ON THE RWANDA PLAN
One of the things that demonstrates how we are
a cut above lesser animals, even
our closest, primate cousins – in addition,
of course, to double entry bookkeeping –
is our ability to plan and manage
projects: like fox hunting and the Pyramids.
However, we should never forget
‘of mice and men’, ‘betwixt cup and lip’,
and ‘unintended consequences’ – like
throngs of tourists and urban foxes.
And take, for example, some of the proffered
solutions by European Powers
to the so-called ‘Jewish question’: Britain’s
Balfour Declaration, and the two
Madagascar Plans in the ’30s – the first
was Franco-Polish, the second German.
The first plan involved the voluntary
re-settlement of thousands of Polish Jews
in the island of Madagascar,
then a French colony; the second,
following the fall of France, the enforced
migration of all European Jews
to act as hostages to ensure their
‘racial comrades in America’ behaved.
Both proved unfeasible – the former
because of climate and poor infrastructure,
and the latter because, having lost
the Battle of Britain, the Nazis
abandoned the invasion of the UK.
The requisitioned British Merchant Fleet
was to have shipped the Jews to the island.
As the forces of the Third Reich conquered
Eastern Europe and entered Russia
a new plan developed: to move the Jews
and the Slavs to Siberia, to starve
or be murdered. When the Soviets refused
to be defeated the Final Solution
to that inadmissible question –
Die Endlösung der Judenfrage –
was devised: the building of gas chambers
at Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek,
Sobibor, Treblinka.
John Huddart
May 26, 2023Superb. The best elephant in the room poem of all time!
Jeff Teasdale
June 11, 2023This tragic farce of ‘resettlement’ continues unabated in Braverman’s head, and she always looks so smug (if not insane) with it.
Like all the others you mention, it will all go horribly wrong. And for what? To massage the egos of third rate (that good?) politicians who think they have a ‘date with destiny’, and only because, fed by the right-wing of the right-wing press, their supporters might vote for them and perpetuate the myth that they are somehow competent, and acting it for ‘compassionate’ reasons to stop people drowning in a rubber dinghy. Hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Lehlogonolo Amanda Sibanyoni aka LAS FINIX
June 27, 2023‘Deliberate and Systematic genocide’ ;
I see it every day in the Townships and informal settlements, now in the megaCity
Precedural and geopolitical terms used to get away with mass murder,
26 February 1942
A letter
Reinhard Heydrich
Martin Luther
Implementation of the Final Solution Administration;
Truth is an intangible substance
To expose the tangible
Nature and Timing of things
Death trains
And Extermination camps:
They are going to do it again!