{"id":81848,"date":"2013-10-11T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T08:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=81848"},"modified":"2016-07-03T07:54:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T07:54:28","slug":"what-else-has-elie-wiesel-been-lying-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=81848","title":{"rendered":"What Else Has Elie Wiesel Been Lying About?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Desert Peace — Oct 10, 2013<\/h1>\n

Richard Goldstone and his team personally confirmed the deaths of 47 children in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.<\/em><\/h5>\n
But Wiesel says he doesn\u2019t know anything about the killing of children in Gaza. How seriously can we take his pronouncements on Israeli policy or international affairs if he\u2019s not aware of these basic facts?*<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n
\u2018Tour Guide\u2019 of one holocaust \u2026<\/h5>\n

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Denier of another one \u2026<\/h5>\n

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In his own words …<\/h5>\n

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Yet…<\/h5>\n

Elie Wiesel claims he doesn\u2019t \u2018know anything\u2019 about Operation Cast Lead<\/h1>\n

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Elie Wiesel\u2019s statements about Israel\u2019s 2008-09 attack on Gaza don\u2019t add up.<\/span><\/p>\n

On September 29, Wiesel appeared alongside\u00a0Sheldon Adelson, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Shmuley Boteach\u00a0to talk <\/strong><\/span>genocide<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and about how the \u201cstrong\u201d can protect the \u201cweak\u201d in the context of the chemical weapons attack in Syria in August. \u201cIsrael is part of our lives. It is truly part of mine,\u201d Wiesel said on stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the conclusion of the\u00a0bizarr<\/strong><\/span>e<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>event, Max Blumenthal and I asked the world\u2019s most famous Holocaust survivor an obvious, though unasked, question: who would protect the people of Gaza from Israel?<\/span><\/p>\n

His first answer (minute 6:20 in the video above) was that \u201call human beings should be protected everywhere.\u201d When I pressed him about the 300 children killed in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead and whether he supported the assault,\u00a0his response was: \u201cI don\u2019t know anything about it.\u201d Blumenthal and I each tried one more time, and Wiesel again said he didn\u2019t know anything about Cast Lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Wiesel knows about Israel\u2019s 2008-09 attack on Gaza. In September 2009, Wiesel, Alan Dershowitz, Elliott Abrams and others\u00a0signed an NGO Monitor<\/strong><\/span> letter<\/strong><\/span><\/a>that criticized Human Rights Watch\u2019s reporting on the \u201crecent Gaza conflict.\u201d In February 2010, Wiesel told\u00a0Haaretz<\/em> that the Goldstone report, which documented human rights violations committed by the Israeli army during its assault on Gaza,\u00a0was \u201ca crime against the Jewish <\/strong><\/span>people.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Goldstone and his team personally confirmed the deaths of 47 children in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Wiesel says he doesn\u2019t know anything about the killing of children in Gaza. How seriously can we take his pronouncements on Israeli policy or international affairs if he\u2019s not aware of these basic facts?<\/span><\/p>\n

(H\/T\u00a0Max Blumenthal<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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