Perhaps even an outright utterance of, “Terrible, just terrible.”
New York, August 10 – Representatives of global organizations and of nations touting themselves as defenders of the global order fired back today at Israeli and Jewish advocates, arguing that, contrary to the latter’s claim that those groups would have stood by and done nothing as Jews suffered another extermination attempt, they would in fact have clucked noticeably and perhaps even shaken their heads.
British, French, Russian, and other diplomats, as well as leaders of organizations such as Human Rights Watch and various United Nations agencies, sought to deflect criticism from their governments and institutions Tuesday by arguing that, contrary to the accusations of Zionists, the Jews of 1948 should not have tried to defend themselves as they did against five invading armies plus numerous local Arab irregulars, and should have relied on the international community to police the situation with voluble iterations of “tsk,” instead of taking matters into their own hands and getting involved in a fight that resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Arabs from their pre-Israel homes.
“It is inaccurate, bordering on slanderous, to accuse Britain of indifference toward the potential slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Jews,” intoned UK Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominic Raab. “My predecessor Anthony Eden would most certainly, in the case of a genocide by the Arabs of the land’s Jewish population, as was their leadership’s declared intent, have issued an uncompromising sigh of acceptance, and perhaps even an outright utterance of, ‘terrible, just terrible.'”
“If the point is to describe international attitudes toward the slaughter of Jews as apathetic, and that the only thing that has shifted in the decades since is the Jewish capacity for robust self-defense, well, I beg to differ,” argued Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch. “If my organization were around at the time, I’d be the first one to start tweeting my indignation about the genocide, in among thirty other daily tweets about how the Jews deserve it for whatever. It was a just a few years after the Holocaust, and to suggest that the international community learned nothing about its inaction before and during that industrialized slaughter is to miss the mark entirely. The international community would have paid massive, massive lip service to the notion of Jewish safety, and perhaps even have held a second Evian Conference on the question of Jewish refugees.”
Palestinian human rights advocates noted that had the world shown a little less indifference to the Holocaust, and instead lent their active support to it, the issue of another genocide of Jews would never have become as relevant.
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