{"id":210595,"date":"2020-07-19T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T07:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210595"},"modified":"2020-07-21T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:35:21","slug":"israel-collaborated-with-holocaust-distortion-for-geopolitical-reasons-top-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=210595","title":{"rendered":"Israel collaborated with Holocaust distortion for geopolitical reasons: Top historian"},"content":{"rendered":"

PressTV \u2013 July 18, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Prominent Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A prominent Israeli historian has lambasted the Tel Aviv regime for having \u201ccollaborated\u201d with Holocaust distortion and accepting the Polish narrative completely for the sake of political, economic and security gains.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking in a webinar for British educators organized by University College of London, Yehuda Bauer said Israeli authorities are using a fictitious storyline, and playing along with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem that we face is the identification of Israel with a distortion of the Holocaust, especially in Poland. The political and economic and security relationship between Israel and Poland is great, why would this problem of the Holocaust come between this?\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the Israeli regime \u201cdecided to settle it\u201d and sent a two-man team to negotiate with the Poles, \u201cneither of them are experts on the Holocaust or history or Poland\u201d, and they ended up \u201caccepting the Polish narrative completely\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnti-Semitism is defined in those documents, signed on June 28, 2018, as the same thing as anti-Polandism by the Jews. So, 2,000 years of anti-Semitism equals the opposition of some Jews to Poland,\u201d Baurer, a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem al-Quds, noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYad Vashem [Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust] doesn\u2019t normally react. This was an exception. It was so gross, so dangerous. We don\u2019t accept distortion of the Holocaust. What I\u2019m saying is not only directed against the Polish nationalists, but against the collaborators on the Israeli side as well,\u201d he further argued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bauer then described distortion as \u201ca completely one-sided mixture of truths and untruths which is more dangerous than outright lies\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said, \u201cDistortion is when you say yes it happened, it was terrible, but we didn\u2019t do it \u2013 the Germans did it, only them, no-one else. Yes, there were a few bad eggs among us who collaborated, denounced Jews, participated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Bauer added that \u201cwithout a large part of the population, arguably a majority, there could have been no Holocaust, because the Germans didn\u2019t know how to differentiate between Jews and Lithuanians, Jews and Poles, Jews and Hungarians.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of Jews who could be identified from traditional ultra-Orthodox clothing was relatively small. The vast majority looked like everyone else in their neighborhood. Without the help of the local population, no Holocaust could have happened. So, this is a denial of what happened, a distortion,\u201d Bauer pointed out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in April 2017, Bauer dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s assertion\u00a0that the Allies could have saved four million Jews from the Holocaust if they had bombed Nazi death camps from 1942.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is utter nonsense. There is absolutely no truth in this,\u201d he said at the time, emphasizing that the combined Anglo-American air forces were incapable of reaching any destination east of Berlin and the Elbe River until early 1944.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason for that is simple: The Anglo-American bombers had no fighter escort that could reach those distances,\u201d the historian highlighted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no possibility whatsoever of reaching the places where Jews were being killed until [early] 1944,\u201d he said back then.<\/span><\/p>\n

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