The Left and the White Powders of Bergen Belsen

Funerals and mourning are always difficult to experience, especially the last few days with the murder of the hostages and the police officers. The personal pain of the families is a horrible, wrenching pain for all Jews.

Hamas has standing orders to kill any hostage if liberation is near.

The left has turned the meaning of funerals and mourning upside down. They have transformed the war crimes of the murderers into War Crimes committed by the victim’s own Government.

Murdering POWs and hostages is a War Crime.  No one is saying that.

As the liberation forces neared the Concentration Camps, the Nazis and their henchmen increased their efforts to murder Jews before they could be liberated.  The murdering of Jews continued until it became clear to the murderers they were next to be eliminated. 

My mother was liberated from Bergen Belsen.  Today, mass graves are starkly spread about the site of the Camp. The mounds are filled with the bodies of 20,000 Jews pushed into their tombs by bulldozers. My mother never recovered from the experience.  She spent the last twenty years of her life in mental institutions as a paranoid/schizophrenic. She believed the Germans had not finished the job. They were returning to kill me and my cousins.

It is a curious, obviously twisted parallel for me as the left demands to make a deal at any cost.

Should the Allies have given in and negotiated a peace to liberate the Concentration Camp survivors? Would that have improved the future?

We gently brushed off her rantings, especially her repeated warnings to beware of the White Powder. We thought the White Powder was part of her broken mind and distorted imagination.

A few years after her death, my wife and I saw an exhibit at the St. Petersburg, Florida Holocaust Museum titled the Women of Bergen Belsen. 

It was a shocking experience—not because of the pictures and stories about what happened to the women but because of a very small entry in the exhibit.

The Nazis were starving the Jews to death in Belsen.  They prepared a huge warehouse full of bread to be given to the Jews in the Camp just before liberation.  The bread was saturated with a White Powder poison.  The Nazis planned to finish the job by exterminating the Jewish survivors before they could be liberated. 

My mother was not insane.  She knew exactly what she was talking about.  We were the ones who were blind.

The message never left me.  Negotiating with monsters whose goals have never wavered, death to all Jews is death to all Jews.  If not today, then tomorrow.

The Allies during WWII demanded unconditional surrender. They did not want to have to fight another war in the future with another 100 million dead to be buried.

The left is demanding to negotiate with the White Powder monsters. The left is demanding to stop the fighting and leave Gaza. The left says Hamas has learned its lesson. If necessary, in another future war with more hostages, Israel will return and inflict an even more painful response.

Has the left become blind? Has their hatred for Netanyahu become so great they are willing to close their eyes to the White Powder?

For all who have fallen: May their families be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. May God avenge their blood.