Auschwitz and the UN: Smokescreen and Nihilism

Finding Nemo, a delightful family movie, contains a scene that parallels the UN hosting a “Auschwitz—“Never Again” Remembrance Day” in a most fitting way.  The scene starts off with Nemo’s father (Dad) and his newly found friend Dory searching for Nemo, the lost son.  In their search, they meet a few Sharks who persuade them to be guests at their first annual “Fish Are Friends Day.”  All goes well until the lead shark starts to smell blood coming from Dory’s nose (she was hit by a scuba diving mask). The smell of the blood causes him to lose all sense of composure, intent and purpose.  Dad and Dory have now become “shark bait” and find themselves escaping a menagerie of obstacles to save their lives. 

From 1955-1992, the UN issued 65 resolutions against Israel; from 1993-1995 over 20 resolutions were issued; and from 1992-2001 the US vetoed 14 resolutions condemning Israel. And now the leaders of the U.N. are joining voices with the Jews and announcing "Never again"? 

When my mind linked the above movie and the history of the UN, I wanted to say to the Jewish community at large beware of  "Jews Are Friends Day"  in Europe--especially anything hosted by the UN 

But using the Holocaust as a means of building peaceful relations between the UN, Israel, and Jews is far more problematic than one may realize.  The UN’s compliance with ‘remembering Auschwitz’ is nothing more than a smokescreen created in an attempt to appease its seared conscience towards the Jews, while knowingly conspiring with Arab leaders for Israel’s complete demise.   

Thankfully, we do have men and women who have worked tirelessly to keep the Holocaust before us, as it is a time in history that should never be forgotten.  But the Holocaust has become much more than a point and time in history to be remembered.  It has become a mystery that the world spends endless time trying to solve, as well as a moral plumb line of justice in Europe and America.

All plumb lines have to be fixed by some type of weight.  Using any event in history as a moral plumb line is utilizing a plumb line that is not fixed, because the interpretation of that event changes, reflecting the viewpoints of world rulers, opinions, and perceptions as time changes. Therefore, linking the Holocaust to establish a moral consciousness or plumb line is not possible.  On the contrary, it was an unfixed moral plumb line that caused the Holocaust.

The link between the Holocaust and Europes perception of morality is noteworthy.  G-dless societies steeped in unrighteousness use the injustice toward the Jews in the Holocaust to determine whether they are on one side or the other  of morality.  More than once, I have encountered strong feedback against the horrors of the Holocaust from people I have met around the world.  They wouldn’t blink an eye at homosexuality, abortion, cannibalism, etc. but, the Holocaust is another story--and as the single most horrific example of immorality, it should be.  

Yet, the subject of morality plays a huge underlying role in determining why there ever was a Holocaust.

The existence of morality is not a humanitarian issue, but a G-d issue. It came with the makeup and conscience given to man when G-d created him in His own image.  The covenant G-d made with Abraham was based on the sole premise that he and his seed would walk “wholehearted” or “with moral integrity” before Him.  The sign of Abraham’s agreement with G-d to produce a moral people was, and still is, the Covenant of Circumcision.  This covenant includes two parts of inheritance--the land of Israel and the seed of Israel. 

It also includes the destiny of Israel, “Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people:  for all the earth is mine: and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.”   Shemot (Exodus) 19:5  

G-d then gave the children of Israel the Ten Commandments as guidelines of holiness for social and civil government by which he would establish His people and their nation, Israel.  These commandments, with their accompanying statutes and judgments, formed the ethical structure of the Jewish people.  In Devarim 4:6, G-d said to Israel “if you will keep my commandments and obey my voice I will make you a wise and an understanding nation in the sight of all nations.” 

And true Christianity is rooted in the same covenant and Torah teachings. The Ten Commandments are as much the plumb line of Christian ethics as of Jewish ethics.  Such ethics establish a true moral plumb line as they are fixed in something that is established forever--the Word of G-d.  "Forever O L-RD Thy Word is settled in heaven."   King David in Tehillim 119:89 

Therefore, when the Ten Commandments are the moral plumb line of the Jews, Christians and mankind, then G-d is the driving force behind the moral integrity of man and the nations.  But, when the Ten Commandments are no longer the moral plumb line, another driving force takes over.   That driving force is “Nihilism.”  “Nihilism” is a spiritual condition of being completely separated from G-d, void of G-d, atheism, hell, and a development in Christian Europe on a huge scope.

Wherever there is “Nihilism,” something has to fill the void it creates.  Melek David said, “The nation that forgets G-d will be turned into hell.”  That something will always be a value system that replaces the commandments of G-d, whether it is an individual value system, a humanitarian value system, an idolatrous value system or another religious value system such as Islam. 

Therefore it is understandable that when Nihilism became the driving force of Europe in the twentieth century (as it is yet today) that something or someone’s ideology had to fill it.  That someone and his ideology was Hitler.  But before Hitler could create an Aryan race and government to fill the “void-ness of G-d” in Europe, he had to remove that which stood in his way—the Jews. 

What’s shocking is that it wasn’t Christianity he needed to remove, although it was considered to be the entity through which G-d existed in Europe, but Jewry and Judaism.  Why?  Because spiritual forces behind Hitler knew something that neither Jewry nor most Christians understood: that Jewry holds all that pertains to G-d.  Romans 9:4 states that “the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants (including the New Covenant), and the giving of the Torah, and the service of G-d, and the promises” all belong to the Israelites.

Salvation history belongs to the house of Israel.  One of the greatest errors the Church ever made is that it "fostered the illusion that it had any truth apart from the house of Israel.”   Therefore, if you remove the foundation, or the people that possess the foundation to establish G-d’s moral plumline in the earth, everything that is built upon it will automatically collapse, including Christianity.  In other words, Jewry was the only entity standing between Hitler and his vision for an Aryan race, superior to G-d Himself.  

Kim Johnson

Director, Global Israel Alliance