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2010-01-26 Europe

Europeans say Jews exploit past to extort money

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 I always thought it was a bad idea for Jews to harp on the Holocaust, especially from those with no hand in it. There should not be a Holocaust memorial in Washington, D.C., unless it is solely to honor US soldiers who ended part of it, which is a sketchy reason at best.

But that being said, a large percentage of Europeans are doggedly antisemitic, and for them to resent the Jews pointing this out, and responding with *more* antisemitism, just points out their own sanctimonious deficiencies.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-26 05:50|| 2010-01-26 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 If it all true, and I have my doubts, the "exploitation of the past" for financial gain is not an exclusive phenomena of the Jew. If valid, they are in the minor leagues when compared to those who would through government fiat and self-righteous indignation, lay claim to the jobs and career advancement of your children.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-26 07:51|| 2010-01-26 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Extort? How? Bull$hit.

Posted by gorb 2010-01-26 10:23|| 2010-01-26 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Europeans.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-01-26 11:56|| 2010-01-26 11:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Very often the extortion is along the lines of, "You've had the free use of my property that was stolen from my parents by the Nazis, and now I would like it back or I would like you to pay for it." A year or two ago a major German department store chain was hit with a lawsuit like that: the Jewish husband was forced by the Nazis to give control of the successful department store to his Aryan wife, who then married the Aryan accountant while husband was either in a concentration camp or fled abroad. After the war wife and accountant refused to return the store, and in fact became very rich indeed, while the children of the husband grew up in penury in America, although through education and hard work they rose to the ranks of the middle class. The children filed suit to get the store back, now grown to a national chain, but the German government -- last I heard -- is not willing to hear the case. At least that's how I recall the story. Not to mention all the Swiss bank accounts and Italian life insurance policies that they refused to pay out to the survivors or their heirs on the grounds that death certifications and personal paperwork were inadequate to identify the individuals... and the art gallery collections whose last documented provenance was this or that Jew before the war, which if returned would leave entire gallery walls bare...

The Europeans enjoy their stolen prosperity and see no reason why those who should have remained quietly dead should get a share of it. They argue, of course, that so much of their own possessions were destroyed during the war, and they worked hard for their current prosperity while the Jews left for America and other places; and they see the the lawsuits as a war of revenge by the now-foreign Jews against the Volk of Europe.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-26 12:55|| 2010-01-26 12:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Or maybe their argument is to assuage their nagging conscience.

Posted by gorb 2010-01-26 13:33|| 2010-01-26 13:33|| Front Page Top

#7 The ~~finders~~ thieves are keepers, the loser ~~weepers~~ righteously indignant.

Posted by GirlThursday 2010-01-26 19:39|| 2010-01-26 19:39|| Front Page Top

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