraclius forced Jews to convert to Christianity when the Arabs took over in 637 and invited the Jews back into Jerusalem to "worship freely in their holy city." Caliph Umar refused the Church request to continue the ban.
The Crusaders slaughtered the Jews and Muslims when they originally conquered Jerusalem. Upon the recapture of Jerusalem in 1187, Saladin summoned the Jews and permitted them to resettle in the city- the residents of Ashkelon, a large Jewish settlement, were the first who responded to his request.
How many of Israel's citizens and the Palestinian Arabs know their history regarding each other? How many of Israel's elderly citizens have not forgotten the disdainful anti-Semitism, prejudice, discrimination and exclusions in the U.S. during the years when the moguls of society, financiers and industrialists, were making fortunes in Hitler's rearming of Germany and then afterward blocking escape from the Holocaust while Jews were thriving within the fabric of society in fellow Semitic Muslim nations and elsewhere?
... to be continued in Parts 2 & 3: DISTORTION and IMAGINING
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See: The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
By Edwin Black
"In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation's social service agencies and associations.
The Rockefeller Foundation helped fund the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.
Even the United States Supreme Court endorsed aspects of eugenics. In its infamous 1927 decision, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. Three generations of imbeciles are enough." This decision opened the floodgates for thousands to be coercively sterilized or otherwise persecuted as subhuman. Years later, the Nazis at the Nuremberg trials quoted Holmes's words in their own defense.
Hitler proudly told his comrades just how closely he followed the progress of the American eugenics movement. "I have studied with great interest," he told a fellow Nazi, "the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock."
Hitler even wrote a fan letter to American eugenic leader Madison Grant calling his race-based eugenics book, The Passing of the Great Race, his "bible."
Later on, Eugenicists across America welcomed Hitler's plans as the logical fulfillment of their own decades of research and effort. California eugenicists republished Nazi propaganda for American consumption. They also arranged for Nazi scientific exhibits, such as an August, 1934 display at the L.A. County Museum, for the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.
In 1934, as Germany's sterilizations were accelerating beyond 5,000 per month, the California eugenics leader, C. M. Goethe, upon returning from Germany ebulliently bragged to a key colleague, "You will be interested to know, that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program. Everywhere I sensed that their opinions have been tremendously stimulated by American thought."
By 1926, Rockefeller had donated some $410,000 -- almost $4 million in 21st-Century money -- to hundreds of German researchers. In May 1926, Rockefeller awarded $250,000 to the German Psychiatric Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, later to become the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry. Among the leading psychiatrists at the German Psychiatric Institute was Ernst RÃ ¼din, who became director and eventually an architect of Hitler's systematic medical repression.
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