Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal Dead at 96

Not many people now remember that Jews spent millennia suffering before, after the Holocaust, they fought back in earnest, establishing their own state through agitation and terrorism. Having their own state has made all the difference. And winning a few wars handsomely, has changed the image of the Jew. Remember the general with the eyepatch? One of the many who changed the world's view of the Jew is dead: Nazi hunter Wiesenthall, who hunted down more than a thousand Nazis and had them brought to justice. From the NY Times obit:

Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war criminals following World War II, then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died Tuesday. He was 96.

Wiesenthal, who helped find one-time SS leader Adolf Eichmann and the policeman who arrested Anne Frank, died in his sleep at his home in Vienna, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

''I think he'll be remembered as the conscience of the Holocaust. In a way he became the permanent representative of the victims of the Holocaust, determined to bring the perpetrators of the greatest crime to justice,'' Hier told The Associated Press.

A survivor of five Nazi death camps, Wiesenthal changed his life's mission after the war, dedicating himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to being a voice for the 6 million Jews who died during the onslaught. He himself lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust.

Wiesenthal spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals, speaking out against neo-Nazism and racism, and remembering the Jewish experience as a lesson for humanity. Through his work, he said, some 1,100 Nazi war criminals were brought to justice.

The Jews, history's victims, now have victims of their own in the Palestinians. So the wheel turns. When will Africa stop being the world's victims? Probably never. Africa's victimhood, formerly imposed by Western colonial powers, is now one of their own making. Their elite is too greedy and fucked-up for them ever to stop being victims. They live under our planet's premier predators, who are being enriched by "aid" from former guilty colonial powers, who still bear responsibility. It's time to deliver aid straight to the villages and women (Africa oppresses women worse than Muslim Arabs) who need it.