On the outskirts of
Jerusalem is The
Martyrs Forest,
formerly know as Forest
of the Six Million
The Martyrs
Forest or Forest
of Six Million was
thought up very quickly
after WW2. In fact it
was thought up so
quickly, it's
further evidence that
the 6,000,000 figure is
not "a
figure reached painfully
and painstakingly by
pouring over countless
lists of concentration
camp victims, family
histories, body counts,
and every conceivable
heartbreaking method
available to social
scientists and
historians."
Jewish National Fund Forest
of the Six Million
donation card from 1946
donation card from 1946
The Times of London
reported of the forest
on May 22, 1947
Chief rabbi of Israel
Dr. Isaac Herzog, who in
1949
Within the Forest
of Martyrs is
the Scroll
of Fire,
a monument to
holocaust victims
and to Zionist
pioneers.
It was erected in
1979. source
One of the bas
reliefs on the
monument,
is Israeli
soldiers carrying
the menorah.
It is quite
clearly a reference
to a bas relief
on the Arch of
Titus in Rome, built
in 82AD
Built by the
Roman Emperor
Domitian, shortly
after the death of
his brother Titus,
in commemoration of
Titus' victories,
including the sack
of Jerusalem in the
1st Roman-Jewish War
(66-70AD) when the
Jews' temple was
destroyed.
Josephus the famous
Jewish historian who
switched sides
during the war, was
present during the
Sack of Jerusalem,
he recorded of the
the total
destruction of they
city:
".. it was so
thoroughly laid even
with the ground by
those that dug it up
to the foundation,
that there was left
nothing to make
those that came
thither believe it
[Jerusalem] had ever
been inhabited." source
The menorah which
the Romans are
carrying off from
the Jews' temple in
the bas
relief on
the Arch of Titus,
is the menorah on
which the Israeli
coat of arms is
based.
The Jews of Rome
have always refused
to walk under the
Arch of Titus.
The one exception
being in 1948 when
the State of Israel
was created.
They
ceremoniously walked
under the arch in
the opposite
direction to
which the Roman
soldiers marched.
The 2009
Encyclopedia of the
Jewish Diaspora
states:
"To this day,
traditional Jews
refuse to walk under
the arch,
symbolizing their
enduring animus
against Rome."
The Arch of Titus
celebrating the
destruction of
Jerusalem.
And the Scrolls
of Fire, celebrating
the destruction of
Europe?
The name of the
monument recalls the
first holohoax.
The Talmud claims
64,000,000 Jewish
children were
wrapped in
Torah scrolls and
burnt by the Romans
in 135AD.
Of course there was
no where near
64,000,000 Jews in
the entire world
then.
