AMERICAN RED CROSS UNDER ZIONISTS ATTACK !!!

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AMERICAN RED CROSS UNDER ZIONISTS ATTACK !!!
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Sheer Hypocrisy:

The Red Cross, the Jews and the State of Israel
At issue:

For more than fifty years Israel's Magen David Adom has attempted to join the
International Federation of Red Cross (and Red Crescent) Societies. Time and
again its application has been rebuffed, ostensibly because of its use of a red
Star of David, rather than a cross or a crescent. Despite a vociferous outcry
from world Jewry the Federation has refused to budge from its position. This
behavior is all the more outrageous and unacceptable when considered in light
of the war-time record of the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC]
and its failure to expose the Final Solution. The American Red Cross has
spearheaded efforts to end this "sheer hypocrisy", as a recent Washington Post
editorial called it. An April meeting of the Federation's emblem working group
in Geneva produced nothing more than a token proposal that would allow Israel
to use a red diamond symbol, to which the red Magen David could eventually be
added.

Background: "Omissions [sic.] the ICRC deeply regrets"
Over the last ten years, an enormous amount of documentation has surfaced
indicating that the Red Cross knew about the Final Solution but refused to
confront the German authorities or effectively intervene to rescue Jews. In his
book Silent Witness, Prof. Jean Claude Favez, an historian hired by the Red
Cross states: "The ICRC knew what was happening - that is quite clear. [But] it
did not dare confront the Germans." Favez notes that Dr. Gerhart Riegner, the
WJC representative in Geneva, transmitted detailed information to the ICRC and
that the Red Cross had many other sources of information. What Riegner himself
did not know, however, was that the ICRC already knew of the Final Solution and
in far greater detail than he could possibly have furnished. At a secret
meeting in 1942, some of the members of the ICRC wanted to make public the news
of the destruction of European Jewry. It is an indelible stain on the record of
the Red Cross that Karl Jakob Burckhardt, the ICRC director-general at the
time, adamantly refused to do so.

According to Arieh Ben-Tov, author of the book Facing the Holocaust in
Budapest: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Jews in Hungary,
Max Huber, the war-time president of the Red Cross, knew about German plans to
liquidate Hungarian Jewry. Despite the imminent threat to the lives of 800,000
men, women and children, he ignored repeated warnings of the WJC and even of
his own delegate in Budapest to take action to stop the Germans. To his
everlasting credit, that delegate, Friedrich Born, managed to organize lodging
and maintenance for thousands of Jews trapped in Budapest. Earlier, when the
Slovak Red Cross appealed to Geneva for assistance in the face of deportations
to Auschwitz, the head office replied that its hands were tied.

Declassified American intelligence papers made public by the WJC in 1996
revealed that the Red Cross was infiltrated by Nazi agents who may have used
their positions to assist in laundering stolen Jewish assets in Switzerland.
The ICRC vigorously denies these allegations. However, in keeping with the
trend sweeping Europe, and after 18 months of prodding from the WJC, the
Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and other groups, the ICRC agreed to
reverse its traditional policy of denying access to its archives. In 1997 it
turned over 60,000 microfilmed documents to Yad Vashem.

Among the records conveyed to Yad Vashem was an exchange of letters with the
WJC in which Dr Riegner requested that the ICRC investigate reports of a
massacre of Polish Jewish POWs in a camp in Lublin, Poland. The ICRC replied to
the WJC that after "a thorough investigation by the local German Red Cross
representatives, these reports were unfounded". After the documents were
released, a spokesman for the ICRC admitted that "our source tended to be the
German Red Cross. [However] in 1940, the German Red Cross wasn't exactly a
reliable sources - it was a Nazi organization in effect." A Red Cross
delegation that visited Theresienstadt was thoroughly duped into believing that
the ghetto there was an entirely innocuous institution.

In 1995, speaking before the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, the ICRC
President, Dr Cornelio Sommaruga, stated "We have great compassion for the
millions of victims of the Shoah and the other millions who perished in World
War II. Our failure to speak out at that time was a moral defeat. The ICRC
failed to inform the world properly about what was happening in Nazi
concentration camps, errors and omissions the ICRCR deeply regrets."

Given the Red Cross' utter indifference to the fate of European Jews, its post-
war policies toward the Jewish State are especially disturbing. The fact is
that the ICRC has never fully admitted the extent of its cooperation with Nazi
Germany and its objection to admitting Israel only compounds its war-time
failings.

A symbol representing "a different view of the mysteries of faith and life"
For more than fifty years, Israel's first-aid organization, the Magen David
Adom [MDA], has sought membership in the International Federation of Red Cross
Societies. There is no debate at all that MDA is a national first-aid society
with every qualification to join the international organization. As early as
1948, at the international conference at which the Geneva Convention was
drafted, Israel requested that the Red Star of David be recognized as an
official symbol. That request was rejected by a one-vote majority. With the
proliferation of independent states, many with a pro-Arab orientation, Israel's
chances of entering the League were further weakened.

Time and again, and in every corner of the globe, MDA has demonstrated its
dedication to humanitarian relief. During the recent earthquake in Turkey, MDA
rescue teams played an outstanding role in the search for victims and
alleviating the plight of the survivors. Indeed, an enduring image of the
relief efforts - one that was beamed around the world - was of a dog wearing
the Red Star of David, sifting through rubble searching for survivors.
Likewise, Israel responded to the destruction of the US embassy in Kenya and
even in countries with which it has no diplomatic relations. Lamentably, these
undertakings have not led to international pressure on the Federation and its
antisemitic policy.

The Federation has repeatedly called upon Israel to adopt either the Red Cross
or the Red Crescent in order to secure its place in the organization. Clearly,
this constitutes blatant antisemitism. Is Judaism any less worthy than
Christianity or Islam? Moreover, right up until the revolution in Iran, the
Iranian member organization was permitted to use its own distinctive Red Lion
and Sun. When this was called to the attention of Mr Sommaruga at the meeting
of the Israel Council on Foreign Affairs, the ICRC president noted: "Concerning
the non-acceptance of the Magen David Adom symbol in addition to the Red Cross
and the Red Crescent, I have suggested a third, neutral emblem but I know that
this is a utopian notion which the Israelis do not accept as well. Even the
developments in the peace process will not make a change." In other words, the
Star of David is less dignified than the cross or crescent and Israel must
content itself with a "neutral emblem". Exactly why the Star of David is
less "neutral" than the cross or crescent has yet to be explained.

In 1995 the WJC protested the failure of the ICRC to recognize the Magen David
Adom, by petitioning the international organization to either adopt the Red
Cross as its universal symbol with no exce