THE HANDSTAND

MARCH 2003

BREAKING NEWS!
A NEW COURSE



Sign up for New Course!

Ari Fleischer's Course in Lying - er - that is, twisting the facts. Crash course on Fabrication, Lying, Mendacities, and More . The Course lasts till the War with Iraq is Over


Course Requirements:

A 1-year residence at a Kibbutz, in Israel

An application made out to Israel for dual-citizenship

A 2-Day Q & A Interview with Henry the K Kissinger
   (Who did it his way) (and got his way)

A Completed Course in Conversational Yiddish

A Pre-Qual Course in Speechmaking: Toastmaster's/Toastmistresses

A Crash Course (or excellent background) in Machiavellian Politics

A Special Weekend Course in White Lies, Black Lies, Mendacity, Deceptio= , Prevarication, Equivocation, Evasiveness, Mendaciousness, Sophistry, Deception, Mumbo-jumbo, Quibbling, Twisted reasoning, just plain lies, and two hours spent on writing about Duplicity.

Emphasis on conversational techniques that would twist minds or confuse the real issue during conversations until they stop asking questions.

An ethnic background of say, German and Jewish, also Communism, similar  to Marx, would be helpful in completing the course.

A concentration in and research on the Third Reich.

A 250-page thesis on revisionist history emphasizing the Holocaust will be necessary to pass this course.

Course Description:

Learn the Following:

Ability to create chimerical experiences at once.
Ability to look anyone straight in the face and prefabricate
Strong practice in Group Speaking Skills,
Strengthening Skills in countering logical questions by the Press.
Willingness to work with the Mossad after the course would be of help.

Study intensive
: Continuing ability to answer queries using  the same pitter-patter to absurdity.

Learn how to twist illogic and opposing or dangerous ideology into logical terms maintaining a perfectly serious face.

For this exciting and innovative course, call right away, before class is filled:

Just call:     1-800-Ari-Lies

Advice: This course is a highly intensive one.
For Students who did not complete course
requirements, we recommend the following essay:
Sir William Osler: Equanimitas

P.S. Course II: Photography

Spying: Photographing interior of Camp David
Spying: Photographing interior of Cheney's Cave
Spying: Photographing, Uncovering, Discovery of: Israel's WMD

Courtesy of: The Media Monitors


....The New Religion.....
By Joe Furioso
[New York, USA]
GiuseppeFurioso@aol.com

Is it just me or does the story of the holocaust exhibit a grotesque mimicry of Christianity?

1) Christianity centers on the crucifixion of god's only begotten son whereas the holocaust centers on the annihilation of six million of god's chosen children.

2) For both Christianity and the holocaust the victim is entirely blameless.

3) For Christians, Jesus is the light of the world. Jews are the self-described ''light of nations''.

4) Both victims experience resurrection; Jesus rises on the third day and Israel rises, Phoenixlike out of the ashes of the Holocaust.

5) Christianity has its spotless virgin; the holocaust has Anne Frank.

6) On the way to Calvary Jesus is helped by Simon the Cyrene; the holocaust has it's  ''righteous gentiles''.

7) For Christians, Jesus' death makes salvation possible; the holocaust forever discredits racist nationalism thereby insuring the triumph liberal democracy with its commitment to multiculturalism and diversity.

8) For both events the historical evidence is relatively thin, and both rely almost entirely on eyewitness testimony.

9) The Church regards deniers as heretics, tools of Satin and will not debate them; Jews regard revisionists as deniers with a satanic political agenda i.e. anti-Semitism and the resurrection of the radical right.

10) Pilate is the consummate bureaucrat, a mere cog in the machinery of imperial Rome: he does his job efficiently and without passion. His Holocaust counterpart is Eichmann who was described by Hannah Arendt as exhibiting the ''banality of evil''

11) Both Christianity and the Holocaust have their official houses of worship, churches for Christianity, museums and memorials for the Holocaust. In each case the larger ones contain actual relics.

12) Both have their official chroniclers; Christianity has the gospels and the holocaust has the accounts of Hillburg, Daswidowitz, Levin.

13) Christianity had Paul, ''Preacher to the Gentiles''. Elie Wiesel performs that same roll for the holocaust.

14) Both tales underwent extensive in-house revision.  Just as some of the earlier accounts of Jesus, many of them actually quite popular were eventually jettisoned by the early church fathers in favor of a more streamlined version, so were many wartime claims about how the Jews were slaughtered, expunged from their official story.

15) For both Christianity and the Holocaust the actual instruments of death, the cross and the gas chambers have become part of the official iconography

16) Jesus was killed alongside two others but only his death is regarded as having cosmic importance, similarly the Jewish deaths among the 40-60 million who perished in World War ll.

17) The spiritual elite of Christianity, the clergy claims legitimacy through apostolic succession which spiritually connects them to the Twelve Apostles.  Judaism has its elite, ''holocaust survivors', ''children of Holocaust survivors'', ''children of the children of holocaust survivors'' which is a kind of ''holocaustic succession''

18) Christianity blamed the Jews for the crucifixion; Jews blame Christianity for the Holocaust!

19) Christians sometimes speak of a ''Second Coming'', the Jews never stop warning of a second holocaust
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More about the NEW CIVIL RELIGION:

http://nationaljournal.org/e2000/judaism/hologod.htm

The world champion in holocaust survival, Elie Wiesel, puts it this way: "The holocaust is a sacred mystery, whose secrets were confined to a priesthood of survivors." (Peter Novick, "The Holocaust in American Life", 1999, S. 211-212).

http://about.delphi.com/ab-holocaust/messages/?msg=523
DateTime: 5/3/00 9:41:33 PM
Forum:     The Holocaust Forum

Subject:  Is the holocaust becoming a religion?
[Extract] Israei education minister Yossi Sarid in a speech at Aushwitz May 2, 2000, said: "How terrible this place is, and how awful this ground we walk on is, the most defiled place in the history of mankind, and the holiest place in the history of mankind."
  Forwarded by Martin Webster from Neil Baird
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