Catholic Bishop says Israel exploits the Holocaust

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Criticism That Cuts Too Close To The Bone
Darryl Mason
Your New Reality
Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Google News links to the original Jerusalem Post story are dead....

.....but it's still cached here for now.
So why has the Jerusalem Post attempted to disappear this story?
The Holocaust only gets media coverage because of affluent Jews' financial backing, military might and lobbying fronts, presenting a skewed version of events to the world, a high-ranking Polish bishop told a Catholic news portal on Monday.
Tadeusz Pieronek, a Polish bishop and professor and a friend of the last pope, John Paul II, claimed that "the Holocaust as such is a Jewish invention" promoted in the press by Jews to gain support for Israel.
Pieronek told the Web site Pontifex.roma that while the Holocaust was not exclusively Jewish, Jews had monopolized it in lieu of encouraging "serious historical debate, free from prejudice and victimization."
Pieronek alleged that Jews today use the Holocaust as "a weapon of propaganda, used to obtain benefits which are often unjustified," citing as an example the unconditional support for Israel by the US.
"This promotes a certain arrogance that I find unbearable," he said, explaining that Israel was using its position of power and exploiting historical tragedies to treat the Palestinians "like animals."
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The bishop said that American support for the Jews had not always been so readily given. "What did the Jewish-American and allied forces do in [World War II] to avoid these tragedies? Little or nothing," he said.
"The Holocaust as such is a Jewish invention ... a day of remembrance must also be set for the many victims of Communism, persecuted Catholics and Christians and so on."
"The anti-Semitic history of Poland is an invention. A joke ... offensive to our people."
Although most of the victims of the Holocaust were indeed Jews, many Poles, Italians and Catholics also died at the Nazi concentration camps, he said.
It doesn't sound like there will be an apology, or a statement from the Pope this time.
There seems to be an increasing number of Catholic bishops saying such things about the exploitation of the WW2 Holocaust. Presumably it is in part to correct the historical record, but probably more so to fire back at campaigning against the sainting of the so-called 'Nazi Pope.'

[Father Brown]

This story basically does not exist in the mainstream. It's not on Reuters that I could find, nor did I find it on Drudge, or in America's paper of record the NY Times. For some reason what happens in Poland, stays in Poland.

You would think that the Israeli PM visiting Auschwitz on the 65th anniversary of its liberation would be reported widely. Could this be counter propaganda on the part of the bishop? In other words, he knows his comments will not receive wide distribution in the West, but he also knows that his comments may also prevent the cheap photo-op of Netenyahu laying a wreath?

And then this begs the question. For all the controversy about Pius XII, and Bishop Williamson, you would think that the ADL would be chomping on the bit to expose the story and create more controversy. Why is this story being buried?

I would suggest that anytime victims other than Jews are mentioned in the Holocaust, the story gets automatically nixed. For some reaon, they feel the need to own the suffering lock, stock, and barrel. This one is a double-barb in that it connects the propaganda efforts the bishop accuses Jews of with his idea of the payoff: mistreatment of Palestenians.