This book fully documents the mass movement of 300 000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust out of Eastern Europe and their eventual resettlement in the This book fully documents the mass movement of 300 000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust out of Eastern Europe and their eventual resettlement in the Holy Land. The movement was known as the Bricha, which was also the name of the underground organization which organized the movement which amounted to the largest spontaneous illegal migration in the years following the Second World War. The movement was not only of individuals but also of whole families, people still putting their broken lives together after the horrors of the Shoah. The book discusses the organization known as the Bricha, it's leaders, operatives and networks, as well as touching on the individual lives of those who took part in the network. The Bricha often came into conflict with the hostile post-war occupying powers. The book focuses on the different Zionist youth movements and the struggle against British imperialism by the Zionists in the Palestine Mandate. Interestingly it is noted that the Yugoslav Communists were very supportive of the Zionist struggle as it was a struggle against British imperialism, something those far-left bigots of today who equate Zionism with 'colonialism' should put in their pipe and smoke. We also see something of the mindset of Jewish Communists in the administration of Eastern European countries who made it clear they had no Jewish identity and were a negative factor to the Jewish cause because they felt that they had to prove that they had no sympathy whatever for any Jewish interests. The extreme British post-war anti-Semitism is also touched on, with it noted that in Germany during this post-war period, German welfare authorities were more understanding and helpful in connection with problems of German Jews than were the British authorities. But the fact that these 300 000 Jewish Holocaust survivors were re-settled in the Land of Israel was a major factor in the re-establishment in the State of Israel....more
It was about time a book like this was written when this came out in 2005. Humberto Fontova strips away the lies we have been told by the mainstream mIt was about time a book like this was written when this came out in 2005. Humberto Fontova strips away the lies we have been told by the mainstream media and universities about the man worshipped by empty headed Hollywood elites, American leftists and liberals and the elites in many Third World regimes that treat their people almost as squalidly as Castro has.
This is a brilliant book, an incredibly challenging polemic where Fontova cuts up the hypocrisy and stupidity of America's intellectual, media and Hollywood elites such as Castro's crony Oliver Stone who describes the bloodthirsty tyrant as 'very selfless and moral' and 'one of the world's wisest men', Dan Rather who refers to Castro as 'Cuba's own Elvis' Jack Nicholson calls Castro 'a genius!', Naomi Campbell 'A dream come true' and Norman Mailer 'the first and greatest hero to appear in the world since World War II'.
After the execrable and obese Michael Moore referred to the brave Cuban exiles as greedy 'wimps' Fontova takes apart the pompous prig he describes so beautifully as 'piggy Michael Moore'.
You will be disgusted at these sick and hollow if not demented songs of praise sung by these shallow nincompoops when you find out just what a savage butcher and tyrant Castro really is and the horrible crimes he has committed.
I was horrified to learn how the Castro regimes marketing of blood drained from political dissidents while they are still alive in the horrible Gulags known as UMAPS Castro has set up. So much like the grotesque harvesting of organs by Castro's Red Chinese allies. The PLO in Lebanon drained the blood of thousands of Maronite Christians too to transfer to evil Palestinian terrorists. many of those dissidents killed and tortured have been Black Cubans while Blacks make up only 10% of the Cuban Communist Party. Former Black Panther Garland Grant who hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1971 informed a deaf world that he was 'living like a dog' and in 1977 that 'There's more racism here in Communist Cuba than the worst parts of Mississippi...Cuba aint what people think. I'd rather be in jail in the US than free here'.
Fontova points out how the Cuban Communists like their counterparts around the world have used food as a weapon causing massive deliberate famine and also used real weapons to main, torture and kill their opponents , even if they are in exile.
Fontova inspires us with the heroism of Cuban rebels who fought against forced collectivization during the Escambray Rebellion (1960-1966) put down with mass murder and burning of homes and villages by Castro'incarceration by the Apartheid South African government Thousands of prisoners have been executed by firing squads including many by the doctrinaire psychopath Che Guevara, also exposed for someone totally antithetical to the rock-star rebel appearing on t shirts , watches and posters used by shallow leftwing youth for nearly 50 years.
Hundreds of thousands more have died, often deliberately murdered in trying to get to Miami in makeshift rafts and oil barrels knowing their chances of survival were slim but desperate to escape Castro's island prison
Particularly fascinating was to discover how authoritarian but relatively benevolent Cuban President Fulgencio Batista ran the country that was before Castro seized power in 1959 the most successful nation socio-economically in Latin America. Under Batista hundreds of thousands of Spaniards and Cuba took in more than 1 million Spanish immigrants. Cuba had the highest literacy rate in Latin America and the 9th highest standard of living in the world. Cuba in 1958 had twice Spain's pre capita income! And under Castroite Cuba: In 1986 (after 27 years of Castro's rule)reached 24 per thousand , triple the average of Latin America. Cuban women are now the most suicidal in the world and Cuba has the highest abortion rate in the world. Havana has now overtaken Bangkok as the world capital of the child sex industry-if anything marks how we should judge a nation it should be on the welfare of it's children.
During the Cold War Cuba was a massive training camp for terrorists (including the IRA, PLO, Black Panthers and Carlos the Jackal). And today Cuba under Raoul Castro is closely aligned with the genocidal regimes of Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
Fontova also dissects the racism by the American liberal/left elites against Miami's conservative Cuban american community-Despicable Stalinist and anti-Semite Alexander Cockburn who has often urged genocide against Israeli Jews said that Cuban areas of Miami should be bombed. But we know that there also other targets of racism by the modern left including Israeli Jews and white working class people. Fontova spares no punches in dissecting the hypocrisy of liberal and left commentators who would rather side with a mass murdering despot while demonizing his millions of victims-typical of the post-modern left.
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It was about time a book like this was written when this came out in 2005. Humberto Fontova strips away the lies we have been told by the mainstream media and universities about the man worshipped by empty headed Hollywood elites, American leftists and liberals and the elites in many Third World regimes that treat their people almost as squalidly as Castro has.
This is a brilliant book, an incredibly challenging polemic where Fontova cuts up the hypocrisy and stupidity of America's intellectual, media and Hollywood elites such as Castro's crony Oliver Stone who describes the bloodthirsty tyrant as 'very selfless and moral' and 'one of the world's wisest men', Dan Rather who refers to Castro as 'Cuba's own Elvis' Jack Nicholson calls Castro 'a genius!', Naomi Campbell 'A dream come true' and Norman Mailer 'the first and greatest hero to appear in the world since World War II'.
After the execrable and obese Michael Moore referred to the brave Cuban exiles as greedy 'wimps' Fontova takes apart the pompous prig he describes so beautifully as 'piggy Michael Moore'.
You will be disgusted at these sick and hollow if not demented songs of praise sung by these shallow nincompoops when you find out just what a savage butcher and tyrant Castro really is and the horrible crimes he has committed.
I was horrified to learn how the Castro regimes marketing of blood drained from political dissidents while they are still alive in the horrible Gulags known as UMAPS Castro has set up. So much like the grotesque harvesting of organs by Castro's Red Chinese allies. The PLO in Lebanon drained the blood of thousands of Maronite Christians too to transfer to evil Palestinian terrorists. many of those dissidents killed and tortured have been Black Cubans while Blacks make up only 10% of the Cuban Communist Party. Former Black Panther Garland Grant who hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1971 informed a deaf world that he was 'living like a dog' and in 1977 that 'There's more racism here in Communist Cuba than the worst parts of Mississippi...Cuba aint what people think. I'd rather be in jail in the US than free here'.
Fontova points out how the Cuban Communists like their counterparts around the world have used food as a weapon causing massive deliberate famine and also used real weapons to main, torture and kill their opponents , even if they are in exile.
Fontova inspires us with the heroism of Cuban rebels who fought against forced collectivization during the Escambray Rebellion (1960-1966) put down with mass murder and burning of homes and villages by Castro'incarceration by the Apartheid South African government Thousands of prisoners have been executed by firing squads including many by the doctrinaire psychopath Che Guevara, also exposed for someone totally antithetical to the rock-star rebel appearing on t shirts , watches and posters used by shallow leftwing youth for nearly 50 years.
Hundreds of thousands more have died, often deliberately murdered in trying to get to Miami in makeshift rafts and oil barrels knowing their chances of survival were slim but desperate to escape Castro's island prison
Particularly fascinating was to discover how authoritarian but relatively benevolent Cuban President Fulgencio Batista ran the country that was before Castro seized power in 1959 the most successful nation socio-economically in Latin America. Under Batista hundreds of thousands of Spaniards and Cuba took in more than 1 million Spanish immigrants. Cuba had the highest literacy rate in Latin America and the 9th highest standard of living in the world. Cuba in 1958 had twice Spain's pre capita income! And under Castroite Cuba: In 1986 (after 27 years of Castro's rule)reached 24 per thousand , triple the average of Latin America. Cuban women are now the most suicidal in the world and Cuba has the highest abortion rate in the world. Havana has now overtaken Bangkok as the world capital of the child sex industry-if anything marks how we should judge a nation it should be on the welfare of it's children.
During the Cold War Cuba was a massive training camp for terrorists (including the IRA, PLO, Black Panthers and Carlos the Jackal). And today Cuba under Raoul Castro is closely aligned with the genocidal regimes of Iran, Syria, and North Korea.
Fontova also dissects the racism by the American liberal/left elites against Miami's conservative Cuban american community-Despicable Stalinist and anti-Semite Alexander Cockburn who has often urged genocide against Israeli Jews said that Cuban areas of Miami should be bombed. But we know that there also other targets of racism by the modern left including Israeli Jews and white working class people. Fontova spares no punches in dissecting the hypocrisy of liberal and left commentators who would rather side with a mass murdering despot while demonizing his millions of victims-typical of the post-modern left. Of course any mass murdering despot just has to declare himself a Communist and 'Anti-Imperialist' and be anti-Western to get the unconditional support of the Left....more
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