"A Jew hides a fellow Jew in his basement at the time of the concentration camps and charges him 3,000 euro a day. The Jew paid up because he had the money but do you think he should tell him that Hitler has died and the war is over?"
A funny joke? Not if you’re Jewish! Making light of the Holocaust does not befit anyone. But when that joke is told by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, it’s not only in bad taste, it is downright disgusting!
Berlusconi told his joke to supporters who had gathered outside his official residence in Rome last week, just hours after he won a crucial vote of confidence in the Italian parliament.
The Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano described it as 'deplorable' and added it 'offended the sentiment of believers and the sacred memory of six million Holocaust victims'.
This is not the first time Berlusconi has made remarks that are offensive to Jews. Last month, he told a joke about Hitler being persuaded to return to power, and warning that "this time, I'm going to be evil." And in 2003, he joked that Hitler's pal Benito Mussolini "did not kill anyone, but sent people to vacation" - a reference to the shipping of Italian Jews to Nazi concentration camps.
The 74-year-old prime minister is best know for having sex with a string of young Italian beauties. I’ll give the old fart credit for that. Instead of telling bad Jew jokes, Berlusconi should stick to what he does best – fucking a bunch of young chicks.
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