Democracy for the Middle East
March 16, 2004Still Rotten After All These Years
David Warren has written the best single paragraph we've read on Madrid:
There is no ambiguity in what has happened in Spain. The rotten heart of Europe has been exposed. The best comparison one can make is to Europe in 1940, when the entire continent had capitulated to Nazism and fascism, leaving Britain alone to fight. It thus came to be known as "Churchill's war", rather than "Hitler's war", only to revert when the Allies had won it, and a generation of Europeans, who had not lifted a finger, decided retrospectively that they had been in the Resistance.
It is often observed that the Cold War masked a multiplicity of national, ethic and religious tensions in Europe; tensions that rapidly reemerged with the defeat of the Soviets. Less has been said, however, about the delay the Cold War caused in making an honest assessment of the continent that murdered all of its Jews. Ironically, responsibility for this can also be assigned to our most influential newspaper, The New York Times. Today, it is widely accepted that the paper willfully and deceitfully covered up the Eurocaust. While Harvard Professor Marvin Kalb has speculated about the reasons for this, the only one who knows exactly what happened (and has never, to our knowledge, been called on to account for it) is then owner and editor Arthur Hays Sulzberger. We would add to Professor Kalb's moving attempt to account for the Times' behavior the notion that in denying us information about this singular genocide, Mr. Sulzberger was trying to preserve the reputation of a civilization that he held in high regard and, as is apparent from reading the paper, viewed as a model for America. One wonders whether our paper of record will continue to peddle Euro-Americanism in the face of mounting evidence that when it comes to shared values (and revisionary ratios) America's only true ally is Zion.
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