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The Hidden History of the 1930s and 1940s RON UNZ  Israeli Leaders and Nazi Germany EPub Format Around 35 years ago, I was sitting in my college dorm-room closely reading the New York Times as I did each and every morning when I noticed an astonishing article about the controversial new Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Back in those long-gone days, the Gray Lady was strictly a black-and-white print publication, lacking the large color photographs of rap stars and long stories about dieting techniques that fill so much of today’s news coverage, and it also seemed to have a far harder edge in its Middle East reporting. A year or so earlier, Shamir’s predecessor Menacham Begin had allowed his Defense Minister Ariel Sharon to talk him into invading Lebanon ...

Tomorrow the German Bundestag will vote on a draft law that could make the naturalization of residents dependent on supporting Israel’s right to exist. Here is what you should know and why you should be concerned. BY HEBH JAMAL  THE GERMAN BUNDESTAG (PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA) Update (November 17, 2023) The draft laws that have been presented in the Bundestag this morning have been discussed, but there was no vote. Representatives presented their opinions, and now it moves on to various plenary readings and committees to further work on the law. While an opposition draft law usually does not get passed (in this case the, the opposition is the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), the legislators who presented the bill), what can still happen is the government could take and amend sectio...

American Pravda: Jews and Nazis • 50m  RON UNZ  TABLE OF CONTENTS Israeli Leaders and Nazi Germany EPub Format Around 35 years ago, I was sitting in my college dorm-room closely reading the New York Times as I did each and every morning when I noticed an astonishing article about the controversial new Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir. Back in those long-gone days, the Gray Lady was strictly a black-and-white print publication, lacking the large color photographs of rap stars and long stories about dieting techniques that fill so much of today’s news coverage, and it also seemed to have a far harder edge in its Middle East reporting. A year or so earlier, Shamir’s predecessor Menacham Begin had allowed his Defense Minister Ariel Sha...

The elderly suspect was a teenager when he oversaw prisoners at the Nazi regime’s Sachsenhausen camp A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, January 27, 2019 ©  AP / Markus Schreiber German authorities have charged a 98-year-old man with complicity in the murder of 3,300 people at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II. The case comes after a 97-year-old former secretary was found guilty of aiding the mass murder of 10,505 people at another Nazi prison. The man, whose name has not been released, “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail” between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors in the German state of Hesse said in a statement...