Jared Israel's Response to Shlomo Avineri's "Next - independence for Kosovo"

Jared Israel's (www.tenc.net) Letter to the Jerusalem Post Respondingto Shlomo Avineri's "Next - independence for Kosovo"Avineri Embraces Germany's Dream: A Splintered Balkans It is remarkable to see Prof. Avineri call for empathy for the Serbseven as he repeats every anti-Serb falsehood. Is this black humor?Examples:First, there is no "Bosnian" ethnic group. Bosnia includes: descendents of Serbs who survived Jasenovac, Croatia's Nazi deathcamp; Slavic Muslims; and Croats. The Slavic Muslims are mainly Serbswho converted to Islam under Ottoman rule/coercion. They areindistinguishable from Orthodox Slavs ('Bosnian Serbs') except by religion. The 'Bosnian ethnic group' is a propaganda creation, tohide reality: Alija Izetbegovic's drive for "Bosnian nationhood" wasreally a drive to create an Islamist-dominated outpost in thatterritory, which required defeating Serbian and pro-Yugoslav Muslimresistance.Second, Yugoslavia did not break up during World War II due to Serbianhegemony. That was the line of Hitler's favorites, the Croatian Ustashi, who created the Nazi-propped 'Independent State of Croatia.'Yugoslavia broke up due to a massive Nazi invasion after Serbianofficers overthrew the government, which had made a deal with Hitler.The subsequent resistance - overwhelmingly Serbs - fought the armies of Nazi Germany and its ally, the Ustashi-run Independent State ofCroatia. The Ustashi were motivated by fanatical Catholicism,antisemitism, and Serbophobia, and they mobilized Muslim fanatics, whosigned up for the Waffen SS organized by the Mufti of Jerusalem. In Kosovo, the predecessors of today's Kosovo Liberation Army warmlywelcomed the Italian Fascists, and helped deport almost all Kosovo'sJews to Nazi death camps.The Comintern's 'Serbian-nationalism-is-the-great-problem' line, embraced by Tito in part because it was a politically correct way ofappealing to Croatian anti-Serb racism, helped make possibleYugoslavia's post-war failure to campaign seriously against theanti-Serb racism that underlay Ustashi Croatia's mass slaughter of Serbs � they butchered about 750,000 Serbs alongside most Jews.Prior to the late-1980s launch of the US-German campaign to, onceagain, destroy Yugoslavia, the media widely reported that in Kosovo amass-based Albanian racist movement was conducting a war of terror against Serbs. Those racists, heir to the WWII Kosovo AlbanianFascists, wanted to resurrect the Fascists' Greater Albania. In 1999NATO went to war for these born-again Nazis, who would dominate any'independent' Kosovo. Such a statelet would be a springboard for attacks on Macedonia and Greece, aiming to annex parts of thosecountries to Kosovo and Albania, thus resurrecting Greater Albania.This violent splintering of the Balkans is the dream of German foreignpolicy which, for a hundred years, has advocated "Serbia must die," because Serbia, with its passionate opposition to foreign domination,has always been the driving force uniting Balkan peoples into a statecapable of resisting Germany. Thus "Serbia must die" has been the racist battle-cry of the German drive of preventing the creation ofand then destroying Yugoslavia. (The Comintern's old line that"Serbian hegemony is the problem" is in essence a polite rephrasing of the German slogan.) An independent Kosovo, acting as a base for anation-destroying campaign to create a Greater Albania, would be agiant step closer to realizing this German dream, grotesquely embracedby Mr. Avineri, of a Yugoslavia broken into increasingly tiny parts, helpless to resist German hegemony.
Jared Israel
Newton Mass
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