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Paris – A Photo-Op For the Hypocrites
Update: The New York Times is lying to its readers about the photo-op:
The world leaders — including President François Hollande of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain — joined the march in a solemn line. They moved slowly, clasping arms to show solidarity with the victims. The crowd roared in approval.
At various times, those in attendance burst into spontaneous applause and occasionally into “La Marseillaise,” the national anthem.
The NYT description is completely fake. As you can see below the crowd never had a chance to even see the "world leaders". They never joined the march. There was no crowd at the photo op to roar approval.
Original post follows
Many people marched in Paris to express solidarity with those killed in attacks there last week.
As often happens in big marches, a small, violent minority hijacked the event for their own twisted ends.
Even criminals who were allegedly uninvited, like Netanyahoo, took part in the photo-op. Actually the fake "front row" of the march was rearranged, with the Palestinian dictator Abbas suddenly missing, to fit Natanyahoo's election campaign needs.
Here is one picture of the front row of hypocrisy with Abbas next to the German chancellor Merkel (and Sarkozy next to Netanyahoo).
Abbas was removed, (as was Sarkozy), and the queen of Jordan was put in his place. 
But that was still not good enough for Netanyaahoo to use in his election campaign and its tweets so some unknown second row person was put next to Merkel in a shot for Netanyahoo to use.
This event truly brought everyone in the world together. In revulsion at these politicians abusing it to polish their image.
I am wondering how many parallels there will between this incident and the murder of a German diplomat, Ernst vom Ratt on 7 November, 1938 in Paris by a 17 years old Jewish refugee boy, Herschel Feibel Grynszpan.
It was the murder which triggered the infamous Kristallnacht.
You will find the details here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Grynszpan
He claimed to be acting in the name of persecuted Jews, and didn’t flee the scene of murder and didn’t resist arrest. He was carrying a post card to his parents whose recent expulsion from Germany triggered his action. It said:
With God’s help.
My dear parents, I could not do otherwise, may God forgive me, the heart bleeds when I hear of your tragedy and that of the 12,000 Jews. I must protest so that the whole world hears my protest, and that I will do. Forgive me.
The murdered diplomat was given a state funeral in Germany, and the murder was presented by the Nazi Germany as an evidence of the international Jewry’s attack against the German people. Sound familiar? If we replace international Jewry with Islamism.
Jewish organizations were horrified by Grynszpan’s action, and condemned it more vigorously than most non-Jewish liberals, just like Islamic organizations are doing now. An American journalist Dorothy Thompson at the time said:
Who is on trial in this case? I say we are all on trial. I say the men of Munich are on trial, who signed a pact without one word of protection for helpless minorities. Whether Herschel Grynszpan lives or not won’t matter much to Herschel. He was prepared to die when he fired those shots. His young life was already ruined. Since then, his heart has been broken into bits by the results of his deed.
“They say a man is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers, and a man’s kinsmen rally around him, when he is in trouble. But no kinsman of Herschel’s can defend him. The Nazi government has announced that if any Jews, anywhere in the world, protest at anything that is happening, further oppressive measures will be taken. They are holding every Jew in Germany as a hostage. Therefore, we who are not Jews must speak, speak our sorrow and indignation and disgust in so many voices that they will be heard. This boy has become a symbol, and the responsibility for his deed must be shared by those who caused it.
When money was raised in his legal defense, Jews were advised not to donate so as not to give the Nazis another excuse to persecute Jews.
The strategy of his legal defense teams was to deny the political dimension of the murder, not only to deny the Nazi Germany more excuse, but also to avoid a more severe punishment for political crimes under the French law.
They came up with a story that the murdered diplomat von Rath had a homosexual relationship with Grynszpan which went bad, and the murder was a crime of passion.
This is what his defense lawyer is reported to have said:
I asked him if Grunspahn really had had relations with vom Rath. He replied, “Absolutely not!” I said to him then, “But as a defender of Gruhnspahn [sic] shouldn’t you protect not only the interests of your client, but his honour as well?” It was at that moment that Moro-Giafferi exclaimed, “Honour! Honour! What is the honour of that absurd little Jew in the face of the criminal action of Hitler? What does the honour of Grunspahn [sic] weigh in the face of the destiny of thousands of Jews?
In a time when justice and mercy disappear, strange things happen.
This time around, the murder is depoliticized by denying the connection with the foreign policy of the US and the West and repoliticized by connecting it with Islamic Jihadism.
A British composer Michael Tippett was inspired by this incident and made an oratorio titled ‘A Child of Our Time’. You can find it in YouTube.
http://youtu.be/RlX9260ytNw
http://youtu.be/e5F5SaYfsZQ
Chorus
What of the boy, then? What of him?
Bass
He, too, is ourcast,
His manhood broken in the clash of powers.
God overpowered him – the child of our time.
The boy was still in prison waiting for a trial when Germany invaded France and transferred to German custody. He lingered in the Nazi concentration camp system waiting for a show trial planned by Goebbels which never came, until he disappeared in the chaotic last days of the war.
There are many children of our time. Will there be a Michael Tippett for them?
Posted by: Puppet Master | Jan 12 2015 8:23 utc | 8
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