Poles might have shared the fate of Palestinians

[Gość: John]

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Poles might have shared the
fate of Palestinians
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Some interesting articles on Polish-Jewish
relations and history can be found in English at:

http://www.iyp.org/polish/history/antypolonizmy/index_jedwabne_en_7.php

Poles might have shared the fate of Palestinians
if the idea of so called Judeo-Polonia had
ever materialised.

http://www.iyp.org/polish/history/antypolonizmy/jedwabne_en_110.html


JUDEO-POLONIA AND LUBLINLAND
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The subject of Judeo-Polonia is not widely known
in the Polish society, and probably totally
unknown in other countries.

In Poland under the communist rule any knowledge on the subject of
Judeo - Polonia was suppressed by the censorship and never mentioned,
and during Stalinist oppression probably any mentioning of it was
punishable by at least prison sentence.

Nevertheless, that something is not widely spoken about, or is not a
part of the school curriculum, doesn't mean that it didn't exist.

Lets look at the following historical facts:

In October 1918, Zionist Proclamation of Copenhagen stated its
demands:

1. Jewish Homeland in Palestine.

2. Full emancipation of the Jews in all countries.

3. Cultural, social, and political autonomy of the Jews in all
countries of Jewish Diaspora.

On the 11th of November 1918, Independent Poland was resurrected. The
Poles, between 1918 and 1922 fought six concurrent wars on the borders
of Poland. Poland's borders were then defined. And Poles paid dearly
for it. With their own blood.

On the 12th of November 1918, Zionists demanded a separate Jewish
constitution, a Jewish national government including a secretary of
state, and a formal Jewish state in Poland.

And this was supposed to be called Judeo - Polonia. Not many Poles are
aware that in the first 20 years of the XX century Poland had not only
to deal with the partitioning powers and Bolsheviks, but also there
was an internal enemy, an enemy who with all its powers opposed
establishing of the independent Polish State.

During the last years of WWI Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian Jews
strongly opposed the rebirth of independent Poland, and instead
demanded establishment of the independent Jewish State in the region
of Lublin, with the city of Lublin becoming it's capital on the
grounds that it was a place of residence of the Jewish Waad
(parliament), during the First Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita
Szlachecka).

Such a monster established on the Polish land was an idea of the
Russian Jew from Odessa, publicist and Zionist leader, Wlodzimierz
Zabotynski (Vladimir Jabotinski, Zeev Yabotinsky, Jabotynsky), who was
the first to use the term Judeo - Polonia.

On the German side, in 1914 the German Committee for Freedom of the
Russian Jews (Deutschen Komittee zur Befreiung der russischen Juden)
also proposed the project of Judeo - Polonia. (Piotr Wrobel Wiez
VII-VIII 1986). The Committee was warning Germany against
re-establishing of the Polish Independent State, but suggested
creation of the so-called "buffer state" on the Polish lands under the
Russian occupation. Ethnic composition of such a creation was supposed
to be: 6mln. Jews, 1.8mln. Germans, 8mln. Poles, 5-6mln. Ukrainians,
4mln. Belorussians and 3.5mln. of Latvians and Lithuanians.

The King of this State supposed to be someone from the House of
Hohenzollern, German language would be an official language (Yiddish
is just a "bastardization" of the German language), German officers
corps (with the Polish recruits as a "cannon fodder" of course) and
the German culture. And of course, the capital of this State would be
Lublin.

Poland was very lucky indeed that Germany lost WWI and this German -
Jewish plans didn't eventuate. If the Germans won, such plans would be
equal to the total annihilation of any thought about Polish
independence. The Poles in the Prussian and Austrian partition would
be totally isolated and subjected to the germanisation, and Judeo -
Polonia would be ruled by the German Jews, the Poles and other
nationalities such as Ukrainians and Belo Russians probably reduced to
the status of slave labour. Governor Beseler was already assembling
"Polnische Wermacht" staffed by the German officers with the Polish
recruits, and who was to be this new Judeo - Polonia King from the
House of Hohenzollern? We don't know. But the plans were there, in the
stage of implementation, and were only stopped by the defeat of
Germany.

Now, I think that I can be excused for drawing a parallel between the
situation as described above and the situation now, in regard to the
Jedwabne and an outburst of the anti – Polish propaganda. Both
such outburst of propaganda were caused by the non - compliance on the
Polish side with the Jewish demands. Creation of Judeo – Polonia
then, and issue of the Jewish compensations now.

This century's first most blatant program of Jewish anti-Polonism took
place after WWI when the Jews were furious over Poland's resurrection
as an independent state. The Jews hoped that the territory of
partitioned Poland would eventually be declared their homeland
(Judeo-Polonia). When this did not happen they launched an
international smear campaign accusing Poland of monstrous anti -
Semitic atrocities. These nearly forgotten slanders are now being
revived in the connection with the compensation campaign, ie.
Jedwabne.

In Versailles, since the January of 1919, Polish - Zionist delegation
under the leadership of Sokolow was trying to negotiate with the
Polish delegation creation of the Jewish Parliament (sejm), Jewish
Government that would represent the Polish Jews in the foreign
relations and special ministry in the Polish Government. Shortly, they
wanted a State within a State. But of course, the Polish delegation
lead then by Ignacy Paderewski didn't agree to such unreasonable
demands. (Where are the Poles of such calibre today? Instead of
Paderewski, Dmowski or Pilsudski, today we have Kwasniewski, Geremek,
Buzek and Bartoszewski)

Then the groundless Jewish accusations and propaganda started.

During these times newly independent Poland was in nearly constant
state of war with the Bolsheviks, who were supported by the large (or
at least the loudest and most noticeable) part of the Jewish
population. So, in the war zone it was rather easy to manufacture
proof of the alleged atrocities committed against the Jewish
population.

The "New York Herald" published pictures from Kiszyn in Bessarabia
under the title "Polish pogroms", American newspapers ran cartoons
portraying Poland as bandit holding a knife above the Jewess holding a
dead child, "The New York Times" wrote about pogroms in Lvov, Przemysl
and Homel. In Filladelfia Jews organized an anti - Polish circus,
complete with the coffins and skulls. Under such propaganda the
American Congress (senator Colder) passed the resolution condemning
Poland for the alleged persecution of it’s Jewish population.

As put by Arthur Koestler, hardly an anti-Semite, in his "Thieves in
the Night": "The Jews are the most admirable salesmen in the world,
regardless of whether they sell carpets, Marxism, or their pogroms".

Under the pressure of the Jewish groups, who had a great influence on
President Wilson, and even greater on Lloyd George (who never had a
very friendly predisposition towards Poland in the first place, and
during the Polish - Bolshevik war displayed more of the pro - Soviet,
than pro-Polish attitude, see "White Eagle, Red Star" N. Davies), in
the July of 1919, the Anglo-American Investigating Mission was sent to
Poland, to examine the Jewish charges of over 100 pogroms in the
course of which between 2500 and 3000 Jews supposedly lost their
lives.

An American Jew, Henry Morgenthau, and a British Jew, Sir Stuart M.
Samuel he