{"id":72305,"date":"2016-04-25T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=72305"},"modified":"2016-04-19T17:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:16:28","slug":"the-rwanda-genocide-the-israeli-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/04\/the-rwanda-genocide-the-israeli-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rwanda Genocide: The Israeli Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gilad<\/a>16 Apr 2016 – <\/em>In 2006, Israel\u2019s largest news site Ynet<\/em> published a courageous article by nationalist Israeli writer Sever Plocker who admitted that \u00a0\u201csome of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like\u00a0Yuri Slezkine,<\/a>\u00a0Plocker admits that the Stalin death machine was operated by Jews such as Genrikh Yagoda and Lazar Kaganovich. In 1934, at the peak of Stalin\u2019s purge: \u201c38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent years we have learned that a quarter of the International Brigade that fought Franco in Spain was Jewish, and the Lingua Franca of the Brigade was Yiddish. I have lost a few Jewish \u2018anti\u2019 Zionist friends trying to discuss that topic and to grasp the role of the Yiddish speaking combatants in the destruction of Catholic Spain in that bloody \"israel<\/a>war. Showing far more integrity than our \u2018allies\u2019 on the Left, Zionist Plocker writes: \u201cI find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would be encouraging to imagine a genocide that is totally free of any Jewish involvement. Sadly, the Rwanda genocide doesn\u2019t fit into this mythical category.<\/p>\n

Haaretz<\/em> reported<\/a> last week\u00a0that the Israeli Supreme Court decided to uphold the denial of a Freedom of Information request to make public documents about Israeli \u2018defense\u2019 exports to Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide in that country.<\/p>\n

\"Skulls<\/a>

Skulls of victims of the Ntarama massacre during the 1994 genocide are lined in the Genocide Memorial Site church of Ntarama, in Nyamata 27 February 2004. Among the 59.000 Tutsis who lived in the province, 50.000 were killed during the genocide, and among them 10.000 were slain in the church. Photo credit GIANLUIGI GUERCIA\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2014, attorney Eitay Mack and Prof. Yair Auron submitted a request to the Defense Ministry under the Freedom of Information Law, asking for details of Israeli arms exports to Rwanda between 1990 and 1995. In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi minority Rwandans were slaughtered by the Hutu majority during Rwanda\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s Defense Ministry refused the request, saying this information \u201cwas not to be divulged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mack and Auron appealed to the Supreme Court who unanimously rejected their appeal. The Court held that:<\/p>\n

We found that under the circumstances the disclosure of the information sought does not advance the public interest claimed by the appellants to the extent that it takes preference and precedence over the claims of harm to state security and international relations.<\/p>\n

The message is unmistakable. The Jewish State, that made the Holocaust into its state religion, is actively concealing its involvement in the genocide of another people. This is the true meaning of the Holocaust Religion \u2014 it is concerned with the primacy of the suffering of one people alone and these people aren\u2019t Tutsi.<\/p>\n

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Gilad Atzmon is a public opponent of Israel. Born into a pro-Zionist family and serving in the first Lebanon War, he had a dramatic turnaround. He quit the army, picked up his sax and exiled himself to London.<\/em> He is the author of <\/em>The Wandering Who<\/a> and one of the most accomplished jazz saxophonists in Europe.<\/em> \u00a0Atzmon writes\u00a0on political matters, social issues,\u00a0Jewish identity and culture. His\u00a0pieces are published around the world: <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>,<\/a> World News,<\/a> The Guardian<\/a>, Rebelion, <\/a>The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, Uprooted Palestinians<\/a>, Veterans Today<\/a>, Palestine Telegraph<\/a>, Counterpunch,<\/a> Dissident Voice, <\/a>Aljazeera Magazine, \u00a0 Information Clearing House, <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a>Middle-East-Online<\/a>, \u00a0 Palestine Chronicle, The People Voice<\/a>, Redress<\/a>,\u00a0Shoa (The Palestinian Holocaust)\u00a0<\/a> and many more.<\/em> He can be reached at atz@onetel.net.uk<\/a>.\u00a0 visit Gilad’s website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 dissidentvoice.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16 Apr 2016 – It would be encouraging to imagine a genocide that is totally free of any Jewish involvement. Sadly, the Rwanda genocide doesn\u2019t fit into this mythical category. Haaretz reported last week that the Israeli Supreme Court decided to uphold the denial of a Freedom of Information request to make public documents about Israeli \u2018defense\u2019 exports to Rwanda at the time of the 1994 genocide in that country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}