Nazi Israel indeed!
Peter Terry
By Dr. Elias Akleh
24 December, 2008
Richard Falk, the professor of international law at Princeton University and
the UN's special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, had accused
Israel of violating international law, international humanitarian laws, and
the Geneva Convention. He described Israel's policies against Palestinians
and its siege of Gaza as "war crimes", "genocidal tendencies", "holocaust
implications", and "holocaust-in-the-making". He urged the International
Criminal Court to look into the possibility of indicting Israeli leaders for
war crimes.
Professor Falk had a little taste of Israel's Nazi-like crimes and human
rights violation when he traveled to Israel, last Sunday December 14th,
2008, to visit the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to report on Israel's
compliance with human rights standards and international humanitarian law.
The Israelis "detained" Professor Falk at the airport, treated his as a
criminal and a threat to the state, humiliated him and deported him next day
back to Geneva.
Despite Israel's strong declaration that every Jew in the world is
automatically granted full Israeli citizenship with all the protections this
entails, and despite being a Jew himself, Professor Falk was not spared the
humiliations and cruelty Israel treats its enemies with
Emboldened by the American blind and unconditional support, defiant Israel
wanted to publicly give its finger to Falk and to the UN he represents,
declaring itself above all international laws and above any criticism of its
crimes and human rights violations even if such criticism comes from a Jew
himself. Such defying humiliation of the world political body is meant to
distract the UN, and thus the whole world, away from the holocaust it is
perpetrating against the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, and all its
on-going war crimes against the rest of Palestinians throughout the whole
Palestine.
Falk's accusations of Israel's Nazi-like holocaustal implications are no
different from those made by John Dugard, his predecessor, in several
reports on conditions in occupied Palestine. Many conscientious political
figures, as well as regular citizens, around the world had described
Israel's
policies in occupied Palestine in specific and in the Middle East in general
as war crimes and threat to world peace.
Comparing the present-day Israel with Nazi Germany one discovers that the
majority of the Israeli policies are the exact copies of the Nazi policies.
Nazi Germany had invaded its European neighbors extending from England to
Russia. Israel had also invaded all its neighboring countries; Egypt,
Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. It is also heavily involved in the invasion of
Iraq and Afghanistan. Its tentacles had also reached African countries as
far as South Africa, Somalia, Sudan, Angola, and Sierra Leone.
Nazi war machines used to invade resisting towns, line up the men in the
center of the town to be executed in cold blood, and destroyed the whole
town as a deterring example for any possible other resisting towns. Worse
than the Nazis Israeli forces used to invade peaceful Palestinian towns,
execute men, women and children in cold blood everywhere and anywhere they
encounter them, dynamite their homes on top of their residents, and finally
demolish the whole town making room for new Israeli colonies. Throughout
1948/49 Israelis had committed 70 ugly massacres against Palestinian
villagers, and totally destroyed 675 Palestinian towns and villages
including their churches and mosques. Such massacres and demolitions
followed a set pattern, repeated in one village after the other, indicating
a pre-meditated genocidal plan.
In the words of the late Israeli General Moshe Dayan: "The declaration of
the State of Israel in 1948 was at the expense of ethnically cleansing 513
Palestinian villages, creating over 700,000 Palestinian refugees and
expropriating their lands, homes and businesses in 78% of Palestine . There
is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former
(Palestinian) population."
Israel is, still up till today, carrying these same genocidal Nazi-like
holocaustal crimes gradually choking 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza to
death by starvation, thirst, lack of fuel and disease. Israeli army is in
the process of demolishing 40 Palestinian villages in the Negev desert. Army
bulldozers are daily destroying Palestinian homes in major Palestinian
cities such as Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah, and Nablus.
The Nazi army perpetrated many massacres against prisoners of war. They used
to execute prisoners and dump them in graves the prisoners where ordered to
dig for themselves. The Israeli army followed the same method of executing
prisoners of war especially during 1956 and 1967 Israeli-Egyptian wars. This
was reported in the Israeli Haaretz newspaper in June 27th 2000. The
Egyptian Human Rights Organization Secretary-General, Muhammad Munib,
submitted a report confirming that Israel had killed between 7,000 to 15,000
Egyptian prisoners of wars of 1956 and 1967. The report also identified the
locations of 11 mass graves in Sinai and Israel in which thousands of
Egyptian prisoners were buried.
The most prominent of these massacres was the El-Arish massacre, where
Israeli forces murdered at least 150 Egyptian prisoners of war. Some of the
prisoners were run over by Israeli tanks several times, a crime that is
still practiced by Israeli army especially in the Gaza Strip. The story of
the massacre was originally reported by Israeli eyewitnesses in Israel's
Yediot Ahronot newspaper, and later by Israeli journalist Ran Adelist on
Israeli television. It was also reported by the Washington Report of
May/June 1996 pages 27 and 28. The massacre was also recorded by the
American USS Liberty surveillance ship that was sailing 12 miles off the
shore of Gaza. This massacre was a serious war crime and could have been the
main reason for the Israeli attack on the Liberty.
Worse than the Nazis the Israeli army had adopted the policy of targeting
young Palestinian children in an attempt to "nudge" Palestinian families to
leave the country for the sake of the future of the children, and/or to
exhaust their financial resources in treating and caring for their disabled
and crippled wounded children; the victims of Israeli snipers. Since the
beginning of the second Palestinian Intifada, September 2000, Israeli forces
have murdered 1050 children in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank; see also
the Guardian, October 21, 2008, and Al-Jazeera, October 22, 2008. A
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights report documented, with eyewitness
testimonies, at least 68 children were murdered by Israeli army during 12
months from June 07 to June 07 just before the cease fire agreement. The
child murder toll rose dramatically during the first six months of 2008 with
the Israeli army massive assault of "Operation Winter Heat" against Gaza
Strip. Children were directly targeted by Israeli snipers while walking in
the streets, while standing in front of their homes, and even while sitting
in their school rooms, also directly by drone missiles while playing in
courts. They are also the indirect victims if Israeli deliberate targeting
densely populated residential areas (Gaza is densely populated) including
schools, hospitals and food markets.
The average age of the targeted children was ten years old according to a
thousand-page document by Save the Children. The majority of these children
were innocent bystanders not participating in any "hostile" activity or
causing any threat to the heavily armed Israeli soldiers. In the 80% of the
cases of targeted children, the Israeli army prevented the victim from
receiving any medical attention. The report also documented that more than
50,000 child victims required medical attention for injuries including
gunshot wounds, tear gas inhalation and multiple fractures. A bulletin
titled "Deliberate Murder" published in 1989 by the Israeli League for Human
and Civil Rights reported the targeting of Palestinian children by Israeli
army and snipers from "special unit" had "carefully chosen" the children,
who were shot in the head or heart and died instantaneously (Mike Berry &
Greg Philo, 'Israel and Palestine-Competing Histories', Pluto Press, London,
2006, pp. 86-87).
According to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, and the 1989 UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child (signed by Israel) children are to be afforded
special protection during international armed conflicts. Israel had, and
still is violating these international laws.
Like Nazi Germany, who developed and used all kinds of new weapons including
the V2 rocket bomb and nerve gas, Israel has used every kind of weapons,
even new experimental ones, against Palestinian civilians. This included the
Dumdum exploding bullets, nerve gas, experimental chemical and biological
weapons, flying drones, and DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive) and the
latest remote control high power machine guns (seer shoots) installed on the
high towers of the imprisoning wall (separation wall) and operated by teen
aged female soldiers in far away operating rooms like computerized war
games. Israel is also know to be a nuclear weapon and is always hinting at
using it if/when they feel threatened.
Nazi Germans were brainwashed and driven by a social supremacist ideology of
the superior Aryan Race (Der Supermann). They believed that they were
superior to the rest of the people and that they should rule the world.
Similarly the Israelis are brainwashed and driven by the religious
supremacist ideology of god's chosen people in god's promised land, and
believe that it is their religious duty (mitzvah) to cleanse the world from
all gentiles (non-Jews), and to establish a Jewish only world government in
preparation for the coming of the Messiah. Such dangerous extreme ideology
is taught to Israeli children since childhood.
Moshe Feiglin, who won a respectable position on the Likuds' Knesset list
for the upcoming Israeli election is an admirer of Hitler and his superior
ideology. In an interview with the Ha'aretz Newspaper in 1995 he described
Hitler as a military genius and a great nation builder. "Hitler was an
unparallel military genius. Nazism had transformed Germany from a low to a
fantastic physical and ideological status. The ragged, trashy youth body
turned into a neat and orderly part of society and Germany received an
exemplary regime, a proper justice system, and public order. . This was no
bunch of thugs. They merely used thugs and homosexuals". His holocaustal
solution to the Palestinian problem, according to his Manhigut ha'Yehudit
(Jewish leadership) website, is to order "the complete stoppage of water,
electricity and communication" to the four million Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza.
Feiglin expresses the inner sentiment of every Israeli political leader
starting from their first Prime Minister Ben Gurion up to Tzipi Livni, the
latest acting Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affair, who have been
calling for the murder and the transfer of Palestinians out of the god's
promised land of Israel (Erez Israel). Their real policies become obvious
and louder in their campaign rhetoric.
Such genocidal holocaustal tendencies are nurtured, encouraged and called
for by top Israeli Rabbis and political leaders. Rabbi Yousef Obadia, the
top Israeli religious leader, Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet
Institute, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, the leading religious authority in
Israel's religious national current and former chief Eastern rabbi for
Israel, Rabbi Dov Lior, president of the Council of Rabbis of Judea and
Samaria (the West Bank), Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Safed and
a candidate for the post of chief rabbi or Israel, Rabbi Eliyahu Kinvinsky,
the second most senior authority in the Orthodox religious current, Rabbi
Israel Ariel, one of the most prominent rabbis in the West Bank colonies,
and Rabbi Yitzhaq Ginsburg, a top rabbi in Israel among many other extremist
religious Israeli leaders are continually calling for total extermination
and transfer of Palestinians.
Brainwashed and misguided Israelis, especially religious fundamentalists,
regularly attack Palestinian towns, vandalize their churches, mosques and
cemeteries with graffiti slogans such as "Death to Arabs", "Gas the Arabs",
and "Mohammad is a pig", occupying Palestinian after forcefully evicting
their Palestinian owners, attacking farmers, burning their crops, cutting
their fruit trees, poisoning their water wells, killing their farm animals,
destroying properties, looting shops, terrorizing civilians and children and
shooting people. Searching youtube.com for "Israeli settlers violence" to
watch the hundreds of videos showing Israeli settlers terrorism.
One prominent similarity between Israel and the Nazis is their state
sponsored terror groups. According to articles "Eichmann Tells His Own
Damning Story", Life Magazine, Volume 49, Number 22, (November 28th 1960)
pp. 19-25, 101-112, and "Eichmann's Own Story: Part II", Life Magazine,
December 6th 1960 pp. 146-161, Adolf Eichmann stated how Zionist leaders
were idealist like Nazi leaders, willing to sacrifice hundred thousands of
their own blood to achieve political goal. Lenni Brenner explains in his
book "Zionism in the Age of Dictators", in chapter 25, that Eichmann was
referring here to a deal the Nazi struck with Zionist leaders, such as
Hungarian Rezso Kastner, to save a few thousand hand-picked Zionists and
wealthy Jews, who would immigrate to Palestine, in return for leading
750,000 Hungarian Jews, and other millions of European Jews to their death
to make Jews "rightful victim", so that World Zionist Organization would
have the "right" to come " before the bargaining table when they divide
nations and lands at the war's end . for only with (Jewish) blood shall we
(Zionists) get the land."
The Nazis set up Police Battalion 101, a terrorist group, whose sole purpose
was hunting Jewish citizens, killing them and looting and destroying their
property. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen states in his book "Hitler's Willing
Executioners" that Battalion 101 was responsible for "the deportation and
gruesome slaughter in Poland of tens of thousands of Jewish men, women, and
children".
Israel had its own exact copy of Battalion 101 called Unit 101 under the
terrorist Ariel Sharon, who later became Israel's Prime Minister. Under
Sharon's leadership Unit 101 adopted the same criminal methods to terrorize
Palestinians. It also implemented what became known as jeep raids; driving
jeeps, with machine guns mounted on the front and rear, into Palestinian
towns murdering inhabitants, dynamiting homes, and burning their fields.
Since early 1950s Unit 101 was responsible for massacres in Palestinian
towns such as Bureij refugee camp, Qibya, Idna, Surif, Wadi Fukin, Falameh,
Rantis, Jerusalem, Budrus, Dawayima, Beit Liqya, Khan Younis and Gaza.
Israel had always resorted to terrorist attacks against Jews in other
countries especially Arab countries, such as North African Arab countries,
Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan, to encourage Jewish Arab residents to immigrate
to Israel. The Lavon Affair is just one famous terrorist related incident in
Egypt.
In January 29th 1999 article in Israeli Ha'aretz paper, Gideon Spiro, a
former member of the 890 battalion, stated that Unit 101 was an early, more
primitive prototype for the more sophisticated liquidation units of Duvdevan
and Shimshon established during the Intifada" Its operations were
characterized by "lots of killing of civilians and little real combat".
Israel is the only county in the world with many Prime Ministers, who were
members of terrorist and state-sponsored terrorist organizations directly
involved in slaughter of civilians. These include Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin,
Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Shimon Peres.
Arnold Toynbee wrote "It was a supreme tragedy that the lesson learnt by
them (the Jews) from their encounter with the Nazi German Gentiles should
have been, not to eschew but to imitate some of the evil deeds that the
Nazis had committed against the Jews."
Israelis and Jews of the world have relentlessly pursued Nazi war criminals
for decades for their war crimes committed during WWII. They chased Nazi war
criminals for the rest of their lives, even when they were old and close to
their death, to make them pay for their crimes. No doubts in my mind that
Israeli war criminals, in turn, will be pursued and sentenced for their war
crimes committed against Arabs.
PeterT
Wompom
Equating the Nazi's with the state of Israel is ridiculous and an
insult to the memory of the millions of Jews who died in the
Holocaust.
(Israel and the Palestinians have a right to peacefully coexist)
possum
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hi stef
the hateful anti-jew spew of the wingnut tendency in the
stop the war coalition was the reason i eventually
disconnected from the protests. i don't march to that beat.
spotted on recent news coverage of international
demonstrations against israel's assault on gaza - in
indonesia - a placard reading 'genocide is the only answer.'
: (
i don't have the answers, but extremist language doesn't
help in the slightest, and it is so wearying and frustrating
to see suffering and inhumanity, locked into a vicious
cycle...so many people just switch off in the end... we saw
it with the northern ireland conflict...futility thresholds
vary...the temptation of 'a plague on both your houses'
response is often near...and could easily be acheived by
seconding jobcentreplus to broker the middle-east peace
process.
ok. peace has to be worked for, and giving way to despair or
other overwhelming emotions prevents progress. remember
gerry adams extraordinary eulogy of ian paisley on his
retirement? whoever would have thought it possible?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/0200/mar/06/northernireland.ianpaisley
and paisley and mcguinness bonding?
i would hazard a guess that at some stage, the use of
suicide bombers must be discredited and abandoned.
possum