Holocaust Survivor Warns of Another World War

By Cliff Kincaid

October 1, 2024

Living near the city of Gettysburg, the location of the pivotal battle in the American Civil War, has provided a great opportunity to learn the lessons of that war. What is more, the World War II Experience Museum in Gettysburg was the setting for Holocaust survivor Sami Steigmann to provide a vision of victory in the global civil war.

On the day it was announced that Israel had terminated the head of the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah, Steigmann made a dramatic appearance at in the conference room of a museum that brings to life the stories of American sacrifice, unity, and might in World War II. He discussed the will of the Jewish people to survive the Nazi extermination campaign and defeat the modern-day Nazis in the form of global Islamic terrorism.

My detailed report on his presentation can be found on my website www.usasurvival.org

“I am not politically correct,” he told the audience, as he turned his attention during the question-and-answer period to several controversial current issues such as the Ukraine war, saying further arms shipments to the Zelensky government would only result in more suffering and death. He urged a peace settlement with Russia so the world could concentrate on the global Islamic war on the West.

“Right now, the United States is forcing Israel to fight with their hands behind their back,” he said, indicating the struggle will not be over even if Hezbollah and Hamas are obliterated. “I wish Israel would become independent” and free of such influence, he said.

Regarding the anti-Israel protests, he labeled them as led by “educated idiots” and “useful idiots” who have been brainwashed by the American educational establishment and added that those of Arab or Muslim origin studying on these campuses and shouting “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” or “Global Intifada” should be deported.

For our part, America’s Survival described these colleges and universities as Marxist Madrassas and the threat to Israel and America as the Red Jihad, as a result of Russian sponsorship or financing of Arab and Islamic terrorist groups like the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Asked by this journalist if Israel was fighting for its own survival, he agreed but quickly added that it was fighting “for the West” as well.

As the anniversary of the invasion of Israel on October 7 by Hamas approaches, Steigmann said about that attack: “Even the Nazis were not that brutal.”

Steigmann, who served in the Israeli Air Force but now lives in the United States, said Hamas was worse than the Nazis and more like ISIS, another Islamic terrorist group notorious for its terrorist tactics but wiped out by the Trump Administration. It is now regrouping in the Middle East and Afghanistan, where the Biden Administration hastily withdrew U.S. forces in 2021.

Steigmann, now a motivational speaker who loves to address students and young people, said the Holocaust was a unique moment in history but that “Jew hatred” is growing again in today’s world and is reflected in in the pro-Hamas demonstrations by young people who chant the anti-Israel slogan “From the river to the sea” but can’t identify which river and which sea.

Steigmann was only 18 months old when he was sent to a Nazi camp, which was eventually liberated. He was later informed that his constant pain as he was growing up was the result of Nazi medical experiments. He survived only because a German civilian who was providing food to the Nazi camp guards gave him milk when he was on the verge of starvation.

In the same way we must understand the origins of World War II, he said the war in Ukraine must be understood in the context of the hostility between Russia and Ukraine that goes back at least 200 years.

More than two years into the war, he said the United States and Germany had objected to proposals for a ceasefire, even though Russia was prepared to accept certain controversial territorial concessions from Ukraine in exchange for the end to the conflict. He said the war against Russia cannot be won militarily and that further shipments of munitions to the government of Ukraine would only result in more deaths on both sides.

The Biden/Harris Administration now sees these arms shipments as a U.S. jobs program, as reflected in Zelensky’s visit to an ammunition plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was surrounded by Democrat politicians.

Steigmann sees the arms shipments as morally questionable, saying, “Right now, by giving more ammunition to Ukraine, the only thing they [the U.S. Government] will accomplish is that the war will be prolonged and a lot of innocent people will die.”

Steigmann, who lived in the communist nation of Romania, said he understands the communist mentality and that Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB colonel, “is not the type of person you move easily.” He added, “As long as the military is with him, the war will not stop.”

Putin has another advantage: he has thousands of nuclear weapons and Ukraine gave the weapons it inherited after the Soviet break-up back to Moscow under an agreement negotiated by President Bill Clinton.

Under these circumstances, a “land for peace” option make sense in that war, because of the unique nature of that conflict, not to mention the problems caused by corruption in the government of Ukraine.

But Steigmann emphasized that a “land for peace” formula for appeasing the Islamists to somehow assure Israel’s sovereignty and survival makes absolutely no sense. “For the Arabs, appeasement is weakness,” he said. That position would rule out the Kamala Harris “two-state solution,” allowing an Islamic state next to Israel in the Middle East on a permanent basis.

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