Dr.
Feinstein, at one time a history professor, was
born and Ph.D educated in the United States and,
as such, one expects to see a certain degree of
mastery and command of the English language in his
writings. As such, no little is our surprise to
see his incoherent writing where grammatically
incorrect sentences and misspelled words are the
norm and not the exception. His website, for
instance, is full of such examples. It is
something amiss about all this that could even
provide a clue to Dr. Feinstein's current
state of mind.
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What
is even more shocking is the type of
trash that Dr. Feinstein is being
attracted to in his studies of the
Holocaust and its tragic legacy:
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that of a purported feud
between Elie Wiesel and Simon
Wiesenthal --two truly extraordinary
Holocaust survivors that for many,
including this editor, represent the
voice of the Holocaust itself.
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As we have
shown elsewhere,
Dr. Feinstein appears to have a fundamental
problem in understanding the nature of the Holocaust
and that lack of understanding, as we shall see,
is present in full force in here as well. Also, as
we shall see in here, Dr. Feinstein has a
problem in understanding simple words and concepts
and, as such, we will be most careful in defining
the words and concepts related to
Dr. Feinstein's purported Holocaust myth that
he is concerned with declaring that
"The heart of the
matter is the '11 million victims'
issue."
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Before we can
discuss the issue of the 11 million Jewish victims
of the Holocaust, we want to make sure that
Dr. Feinstein is fully aware of the true and
correct meaning of the 'victim' concept that is
defined as "one who is harmed or killed by
another." Thus, in the most broader sense, by a
'victim' is understood 'one that is being harmed
by another'. In this larger sense of the 'victim'
concept, Elie Wiesel's words encapsulating the
Jewish sufferings as victims of the Holocaust were
not only poignant and to the point, but also of
extreme eloquence when he noted that
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"Not
all the victims of the Holocaust were
Jews, but all the Jews were victims."
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And since the number of all European Jews
were, as documented by the 1942 Wannsee
Conference, of 11 million, then by a simple
inference from Elie Wiesel's powerful words, one
can derive the simple proposition that
all
11 million European Jews could be
construed as victims of the Holocaust.
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Clearly the
human suffering during the Hitler era extended
well outside of the boundaries of the Holocaust,
and that extended suffering was always present in
Wiesenthal's remembrance. But that extended
remembrance on the part of Wiesenthal, that was
part of Wiesenthal's makeup based on his belief of
the "universality of suffering" as noted by Wiesel
and accepted by the great majority of people, need
not be construed as a feud between these two
extraordinary representatives of the Holocaust and
its tragic legacy.
The
recognition of Elie Wiesel that "all [11 million]
Jews" were victims of the Holocaust --on one hand,
and the recognition of Simon Wiesenthal that the
suffering inflicted by Hitler's Nazi machine was
"universal," transcending well outside of the
Jewish suffering --on the other hand, are
complementary to each other and not exclusionary.
If anything, these two recognitions were revealing
different complementary sides of the monumental
global tragedy that Hitler's reign has brought to
the humanity, as a whole.
How then
these two tragic recognitions --one coming from
Elie Wiesel, the other from Simon Wiesenthal-- are
in any conflict whatsoever when they both
complement each another in their respective
portrayals?
Are we
missing something here from our reasoning? Do we
have any takers?
How then Dr.
Feinstein can post this ludicrous statement on his
CHGS website, (EXHIBIT-Feinstein, hereto), where
it is stated:
"From the perspective
of CHGS, all organizations that teach
the Holocaust who adhere to the 11
million number will eventually have
trouble maintaining the integrity of
the Holocaust as a subject."
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How the
"integrity of the Holocaust" is being affected by
the portrayal of ElieWiesel versus the one of
Simon Wiesenthal?
How long CHGS
can afford to have Dr. Feinstein at its helm
injecting his bizarre "perspectives" on the
Holocaust?
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