| Israel, a Nazi state |
[21 Jan 2004|01:58pm] |
Many objected to my characterization of Israel as a Nazi state. I stated it bluntly, thinking people would accept it as an obvious fact. Many people, though, seem to be unaware of the evidences showing the similarity between Hitler's ideals, and the ideals that presided over the creation of the state of Israel, and determine its current policies towards Palestinians, and more generally the Arab world at large. I will therefore demonstrate my claims in a more organized manner.
First, a summary of the arguments: Israel represents a Nazi-ideal: an ethnic-based state, pursuing the persecution of an oppressed minority, dislocating it and stealing its land and possessions, leading a policy of territorial conquest, and which leaders survive by inspiring terror in their own population against an imaginary threat.
The first point is easy to prove: Israel was founded by Jews for Jews, as expressed in the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948: They declared the establishment of a JEWISH state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the state of Israel. Now, are Jews part of the same ethnic group, and can a Jewish state be thus qualified as an ethnic-based state? An ethnic group is composed of people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture. I personally don't like the concept of race, people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock, and I don't think a good case could be made to qualify Jews as an ethnic group. However, those who created Israel believed all Jews belonged to the same root and had the same ancestor, Abraham. Like the Germans who stupidly believed they belonged to a "race", the Aryan race, with common roots, the creators of Israel believed Jews belonged to a common group linked by their ancestors. Hence the reference to the ancestral rights of Jews to return to Israel. Let me make that point clear once again: the concept of race is a ridiculous one, but it is at the foundation of the State of Israel, in the same way it was at the foundation of the creation of the German Third Reich.
The second point now: Israel was founded by Zionist, first by buying land from the people who lived in Palestine at the time and establishing colonies, then gradually coming to use more forceful manners, leading, at the time of the declaration of Independence, to the grab of Palestinian's possession and expulsion from their properties. This was achieved through threats, assassination of those who resisted, and other terrorist methods. In the period 1948 - 1967, Israel left these lands with minimum interference pending a peace settlement with the Arabs. Following the 1967 War, Israel felt emboldened and introduced a set of laws (e.g. expropriating 'mewat' land as State land), which made the recovery of these lands more difficult according to Israeli law. Israel is now embarking on a plan to sell the land of the 1948 Palestinian refugees (92% of Israel) to Jewish individuals, thus making all hope for Palestinians to get back the land they had to leave under duress. As everybody knows, most Palestinians now live in camps, separated from their motherland by a wall, the same kind of wall the Nazis established around the Jewish Warsaw ghetto during the Second World War. Like the Nazis in Warsaw, Israel leads frequent raids in the Palestinian camps, and progressively starves those people, preventing them from leading any kind of economic activity, and leading them into desperate and criminal tactics, such as killing Israeli civilians in retaliation for the attacks made on them by the Israeli army. I personally do not condemn people who are led by despair into extremist tactics. I condemn their leaders. Like Hitler and his concept of a "vital space" for the Aryan race to develop, Israel's current leader believe Israel has got "natural" frontiers, and must establish a cushion separating it from neighboring, Arab states. They do not take into account the people who lived there before, and consider as natural that they should live destitute in refugee camps in neighboring countries, just like the Nazis considered as natural to empty Poland from its inhabitants and giving Polish land to German settlers.
The third point, dealing with the role of the Arabs as an imaginary menace with which to threaten the common Israelis so as to make them adhere to the sanguinary objectives of the Israeli leadership. It is well known that the main role the anti-Semite policy of Nazi Germany served was to unite the German people for a common goal. Designating the Jews as the enemy, no matter how stupid that was, was an easy way to divert attention from the suicidal policies of Nazi leaders. In the same way, Israel's leaders manipulate the opinion of Israelis to make them believe Palestinians are monsters, bent on their destruction. Sharon didn't hesitate to go provoke them in Jerusalem's most holy place, so as to get them to start the second Intifada, leading to his election as Israel's president, and allowing him to then repress the same uprising he provoked. The truth is, most Palestinians want to live at peace with Israel, but peace would mean there would be no reason anymore for Sharon to be in power, as he was elected to make war. The same suicidal logic that led Nazi Germany to its own destruction will lead Israel to its final disappearance; Nazi Germany's whole society was based on the predicament that there was a menace to be eliminated (the Jews, communism). Nazi Israel is based on the predicament there is a menace to be fought (the Arabs, Islam). It is therefore in the interest of Israel that the menace come true and acts accordingly to the mad predictions of the people who pointed at it. Thus will disappear Israel, overrun by the Arab world, in the same way Nazi Germany was overrun by the greatest communist leader the world ever saw, our revered Stalin.
Let us finally deal with frequent objections to the qualification of Israel as a Nazi state: Israel doesn't pursue genocide of the Palestinians, Israel is a democracy, and Israel is weak. The first objection is trivial; genocide is not concomitant with Nazism. Indeed, genocide occurred in Rwanda, in Armenia, in the US, and many other countries over the ages. It is a common resurgence that is not unique to Nazi Germany. The second is ridiculous, it states that a democracy can do no harm; need I point out that Hitler was democratically elected, and that the "beacon of freedom" that is the US liquidated Indian aboriginal populations, enslaved Africans and maintained a regime of segregation until the late 60s? The third is laughable; Israel is the only nuclear power in the Arab world, it receives billions of dollars in military help from the US, it has amply proven its ability to smash any invader, it is indeed the most efficient army in the world, and its secret services are feared the world over for their sophistication and intelligence. Israel is not weak. And in conclusion, I will say that the biggest danger with Israel is that if feels weak while it is very strong; it doesn't realize the harm it inflicts on other people, because it lacks the confidence of a mature country that knows how to control itself. My best wishes go to the people of Israel and Palestine, they who are mere pawns in the madness that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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