In het
WDR radioprogramma ZeitZeichen van afgelopen vrijdag aandacht voor (politiek) filosoof Hannah
Arendt*, overleden op die dag in december 1975.
In 1933 werd Arendt gearresteerd door de Gestapo, ze wist
samen met haar man en moeder te vluchten naar Frankrijk, om na de
aanval van Duitsland op Frankrijk door te vluchten naar de VS…..
Het leven van deze
opmerkelijke filosoof werd o.a. voor een groot deel beheerst door de nazificatie van Duitsland en alle ellende die
daarna volgde, natuurlijk ook veel aandacht voor de Jodenvervolging (waarbij ze uiteraard ook aandacht schonk aan andere dictaturen en kritiek had op Israël vanwege de omgang met de Palestijnen).
In het
schrijven op de site van WDR 5 staat bij de aankondiging van dit programma te lezen dat
Martin Heidegger haar vriend was, echter dat was na 1933 niet meer
het geval, daar Heidegger Hitlers regime steunde tot aan de val van dat regime in 1945….. (best schandelijk dat men dit niet noemde en dat door NB een Duitse zendgemachtigde…..)
Arendt bemoeide zich ook met de berechting van Adolf Eichmann** in Israël, waarvoor ze de meer dan 3.000 tellende verslagen heeft gelezen die ten grondslag lagen aan
de berechting van deze nazi-schoft en heeft daar naar eigen zeggen
meermaals om moeten lachen, wat nog eens aangeeft hoe belachelijk het
was dat de nazi’s ooit de macht hebben kunnen grijpen en zelfs het grootste
deel van het Duitse volk achter zich wisten te scharen……
Nog
steeds worden uitspraken, analyses en filosofieën van Hannah Arendt gebruikt
en volkomen terecht!!
ZeitZeichen
04.12.1975 –
Todestag der Philosophin Hannah Arendt
Von Jutta Duhm-Heitzmann
Was für
eine Frau: mutig, unbeirrt und bestechend genau. Hannah Arendt, 1906
geboren, war eine Denkerin, die Freunde und Weggenossen und
selbst ihre Gegner nicht kalt ließ. Sie stammte aus einem
sozialdemokratischen, jüdisch-assimilierten Elternhaus und studierte
Philosophie bei einigen der brillantesten Philosophen der Zeit,
darunter Martin Heidegger, ihrem Freund und Mentor
Mit ihren Forschungen über die
deutsche Romantik Ende der 20er Jahre rückte das Judentum und die
Bedingungen seiner gesellschaftlichen Assimilation immer stärker ins
Zentrum ihrer Studien.
1933 wurde sie von der Gestapo
verhaftet, konnte aber mit ihrem Mann und ihrer Mutter fliehen,
zunächst nach Frankreich, dann in die USA. Dort arbeitete sie als
Kommentatorin und Lektorin, erhielt aber 1951 nach der
Veröffentlichung einer Analyse über “Elemente und Ursprünge
totaler Herrschaft” auch eine Professur am New
Yorker Brooklyn College, später eine an der University
of Chicago.
Einer breiten Öffentlichkeit wurde
sie 1961 bekannt als Berichterstatterin für die “New
York Times” über den Eichmann-Prozess in Jerusalem.
Dabei prägte sie den spektakulären Begriff von der “Banalität
des Bösen”, so kontrovers diskutiert wie keines ihrer anderen
Werke. Die fatale Macht des Totalitarismus blieb auch danach eins
ihrer zentralen Forschungsgebiete.
Hannah Arendt starb am 4. Dezember
1975, 69 Jahre alt und international hoch geehrt. Gerade heute wieder
wird sie mit ihren philosophischen und gesellschaftspolitischen
Theorien viel gelesen und zitiert – analytisch brillant und
zeitlos aktuell.
===============================
*De link naar de Engelse Wikipedia pagina over Hannah Arendt, daar deze veel uitgebreider is dan de Nederlandse versie.
** Ook deze link naar de Engelse pagina van Wikipedia over deze onmenselijke nazi-opperschoft, en weer daar deze veel uitgebreider is dan de Nederlandse pagina.
InformationClearing House (ICH)heeft afgelopen dinsdag een brief
geplaatst, ondertekend door een aantal vooraanstaande Joden uit de
VS, waaronder Albert Einstein en Hannah Arendt, de brief werd in 1948 geschreven en was gericht aan de New York Times.
In deze
brief zetten deze prominente figuren grote vraagtekens bij de
uiterst gewelddadig (illegale, Ap) vestiging van de staat Israël,
veelvuldig valt het woord fascisme, zeker als het gaat om de ‘Freedom
Party’ van Menachen Begin, de latere premier van dit gestolen land…. De partij wordt in die brief vergeleken met (andere)
fascistische partijen en met de nazi partij van het verslagen nazi-Duitsland…. Een partij die ontstond uit de
aanhang en leden van Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL), een terroristische, rechtse
organisatie in Palestina……
De brief
was een reactie op het bezoek van Begin aan de VS, die van tevoren al werd begroet
door bekende zionisten in de VS. Voorts waarschuwt de brief voor
Begin en zijn politieke loopbaan. De waarschuwing betreft ook
eventuele donaties aan de partij van Begin, waarmee men een
fascistische partij zou steunen……. Destijds schreef men in de
reguliere media van de VS (en waarschijnlijk in de rest van het
westen) met lof over deze partij, als een partij die stond voor
vrijheid, democratie en die anti-imperialistisch was georiënteerd,
terwijl men eerder vanuit de partij een fascistische maatschappij
voorstond…. De partij is volgens de ondertekenaars een partij die
verantwoordelijk was voor terrorisme en dat het maar zeer de vraag
was of de partij de eerder genoemde waarden zou handhaven als deze regeringsverantwoordelijkheid zou krijgen…..
In een
Palestijns dorp Dear Yassin, dat omgeven was door land van Joden,
waar de Palestijnen zelfs arabische groepen (die zich verzetten tegen de zionistische terreur) niet toe stonden om vanuit
hun dorp te opereren. Echter fascisten van o.a. de Freedom Party
vielen het dorp binnen en vermoorden 240 mannen, vrouwen en
kinderen…. Men liet er een paar leven om die door de straten van
Jeruzalem te leiden…. Voorts nodigde men de pers uit om de hopen
lijken in Deir Yassin te zien en te fotograferen……
Gezien
de huidige staat van Israël is er geen bliksem veranderd sinds 1948,
anders dan dat Israël nu openlijk onder de ogen van de pers ongewapende Palestijnse
demonstranten vermoordt en de Palestijnen in feite het leven
onmogelijk maakt, ofwel de Israelische etnische zuivering van Palestijnen, weg van hun geboortegrond en die van hun voorouders, een zuivering die plaatsvond voor, tijdens en na de illegale
stichting van Israël is nooit opgehouden…… Zoals ook de bloedbaden die Israel aanricht onder de Palestijnen nooit zijn opgehouden…… Kortom de staat Israël maakt
zich als de VS voortdurend schuldig aan staatsterrorisme…...
Lees het volgende artikel waarin je nog meer terreur van zionisten zal tegenkomen en zegt het voort, tijd dat Israël ter verantwoording wordt geroepen voor haar aanhoudende bloedige terreur!
Dan nog dit: deze oproep heeft niets met antisemitisme te maken, elke staat die terreur uitoefent als Israël, bijvoorbeeld de VS, zou voor het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) moeten worden gesleept en de verantwoordelijken zouden moeten worden veroordeeld tot levenslange gevangenisstraffen!
Albert
Einstein Letter to The New York Times. December 4, 1948
[letter titled] “New
Palestine Party. Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Political
Movement Discussed”
Among
the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence
in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party”
(Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization,
methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and
Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of
the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist
organization in Palestine.
The
current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United
States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American
support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement
political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United
States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to
welcome his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism
throughout the world, if correctly informed as to Mr. Begin’s
political record and perspectives, could add their names and support
to the movement he represents.
Before
irreparable damage is done by way of financial contributions, public
manifestations in Begin’s behalf, and the creation in Palestine of
the impression that a large segment of America supports Fascist
elements in Israel, the American public must be informed as to the
record and objectives of Mr. Begin and his movement.
The
public avowals of Begin’s party are no guide whatever to its actual
character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and
anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the
doctrine of the Fascist state. It is in its actions that the
terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we
can judge what it may be expected to do in the future.
Attack
on Arab Village
A
shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir
Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish
lands, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought off Arab
bands who wanted to use the village as their base. On April 9 (THE
NEW YORK TIMES), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village,
which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of
its inhabitants (240 men, women, and children) and kept a few of them
alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of
the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency
sent a telegram of apology to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan. But the
terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this
massacre, publicized it widely, and invited all the foreign
correspondents present in the country to view the heaped corpses and
the general havoc at Deir Yassin.
The
Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the
Freedom Party.
Within
the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of
ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like
other Fascist parties they have been used to break strikes, and have
themselves pressed for the destruction of free trade unions. In their
stead they have proposed corporate unions on the Italian Fascist
model.
During
the last years of sporadic anti-British violence, the IZL and Stern
groups inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish
community. Teachers were beaten up for speaking against them, adults
were shot for not letting their children join them. By gangster
methods, beatings, window-smashing, and wide-spread robberies, the
terrorists intimidated the population and exacted a heavy tribute.
The
people of the Freedom Party have had no part in the constructive
achievements in Palestine. They have reclaimed no land, built no
settlements, and only detracted from the Jewish defense activity.
Their much-publicized immigration endeavors were minute, and devoted
mainly to bringing in Fascist compatriots.
Discrepancies
Seen
The
discrepancies between the bold claims now being made by Begin and his
party, and their record of past performance in Palestine bear the
imprint of no ordinary political party. This is the unmistakable
stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs,
and British alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a “Leader
State” is the goal.
In
the light of the foregoing considerations, it is imperative that the
truth about Mr. Begin and his movement be made known in this country.
It is all the more tragic that the top leadership of American Zionism
has refused to campaign against Begin’s efforts, or even to expose
to its own constituents the dangers to Israel from support to Begin.
The
undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a few
salient facts concerning Begin and his party; and of urging all
concerned not to support this latest manifestation of fascism.
[27 signers]
ISIDORE ABRAMOWITZ,
HANNAH ARENDT,
ABRAHAM BRICK,
RABBI JESSURUN
CARDOZO,
ALBERT EINSTEIN,
HERMAN EISEN, M.D.,
HAYIM FINEMAN, M.
GALLEN, M.D.,
H.H. HARRIS,
ZELIG S. HARRIS,
SIDNEY HOOK,
FRED KARUSH,
BRURIA KAUFMAN,
IRMA L. LINDHEIM,
NACHMAN MAISEL,
SEYMOUR MELMAN,
MYER D. MENDELSON,
M.D.,
HARRY M. OSLINSKY,
SAMUEL PITLICK,
FRITZ ROHRLICH,
LOUIS P. ROCKER,
RUTH SAGIS,
ITZHAK SANKOWSKY,
I.J. SHOENBERG,
SAMUEL SHUMAN,
M. SINGER,
IRMA WOLFE,
STEFAN WOLFE.
New York, Dec. 2, 1948
Written:
Dec. 2, 1948
Source:
This online version came from a microfilmed copy of the NYT print,
which had been found by Laura Nader at UC.
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Het volgende artikel van Chris Hedges (en Matt Taibbi in de bijgevoegde video) op Information Clearing House (overgenomen van ‘Truth Dig’) handelt over de neergang van de democratie en haar instituties t.b.v. grote bedrijven, banken en het militair-industrieel complex, noodzakelijk voor de uiteindelijk beoogde fascistisch machtsovername…… (Bedrijven functioneren uitstekend in een fascistische staat….)
De vakbonden zijn verworden tot grote instituties waar kapitalen worden verspild en die nog amper van enige betekenis zijn. De reguliere (massa-) media zijn in handen van enkele figuren en dienen als eerste het belang van die topgraaiers en vervolgens het belang van de zittende neoliberale regering (althans als die goed voor de bedrijven werkt….). Wat betreft de publieke zendgemachtigden, zoals de BBC (en de NOS in ons land), is het dienen van het belang van de zittende regering overduidelijk….. Ach ja, wiens brood men eet……….
Het is in ons land al zo zot, dat men het normaal vindt, dat de Eerste Kamer bestaat uit figuren die in het (grote) bedrijfsleven werkzaam zijn en uiteraard lobbyen voor die bedrijven (bedrijven inclusief de financiële maffia en het militair-industrieel complex….). Een zienswijze die wordt gedeeld door de reguliere massamedia……..
In de VS gaat men zover, dat kritische studenten worden weggezuiverd van de universiteiten……. Ook de rechterlijke macht fungeert, meer en meer als een klassen-justitieel systeem, waar de belangen van het neoliberalisme worden gediend…… Dat geldt overigens ook voor een groot deel voor Nederland, zo besloot vanmorgen de hoogste bestuursrechter in Nederland, de Raad van State, dat er naar gas mag worden geboord bij Terschelling……..* (klik ook op het label ‘klassenjustitie’, dat u onder dit bericht terugvindt).
Lees dit uitstekende artikel en zie de bijgevoegde video (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):
The
Elites Won’t Save Us
By
Chris Hedges
February
13, 2017 “Information
Clearing House”
– “Truth
Dig” – The four-decade-long assault on our democratic
institutions by corporations has left them weak and largely
dysfunctional. These institutions, which surrendered their efficacy
and credibility to serve corporate interests, should have been our
firewall. Instead, they are tottering under the onslaught.
Labor
unions are a spent force. The press is corporatized and distrusted.
Universities have been purged of dissidents and independent scholars
who criticize neoliberalism and
decry the decay of democratic institutions and political parties.
Public broadcasting and the arts have been defunded and left on life
support. The courts have been stacked with judges whose legal careers
were spent serving corporate power, a trend in appointments that
continued under Barack Obama. Money has replaced the vote, which is
how someone as unqualified as Betsy DeVos can buy herself a Cabinet
seat. And the Democratic Party, rather than sever its ties to Wall
Street and corporations, is naively waiting in the wings to profit
from a Trump debacle.
“The
biggest asset Trump has is the decadent, clueless, narcissistic,
corporate-indentured, war-mongering Democratic Party,” Ralph
Nader said when I reached him by phone in Washington. “If
the Democratic strategy is waiting for Godot, waiting for Trump to
implode, we are in trouble. And just about everything you say about
the Democrats you can say about the AFL-CIO.
They don’t control the train.”
The
loss of credibility by democratic institutions has thrust the country
into an existential as well as economic crisis. The courts,
universities and press are no longer trusted by tens of millions of
Americans who correctly see them as organs of the corporate elites.
These institutions are traditionally the mechanisms by which a
society is able to unmask the lies of the powerful, critique ruling
ideologies and promote justice. Because Americans have been bitterly
betrayed by their institutions, the Trump regime can attack the press
as the “opposition
party,” threaten to cut off university
funding, taunt a federal jurist as a “so-called
judge” and denounce
a court order as “outrageous.”
The
decay of democratic institutions is the prerequisite for the rise of
authoritarian or fascist regimes. This decay has given credibility to
a pathological liar. The Trump administration, according to an
Emerson College poll, is considered by 49 percent of registered
voters to be truthful while the media are considered truthful by only
39 percent of registered voters. Once American democratic
institutions no longer function, reality becomes whatever absurdity
the White House issues.
Most
of the rules of democracy are unwritten. These rules determine public
comportment and ensure respect for democratic norms, procedures and
institutions. President Trump has, to the delight of his supporters,
rejected this political and cultural etiquette.
Hannah
Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” noted that
when democratic institutions collapse it is “easier to accept
patently absurd propositions than the old truths which have become
pious banalities.” The chatter of the liberal ruling elites about
our democracy is itself an absurdity. “Vulgarity with its cynical
dismissal of respected standards and accepted theories,” she wrote,
infects political discourse. This vulgarity is “mistaken for
courage and a new style of life.”
“He
is destroying one code of behavior after another,” Nader said of
Trump. “He is so far getting away with it and not paying a price.
He is breaking standards of behavior—what he says about women,
commercializing the White House, I am the law.”
Nader
said he does not think the Republican Party will turn against Trump
or consider impeachment unless his presidency appears to threaten its
chances of retaining power in the 2018 elections. Nader sees the
Democratic Party as too “decadent and incompetent” to mount a
serious challenge to Trump. Hope, he said, comes from the numerous
protests that have been mounted in
the streets, at
town halls held by members of Congress and at flash points
such as Standing
Rock. It may also come from the 2.5 million civil servants within
the federal government if a significant number refuse to cooperate
with Trump’s authoritarianism.
“The
new president is clearly aware of the power wielded by civil
servants, who swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution,
not to any president or administration,” Maria J. Stephan, the
co-author of “Why Civil Resistance Works,” writes
in The Washington Post. (WaPo) “One of Trump’s first acts as
president was a sweeping federal hiring freeze affecting all new and
existing positions except those related to the military, national
security and public safety. Even before Trump’s inauguration, the
Republican-controlled House of Representatives reinstated an obscure
1876 rule that would allow Congress to slash the salaries of
individual federal workers. This was a clear warning to those serving
in government to keep their heads down. Trump’s high-profile firing
of acting attorney general Sally Yates, who refused to follow the
president’s immigration ban, sent shock waves through the
bureaucracy.”
A
sustained, nationwide popular uprising of nonviolent obstruction and
noncooperation is the only weapon left to save the republic. The
elites will respond once they become afraid. If we do not make them
afraid we will fail.
The
four-decade-long assault on our democratic institutions by
corporations has left them weak and largely dysfunctional. These
institutions, which surrendered their efficacy and credibility to
serve corporate interests, should have been our firewall. Instead,
they are tottering under the onslaught.
Labor
unions are a spent force. The press is corporatized and distrusted.
Universities have been purged of dissidents and independent scholars
who criticize neoliberalism and
decry the decay of democratic institutions and political parties.
Public broadcasting and the arts have been defunded and left on life
support. The courts have been stacked with judges whose legal careers
were spent serving corporate power, a trend in appointments that
continued under Barack Obama. Money has replaced the vote, which is
how someone as unqualified as Betsy DeVos can buy herself a Cabinet
seat. And the Democratic Party, rather than sever its ties to Wall
Street and corporations, is naively waiting in the wings to profit
from a Trump debacle.
“The
biggest asset Trump has is the decadent, clueless, narcissistic,
corporate-indentured, war-mongering Democratic Party,” Ralph
Nader said when I reached him by phone in Washington. “If
the Democratic strategy is waiting for Godot, waiting for Trump to
implode, we are in trouble. And just about everything you say about
the Democrats you can say about the AFL-CIO.
They don’t control the train.”
The
loss of credibility by democratic institutions has thrust the country
into an existential as well as economic crisis. The courts,
universities and press are no longer trusted by tens of millions of
Americans who correctly see them as organs of the corporate elites.
These institutions are traditionally the mechanisms by which a
society is able to unmask the lies of the powerful, critique ruling
ideologies and promote justice. Because Americans have been bitterly
betrayed by their institutions, the Trump regime can attack the press
as the “opposition
party,” threaten to cut off university
funding, taunt a federal jurist as a “so-called
judge” and denounce
a court order as “outrageous.”
The
decay of democratic institutions is the prerequisite for the rise of
authoritarian or fascist regimes. This decay has given credibility to
a pathological liar. The Trump administration, according to an
Emerson College poll, is considered by 49 percent of registered
voters to be truthful while the media are considered truthful by only
39 percent of registered voters. Once American democratic
institutions no longer function, reality becomes whatever absurdity
the White House issues.
Most
of the rules of democracy are unwritten. These rules determine public
comportment and ensure respect for democratic norms, procedures and
institutions. President Trump has, to the delight of his supporters,
rejected this political and cultural etiquette.
Hannah
Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” noted that
when democratic institutions collapse it is “easier to accept
patently absurd propositions than the old truths which have become
pious banalities.” The chatter of the liberal ruling elites about
our democracy is itself an absurdity. “Vulgarity with its cynical
dismissal of respected standards and accepted theories,” she wrote,
infects political discourse. This vulgarity is “mistaken for
courage and a new style of life.”
“He
is destroying one code of behavior after another,” Nader said of
Trump. “He is so far getting away with it and not paying a price.
He is breaking standards of behavior—what he says about women,
commercializing the White House, I am the law.”
Nader
said he does not think the Republican Party will turn against Trump
or consider impeachment unless his presidency appears to threaten its
chances of retaining power in the 2018 elections. Nader sees the
Democratic Party as too “decadent and incompetent” to mount a
serious challenge to Trump. Hope, he said, comes from the numerous
protests that have been mounted in
the streets, at
town halls held by members of Congress and at flash points
such as Standing
Rock. It may also come from the 2.5 million civil servants within
the federal government if a significant number refuse to cooperate
with Trump’s authoritarianism.
“The
new president is clearly aware of the power wielded by civil
servants, who swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution,
not to any president or administration,” Maria J. Stephan, the
co-author of “Why Civil Resistance Works,” writes
in The Washington Post. “One of Trump’s first acts as
president was a sweeping federal hiring freeze affecting all new and
existing positions except those related to the military, national
security and public safety. Even before Trump’s inauguration, the
Republican-controlled House of Representatives reinstated an obscure
1876 rule that would allow Congress to slash the salaries of
individual federal workers. This was a clear warning to those serving
in government to keep their heads down. Trump’s high-profile firing
of acting attorney general Sally Yates, who refused to follow the
president’s immigration ban, sent shock waves through the
bureaucracy.”
A
sustained, nationwide popular uprising of nonviolent obstruction and
noncooperation is the only weapon left to save the republic. The
elites will respond once they become afraid. If we do not make them
afraid we will fail.
Chris
Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in
Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has
reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian
Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and
The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15
years.
The
views expressed in this article are solely those of the
author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information
Clearing House.
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Chris
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Video
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star became our president.
Chris Hedges examines the spectacle
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President Donald Trump with Matt Taibbi, author of “Insane Clown
President”.
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