I have read the CIF post by AKUS Who is Mya Guarnieri? without great deal of interest. Tel Aviv is quite a big place and, as any place like this, has collected its measure of jetsam and flotsam. So one more example doesn't make a difference.
Then I have looked at the blog Ms Guarnieri keeps - it's called Mya Guarnieri, accidentally. The masthead of the blog drew my attention, since something seemed familiar there. Here is the snapshot of it (in case the owner decides to remove it later):
Do you see that figure with raised hands on the right? It is surely related to the post Children are just Israel’s latest victims, where Ms Guarnieri protests, in her inimitable way, possible deportation of 400+ children of undocumented migrant laborers.
The figure in that placard is not an original. It is borrowed - from this one, painfully famous, and not only in Israel:
This is one of the most famous photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. People have tried to identify the little boy with his hands raised over the years without any success. The SS Trooper with his face to the camera (dumb move) was identifed however as SS- Rottenfuehrer Josef Bloesche by Polish investigators and hunted down. He was tried for war crimes in Poland in 1969 and executed in July of that year. All the captured Jews were sent to the camps and all are believed to have perished there.I doubt that Ms Guarnieri is the author of the placard (although who knows?). But in any case, if she isn't aware of the link between the placard and the picture, she is even more empty-headed than AKUS shows in that excellent post. If, however, she is aware of it, I am not sure I want to know about the contents of her head.
I have done a short self-check, trying to understand my own feeling re Ms Guarnieri.
Outrage? No...
Nausea? No...
Curiosity? No...
Nothing. And this is what she should remain to us, I suggest. Believe me, this is the best way to deal with such critters.
And the question in the headline: leave it alone, please...
6 comments:
Looks like Mya and the pastor who wants to burn Korans have a lot in common, i.e. they're both hysterics.
Bingo.
I am sympathetic to the first part of her piece about the Israeli born children of migrant workers who are facing deportation back to their parents' homeland. (The home page of her blog would indicate the foreign migrants in Israel are a major concern of hers.) However when she launched into an idiotic rant about this being only the latest of Israel's supposed crimes, I realized that Mya Guarnieri was a loon who, as Dick pointed out, was the left wing equivalent of the pastor who wants to burn Korans to mark 9/11. Using the famous image of the Jewish child being marched out by the SS Troopers at the top of her blog is obscene.
Guarnieri is not only one to exploit that famous photograph. During the forced removed of the Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, there was a photo of a young Israeli child marching out between two rows of Israeli soldiers with his hands held up the same as the Jewish child in the photo from the Warsaw Ghetto. (sorry do not have link to the 2005 photo) It was obviously a well-rehearsed ploy by the child's parents for propaganda purposes of saying the IDF in forcing the settlers to leave Gaza were acting like Nazis! In my opinion, using a child in this way is an even greater obscenity than that of Guarnieri's.
Snoopy, thanks for the informatin about Josef Bloesche. I had not heard about him. The SOB learned the hard way about the dangers of getting photographed. The report the SS commander, Major General Jurgen Stroop, wrote on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto provided plenty of documentation for his own execution, that of Bloesche and hopefully numerous other Nazi war criminals. Ironically if Bloesche had been living in West Germany or Austria, the most he would have gotten was life inprisonment since those two enlighten Western Democracies did not have the death penalty unlike the countries of the old Soviet Bloc!
Apologize for all these multiple posting. Do not know what is causing them. This may be my last comment till late next week. Monday here in the US is a holiday, Labor Day. Might be able to post from a public library over the weekend. Will not be back at work untill Tuesday. Wednesday, I am having a colonoscopy. Will be out until Thursday or Friday. Untill then Snoopy, you and everyone else here take care and have a Happy Rosh Hashanah!
PS: I have a story about Rosh Hashanah in 1970 that will tell next week.
What this deranged lady didn't tell you, David, is that the country is quite heatedly discussing and arguing about the deportation. It is a heart-wrenching situation with no easy solution, not matter what this or another stupid Mya says.
And I agree that the settlers who has done that trick are no less revolting than Mya.
As I mentioned, David, no problem - you have seen how easily it all cleans up. I only hope I didn't delete one comment too many.
Thanks for the greeting and have a great Labor Day too!
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