{"id":51603,"date":"2012-07-01T05:53:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T05:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=51603"},"modified":"2012-07-03T06:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T06:59:59","slug":"shoah-business-news-%e2%80%93-miss-holocaust-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=51603","title":{"rendered":"Shoah Business News \u2013 Miss Holocaust (+Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk June 30, 2012<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hava Hershkovitz, right, a Holocaust survivor and winner of a beauty pageant is congratulated by another participant, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Thursday, June 28, 2012. Fourteen women who lived through the horrors of World War II paraded on stage Thursday night in an unusual pageant, vying for the honor of being Israel\u2019s first \u201cMiss Holocaust Survivor.\u201d (AP Photo\/Sebastian Scheiner)<\/h5>\n
The\u00a0Huffington Post reported yesterday\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cHava Hershkovitz, 79, was crowned \u2018Miss Holocaust Survivor\u2019 at a pageant held in Israel on Thursday.\u201d<\/h5>\n
On Thursday, in a most unusual event, 14 Jewish women who survived the horrors of the Shoa paraded vying for the honour of being crowned Israel\u2019s first \u201cMiss Holocaust Survivor.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Billed by the organizers as a \u2018celebration of life\u2019, the nearly 300 women from across Israel who registered for the competition were whittled down to the 14 finalists who appeared on Thursday.<\/h5>\n
As ever, suffering, victimhood and survival were shown to be at the heart of Jewish and Israeli culture.\u00a0\u201cI have the privilege to show the world that Hitler wanted to exterminate us and we are alive. We are also enjoying life. Thank God it\u2019s that way,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Esther Libber, a 74-year-old runner-up who fled her home in Poland as a child, hid in a forest and was rescued by a Polish woman.<\/h5>\n
The Miss Holocaust Parade seems to be one of the last remaining opportunities to extort cash out of the elder community. Today, nearly 200,000 aging survivors live in Israel \u2013 enough to keep some businesses afloat and I guess it is only a matter of time before we learn from the Huffington Post about the Shoa bodybuilding contest. (I understand that some survivors like my great uncle Yanka\u2019le still visit the gym once a week). Such a contest could be endorsed by food supplement and weight lifting equipment companies \u2013 ideally Germans.<\/h5>\n
Apparently, Gal Mor, editor of the popular Israeli blog\u00a0\u201cHoles in the Net,\u201d\u00a0has already envisioned such a development, Yesterday, he pointed out that the Miss Holocaust pageant was misguided.<\/h5>\n

This is one step short of `Survivor-Holocaust\u2019 or `Big Brother Auschwitz.\u2019 It leaves a bad taste. Holocaust survivors should be above all this,\u201d he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, I disagree. The Israeli TV should seriously consider launching such a Shoa reality-TV show. They could call it \u2018Big Mirror\u2019 and in it they could, once again, incarcerate elder survivors \u2013 but this time in \u00a0Gaza or Guantanamo Bay. Sitting comfortably on our sofas with a pizza and a beer, we could watch our Jewish heroes 24\/7. And we can learn from them, the very people who survived Hitler, how to survive in our Zionized universe. Such a program would clearly yield huge revenues as well as being educational and ethically driven.<\/h5>\n
Legendary Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban must have seen it all coming when he coined his famous adage \u2018there is no business like Shoa business.\u2019<\/h5>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

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