not Martin but Mircea

[Keith Davis]

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> On May 20, 2016, at 11:59 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
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> There always seem to be people in every culture willing to translate the fears generated toward scapegoats into violence. It is not a thing of the past: Americans of color - refugees - Muslims - women to use as sex slaves - whistleblowers on corporations, drug dealers, banks and governments - gypsies - dissidents in Egypt, Bahrain, Kenya, Myanmar, Indonesia, Honduras, China etc. The hard thing is to speak out in your own time against popular violence. Eliade did not show any courage, humanity or scruples, but he is saying the same thing Netanyahu and Bill Clinton say about Palestinians, that they put civilians and children around them. In both cases the scruples of the soldiers were unaffected. I doubt that Romanians are any more subject to hate , fear and violence than others. These Romanian atrocities are like all atrocities, sordid, cowardly lawless and shameful. Will those who promote hate and violence toward Muslims be ashamed as Eliade should be ashamed? Will they be held to any account who have slaughtered ten of thousands in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya? What about the slaughters in Gaza and Lebanon? Will Kissinger face trials? Cheney? Bush, Obama, Netanyahu?  
> The US killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were never involved in aggression against us as a nation or as individuals, tortured prisoners and presided over a religious civil war, and later, when the losers in that war fight back and kill journalists we  bomb entire cities because of the cowardly terrorists who hide among civilians. From the German perspective the Warsaw uprising was not so different. The mercenaries of global power  send the message that violence is the route to power, and then label the violence of others as terrorism.  P.K. Dick saw it as ancient Rome still with us. Pynchon sees an empire of markets in which war, sadism, media control, science and surveillance are market forces refined by their various interactions in the service of a delusional pursuit of power and control, forever riding the mythos of their time and pursuing like spoiled children freedom from responsibility, pain and death. 
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>> On May 19, 2016, at 1:31 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In the annals of anti-Semitism, Romania holds a particularly egregious position. For example, it is estimated that 130,000 local Jews were slaughtered in Romanian-occupied Ukraine, and that Romanian forces massacred 150,000 Jews in the area of Odessa and Golta. In a pogrom in 1941, as Sebastian records in his Journal, Jews were herded into an abattoir and hanged by the neck on meat hooks. “A sheet of paper was stuck to each corpse: ‘Kosher Meat.’”
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>> Of course, Romania was not unique in this regard. In the early years of Nazi conquests in Eastern Europe the ravening enthusiasm for pogroms among the indigenous populations of countries such as Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia startled even the SS. However, the detestation of Jews among all levels of Romanian society, particularly intellectuals, was unrelenting. Here is a typical outburst, recorded in the Journal in September 1939:
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>> The Poles’ resistance in Warsaw is a Jewish resistance. Only yids are capable of the blackmail of putting women and children in the front line, to take advantage of the Germans’ sense of scruple…. What is happening on the frontier with Bukovina is a scandal, because new waves of Jews are flooding into the country. Rather than a Romania again invaded by kikes, it would be better to have a German protectorate.
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>> Who might the speaker be? Some embittered partisan, perhaps, or a street-corner orator? No: the speaker is Mircea Eliade, one of Romania’s leading scholars and writers of the time, who after the war slipped away to America and there became a highly respected and influential thinker and historian of religions. In 1937 Eliade says of a left-wing student flogged by Iron Guardists that personally he would have put his eyes out as well. Sebastian writes, “Perhaps one day things will have calmed down enough for me to read this page to Mircea and to see him blush with shame.”
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>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/05/26/surrounded-by-jew-haters/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Prisons%20Uganda%20anti-Semitism&utm_content=NYR%20Prisons%20Uganda%20anti-Semitism+CID_ab89f8bfb0519728730ad1d09ee20312&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Surrounded%20by%20Jew-Haters
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