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...what percentage of their resolutions were implemented by the P.A., they broke out laughing. The answer was zero. Arafat has trampled on the supposedly independent judiciary as well. In mid-August the High Court in Ramallah ordered the release of 10 university students detained without being charged in a roundup of alleged Islamists. But Arafat squashed the order, explaining to a delegation from the Legislative Council that he had not been consulted by the court and was not its puppet. Soon after, the head of the court was forced to retire...
...Edgar Hoover's FBI put more zeal into collecting dirt on Martin Luther King Jr. than into protecting civil-rights workers. It does not help that two ATF agents who face potential disciplinary action for taking part in the racist shenanigans at the so-called Good Ol' Boys Roundup in May 1995 were originally part of the church-burning task force. They have since been reassigned...
...Treblinka, were mostly composed of military reservists. Of the 500 or so officers and men who served in 1942 with one typical unit that Goldhagen details, Police Battalion 101, only 21 belonged to the Nazi elite force known as the SS. That year the battalion participated in a roundup of Jews from the Lublin region of Poland. Thousands were hunted down and slaughtered in execution orgies that left the police splattered with the blood and brains of their helpless victims...
...coerced into taking part? No, insists Goldhagen. One of the battalion's commanders, Trapp by name, offered to excuse the squeamish from killing duty. Only a handful of guards took up the offer. Far from hating their work, the men of Battalion 101 even took pictures of the roundup, which they proudly mailed to wives or girlfriends, who would not have been too surprised by evidence of such brutality. Germany, Goldhagen writes, was "saturated" with prison camps where Jewish inmates were in essence worked to death under conditions scarcely better than those of the Eastern European killing fields...
...ROUNDUP IN ISRAEL...