Not Again!

By Jan Willem van der Hoeven
Director, Int’l Christian Zionist Center, Jerusalem

Saddam Hussein grew up in the shadow of a giant portrait that hung on the wall of his father’s house, a portrait of a man his father adored above every other political leader. It was the face of Adolph Hitler! Writing in Inside Asia, John Gunther said: “The greatest contemporary hero in the Arab world is Hitler.” Even Anwar Sadat, a man deemed by many in the West to be a moderate Arab leader, as a young man wrote the following words to the leader of the Third Reich:

“My dear Hitler, I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. Even if you appear to have been defeated, in reality you are the victor. You succeeded in creating dissensions between Churchill, the old man, and his allies, the Sons of Satan. Germany will win because her existence is necessary to preserve the world balance. Germany will be reborn in spite of the Western and Eastern powers. There will be no peace unless Germany once again becomes what she was.”

Anis Mansour, editor of the Egyptian magazine October and a Sadat confidant who accompanied the Egyptian leader to Jerusalem, wrote: “The world is now aware of the fact that Hitler was right, and that the cremation ovens were the appropriate means of punishing [the Jews].”

The only reason that the Arabs have not yet done to the Israeli Jews what Hitler did to their forefathers in Europe is that they have thus far lacked the military means and weapons of mass destruction which were at Hitler’s disposal. Had there not been an Israeli Army to defend the remnant of European Jewry that immigrated to Israel, the Arabs would have gladly fulfilled Hitler’s dream a long time ago by finishing off those Jews the Nazi megalomaniac had left alive.

May Israel be wiser in relation to this death wish of her neighbors than the Jews in Europe were. They belittled the writings and speeches of Hitler and the Nazis and were massacred as a result. May it not happen again!   -