| Author | Message | | Guest | | Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 8:18 am Post subject: Zionism/Nazism: Historical Parallels |
| Zionazionism
by Dave Kersting
Some people like to compare those they wish to kill with Hitler and the
Germans under Nazism.
But one comparison truly reflects history, not emotion, and truly holds
up:
The Nazis wished to declare "Germans" a distinct ethnicity - and to
marshal "Germans" together into a unified political force, in an ethnically
and religiously homogenized homeland. This is plain fact.
The Zionists wish to declare "Jews" a distinct ethnicity - and to
marshal "Jews" together into a unified political force, in an ethnically and
religiously homogenized homeland. This too is plain fact.
Zionism did come first, however, and Nazism was partly an emulation of
it and partly a "pre-emptive" response against it.
Under Zionism (or Nazism,) a state would be "redeemed" through violent
purification, and new Jewish-only (or German-only) "settlements" would be
created through ethnic-cleansing - in Palestine and all the way to the
Tigris-Euphrates (or Poland and all the way to the Ural Mountains).
The new state would be a highly egalitarian, worker-friendly, or
"socialist" democracy, but it would reject the internationalism that is
normally essential to socialist doctrine: the blessings of socialism and
democracy would be neatly reserved for one distinct ethnicity, in an
officially ethnic-supremacist land, wherein the special ethnic rights of the
favored nationality would supercede the human rights of less favored groups.
The new state would be a democratic "National Socialism."
The national socialism, which was and remains the Zionist goal, is
fundamentally identical to the national socialism we know as Nazism. Zionism
is Jewish national socialism, just as Nazism was German national socialism.
Both Nazism and Zionism are based on a fancifully mythic interpretation
of history and nationality - one producing a "Master Race," the other
producing a "Chosen People" or "Sons of the Covenant" (B'nai B'rith). Both
latched onto a simplistic, ancient religious symbol - the swastika and star
of David - as if to assume from it some special authority. In both cases,
the adopted symbol actually has very little to do with the ethnic group it
supposedly represents, and nothing to do with the violent racial or ethnic
superiority claimed by those who use it as a banner of ethnic conquest and
ethnic-cleansing. (Keep in mind that the Magen David has little to do with
ancient Israel and nothing to do with the Eastern Europeans who converted to
Judaism several centuries ago.)
In both cases, Zionism and Nazism, the ethno-centric tribal chauvinism
and racism commonly found in Eastern Europe was transferred to and adopted
by otherwise-modern elements of a broader group - "the Germans" and "the
Jews" - and that Eastern European racist ideology would displace what was
civilized and decent in the larger groups.
The main difference is, whereas Germans adopted an Eastern European
tribal ideology, in the case of Zionism, a racist Eastern European group
(Ashkenazim) physically migrated, with their tribal ideology, to Palestine,
a totally MYTHIC "promised land," to which they had no hereditary or
cultural ties, and found success by imposing their racism on innocent,
unarmed, helpless, and non-racist people. (A few mythic references to the
Holy Land and its history do NOT constitute a cultural tie.)
Both Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel would build military power,
secretly violating international law by manufacturing weapons - including
NUCLEAR weapons - which they were not supposed to have, and both would
conduct illegal espionage to steal materials they could not otherwise
obtain.
Comparing Nazi Germany to IRAQ, on the other hand, is fanciful nonsense.
Neither Saddam Hussein nor Islam espouse any philosophy of ethnic
superiority or supremacy, as Zionism does quite explicitly.
If we avoid comparing the credibility of their pretexts, Iraq's invasion
of Kuwait CAN be compared with Nazi Germany's taking the Sudetenland - and
then it can be compared with every invasion that has ever occurred.
In fact, the current pretexts for invading Iraq give it an equivalence
with 1940 Poland, rather than Germany; and the Warsaw Ghetto is quite
equivalent to the post-'67 Zionist Israeli occupied parts of Palestine.
The Zionist ethnic conquest of Palestine can be closely compared with
the Nazi drive for "lebensraum" in Poland, through the importation of a
desired ethnicity (German or "Aryan") at the expense of the indigenous
people. And Israel's invasion of Lebanon, in 1982, was primarily a campaign
of extermination against Palestinian civilians and national leadership
(death toll estimates range between about 19,000 and 30,000), much like the
extermination campaigns run by the Nazis in conquered European states.
In both cases, Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel, the official doctrine of
ethnic-supremacy would create eternal conflict with all neighboring
countries, and much of the world, until such time as the neighbors were
totally crushed and dominated and the unwanted ethnicities and religions
wiped out or driven far, far away.
In both cases, much of the world would stand by, trying to profit as
much as possible from the early "success" of a highly unified and officially
racist doctrine, as it massacred tens of thousands of less favored ethnic
types - until the danger got way too far out of hand and nuclear combat
became inevitable.
Dave Kersting
dakersting@earthlink.net
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Israeli lawmakers reject move to ban any incitement to "transfer"
Arabs
Copyright 2002 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) / Wed, 23 Oct
JERUSALEM, Oct 23 (AFP) - The Israeli parliament on Wednesday
rejected a proposed bill that would ban from the assembly any party
trying to incite the expulsion of Palestinians or Arab Israelis from
their land, officials said.
The Knesset voted down the proposal, drafted by the communist Hadash
party, by 51 to 23 out of 74 members present, parliamentary officials
said.
Deputies from the right-wing majority parties voted against the
motion which was backed by Arab Israeli deputies and the left-wing
opposition party Meretz, as well as Hadash, which has three seats.
Several members of the centre-left Labour party, which sits in the
right-leaning government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon also voted in
favour, although most did not participate in the heated debate.
The idea of transfer -- moving large segments of the Arab population
either from Israel to the Palestinian territories, or from the
Palestinian territories to Arab states -- has gained currency
recently in the country's right as the low-level war with the
Palestinians moves into its third year.
Hadash's Arab deputy Mohammed Barakeh said that "incitement to
transfer is in fact a call to ethnic cleansing and should be subject
to Israeli law which bans any incitement to racial hatred."
Justice Minister Meir Sheetrit said that a call for "voluntary
transfer" could be considered legitimate, saying it was no more
shocking than calls by the left to expel 200,000 Jewish settlers
living in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Recent polls show that 20 to 30 percent Israelis would be favourable
to some form of transfer, whose champion Rehavam Zeevi, a former
general and ultra-nationalist tourism minister, was assassinated by
Palestinian gunmen last year in revenge for an Israeli target killing
of a hardline Palestinian chief.
At the last general elections in 1999, Zeevi's far-right National
Union party won four seats on its platform to "transfer" Palestinians
abroad. His successor Benny Elon advocates the same position.
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Rabbi Hier: 'Anti-Semitism on a grand scale'
Center protests anti-Semitic book
The Simon Wiesenthal Center asked the United Nations to denounce an
anti-Semitic book written by Syria´s defense minister. The book, which
is in its eighth edition and has become a best-seller in the Arab world,
accuses Jews of murdering Christians and using their blood to bake
matzahs for Passover. "The United States and the Security Council should
not sit by idly while one of its member states flaunts the charter of
the United Nations and allows a senior minister to promote anti-Semitism
on a grand scale," Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center´s dean, wrote in a
letter to the United Nations. Syria currently holds a seat on the
15-member U.N. Security Council.
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