From: josip@src.umd.edu (Josip Loncaric)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: Fascism Reawakens in Croatia, Charges Jewish Leader
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:54:07 GMT
Organization: Systems Research Center, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park

In article <1992Aug18.201614.27851@cs.yale.edu> pavlovic-milan@CS.YALE.EDU (Milan Pavlovic) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.144029.19002@src.umd.edu> josip@src.umd.edu (Josip Loncaric) writes:
>
>>Mr. Pavlovic, you are charging at windmills.  Ustashe policy of genocide 
>>was criminal and Croats know it -- I have certainly said so many times.
>>But your posting's logic is that
>>
>>(WWII Ustashe) = (Croats in general in WWII) = (Croats in general today)
>>
>>which is blatantly false because
>>
>>(1) Croats had resisted Ustashe in WWII
>>(2) Croats today know what Ustashe did and reject it.
>
>Croats never apologized, and I doubt they ever will. What is even worse, there
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Croats (myself included) have said on numerous occasions that what Ustashas
did was criminal.  Haven't you been listening?  Did you READ at all the
message I posted?

>is a reawakening of fascism and genocidal policy in Croatia.  I will quote 
>an article from "The Jewish Advocate", of January 24-30, 1992.
>Without permission, for academic purposes only.
>===============================================================================
>	Fascism Reawakens in Croatia, Charges Jewish Leader
>
>By Klara Mandic
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mrs. Madic is a Serbian propagandist and not Jewish at all.  

>  THE FOLLOWING WAS SENT TO THE ADVOCATE BY DR. KLARA MANDIC FROM YUGOSLAVIA.
>DR. MANDIC IS A JEWISH LEADER, FOUNDER AND GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE SERBIAN-
>JEWISH FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY WHICH PROMULGATES GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SERBIAN
>AND JEWISH PEOPLES WHO HAVE LIVED TOGETHER IN YUGOSLAVIA FOR CENTURIES.  THE
>SOCIETY ORGANIZED A SERBIAN WEEK IN ISRAEL LAST YEAR DURING WHICH 23 SERBIAN
>CITIES BECAME SISTER CITIES WITH 23 CITIES IN ISRAEL.  IT ALSO ORGANIZED A 
>SOLIDARITY VISIT TO ISRAEL BY THE MAYORS OF 15 SERBIAN CITIES DURING THE
>PERSIAN GULF WAR.  SHE WRITES THAT RECENT EVENTS IN CROATIA ARE GENERATING
>ECHOES OF WORLD WAR II THAT ARE VERY DISTURBING.

Mrs. Mandic has worked for Mr. Milosevic, advancing his agenda, and her
activity has nothing to do with genuine concern for the Jews.  

> [...]
>===============================================================================
>Regards,
>Milan Pavlovic

This January 1992 report which you had saved for distribution is 
"a smoking gun" which proves that Serbian propagandists have used slander 
for political purposes.  The success of this deception is very obvious by now.

Permit me to quote this week's Newsweek (Aug. 24, 1992, p.45):

      The Serbs have all but won their war in Bosnia.  Their brutal policy 
   of ethnic cleansing has demolished whole villages and made refugees of
   more than 1 million civilians, mostly Muslims and Croats. ...
      How did the Serbs get away with it?  Western inaction is only partly
   to blame.  Most of the credit goes to Serbian President Slobodan
   Milosevic.  His plan was brillaint and simple: under the cover of ethnic 
   conflict, seize prodigious amounts of land.  If Bosnian Serbs could
   be convinced they faced extinction, they would expel, terrorize and
   kill their neighbors.

As you see, Milosevic's lies about "fascist Croats" and "fundamentalist 
Muslims" were a key part of starting this war.  Serbian propagandists
like Mrs. Mandic have played a key role in creating this carnage.  Do you
really want to identify yourself with her slanderous propaganda?

Josip
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