Why Zionism-Nazism comparisons are legitimate
Khalid Amayreh, Desertpeace
April 15, 2008
I strongly believe that Jews around the world, including those in Israel ,
ought to be
constantly reminded of the evil crimes committed in Palestine under their
collective name, as
well as understand the close ideological similarity between Nazism and
Zionism.
This, I believe, is a legitimate tool to get Jews, especially those who
still value justice and
honesty, to reconsider their identification and infatuation with this evil
entity and its
equally nefarious ideology and actions.
Jews all around the world simply can’t love Israel and sup****t its wanton
criminality against
the Palestinian people while at the same time continuing to lecture the
world about the evils
of Nazism. Moral consistency is absolutely paramount.
Sup****ting oppression and racism is often as bad as practicing oppression
and racism. Indeed,
oppression such as occupation can’t persist for a long time without the
material and moral
sup****t and backing by people who may often look nice and speak softly.
Many of the sup****ters
of Apartheid in South Africa and Nazism in Germany also looked very nice
and spoke softly, not
knowing (or knowing) that they were tacitly backing evil, racist criminals
committing ghastly
crimes against humanity.
Zionism (the central embodiment of which is the apartheid Israeli state)
is evil because of its
racist evil ideology and criminal actions and behaviour in Palestine .
Zionism has declared all Jews a distinct ethnicity, just as the Nazis had
declared all Germans
a distinct ethnicity.
Both Zionism and Nazism strove to build a 'state’ that would be 'redeemed’
through violent
purification (in the case of Nazi Germany) and 'an Iron wall’ (in the case
of Zionist Israel).
In both instances, ethnic cleansing was the main tool used to obliterate
the 'inferiors,’ the
'water carriers and wood hewers’ in order to create 'German-only’
settlements in Europe and
'Jewish-only’ settlements in Palestine .
In all honesty, there are no fundamental differences between Jewish
national socialism
(Zionism) and German national socialism (Nazism). The Nazis preached the
'Master Race’ to
justify Nazism while Zionists adopted the ancient myth of the 'Chosen
People’ to justify Zionism.
Moreover, we can’t really ignore the absolute similarity between the
Zionist ethnic conquest of
Palestine and the implanting therein of 'Jewish settlers’ at the expense
of the native
Palestinian Muslims and Christians, and the Nazi drive for 'Lebensraum’ in
Poland and the
im****tation of 'Aryans’ at the expense of the indigenous population.
Yes, there in Europe , the Nazis sought to steal the Sudetenland and here
in Palestine , the
Zionists are stealing the West Bank . The arguments are the same, the lies
are the same and the
means are nearly identical.
We need to highlight these similarities and the 'common ground’ between
Zionism and Nazism,
irrespective of how many people will be upset by these comparisons. The
truth is always a
paramount value in itself.
There is no doubt that the Third Reich committed monstrous crimes against
helpless Jews far
greater than those committed by Israel against the equally helpless
Palestinians. Yes, we all
know about Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen Belsen, Treblinka and the other
detention camps where
many Jews, mainly non-Zionist and anti-Zionist Jews, perished at the hands
of the Nazi
exterminators.
However, let us ask ourselves the following question: Were the Nazis
'Nazi’ only because they
created and used gas chambers to incinerate their Jewish and non-Jewish
victims? Would the
Nazis have been less evil and therefore 'less Nazi’ if they had
annihilated their victims by
way of bullets instead of ovens, or by starving them to death as Israel
has been doing to the
Palestinians? Besides, if Jews had the right to call the "Exodus ****p" a
floating Auschwitz,
why is it wrong for the Palestinians to describe as "Nazi" the ongoing
extirpation of an entire
people from their ancestral homeland? Do Jew have an exclusive right to
call their critics and
enemies "Nazi" while others, e.g. the Palestinians, don’t have a similar
right to call Israeli
crimes and criminals "Nazi"?
Besides, should we refrain from using the Nazi epithets to describe the
racist criminals of our
time, wherever they happen to be and regardless of what religion they
adhere to, until and
unless they start using gas chambers to exterminate their victims?
More to the point, by what logic are Israel and its sup****ters using the
Second World War (a
cruel war in which a few million Jews as well as nearly 50 million
non-Jews perished) as a
justification and cover-up to dispossess, dehumanize and ethnically
cleanse the indigenous
Palestinian people?
Well, Israel could theoretically annihilate most Palestinians with
nuclear, chemical or
biological weapons, or simply through a sustained campaign of massive
artillery bombardment and
air bombing. Would such an act make Israelis less 'Nazi’?
I want to ask those who might rave and rant against me the following
question: At what point
should we start calling Israel 'Nazi’? When the number of its victims
reaches one million? Two
million? Or perhaps six million? Or when the Zionists start introducing
Zyklon B to kill us? Or
when 90% of Palestinians are packed into detention camps, surrounded by
8-meter high concrete
walls fitted with watchtowers that are manned by trigger-happy Zionist
Gestapo?
I know some Zionist apologists will be prompted, almost instinctively, to
argue that, unlike
Israel , the Third Reich had devised a plan, a final solution, to
exterminate all Jews in
Europe and the world.
Well, regardless of the historical authenticity of such a claim, I would
challenge the Zionists
and their sup****ters and apologists to prove that Israel doesn’t harbour a
final solution for
the Palestinians.
Isn’t the brutal extirpation of virtually an entire people from their
historical motherland
tantamount to a kind of final solution? Isn’t ethnic cleansing a form of a
final solution? How
about the continuing starvation, encirclement and hounding of the
Palestinians? Besides, is
there a fundamental difference between attempting to destroy an entire
people pursuant a plan
and attempting to destroy them without a plan? Wouldn’t the ultimate
outcome be the same?
Don’t invoke the calumny of terror. We know and you know and the whole
world knows that words
like 'terror,’ 'terrorists,’ 'axis of evil’ and 'enemies of freedom’ are
all ideological terms
used tendentiously by the powerful and the arrogant, such as Israel and
the United States, to
justify their own true terror against the weak and the oppressed. Even
Satan himself would call
his enemies terrorists.
In the final analysis, 'terror’ is the poor man’s war against the powerful
and the arrogant,
and 'war’ is the strong man’s terror against the weak and the oppressed.
Yes, the scope of the Nazi Holocaust is greater than that of the criminal
Zionist occupation of
Palestine . But the mentality, the psychology, the malice, the hatefulness
and especially the
sheer evil intent in both cases are certainly not that far apart from each
other.
There is no doubt in my mind that Israel would have exterminated, or at
least tried to
exterminate, the Palestinian people a long time ago had the 'objective
cir***stances’ been
available. Needless to say 'objective cir***stances’ here could mean a
huge international event
(for example, a nuclear war, a global national disaster, or a gigantic
event of some sort) that
would divert or ****ft international attention from such a genocidal feat.
It is true that Israel would prefer to 'solve the problem’ without a
campaign of mass murder
and mass terror, like bullying and terrorizing the Palestinians, or the
vast majority of them,
into leaving their ancestral homeland.
However, there is no doubt that Israel would contemplate resorting to the
'worst scenario’ in
case the Palestinians clung to their homeland and remained steadfast in
their homes and towns
and villages.
In 2001, a few days after the 9/11 events in the US , then Israeli Defence
Minister Benjamin
Ben Eliezer bragged about how the international media’s preoccupation with
events in the US
enabled Israel to kill more Palestinians in the West Bank without being
censured by the
international community.
Similarly, the former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told
students at Bar Ilan
University in 1989 that " Israel should have exploited the repression of
the demonstration in
China (the Tiananmen Square events) where world attention was focused on
that country, to carry
out mass expulsion among the Arabs of the territories."
Even today, Israeli leaders say brazenly that they wish to wake up to see
all of us dead.
Indeed, the Palestinian national demise has always been and continues to
be Zionism’s ultimate
goal, this is why Zionism doesn’t really recognize our very existence as a
people, and when it
does or is forced to do so under the pressure of reality, it insists that
Palestine is Jordan
and that Amman , not Jerusalem , is the capital of Palestine .
In addition, there is no doubt that the daily acts of murder, terror,
humiliation and savagery
which ordinary Palestinians are routinely subjected to at the hands of
trigger-happy Israeli
soldiers manning checkpoints and roadblocks throughout the occupied
territories are comparable
in many aspects to the same acts of humiliation and terror Jews and
non-Jews had to endure in
Nazi-occupied Europe.
The Nazis imprinted serial numbers on the forearms of Jewish internees,
and the Israelis have
done the same to the Palestinians.
The Nazis treated Jews as mere numbers rather than human beings, and the
Israelis have done the
same with the Palestinians.
The Gestapo savaged, brutalized and starved Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto to
break their collective
will, and Israel has been doing the same to Palestinians in Gaza and the
West Bank .
The Nazis practiced all kinds of sadistic behavior with Jews, like for
example, forcing Jewish
musicians to play music for Gestapo and Wehrmacht soldiers, and the
Israelis have done the same
in the West Bank at the checkpoints.
I don’t know if Jews were forced to drink German soldiers’ urine as
Israeli border policemen on
several occasions have forced their Palestinian victims to do.
During the years of the two Intifadas (uprisings), I travelled throughout
the West Bank ,
passing through Israeli army checkpoints and roadblocks. There, I saw the
extent to which
Israeli soldiers, many of them grandchildren of Holocaust survivors,
behave bestially towards
helpless Palestinians.
I saw soldiers murder innocent people on the spot for no genuine reason. I
saw soldiers force
young Palestinians to strip ****d and stand for hours under heavy rain. I
saw soldiers relaxed
and enjoying the pain and suffering inflicted on thousands of
Palestinians, passengers and
motorists, whose only 'fault’ was that of being Palestinian and weak.
I saw face to face the obscene sadistic acts practiced by Jews against
their helpless victims.
This behavior is not played out in isolated incidents. This is the norm,
not the exception.
The Nazi-like occupation of Palestine by Israel is not the act of a few
Israeli Jews. It is not
even the act of the military establishment alone. It is the collective act
of a morally
desensitized society that has nearly lost its humanity and suc***bed to a
collective psychosis
that is not unlike the moral blindness that struck the German people more
than sixty years ago.
Today, most Jews are more or less either enthusiastically sup****tive or
silent and apathetic
about the atrocities being perpetrated in their name in Gaza , the West
Bank and Lebanon .
In fact, I would exaggerate little by saying that many, probably a
majority, of Israeli Jews
are even enjoying and benefiting from the occupation.
In some ways, Palestinians have fared far worse than Hitler’s victims; for
the Palestinian
tragedy is ongoing and Palestinians, unlike Jews, who still receive
compensation for losses
dating back sixty years, receive no reparations for lost personal
property, not even an
acknowledgment from their tormenters of any responsibility for their
dispossession.
Sixty years ago Zionists demolished 438 Palestinian villages and poisoned
or destroyed wells to
ensure that their rightful owners would not return. Today, Zionists keep
on behaving more or
less along the same traditions, demoli****ng homes, destroying farms, and
narrowing people’s
horizons, all with the goal of making them emigrate.
Today in every junior high school in America , students read Anne Frank,
while in every high
school Elie Wiesel’s 'Night’ is requisite reading. This is the man who
says brazenly that he
readily identifies with Israeli crimes and that he couldn’t bring himself
to say bad things
about Israel .
The victims of the first Kristallnacht enjoy the world’s approbation and
sympathy, while at the
same time having succeeded in demonizing an entire people, for whom
Kristallnacht still remains
a night without end.
But, unlike the German national socialists, Jewish national socialists are
falsifying history
and reality to justify their crimes against humanity. The Holocaust
narrative, which has been
elevated to the status of a religion, allows Yad Vashem, the Holocaust
museum in Jerusalem, to
invoke the mantra 'Never Again’ while it sits on Arab lands stolen from
Ein Karem and
overlooking the unmarked graves of Palestinians massacred by Judeo-Nazi
terrorists at Deir Yassin.
It is sad, really sad, that most Jews are now finding themselves in the
shoes of their former
oppressors, knowingly and consciously.
On August 23, 1947 , nearly one year before Israel’s birth, Harry Truman
wrote the following to
Eleanor Roosevelt, apparently in the wake of another Jewish atrocity in
Palestine :
"I fear very much that the Jews are like all underdogs. When they get on
the top they are just
as intolerant and cruel as the people were to them when they were
underneath. I regret this
situation very much because my sympathy has always been on their side."
Today, in light of Israel ’s Nazi-like behavior in Palestine , it is
difficult to view Truman’s
prophetic words with indifference. In fact, it is a moral obligation of
the first order to
oppose Zionism with the same vigour and same determination the world
demonstrated in the face
of Nazism.
Some Jews, out of ignorance or tribal loyalty or both, insist that
opposition to Zionism is
anti-Semitism. Well, if oppression and racism are consistent with being
Jewish, then, yes, the
world will be obliged to be anti-Jewish in a certain sense. Indeed, if
anti-Zionism is
anti-Semitism, then anti-Semitism itself becomes a moral obligation upon
all conscientious
people, as Michael Neumann, Professor of Philosophy at Trent University in
Ontario , Canada ,
so eloquently argues.
"Today, when Israel could have peace for the taking, it conducts another
round of
dispossession, slowly, deliberately, making Palestine unliveable for
Palestinians, and liveable
for Jews. And the purpose here is not to attain security, as Israeli
propagandists and hasbara
spinners would want us to believe. The real purpose is the extinction of a
people, the
Palestinian people.
"And Israel has enough PR-savvy to eliminate the Palestinians with an
American rather than a
Hitlerian level of violence. This is a kinder, gentler (creeping) genocide
that ****trays the
perpetrators as victims and the victims as terrorists."
"It is amply clearly that Israel is building a racial state, not a
religious one. Like my
parents, I have always been an atheist. I am entitled by the biology of my
birth to Israeli
citizen****p; you, perhaps, are the most fervent believer in Judaism, but
are not. Palestinians
are being squeezed and killed for me, not for you. They are to be forced
into Jordan , to
perish in civil war. So no, shooting Palestinian civilians is not like
shooting Vietnamese or
Chechen civilians. The Palestinians aren’t 'collateral damage’ in a war
against a well-armed
Communist or separatist forces. They are being shot because Israel thinks
all Palestinians
should vanish or die, so people with one Jewish grandparent can build
subdivisions on the
rubble of their homes. This is not the bloody mistake of a blundering but
an emerging evil, the
deliberate strategy of a state conceived in and dedicated to an
increasingly vicious ethnic
nationalism. It has relatively few corpses to its credit so far, but its
nuclear weapons can
kill perhaps 25 million people in a few hours."
I frankly don’t believe that the Zionists are morally fit to lecture the
world even on the
evils of Nazism, and the reason for this lies not only in Zionism’s
Nazi-like crimes against
the Palestinian people and other peoples in the Middle East . It goes much
further than that.
Zionism cooperated and collaborated with Nazism, not necessarily to save
Jews, as the paragons
of lies would claim, but rather to fulfil Zionism and Zionist statehood.
And in order to
expedite the evil goal, the Zionists quietly consented to the mass murder
of hundreds of
thousands of Jews who could have been saved and sent to other parts of the
world, especially
North America .
In 1949, the Israeli intelligence employed Walter Rauff, an SS officer who
is believed to have
been responsible for the murder of at least 100,000 people and was wanted
by the Allies as a
war criminal. Israel, instead of bringing him to justice it paid him for
his services and
helped him escape to South America . Rauff, who had devised a plan to
destroy Jews in
Palestine, was by no means the only Nazi criminal employed by Israel.
Yes, it is wrong to blame each and every Jew on earth for the crimes of
Israel . However, Jews
can make a difference if they wish to, by speaking up against Israeli
criminality and racism.
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