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INDEPENDENT KOSOVO IS THE BLUEPRINT FOR INDEPENDENT ARAB “PALESTINE”….A NATION TORN FROM ITS RIGHTFUL OWNERS TO SATISFY JIHADIST ENEMIES….RSK

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Leftist Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently treated us to an article by editor Adar Primor, titled “Israel Must Recognize Kosovo.” For Israel’s own sake, no less. ( “Israel must remain faithful to the principles of self-determination on which it was founded and be the 100th country to recognize Kosovo. Not just for Kosovo’s sake – but for its own.”) The cheap piece was a rehashing of the 90s-born pop platitudes, cliches and myths such as Milosevic’s “nationalist” speech which “ignited” four wars, and “national aspirations of an oppressed people [who] suffered massacres, rapes and ethnic cleansing,” plus tired and debunked designations such as “Butcher of the Balkans” and “worst war crimes in Europe since World War II.” The article was replete with the Pristina/Washington talking points: “unique case, modern-dressed girls, alcohol sold freely, and no chance of Islamization.” This autopilot was also the last guy who still on “quarter of a million” dead in the Balkan wars. Not surprisingly, Primor didn’t miss the opportunity to bring in the UN vote against Israel, on which Albania abstained but Serbia did not (that sad story is explained here). He also did the usual projection of the Albanians’ uncompromising “it’s all mine” demand onto the Serbian side. But then, this is someone who still perceives “unconditional” American support for Israel.

He also credulously quoted the prime minister, Hashim the Snake Thaci giving one of his usual Washington-Pristina talking points: “[Former foreign minister Vuk] Jeremic warned against a domino effect that could undermine the stability of the Balkans, bring to the surface both ‘dormant’ and new disputes in the world…Prime Minister Hashim Thaci answered this concern… ‘Kosovo is a unique case and, as a result, its independence doesn’t set any precedent. On the contrary; its freedom will be a cornerstone of stability for the Balkans, which will enter an era of cooperation and peace.’ From the perspective of five years hence, it’s clear: Thaci was right, and Jeremic (and Israel) were mistaken.”

Because a mere five years is such a long, long time, right, providing all the hindsight on Kosovo anyone will ever need. Five years, incidentally, during which the international overseers are still there and so Kosovo is still on good behavior (compared to what’s going to be once the do-gooders leave. That’s if you don’t count a pogrom of the dead, digging up bodies and scattering the remains to mark five years of “independence”).

Primor couldn’t resist mentioning the monument that Pristina dedicated two weeks ago “to commemorate Kosovo Jews murdered in the Holocaust,” and that the authorities have been going out of their way (lately) to make Kosovo’s 56 Jews feel welcome.

The monument he’s talking about: Kosovo unveiling Holocaust memorial (JTA, May 23)

Kosovo is unveiling a plaque commemorating its Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was scheduled to unveil the plaque on Thursday in Pristina at the site of the country’s last synagogue, across the street from the parliament.

“This is the place where the last Synagogue of Kosovo stood until 1963,” the plaque reads in Albanian, Hebrew, English and Serbian. “This plaque is raised in memory of Kosovo Jews that perished in Nazi camps during Holocaust. People of Kosovo will never forget them.”

Among the scheduled speakers at the event are Jason Steinbaum, the chief of staff for Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)…who has been a champion of Kosovo independence. [A leading American-Jewish mouthpiece for the anti-Serb terrorists, in no small part because of his heavily Albanian constituency in the Bronx that keeps reelecting him.] Also speaking will be an Israeli representative. […]

You’ve gotta love Albanians: Two monuments unveiled this year — one for Jewish Holocaust victims, and the other for KLA terrorists. What great company we Jews are in. Thanks, Kosova, it really means a lot. As for Thaci, a modern–day Mengele, making the Holocaust plaque dedication, well I’m just speechless.

Nowhere in the JTA item above is it mentioned — nor likely was it at the unveiling — who collected Kosovo’s WWII Jews. Albanians.

Another item about the plaque dedication quotes the Israeli ambassador saying that the plaque also “expresses gratitude for the renewal of Jewish life in Kosovo, including the maintenance of the cemetery….”

One wonders if he means the cemetery that had been neglected and grown over for years, until Kosovo’s race for recognitions was on, at which point a bunch of Ivy League suckers from the Dartmouth College Hillel were invited to clean it up in June 2011?

That would be the same cemetery that — after the useful idiots’ somber Kosovo PR job was done — was desecrated with swastikas just five months later?

Albanians still remember some of their German: “On Thursday the hate graffiti ‘Jud Raus’ – a misspelling of the German ‘Juden Raus,’ which means “Jews out” – could still be seen at the foot of a memorial.”

In other words, before, the cemetery was so covered with debris that no one even knew it was there. As soon as it was visible, however, it was desecrated. (Oh, that reminds me of: “[Radmila] wished to be buried alongside her late husband in the Orthodox Christian graveyard, which has been the target of persistent attacks and vandalism since June 1999…Incidentally, the old Jewish graveyard adjacent to the Orthodox graveyard has also been vandalised.”)

An excerpt from the pathetic little June 2011 AP article about the students’ good intentions:

…Ever since the end Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war, these graves — some of them dating back to the late 19th century — lay mostly forgotten. “You could hardly even see where any of the graves were,” said Susan Matthews, 21, from Chatham, New York. “We had to essentially find and uncover the graves, take down all the brush that had grown up the hill, wash all the stones so that we could read the etchings on them again,” she said. Matthews is among students visiting Europe as part of their inquiry into genocide. [Because Jews need to learn about genocide from Kosovo Albanians.]
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Rabbi Edward S. Boraz of The Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth College said the aim of the tour was to look at genocide “as a human problem not specific to any one group of people.” [Well that explains it: Kosovo can teach them that anyone can declare themselves victims of genocide, and in the process achieve a “revenge” one, plus diminish the real ones. Like, for example, the one that killed close to a million Serbs in Croatia. Or was Croatia still not a scheduled stop for genocide-learning? Did the geniuses miss that far realer — and older — European genocide? Again? Meanwhile, with Kosovo as a genocide in their minds, I’m sure they’ll recognize when the next real one is afoot. I guess we still haven’t learned the moral of The Genocide that Cried Wolf.]
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After [WWII], Kosovo’s small Jewish community dwindled. Some 300 died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany…Those that remained left for Israel and Serbia during and in the aftermath of the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Some 10,000 [sic] people died during the Kosovo war as Serbia launched a brutal crackdown on independence minded ethnic Albanians….

[That’s the Albanian AP reporter Nebi Qena keeping you on program: So that you don’t find out it was the Albanian side in the war that chased the Jews out, she inserts something that has you thinking it was all just an outgrowth of the war, the war “launched” by Serbia. But do notice that the Jews fled to Israel — and Belgrade.]
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The fate of long-neglected Jewish sites in the small, poor and newly independent country of Kosovo [The triple excuse. But “poor” doesn’t fly, since Thaci could just move the Jewish cemetery into his triple-zip-code backyard] has recently received some attention from the United States…

To mark the one-year anniversary of the clueless students’ efforts, the cemetery was vandalized again in June 2012.

(Note: In October 2010, the cemetery’s bad shape caught the attention of the Czech embassy: Restored Jewish Cemetery Falls into Disrepair — One year after the last vestige of Jewish Pristina was officially reopened following restoration, the graveyard has returned to its unkempt state….While it has been listed as one of the 19 protected monuments in the city, few people are aware of the unmarked Jewish cemetery hidden on this unassuming hill overlooking Kosovo’s capital…Just a year ago, the Jewish cemetery in Velania was hardly recognisable as a cemetery, most graves unidentifiable and covered in grass and garbage. A project was initiated by the Czech Embassy in Kosovo to restore the site, however, to this day it is unmarked and unguarded, and is used by local youngsters for football….”)

About the 300 Kosovo Jews mentioned in the AP article, who died at Bergen-Belsen. (No Ivy League eyebrows raised, incidentally, as to how that might have happened.) First, we’ll get the Stephen “Suleyman” Schwartz version of that answer — a Jewish Muslim who’s been shilling for the Albanians since the mid-90s, helping dupe Americans into going to war on their behalf. Naturally, he couldn’t resist seizing on the plaque dedication, and he too quotes the notorious gangster-prime-minister Thaci respectfully:

Kosovo Revives Its Jewish Heritage (June 3, 2013)

…Inauguration of the memorial was carried out with great solemnity by uniformed members of the Kosovo Guard, a ceremonial body, since the republic now has no armed forces. [At least until the end of this month, when the Kosovo “security force” is to be unleashed.] Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci…referred to the Holocaust as an “inconceivable crime that happened in Europe and which changed the paths of our societies in the last six decades.”

Thaci pointed out that Kosovo had been a way-station for hundreds of Jewish refugees from the Balkans and other parts of Europe, who were protected in Albania…

During Thaci’s remarks the Muslim call to prayer was heard from a nearby Ottoman-era mosque. Following the prime minister, Israeli diplomat Yosef Levy commented on the coincidence as symbolic of interfaith harmony…

What a coincidence! What are the chances of the Islamic call to prayer sounding over Kosovo? Now, let’s ponder the position of this poor Jew. This little interfaith song-and-dance is suddenly interrupted by — what? Church bells? No. Hava Nagila? No. Hare Krishna tambourines? No. By — what else — a Muslim call to prayer. It’s “symbolic,” all right. Symbolic of ‘interfaith’ gatherings always seeming to have one faith in particular asserting itself. And symbolic of Kosovo’s Western-expedited increasingly Islamic character. So the Jewish diplomat is interrupted by reality, and he reaches for the go-to platitude for a positive spin on the sound that speaks to the futility of the exercise he’s engaged in. This reminds me of how during the 1999 war, Pristina’s 11 Jews “[took] charge of the 23 primary schools in the city,” Los Angeles rabbi David Wolpe wrote in December 2011. “…This tiny number, with Israeli help and support, ensured the education of the Muslim children. This is what the Jewish tradition calls a ‘chesed shel emeth’ — a true kindness, one which can expect no recompense…Such a story is not only about Jews, but about the power of religion to reach across lines and do good in the world.”

And no recompense did they get. The KLA expelled Pristina’s Jews. But back to the plaque and WWII Kosovo:

Rabbi Levi Matusof, a European Jewish leader, recited a psalm and prayed in honor of the Kosovars.

So now we’re hastily making sure to include Kosovo Albanians with what, until now, we’d only heard about Albanian Albanians doing for Jews. Gee, nothing coordinated going on here at all.

Albanian scholar Saimir Lolja, in an article titled “The Rescue of Jews in Kosovo,” published in the English-language weekly Tirana Times, described how protection of Jews from the Nazis in the Albanian lands during World War II was undertaken by Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians. One Kosovar Muslim man, Arsllan Mustafa Rezniqi, has been honored as “Righteous Among the Nations” by the Holocaust memorial center at Yad Vashem in Israel. Rezniqi constructed a house on his property to shelter Jewish families.

A handful of Jews were deported from Kosovo after a Nazi-directed raid in mid-1944. [A “handful.” Half the Kosovo Jewish population doesn’t translate proportionally into a “handful” (as per the “Jewish Art & Monuments” item that immediately follows below. And notice how Schwartz deflects from the Kosovar hands-on aspect to this dirty work, by using the term “Nazi-directed.”] But most Jews who went to Kosovo and Albania were saved by local officials who provided them with false identity papers, or moved them from place to place. The Germans, who occupied Albania in 1943, demanded a list of Jews, and authorization to deport them, from the Albanian authorities, but were told that jurisdiction over the Jewish community belonged to the Albanian government alone. This action was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1998.
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Kosovo Assembly vice president Glauk Konjufca of the “Self-Determination” movement, which stands in opposition to Thaci and the current administration of the country, found it unsatisfactory that the memorial was set up in a space that is not visible to the public. [That’s an interesting point.]
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The Kosovo government has also pledged to construct a Museum of Kosovo’s Jewish Heritage. […]

Here’s the realer picture of that WWII history, from “Jewish Art & Monuments” blog, a month after the first post-Dartmouth cemetery desecration:

New Treaty Could Protect Jewish Sites in Kosovo (Jan. 28, 2012, by Samuel D. Gruber)

…Ivan Ceresnjes, former head of the Bosnia Jewish Community and now a researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been visiting Kosovo regularly for the past few decade[s] and reporting on the continued deterioration of Jewish sites. Ceresnjes, who has organized surveys of Jewish sites in Bosnia and Serbia for the U.S. Commission, is particularly concerned about the fate of the “New” Jewish cemetery in the capital city Pristina…Of Kosovo he wrote:

“There were about 500 Jews before the Second World War, of whom 250 [by other accounts 281] were handed over to the Germans by Kosovar Albanians. There were also a few examples where Kosovars killed Jews, and there was also a Kosovar SS unit. About twenty righteous gentiles helped the other 250 Jews escape to Albania where the Jews were protected. After the war, in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, a huge memorial was erected for all victims of Nazism including the partisans and the Jews. When the Serbian-Albanian fighting broke out in Kosovo in 1999, almost all names were removed….”

[No fascist connection to our ‘modern’ Albanian clients, right? Just like our modern Croatian and Bosnian ones.]

In addition to the continuing process of destruction by neglect at the New Cemetery and other sites, there has been vandalism against Jewish sites. In December 2011, shortly before the cultural heritage treaty was signed, the Old Jewish Cemetery in Pristina, which had been cleaned last June by a group of students from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and their peers from the American University in Kosovo, was vandalized and swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were spray painted on old gravestones.

This month Ceresnjes made his fifth visit since 2002 to the [’new’] cemetery, which is located on Dragodan Hill, next to a Serbian Orthodox cemetery. From Kosovo, Ceresnjes emailed the International Survey of Jewish Monuments (ISJM), writing:

“Last time, a year ago… I tried to see what is going on with the New Cemetery since I have seen from afar the huge infrastructural works being held around it but it was impossible to approach due to flooding of the area of both cemeteries (Jewish and Serbian) with sewage. [Now] in light of recent signing of the agreement between government of USA and present government of Kosovo I am just informing all of you about the sad reality on the ground — the quick and merciless destruction and disappearance of the heritage of one of the smallest and maybe the most endangered minority in Kosovo — the Jewish one.”

(Endangered in the sense of extinction; it remains far more dangerous to be a Serb in Kosovo, as the Albanians didn’t go about pulling Jews apart with cars, or stabbing Hebrew-speakers. Just Serbs and Serbian-speakers.)

This is all of course in addition to the irony of Albanians honoring a cemetery to begin with.

The plaque dedication must have been too much to bear, finally, for some ex-Kosovo Jews. And so for the first time in 15 years — though not mentioned in any of the feel-good news items about the plaque — we heard from one of the Jews who left during the Albanian unrest in the mid to late 90s:

We were expelled, we will sue Kosovo – Jews from Pristina (Radio KiM, May 28, 2013)

On the occasion of raising a memorial plaque in the center of Pristina to Holocaust victims, representatives of the Jews expelled from Kosovo and connoisseurs of historical circumstances from the period of the Holocaust responded today, according to Radio KiM website article.

Nissan Conforti left Kosovo and went to Israel before the bombardment in 1999. Two years ago, Conforti filed a complaint, looking for restitution of five houses in the center of Pristina that belonged to his mother. Since then, he hasn’t received any answer from Pristina’s court, Radio KiM Reported.

His mother was [a] survivor of the Holocaust and he stated, in his interview to Radio KiM, that he will address [the matter] to Strasbourg court of human rights…Conforti’s own house has been burned up in riots in 1997. [A] year later, his family had to move from Kosovo to Israel.
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This memorial plaque bothers Conforti. [The] plaque says that Jews have been transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but it doesn’t say that they were held for 15 days in Albanian military facilities, according to Conforti, where his mother and her three children were also kept. Also, it doesn’t say anything about [the] Skanderbeg division, Albanian soldiers who arrested Jews and helped Nazis.

This plaque is just a try to present Kosovo as a multicultural, European community, which is, according to historian Milos Damjanovic, [a] useless effort. What’s sad, [the] plaque isn’t saying a thing about Serbian and Roma families that hid Jews from Xhaver Deva, Albanian collaborationist who helped Hitler and whose name was a synonym for Hitler among Jews. [Deva, born in Kosovska Mitrovica in 1904, recruited for the Skanderbeg division, to rid Kosovo of Serbs, Jews, and Roma.]

Indeed, all the Holocaust PR for the Balkans has benefited not the far more numerous Serb saviors of Jews [is even one identified at Yad Vashem?] but those who, as nations, sided with the Nazis. Which helps explain why in 1999, as Ceresnjes mentions, the Nazis’ victims’ names were removed from the memorial in Kosovo the moment the Albanians found their next sponsor after their Nazi “liberators” — NATO. About the Jew-saving PR, not only have the historically Axis-aligned Albanians been touting their saves, but now even the Jew-liquidating, Serb-eye-gouging Croats are touting their Jew-saves — without ever first telling the world about their genocide of Serbs and Jews:

Consider this: Like virtually every other Holocaust museum, I’m told this little Illinois number doesn’t have a Jasenovac exhibit, the war’s second- or third-deadliest camp. So, before they’ve ever even taught the public, 60 years late, the word “Jasenovac” — which defines WWII Croatia — they’re skipping right over it to divert public attention to a few good Croats. And thus Croatia’s march proceeds to the E.U. (official membership date July 1).

Worse yet, the thing is in Skokie, a significant place in American-Jewish history. It was the attempted neo-Nazi march there in the 70s that launched the Holocaust education movement. So to have one of these dishonest, politically manipulated museum routines there (which routinely dehumanize Serbs by excluding them as victims and designating them as villains) is that much more profane. Even more perverse, it turns out that its ceremonial opening in 2009 was done by none other than Bill Clinton, the man who had us repeat WWII in Yugoslavia.

The Albanian Jew-saving PR, meanwhile, stays on course. This past December, the latest press outfit falling victim to Albanian PR about WWII was Yeshiva World News. Notice that, as in the plaque articles, the PR for the first time is making sure to mention specifically Kosovo Albanians, since that’s the place they’re trying to legitimize in a hurry. This hadn’t been the case, at least as far as I’m aware, for the traveling road show about Albanians saving Jews.

Top Jewish Officials Pay Tribute to Albanians for Its Rescue of All Its Jews During Holocaust (Yeshiva World News, Dec. 3, 2012)

The Kennedy Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington DC was the venue for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the independence of Albania…to highlight the fact that Albania is the only nation that can claim that every Jew who either lived in Albania or sought refuge there was saved during World War II. Also, few people know that the rescue in Albania could not have happened without the help of Albanians living in Nazi-occupied Kosova, [ahem: Nazi-enthusiastic Kosovo] which became an independent state in 2008.
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At the luncheon that was…hosted by the Albanian American Civic League and Albanian American Foundation under the leadership of former Congressman and founding President Joe DioGuardi and Balkan Affairs Adviser Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi…Senator Schumer introduced a resolution commending the people of Albania…Other distinguished speakers included Representative Eliot Engel….Johanna Neumann, a spokesperson for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…spoke about how her family sought refuge in Albania from Germany and subsequently survived the Holocaust. […]

One supposes that last detail might be a contributing factor explaining why Nazi Albania, Nazi Croatia, and Nazi Bosnian Muslims were left out of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, while 1990s-era Serb crimes — real, imagined, projected, inverted, or transposed — were included. And why Serb WWII victims and Jew-saviors were also excluded, while 1990s Croatian and Bosnian victims — real, imagined, or transposed — were included.

Like ants, the ethnic lobbies crafting “history” proceed on course with the big lie, utilizing a few Righteous Gentiles and a kernel of truth. No matter the obstacles that may come in their way. No matter the veritable hemorrhage of exposees about Kosovo recently — a tsunami so huge that even Americans finally learned the name of the place they waged war in 15 years ago. But it seems that only one set of opposing facts takes seed in the American mind. The easier set. And so the more entrenched set. And so our students — whether at the community college level, Ivy League, or grade school — have been getting the same lesson plan on the subject. A remedial one. Ensuring that vulnerable young minds — from a 60 I.Q. to a 140 I.Q. — get the Zero I.Q. version of Kosovo.

Dartmouth students probably fancy themselves a few notches more gifted than the Jersey kids at a school like Seton Hall or Monmouth, but when it comes to Americans and the Balkans, there are no intellectual distinctions. People really are equal. No critical thinking required. I mean, who knew that Dartmouth students could be in a ‘class’ with Monmouth students?

First, here’s Seton Hall getting in on the act:

Spring Trip to Kosovo for Students, Alumni and Friends (Feb. 29, 2012, By Tahir Ambris)

The Whitehead School will host a study seminar for all current Seton Hall students and alumni in Pristina, Kosovo from May 22- June 1, 2012…This is a great opportunity…to experience a first-hand demonstration of the reconstruction and stability of a foreign country. We will discuss the future prospects of Kosovo and the question of its future membership in the EU and NATO.

Students will visit cultural sites outside of Pristina, which may include Gracanica Serbian Orthodox monastery, constructed on the ruins of a 13th century church and a 6th century basilica; Kosovo Polje, where Slobodan Milo¹eviæ was sent to calm a crowd of protestors, when he famously told them that “No one has the right to beat you … No one will beat you ever;” Camp Film City, Pristina’s NATO Headquarters; Prizren, the most culturally and ethnically heterogeneous municipality of Kosovo, and Gjakova, a predominantly Albanian city, which suffered great physical destruction, large-scale human losses and human rights abuses during the war.

Even this Albanian Fulbright scholar at University of Wisconsin didn’t learn about the “ethnic cleansing of Albanians” until she “read academic texts on the subject”: UWM grad gets Fulbright grant to study Kosovo war’s effects (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Aug. 14, 2012): “‘As a young girl, I didn’t understand what was happening,’ she said. Shabani wouldn’t learn about the ethnic cleansing of Albanians in the Serbian-controlled province of Kosovo until she read academic texts on the subject for a political science class. From then on, ‘it was in my consciousness,’” she said.

And at Brandeis, which used to be for smart kids, check out this story line by student Jordan Birnbaum: Study abroad adventures: experiences of an American in Kosovo (March 16, 2012)

…You see, during the war in Yugoslavia, Kosovo was annexed, then became a province, and then became an autonomous province, and in 1989 was declared a part of Serbia. [HUH?] In 2008 Kosovo declared independence as the Republic of Kosovo…

Prishtina, the capital, was an extremely welcoming city. The people here smile on the streets, they’re friendly and they want to help…We are, after all, talking about a city with “I love USA” posters and a statue of Bill Clinton…

During the last week we attended lectures with people from civil society in Kosovo/a…who taught us more about transitional justice and the role of the international community in Kosovo/a…I climbed a fort, had dinner in a rotating restaurant, attempted to learn some Albanian, tried some amazing food, went into a mosque for the first time, met with some brilliant leaders, took a photo with the Bill Clinton statue, played on the newborn sign and went to a few different cities…

But back to the Kosovo president, who personally came to deliver the talking points to both Dartmouth and Monmouth:

Kosovo’s President Addresses Monmouth University, Seeks Normal Relations with Serbia (Asbury Park Press, Dec. 14, 2011)

…She spoke of over a century of oppression that the Kosovo people lived under but then gained some freedom as an autonomous Serbian province under Josip Broz Tito’s rule. [Ah, so the communism that they were dubbed “freedom-fighters” against was working for them. That’s not to mention the sponsorship the separatists were getting from neighboring Stalinist Enver Hoxha. Why, then, did they remove the communist names from the WWII memorial in 1999? Certainly not because they’re hopeless fascists?]

When Slobodan Milosevic came to power in Serbia, he abolished those gained freedoms [Oh yes, he simply abolished them], committed atrocities, denied human rights and forced Albanian Muslims out of Kosovo to be replaced with Christian Serbs. [Oh yes: hand-picked Serbs from cities across Serbia proper were lined up at the Kosovo border, just waiting to get in on the peasant life! Yet another inversion by the propagandist side (which by definition accuses the target of doing exactly what he/she has done or is about to do): This “replacement” was exactly the Albanian plan, and accomplishment: a flood of Albanians replaced the displaced Serbs.]
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She appeared at the lecture with Christopher Dell, who was appointed U.S. ambassador to Kosovo in 2009, and is related to a staff member at Monmouth University.
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“Kosovo is a good news story, not a bad news story,” Dell said… “I believe she (Jahjaga) represents a future that a Muslim country can show that Islamic and western values can coexist.’’

Ah, the infidel dream that Islam and the West can coexist, which has become an ever bigger reason for selling our Serb allies down the river, and shoving these inconveniently harmless Slavs into Russia’s arms (after using them as a lever against the U.S.S.R. for decades). So that in the end we can absolve ourselves retroactively by saying: ‘Well, see? They’re with the Russians anyway!’

And you see how pat and easy it all is? The Kosovo story is one-size-fits-all. You’re not expected — or wanted — to figure it out, so even though your intelligence will be insulted, you won’t know it. From Monmouth, Atifete Goes to Dartmouth:

Kosovo president addresses students (March 7, 2012, By Erin Landau, The Dartmouth Staff)

…Jahjaga, the first woman to serve as president of a Balkan nation, [to show how progressive a thugocracy can be] discussed her experiences with the education system in Kosovo, in which students were forced to attend university in private homes to avoid punishment. She said that prior to the creation of Kosovo, a “fear of repression was attached to my desire to learn” because Serbian officers used to “break into classes to imprison teachers and stop us from being knowledgeable.”
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“Now, students can learn in a regular school environment,” she said.

[Regular school environment: Grenade Explodes in Serb Classroom in Kosovo; Albanians stab female Red Cross worker, stone school; Kosovo: Serb school attacked again; “Death to Serbs” Graffiti appears on primary school in Gnjilane; Kosovo authorities threatening Gorani over school curriculum; Bomb Explodes in Serbian School Kosovo: Schools in Serb enclaves left without water; Serb teacher in central Kosovo town notes “frequent attacks”, police inactivity; Tadic Strongly Condemns Attack On Serb Teacher — [Vuko] Danilovic was attacked by young Albanians who were hitting him in his face and stomach with their fists…He and a group of five Serb children were participating in the “Multiethnic Camp” which was organized by OSCE…]

At the end of her speech, Jahjaga presented the Mother Teresa Award for contribution in the field of humanism to James Strickler DMS ’51, who led Dartmouth’s efforts to provide resources to Kosovo and help the nation reconstruct its health education and health care systems.

The College first sent aid to Kosovo in conjunction with Dartmouth Medical School faculty who provided critical care to refugees after the war, according to College Provost Carol Folt. Dartmouth now offers opportunities for medical students, physicians and nurses to participate in exchange programs, and there have been more than 200 exchanges of medical faculty and students between Dartmouth and Kosovo. [Oh the irony! One wonders who’s teaching whom about organ-extraction. Any Serb-blooded students on the exchange had better wear armor!]
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Dartmouth and the American University in Kosovo created a partnership two years ago that includes conducting faculty and student exchange programs and supporting curriculum development. In June, a group of Dartmouth students and recent graduates traveled to Kosovo with Project Preservation and, working with American University in Kosovo students, helped restore a Jewish cemetery in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital.
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“Your efforts have been profoundly moving to me because you are bringing democracy to that region,” Folt said [addressing Jahjaga]. “The first time I visited the homeland of my ancestors, I was filled with optimism for the future.” […]

Did we just learn that the provost of Dartmouth is Albanian? There wouldn’t be anything wrong with this except that that particular ethnic loyalty has steered America down a dark and self-destructive course, which crosses the line from being inspiring examples of high-achieving immigrants to acting as plants, implanting themselves in various fields, which they then influence in furtherance, at all costs, of their own ethnic interests.

The below comes from someone who listened to the “lecture”:

The INCREDIBLE irony of all this is that Kosovo universities demanded to conduct classes in ALBANIAN ONLY throughout the 1980s and 1990s, even though Serbo-Croatian was the language of Yugoslavia, and even though Kosovo was a province of Yugoslavia, NOT a province of Albania.

This is such a joke. What would happen if a state in the U.S. suddenly insisted that ALL classes in public schools and universities had to be conducted in Spanish or Swahili or Hebrew, and refused to allow classes to be taught in English? Would those students, trained only in those languages, be prepared to land jobs in an English-speaking nation? Would that foster common ground, or separatism?
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She keeps talking about the Serbs living in Kosovo who do not accept the authority of the Republic of Kosovo — a state illegally declared, in violation of national and international laws…She talks about how few Serbs live there — without explaining how that disproportionate number came about.

…She blames the Serbs there for “illegal parallel structures?” What the heck was the entire separation of Kosovo? Don’t choke too hard when you hear about the refugees at the end, that this was NATO’s “most useful, successful mission,” or that Kosovo is a multinational country where tolerance is a great success. Sure, that’s why they destroyed or desecrated more than 400 churches, raped nuns and citizens, killed Serbs living in their own ancestral homes for 600 years.

Interesting that Dartmouth didn’t want to allow questions at the end, and set up NO microphones for the students…This slimy propaganda was a disgrace and insult to higher education.

Indeed, in her “lecture,” she covered all the standard stuff, expressing her no-brainer position that she’s against partition or land exchange. As we know, the Albanians WANT IT ALL. And so the Serbs are called “uncompromising.”

Dartmouth Physician and Dean Honored by Kosovo President at Public Lecture (Dartmouth Now, By Susan J. Boutwell, March 6, 2012)

…To a packed audience in the Hopkins Center’s Moore Theater, Jahjaga said her four-year-old nation has emerged from war a better place. [???!!!]

“The goal is to build a functioning democracy, a just society where the rule of law is established and values such as human rights and equality of all people regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion are restored,” she said… [???!!!]

She came to Dartmouth at the invitation of Provost Carol Folt, who is also an environmental scientist and had visited Kosovo this past fall, lecturing there. Folt told the Moore Hall auditorium that her trip allowed her to see the roots of her own Albanian heritage for the first time…

Former Dartmouth Medical School Dean Dr. James Strickler ’50, DMS ’51, has been creating and implementing health programs overseas for more than three decades, including activities in Kosovo…Strickler has been awarded the Humanitarian Medal of Mother Teresa, an award given by the president of the Republic of Kosovo to citizens and foreigners who contribute to the field of humanism. [Just when you thought your eyes couldn’t roll any farther into the back of your head, this comes from a woman representing a state run by human-vivisecters, and partly owing its birth to funds from stolen organs — not to mention that today it reigns supreme in human-trafficking.]
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Folt said Dartmouth will this summer welcome its first exchange student from American University in Kosovo. Additionally, there are two Kosovar students studying at Dartmouth Medical School. [Great!]
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In her lecture, she told students that her college days had been much different than theirs. She and her peers studied in safe houses, fearing discovery by police who would imprison teachers and “stop knowledge.” […]

A response to that particular charge came from author Bill Dorich, who wrote the following letter to the student paper:

The remark that there was “fear of repression in the desire to learn” is not just insulting, it is moronic considering that Albanians were permitted to be educated in their own language. For the past 30 years Pristina University in Kosovo had more than 95% Albanian enrollment. I suggest that Ms. Jahjaga stop pissing on our leg and convincing us that it is raining.

Over the past three decades Albanians in Kosovo had numerous ethnic newspapers, radio and television stations and their freedom of speech was never oppressed. But what was cleverly omitted from her presentation was any mention that Albanians for decades received a form of welfare from the Tito regime, unheard of in any Communist system in the world. I also remind the naive students at Dartmouth that the Serbs ranked in 4th place in the communist system of the late Tito regime and the ambassadorships and positions of power were held by Bosnian Muslims, Croats, and Albanians, not Serbs.

…I also remind your students that during the Tito regime when he gave the Albanians “autonomy” without a single vote of the Yugoslav parliament, the Albanians fired every Serb from their jobs including doctors, teachers, college professors, policemen and judges. Apparently your ignorant student body also needs reminding that during the Second World War over 160,000 Serbs were cleansed from Kosovo and after the war Tito forbade their return, giving their land to the Nazi Albanians, who supported his communist efforts. During the autonomy of the 1970s another 120,000 Serbs were forced from Kosovo during a campaign of terror that included the burning of over 500 Serbian farms, the rape of Serbian nuns and Serbian girls and the burning of 3 Serbian monasteries and 2 major Serbian libraries. Albanian officials burned over 2 million Serbian books including priceless manuscripts. How compelling that your college would invite such morons to your college and allow them to spew their anti Serb hatred…Yet your naive students applauded this hypocrite who, through KLA violence, has amputated sovereign Serbian territory.

Since the arrival of 17,000 NATO troops in 1999, the Albanians have destroyed [hundreds of] ancient Serbian Orthodox Christian churches as your student body remained silent…

Bill Dorich

The letter naturally went unpublished, nor did Mr. Dorich even hear back from the student paper.

Jahjaga’s stop at Dartmouth was part of her whirlwind U.S. tour last year. Two days later she was an invited attendee at one of those fluffy girl-power events called “Women in the World,” organized by Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where “Jahjaga met the former U.S. Secretary of State Mrs. Madeleine Albright….[who] shared with the participants her experience of childhood as a refugee of World War II by comparing it with the exodus of refugees during the war in Kosovo and other countries of former Yugoslavia,” M-Magazine reported at the time. Jahjaga’s introduction to American idiots — hyphenated Americans and not — inspired a misplaced mention of her in this list:

10 Muslim Women Every Person Should Know (Huffington Post, March 24, 2012, Fazeela Siddiqui)

…[T]he current President of Kosovo, Atife Jahjaga, is the world’s youngest female president, as well as her country’s first female Muslim president. In honor of Women’s History Month, I present 10 Muslim women, from the seventh century until today, that every Muslim (and everyone else) should know about…The following 10 extraordinary Muslim women have been shattering cement, glass and orbital ceilings with panache.

Jahjaga with the Obamas in September 2011, when she also attended a reception by Bill Clinton and met with Frank Wisner, U.S. envoy to Kosovo during the Ahtisaari status talks. [Frank Wisner Sr. had recruited Albanian Fascists for the CIA after WWII in “Operation Mocking Bird” but eventually had the decency to kill himself for one reason or another. His son, on the other hand — like the rest of our political establishment — is still active in reversing the WWII victory.]

Students are being fed a made-for-Americans pabulum, a watered-down version of the watered-down Kool-Aid that the rest of the country drank. Here’s the standard whitewash Kosovo lesson the Dartmouth kids got from a boob named Jason Steinbaum, chief of stuff for NY Rep. Eliot Engel. Just before the trip on which the kids were allowed to clean up only the Jewish cemetery (and not any of the hundreds of Orthodox ones lying in ruins), Steinbaum was dispatched to tell the wiz kids all they’d need to know about Kosovo:

Jason Steinbaum, “expert”; senior foreign affairs committee staffer for Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.

“Kosovo expert calls for sovereignty” [What else!]

By Matthew Mc Nierney, The Dartmouth Staff, May 17, 2011

Kosovar independence was instrumental to ending genocide in the region [interesting chronology there], and international recognition of Kosovo’s sovereignty is essential to the country’s future stability, according to Jason Steinbaum….[I]n a lecture entitled “Free Cold Soda to Free Kosovo: From Ethnic Cleansing to Independence”…Steinbaum said he first began studying the region with Engel after joining his staff in November 1993. When Engel was elected in 1998, a group of Albanian-Americans drew Engel’s attention to the “quiet ethnic cleansing” orchestrated by Serbians living in Kosovo. The group brought Engel to a rally, where the participants’ heavy accents led Engel to think they were chanting “free cold soda” instead of “free Kosovo,” Steinbaum said.

[The cute anecdote that’s required in any speech. All together now: Awww, they’re just cute little harmless immigrants who are being killed in their native land for their cuteness. Meanwhile, according to the above, five years into his staff studying the region, Engel didn’t even recognize the word Kosovo (or, more likely, Kosova). Until he was fed “information” from the Albanian spoon.]

Congressional response to the Kosovar conflict was much quicker than many Americans believe is possible from their government, according to Steinbaum. [Oh, Congress moves pretty darned fast if there’s some Serb-killin’ to be done.] “If anyone ever tells you that members of Congress don’t listen to their constituents, I can tell you that after 20 years of doing this, they do listen,” he said…
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As Steinbaum traced the history of the region, he urged audience members to support the Kosovar independence movement. [Because that one and only allowable position doesn’t have enough support.] The violence began when Slobodan Milosevic, who served as the president of Serbia at the time, delivered a speech calling Serbians to regain their “national heritage,” which led to the treatment of Albanians as second-class citizens and began the widespread genocide, according to Steinbaum.

The “widespread genocide” that was dropped from all Kosovo indictments at the Hague years ago, by virtue of its not existing. So the violence “began” in 1989? And not with the decades of clan-ordered violence against non-Albanians that was pushing the latter out of the province? The 1981 race riots weren’t violent? Or the 1968 ones, for that matter? As for “second-class citizens,” the Albanians were an oppressing minority, not an oppressed one, which may have made them less than well-liked. As for discrimination by a host society in general (though in the case of Serbs and Albanians, that was a two-way street), one can only answer, “Welcome to Europe.” But, as one commentator asked: Should the U.S. be in the business of telling Europe which of its oppressed minorities deserve to get their own state?

The Albanians, led by a pacifist president, responded to the genocide by creating their own “parallel system,” including a separate government, schools and health clinics, according to Steinbaum. [Wait, so the 1999 “genocide” happened in the 1980s? And notice that the Albanians’ parallel system is OK, unlike the Serbs’ “illegal parallel structures” mentioned by Jahjaga.] Serbia could have ended the conflict at this point but instead chose not to compromise, Steinbaum said. [Huh?]

Steinbaum helped advise the Albanians to settle for autonomy rather than independence, a provision they correctly guessed the Serbians would not grant them. As a result, Albanians appeared willing to compromise in the eyes of the international community, causing NATO to begin bombing Serbian forces [and civilians], he said.

Despite the prolonged fighting, the war did not end Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo, Steinbaum said. When three Albanian children were found drowned in the Ibar River, the Albanians quickly blamed the Serbians and proceeded to burn hundreds of Orthodox churches, according to Steinbaum. [Was anyone able to follow the thought process: Serbian sovereignty didn’t end in 1999; there was an anti-Serb pogrom in 2004.]

When the Albanians began to commit atrocities against the Serbians [”began”? No way that could have been happening all along, before his boss Engel learned that Kosovo wasn’t the same thing as cold soda], Steinbaum said he and other government officials realized that Kosovar independence was the only long-term solution to the problem. [Because Albanians are so very compromising. And look: violence pays.] Although Kosovo declared independence on Feb. 18, 2008 [sic: Feb. 17], Steinbaum said more countries need to recognize Kosovar sovereignty and the international community needs to aid Kosovo in solving its internal economic and corruption problems.

After that lovely assessment, and given the recurrence of Kosovo in the student paper, in April 2012 I sent the following email to Emily Fletcher and Branko Cerny, publisher and editor at the time:

I’m writing to ask whether you guys ever accept a guest column from outside the student body. The reason your paper has come to my attention is that my focus is on the Clintons’ unfinished war in Kosovo, and over the summer members of the Dartmouth Hillel went there to restore a Jewish cemetery. The planned trip was covered in the paper…but since that trip on which Dartmouth students cleaned up the graveyard, it was vandalized. The fact is, there is some deep and troubling historical background about Kosovo that has not made it to the student body, which — like the rest of America — has been given only the pro-independence perspective. Not only in The Dartmouth, but also in the talks given to Dartmouth students by both the president of Kosovo and Jason Steinbaum of Rep. Eliot Engel’s office (which caters to a huge Albanian constituency in the Bronx).
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To anyone who has been following the aftermath of America’s last pre-9/11 war — Kosovo — it is jaw-dropping to hear the inversions being peddled to our brilliant students. It might interest you to know that this remedial, propagandistic level of “information” is the same whether it’s being delivered at Dartmouth or at Monmouth College in New Jersey. Similarly, when Kosovo president Atifete Jahjaga (whom Ambassador Christopher Dell literally forced onto an infuriated Kosovo parliament), was making her rounds in the U.S. at the start of the year, there was no difference between the puff pieces that emerged in the pages of Washington Times and those of The Huffington Post. I’m sure you’ll agree these two publications otherwise have some rather stark differences between them, on virtually every other issue. But again, unlike every other issue — on which viewpoints split between Left and Right — there is only one allowable side of the Kosovo story. And it happens to coincide with U.S. policy, which is feverishly working for full Kosovo independence. It may seem like a small and obscure matter to Americans, whose disinterest makes suppression of the story almost redundant, but believe me when I tell you that the U.S government trembles over this seemingly small and insignificant region. As I outlined for The Washington Times in 2010 (documented version here), our pro-Albanian, anti-Serb policy has remained in place even after the Clinton administration sensed something wasn’t right [in 2000], and even after 9/11, precisely because of the threat of Albanian violence. A fact that the very same pro-independence officials here openly state as the reason for speedy independence. It’s all moved merrily along in the shadows, with nary a media spotlight shone on what Washington has been up to in the Balkans. It all leads one to seriously question the independence of our presses…

As in 1999, Jews are again being targeted by Albanian propaganda, in the hopes of a politically important recognition from Israel, which has so far vowed to not recognize Kosovo independence…[T]he Hillel club at your otherwise reputable university fell victim to that grand scheme. I’d like to give some background for your students about this troubled land that has made an appearance in your paper more than once recently, and to — for once — present the other side of a difficult story that has been made all too simple so far. But it would take a bit of journalistic courage on your parts, as you would be venturing beyond the realm of “controversial” journalism and into the realm of disallowed journalism. So you’d have to put on your thick skins and be prepared for the consequences.

Best,
Julia Gorin

Perhaps that last line scared them off and sealed the outcome of my not hearing back. Though more likely it just gave them an excuse to hit the “delete” key. Being Class of ‘13, Branko and Emily have moved merrily along into the world, where they will do just fine, as they know what to block out. But by their silence, they’ve made themselves part of the suppression. So much for the future generation. And future generation of journalists.

The wiz kids shill for the whiz kids
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Appendix

A few months before Jahjaga’s student-duping tour in March 2012, she was on another propaganda tour through the U.S., this time targeting newspapers. No longer wanting to be left out of the sucker club, the Washington Times editorial board invited her to serve them up her mush, and then fed it to their readership:

Kosovar leader speaks softly, carries big hope, Insists separatism set no precedent (Dec. 18, 2011, By Guy Taylor)

Atifete Jahjaga, president of Kosovo, is eager for her new country to join the European Union. She talked Thursday with editors and reporters at The Washington Times.

The president of Kosovo is troubled when her 3-year-old nation is compared to other regions with separatist movements…. “Kosovo does not set a precedent,” President Atifete Jahjaga told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. “I don’t like to see comparisons with any other case, or any other circumstances, or any other country. We are a case on our own.”

[But she’s not troubled to be shilling for the murderers and mobsters who run the joint. It’s “unique,” all right.]

Mrs. Jahjaga is the first woman to rise to the highest office of a Balkan nation, and she is only 36. These facts have inspired headlines as well as audiences during her U.S. visit…

Mrs. Jahjaga, a Muslim and ethnic Albanian, has taken an unyielding stance on the issue of Kosovo-Serb land disputes since she was elected in April by parliamentary vote. [It’s called “unyielding” when it’s the Albanian side, and written about positively, but it’s called “uncompromising” when writing about the perpetually yielding Serb side.]

She has publicly rejected the notion that Kosovo’s predominantly ethnic-Serb north could ever rejoin Serbia, and she has accused Serbia of provoking anarchy in the area. [Because Albanians are violent.]

Serb leaders in northern Kosovo recently circulated a draft peace initiative calling for political dialogue from both sides to ease tensions in the region.

Mrs. Jahjaga, who has trained at the FBI National Academy…emphasized the opening of a “new chapter” for Kosovo during the decade since Serbian forces violently pushed through the region, violating human rights and displacing some 800,000 ethnic Albanians. [Hmm, Washington Times was a bit more skeptical about all that in 1999.]

“We have to forget the past,” Mrs. Jahjaga said. “History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. [Forget the past? Forgetting the past is the entire foundation upon which her “country’s” ‘unique’ case rests.]
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Mrs. Jahjaga talked in a voice so soft that she was hard to hear even to those sitting close to her. [Maybe she’s not 100% comfortable lying to your face.] However, her optimism spoke loudly, reflecting a forward-thinking generation of postwar Balkan politicians. [Forward-thinking mafia kingpins and terrorists whom this woman answers to.]

She added that her election represented a “historical moment, not only for Kosovo, but for all of the Balkans.”

Because it was the first time that the West threatened Kosovo’s masters, instead of the other way around? After all, that is how she came to be president in the “parliamentary vote”:

Kosovo: New president handpicked by Americans, predecessor says

But Washington Times prefers not to know anything about how Kosovo really works, opting instead to be yet another passive prey when the simple Washington-Pristina-spun narrative makes its rounds. As with every other newspaper of every stripe, there is no Balkans beat, much less a Kosovo beat, despite that being the site of our most recent pre-9/11 war and last war of the 20th century and, just as significant, the first NATO war. One in which we helped mostly secular al Qaeda-assisted Muslims. Despite ample blowback, Washington Times joins the ranks of every other paper in not bothering to investigate the false premises of the war, much less the primitive Albanian war crimes that birthed this “state” (including vivisection, quartering by car, and drowning elderly women in bathtubs). Thanks to which these continue to be swept under the rug and actively covered up with help from Washington.

No, better to not know any more than anyone else, and to flaunt their ignorance, joining the bipartisan cheering section of the victory for gangsterism, violence, terror, might-makes-right, and greater Islam as it conquers Europe via the prized Balkans that Americans so love to ignore. No interest, and no courage, to find out the real story for itself.

And so I wrote a letter in May of last year to then editorial page editor Brett Decker (and also a copy to a long-time staffer named Frank Perley), asking if the paper had an Ombudsman-type figure to whom to address an ongoing problem with coverage style of an issue. Naturally, I didn’t hear back. And these are men I’ve actually worked with on previous articles.