Hello. A few days ago, someone said that the West have a historical debt to the Jews. I assume he was talking about all the bad things White people have ever done to Jews, things like pogroms from the past, and the Holocaust, to name a few.
Personally, I think he is going overboard. It's certainly bad that the West have done some nasty things to Jews, but I feel that as long as they make sure to never repeat history, it should be good enough. To feel that they are now "indebted" to Jews just does not make sense to me.
Your thoughts?
The older you get and the more deeply you research history, you'll find that no single race, religion, nationality or ethnic group holds exclusivity in either persecution or victimhood.
Yes, horrible things have been done to Jews throughout Western history but at the same time, an Israeli source notes that some of history's most sadistic monsters have happened to be Jewish.
"Stalin's Jews"
"We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish"
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
EXCERPT "And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people.
In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges.
Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We'll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD's special department and the organization's chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist."CONTINUED
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Regrettably, the Reparations*Racket is prone to grotesque misuse with little of Germany's substantial payments making it to the deserving recipients for which the funds were intended:
*"HOLOCAUST CLAIMS CONFERENCE FRAUD LIKELY ‘MUCH HIGHER’ THAN $57 MILLION"
Holocaust Claims Conference fraud likely ?much higher? than $57 million - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post
EXCERPT "Writing to the Claims Conference’s board last week, recently terminated ombudsman Shmuel Hollander asserted that, while reports had said organizational insiders had siphoned off $57 million in German taxpayer funds meant for survivors, “the final sum is in all probability much higher.”
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Perhaps because of the prodigious & unparalleled success of the Holocaust Claims Conference etc, there have been calls for reparations for Blacks coming from leaders of the Black community & calls for reparations coming from the Palestinian community both of which, so far, have made little progress.
If any reparations are deserved for specific & current deprivations and abuses, I feel that compensation to Palestine's native Arab residents is both justified & would be productive toward lessening tensions in that specific, long troubled region.
