re: #378 gegenkritik

But since you are against Israel in the name of peace, you are equipped with a pathological clear conscience that won’t be disturbed by reality.

Well, there’s been plenty of polls in Israel showing support for a two state solution, and there are plenty of prominent and less prominent Israelis who do support it, too. Like me, I don’t really think most of them are really too optimistic about how a Palestinian state would develop; like me, I don’t think they see much alternative. Netanyahu, too, has supported a variant of the two state solution. But hey, I guess all those Israelis are just “against Israel in the name of peace”.

As for my right to speak about what I think would be best for Israelis and Palestinians, well, I don’t really except them to listen to me, but since I live in a free country, I’m allowed to speak my mind. Just as you do about - for instance - Iran.

Thanks for the downdings by the way. It’s an honour when they’re coming from you.

As for the wikipedia reference, as stated I would take that information with a grain of salt. I have found two other sources for the same information, but I suspect both are pretty hard left. As I have not found the actual magazine itself it’s not something I would have put into my book, simply for the reason that I prefer solid information, and direct sources whenever possible (it’s better to quote Horst Mahler or Roeland Raes than to quote someone about Mahler or Raes). The fact that nouvelle droite-thinking has influence also the NPD, however, is quite easy to demonstrate, historically and today. That you try to attack me by pointing out the recent and still on-going conflict between the hardliners and the “Realos” in the NPD is somewhat amusing.

But at least we do agree on something. Anti-Semitism is central to the NPD, definitely; this is also one of the reasons the VB have stuffed their ties to the NPD down the memory hole, although it’s not that difficult to find close contacts via Voorpost, and congratulations from the Vlaams Blok to the NPD on their electoral success in the late eighties, done by people still prominent in the VB.

We also agree that both Republikaner and Pro Kln can be called fascist parties, the “other fascist parties”, as you say. As I am sure you are perfectly aware of, both of them have solid and close ties with the Vlaams Belang, and with others of the parties I call Eurofascist. So: Would you say that Vlaams Belang is a fascist party? Or not?

Lastly, we both seem to consider Lipstadt’s book on holocaust denialism an important work. It features a rather prominent place in my bookshelf, and was also a source for my book on Eurofascism and articles I have written about Holocaust denialism and for instance the influence of Maurice Bardeche on a number of modern-day European parties.