Monday 7 January 2008

Abdel Aziz Rantisi: "the question is not what the Germans did to the Jews, but what the Jews did to the Germans"

Jeffrey Goldberg' review in The New York Times of Matthias Küntzler's book Jihad and Jew-Hatred, Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 ends with the following dire warning:

"... Küntzel is right to state that we are witnessing a terrible explosion of anti-Jewish hatred in the Middle East, and he is right to be shocked. His invaluable contribution, in fact, is his capacity to be shocked, by the rhetoric of hate and by its consequences. The former Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi once told me that "the question is not what the Germans did to the Jews, but what the Jews did to the Germans." The Jews, he said, deserved their punishment. Küntzel argues that we should see men like Rantisi for what they are: heirs to the mufti, and heirs to the Nazis."

1 comment:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Unfortunately (for me, I guess), I am starting to lose the ability to be shocked.