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Almost lost in this summer’s news cycle is an extremely instructive story. On June 24, the Polish Parliament’s lower house passed a draft bill which would set a thirty-year deadline on when people can recover property seized by the Nazis during the Second World War or by the Communists afterward. The lower house officially passed the bill yesterday, August 11. This law could cause up to ninety percent of pending claims to be dismissed, and would effectively prevent a large number of Jews (many of whom either survived the Jewish Holocaust or are descended from survivors) from retrieving whatever it is they believe they have coming to them. The bill still awaits Senate approval and the Polish president’s signature before officially becoming law.
Of course, Jews everywhere are emoting their righteous outrage. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tweeted that
[t]his is a direct and painful attack on the rights of Holocaust survivors and their descendants. This is not the first time that the Poles are trying to turn a blind eye to what was done in Poland during the Holocaust.
Lapid stated further:
It is a horrific injustice and disgrace that harms the rights of Holocaust survivors, their heirs, and members of the Jewish communities that existed in Poland for hundreds of years. . . .This is an incomprehensible action. This immoral law will seriously harm relations between the countries.
International Jewish groups are getting into the fun as well. The Jewish Press reports:
“This is not just another law, it is legalized theft, and the language is written in such a way that it implicitly seeks to single out Jews as undeserving of retrieving what was stolen from them,” European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor said.
“It is not ‘privileging’ Jews as some claim in Poland, it is disenfranchising them, creating a higher bar than for all others.”
Kantor added that the new law will also further highlight Poland’s unique position as the only country in the region which makes Holocaust restitution impossible and said the move runs counter to Poland’s international commitments.
“It is outrageous that someone who survived the Holocaust, who will be in their later years, will still be deprived justice by this cruel, illegitimate and discriminatory law,” Kantor said.
The United States is also pressuring Poland not to pass this law, with Cherrie Daniels, the US special envoy for Holocaust issues, claiming that it “would cause irreparable harm to both Jews and non-Jews by effectively extinguishing claims for restitution and compensation of property taken during the Holocaust that was subsequently nationalized during the Communist period.”
Many English-language sources that I have seen give little time to the Polish side of the story. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has firmly stated: “I can only say that as long as I am the Prime Minister, Poland will certainly not pay for German crimes. Not a single zloty, euro, or dollar.” AP reports that the law is a “response to fraud and irregularities that have emerged in the restitution process, leading to evictions or giving real estate to property dealers.” Al Jazeera also quoted the Polish foreign ministry, which said that the law would “lead to the elimination of fraud and irregularities, which occurred on a large scale.”
In other words, Jews have been gaming the system and cynically taking advantage of the Polish people in the process. The United States and Israel, of course, have rejected this claim. But nowhere in these sources is it shown where this claim is indeed not true.
In any event, the Polish Senate will be deliberating on this bill, possibly this month. Hopefully they will ignore the Americans and Israelis and pass it. This act will directly rebuke those Jews who use their eighty-year-old atrocity as a pretext for transferring resources from gentile hands into Jewish ones. It’s theft, basically. And PM Morawiecki is doing the right thing by saying nie to this brazen shekel shakedown. He may also serve as a role model for other world leaders whom Jews ethnically bully with their right hand out and left fist clenched.
But at the risk of restating the obvious, let’s break down the absurdity of it all.
First, I don’t think this is about the money. Jews are the wealthiest people per capita on the planet, and there are only 14.7 million of them, according to the Jewish Virtual Library. This is approximately 0.186 percent of the world’s population. As of 2018, they made up nineteen percent of the Forbes 200 Richest List. The combined net worth of the top sixty wealthiest Jews is approximately $841.5 billion. You’d think they could scrape together a few shekels to help ease their Holocaust-surviving brethren out of the abject poverty the Nazis and Communists plunged them into decades ago.
So, this isn’t about making Jews wealthier as much as it is about making gentiles poorer — especially the white gentiles. Just the fact that the fabulously wealthy Jews have the unmitigated gall to pester not-so-wealthy Poland for money over events that happened four generations ago is offensive. Morawiecki would have been fully justified to tell the Israelis that they deserve a plate of bubkes with a side of curly fries.
Second, based on the disproportionate Jewish influence upon the early Soviet Union, maybe the Russians, Ukrainians, the rest of the Baltics, and Central Asian peoples should start hitting the Jews up for a few billion themselves. After all, the twenty-or-so million killed in the terror famines, the gulags, the Great Terror, and in the Russian Civil War is quite a bit more than the Jewish Holocaust numbers historians like to foist on us. Many times in the past I have outlined the prodigious Jewish atrocities committed during this period, most recently in my six-part treatment of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together. Yes, Jews were not solely responsible for these atrocities, but they were disproportionately so, and by wide margins, according to Solzhenitsyn in Chapter Eighteen of that work. Jews also “saved the [October] Revolution at a difficult time,” according to Vladimir Lenin himself (as quoted on page 224 of Yuri Slezkine’s The Jewish Century). On page 229 of his 1990 work, Stalin’s War Against the Jews, Jewish writer Louis Rapaport describes Lazar Kaganovich (who was still alive in 1989) as having “more blood on his hands than any living person.”
So 0.186 percent of the world’s population was responsible for the success of a revolution which resulted in tens of millions being killed; and a mere 32 years ago laid claim to the world heavyweight champion of war criminals. And today they want us to give them money? You’d think a people with so much blood on their hands would think twice about extorting others for past crimes. But no. You’d think that such a people would suffer some collective guilt over their past as well — especially considering how often they poke their circumcised guilt cannon at others. But again, no. They may feel guilt over trivial things, like neglecting an overbearing mother, but not so much about the stuff that matters. You know, like those weighty passages of history white people feel guilty about all the time.
Finally, the Poles are simply and obviously not guilty of the crimes that are being ascribed to them. They were invaded and occupied by the Nazis, and then they were taken over by the Soviet Communists. These are the two entities responsible for the loss of Jewish wealth and property — according to the claimants themselves. So then why do they petition the perfectly innocent Polish government for redress over acts they weren’t a party to? Why are they making the Polish people foot the bill when these people were victims of the Nazis and Communists as well? This would be a little like the Irish petitioning the British Crown for restitution over the sins committed by Oliver Cromwell. It’s ridiculous.
The Polish foreign ministry put it best when it accused the Israelis of having “an ignorance of the facts and Polish law,” and stated:
Poland bears no responsibility for the Holocaust, which was a crime committed by the German occupiers against Polish citizens of Jewish nationality and others. The victims of German crimes were millions of citizens of the Second Polish Republic.
Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski also speculated that “[w]e believe that unfortunately what we’re dealing with here is a situation that certain Israeli politicians are exploiting for internal political purposes.” So, there’s that, too.
So, good for Poland. I dearly hope the Poles stick to their guns and their money during this little row. I also hope that other countries follow suit and let the Israelis and world Jewry know that the time for shaking people down for shekels is finally over.
And now, with sincere apologies to all who love English literature, I give you:
“The Jew-Shekel”
A.D. 1941 – ????
by Spencer J. Kipling
It’s their new and shameless tactic, one that’s mightily climactic,
To use our fathers’ cruelty in a war
Wherein they were just as sinful, but because they were more win-full,
They dictate blame and guilt for cash to score.
And that is called asking for Jew-shekel,
And the people who ask it tell you
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Jew-shekel
And then you’ll be rid of the Jew!
It’s our new and shameful tactic, every bit anticlimactic,
To rue our fathers’ cruelty in a war,
As if war begets affection and our enemies’ abjection.
We pay up cash for pardon evermore.
And that is called paying the Jew-shekel.
It is something you cannot undo.
For if once you have paid ‘em the Jew-shekel
You’ll never be rid of the Jew!
I will dare to sound didactic, for this new and shameful tactic
Of mourning fathers’ cruelty in a war
Should not make ‘em try to shame us, but instead only inflame us.
For when they ask for cash, I do implore:
“Don’t ever pay anyone Jew-Shekel
No matter how keenly they try.
For all nations have sin; those who pay it begin
To descend into ruin and die!”
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I dearly hope the Poles stick to their guns and their money during this little row.
That’s kind of you, Mr Quinn and I thank you for the warm words. However being Polish, I wouldn’t get my hopes up. American ambassadors in Poland effectively double as imperial governors, which was blatantly exemplified by Trump’s nominee, (now) ex-ambassador Georgette Mosbacher whom we affectionately dubbed in right-wing circles as “Repnin in a skirt” (read on Nikolai Repnin to get the reference).
Morawiecki and the rest of the Law & Justice nomenklatura have a certain habit of loud declarations about independence, patriotism, polish tradition, all that jazz and then quietly backing off when foreign pressure gets to great for them. I suspect we will still pay up to the jews, but in an indirect way like arms purchases (there is a talk of buying american Abrams tanks, by the way), which deserve their own chapter in the criminal history of the III Polish Republic. That is, if the Empire allows their polish compradors to save face before their own electorate.
The ruling coalition is currently in crisis over economic/tax legislature concerning “Polish New Deal” and there is a chance we might get early elections with a minority “technical” government installed, that could reverse all measures taken against the imperial interests.
So, curb your optimism gentlemen. This is Poland, Murphy’s Law made manifest, especially in legislature 🙂
Thank you for this, Bookai. Curious, are you equally black pilled on the media bill that is passing through the Polish Parliament now as well?
First I have to admit, that after recently becoming an expat, I pay less attention to the political news from the Fatherland (better for my mental health).
Second, bills have that funny quality, that they can be absolutely demolished and turned into something different than they were originally. Adding multiple ammendments, striking down few crucial sentences, passing down novelization(s) later (like with that ant-defamation bill that got Jews and Ukrainians all riled up). Then all that’s left is declaring that we “won”.
While in principle the bill is not radical and exemplifies common tendency among EU countries to control their national media markets ownership structure, it de facto targets american business interests. Besides, german supremacy on the polish media market remains unquestioned and the bill gracefully omits that issue by excluding European Economic Area companies from the limitations (they’d risk another lawsuit from European Commission if they didn’t). There’s no hiding the fact that in this case TVN will be the company most affected by this change and everybody knows that it’s the main liberal opposition TV stronghold. There was already one intervention on behalf of the company by the aforementioned ambassador Mosbacher last year (if I’m not mistaken), but that was the Empire under Trump and Biden is not exactly the preferred US leader for PiS. Still, there is no question that when push comes to shove, we will witness another disgracefull retreat so the bill itself may be a bargaining chip for our government to get some concessions from the Biden administration.
On a side note, TVN (and its original parent company- ITI holding) is an interesting case of one of those post-communist companies that got fat during the trasformation in absence of real competition. Its founder Mariusz Walter was a well connected man among Party officials when he worked for the state TV broadcast. There are persistent rumours that Walter also had connections to the intelligence service (I Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs). At one time (1983, last year of the martial law being enforced in Poland) he was even considered to lead a special propaganda unit for the ministry. Now of course, TVN belongs to Discovery Communications so our american comrades have full control of its information policy. Discovery, from what I’ve read, is supposed to combine with AT&T’s WarnerMedia into Warner Bros. Discovery so there is definitely some power consolidation going on within the Empire.
I’m curious how the current administration is going to handle their eastern european fiefs. Trump chose a more direct, manual control, but it’s not certain whether Biden/Harris is going to relinquish it and loan it back to Germany. Given Biden Clan involvement in Ukraine there may be some incentive to tighten the leash.
Great news.
The audacity of these people knows no bounds. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of shakedowns from Jews, as the rest of the world just ignores their tantrums.
Lech Walesa replaced Jaruszelsky as leader of the trade union so we can effectively say communism was over in Poland by New Year 1990. Wasn’t this the ideal time to stake a claim for confiscated property? When some of the perps and the victims were still alive?When does this thirty year deadline Begin?
I have known of one person who lost everything in Poland but was compensated after the fall of communism; her family had been wealthy landowning aristocrats. She would speak of the ingratitude and back stabbing of the Jews whom countless Poles and the Catholic Church tried to protect. Jerzy Kozinski, Roman Polanski and Abe Foxman come immediately to mind–but there were many others.
I’m sure there were Poles who hated the Jewish Commissars and the Jewish landlords and would blow the whistle so the Germans could swoop in, but this is not the whole story.
Communism was over in 1988 when Rakowskis’s administration abolished central planning and allowed private enterprise to flourish (and open the way for red robber barons to ransack state companies). Besides, it was general Jaruzelski who brought Poland to the IMF.
As for the confiscated property, the issue for american citizens is regulated by 1960 agreement between PRL and USA where Poland agreed to pay 40 million USD and the United States in turn accepted to satisfy the restitution claims while promising not make any demands or support such claims against the Polish State. Suffice to say, the United States of America is blatantly violating those obligations in another display of imperial arrogance and its subservience to jewish interests.
Polish People’s Republic signed agreements like this one with 11 other countries between 1948–1971.
I think Jews/Israelis may be flying too close to the sun on this. Things like this lend credibility to Norman Finkelstein’s hypothesis that the holocaust is used for financial gain. You can be sure though that if credible evidence of fraud is presented then Jews will double down and cry, “timeless anti-Semitic trope!” David Cole has great commentary on this on takimag, how Jews did well for themselves regarding the reparations and that this endless feud and pimping gentiles isn’t going to end well. Not to mention the pink elephant in the room that is Israeli’s conquest of Palestine. Jews went from being nebbish lambs sent to the slaughter to ubermenchen fighting off the Arabs and creating their own ethnostate. I’m sure a lot of people here aren’t big fans of Israel, but I think you have to at least admit that it’s pretty impressive. I don’t think the Esau gambit of trying to play yourself as the victim because of something that happened 4 generations ago while over 1 million people live in an open air prison and are under a military occupation is going to work this time.
I once dated a Jewish man in 1978, when I was young and naive, and I remember him telling me that not only did his dad have ‘reparation checks’ from Germany, since 1945 or thereabouts, but his son — my friend — began receiving them also, right along, after his dad’s death. My friend was making about $70K as an engineer — over 40 years ago! — and was receiving a monthly check from Germany! As far as I know, he’s still alive and about 80, so I assume the checks are still coming. This is the biggest heist I’ve ever heard of!
You forgot to mention that the Jews stole Palestine – lock, stock and barrel. They claim to have purchased 5% of the land – a measurement not used anywhere else in the world while the so-called “purchases” are highly suspect from a legal point of view. Besides they destroyed about 500 Palestinian villages, looted the property and expropriated all urban property. They refuse to pay reparations.
So what’s good for the goose is obviously not good for the gander.
The total lack of irony in the Jewish position, is a reflection of the deep-seated, even congenital, separation of the Jew from the rest of mankind. Mutuality is not a Jewish characteristic. Separateness is.
I love it when SJQ adds a poem to the end of his articles. Haha
Excellent summary of the wickedness going on before everyone’s eyes. Why have we gone with it for so long….There really is no excuse for the West’s complaceny in this racket. We should have handed them their asses long ago for trying to profit off war.
Complacency
Thank you, Desert Flower. I was hoping someone would notice. 😊
“In per capita terms, Jews were the greatest mass-murderers of the twentieth century, holding that unfortunate distinction by an enormous margin and with no other nation coming even remotely close. And yet, by the astonishing alchemy of Hollywood, the greatest killers of the last one hundred years have somehow been transmuted into being seen as the greatest victims, a transformation so seemingly implausible that future generations will surely be left gasping in awe.” – Ron Unz
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