Israel Is A Nazi-like State With A Potent Public Relations Machine
12 January 2018By Khalid Amayreh
I know it is still a taboo to call Israel a Nazi or Nazi-like state. However,
an honest writer should always be guided by his or her moral conscience and
never succumb to the tyranny of public opinion or prevailing media discourse.
An honest writer, let alone an honest person, should therefore never flinch
from calling the spade a spade. If this task proved too risky, then another
job ought to be sought immediately.
I believe that we Palestinians who live under the yoke of Zionism here in
Occupied Palestine know Israel better than anyone else. That is why we tend to
reject with utter contempt lectures by condescending outsiders, irrespective
of their intentions, on how we ought to relate to our tormentors and the
choice of words we use in describing the killers of our children.
I am not calling Israel a Nazi-or Nazi-like entity because I am convinced that
Israel used the very same tools in effecting the Nakba that the Third Reich
used in effecting the Holocaust against European Jewry in the course of the
Second World War. No, Israel, which for me and my people is and will always be
a gigantic crime against humanity, has not perpetrated a holocaust in the
classical sense against my people.
But Israel has been adopting Nazi-like policies against my people. The
Lebensraum policy is referred to here as settlement-expansion policy. The
übermenschen-untermenschen doctrine finds a real expression in the Jews-vs-goyem
perceptions transcending every conceivable aspect of life in Israel-Palestine.
In Germany there was the Master race; here in Israel-Palestine we have "God's
chosen people versus the water carriers and wood-hewers!"
"It is like tweedledum and tweedledee!
Yes, numerous massacres have been committed and continue to be committed, even
on a daily basis, by Zionist Jews against virtually unprotected Palestinians
who are also betrayed by the world, including their impotent brethren.
Nonetheless, no Palestinian would candidly claim that Israel is adopting the
same crimes against the Palestinians that the Nazis had used against European
Jewry.
But, if so, what then justifies calling Israel a Nazi or Nazi-like entity?
Well, Israel is a Nazi entity because it employs the very same perceptions and
doctrines against its victims (the Palestinians) that the Nazis had used to
demonize and dehumanize their victims (e.g. Jews). I am alluding to cruel
dehumanization that eventually created the mental underpinning among the Nazis
which eventually made the Holocaust possible. Needless to say, the Holocaust
would have never occurred had it not been for that underpinning.
Today, most Israeli Jews hold extremely racist (even criminally) racist
perceptions of the Palestinians. The Palestinians, if only for being Goyem,
are viewed as children of a lesser God, whose lives are therefore worthless!
Whether we like it or not, this malignant combination of hatred, racism, and
dehumanization constitutes the mental underpinning of a possible Zionist
Holocaust against the Palestinians.
Just ask an average Israeli whether he or she thought that murdering Ibrahim
Abu Thurayya, the legless and harmless Palestinian demonstrator, by an Israeli
army sniper a few weeks ago, was right or wrong, and you would be surprised to
hear the hair-raising answers as the otherwise normal-looking young man or
woman would tell, almost innately and without batting an eyelash, that "it is
right, it is right, he deserves it, he was a terrorist!"
Terrorist! It is now the mantra the invoking of which justifies anything,
including of course, the cold-blooded murder of a handicapped person whose
legs had to be amputated as a result of another previous Israeli action. I
remember that the T-word was often used to describe a person who killed an
innocent person. Today in Israel, anyone advocating basic human rights,
especially for Palestinians, is a terrorist or a potential terrorist. Just ask
Naftali Bennett or Avigodor Lieberman! Or probably Donald Trump!
To conclude, a state can be Nazi even without carrying out a holocaust against
another people. Being mentally prepared to carry out a holocaust is sufficient
to qualify for the Nazi title. This is because the rest (the modalities of
executing the decision) belongs to the realm of possibilities and
circumstances. It is very much like taking the decision to murder someone. The
decision is the essential part whereas carrying it out is just a detail.
I know that some Zionist hasbara operatives will rile, rant and rave against
any comparison between Zionists and Nazis. And the readily-available charge of
anti-Semitism will be their ultimate weapon of choice to shut critics up and
keep the sacrosanct heifer unscathed. Well, I don't give a damn about either
the heifer or its defenders. I have been through it all; from creation to
destruction and one more barrage of abuse by the shipyard dogs of Hasbara
wouldn't harm much.
But before I go, I do want to quote Santiago Alba-Rico, the Spanish
philosopher, who adamantly refused to be silenced or intimidated by Zionist
hasbara doctors who are prompted to think that no other pain should be
compared to the calamity of the Holocaust and therefore Israel must remain
above the laws of men and never be criticized regardless of whatever it does
to the Palestinians.
"Perhaps Palestinians are not the most punished people on earth, but they are
indeed the most openly punished people on earth; perhaps they are not the
people who have suffered the most but they are the people whose sufferings are
the most uninterruptedly visible. Paradoxically, this visibility (beyond the
lies) makes the victims even more vulnerable; it confers a kind of biblical
dimension to the aggression."
- Khalid Amayreh is a veteran journalist living in al-Khalil in Occupied
Palestine
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