Posted on 01/07/2009 9:00:20 AM PST by dbz77
"Go back to the oven! You need a big oven, that's what you need!"
This is what one young woman thought passed for acceptable discourse during an anti-Israel rally last week in, of all places, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Other chants were similarly unlovely. You can watch it on YouTube if you like.
But why bother? The Fort Lauderdale outburst is just one window on the upside-down world of Israel hatred. Across the Islamic world, and in too many points West, it is still considered a penetrating and poignant insight to call Zionists the "new Nazis." For instance, in Sunday's Gulf News, Mohammad Abdullah al Mutawa, a sociology professor at United Arab Emirates University, penned an essay titled "Zionists are the new Nazis." He began: "Today, the whole world stands as a witness to the fact that the Nazi Holocaust was a mere lie, which was devised by the Zionists to blackmail humanity."
At a Saturday protest in New York against Israel's military assault on Gaza, some carried signs that read: "Israel: The Fourth Reich," "Holocaust by Holocaust Survivors," "Stop Israel's Holocaust," "Holocaust in Gaza" and "Stop the Zionist Genocide in Gaza."
Type "Israel" and "Nazi" into any news search engine and you'll be rewarded, or punished, with a bounty of such statements from just the last week or so. Gaza is the new Auschwitz, the Israeli Defense Forces are SS troops ... I find myself tempted to simply write "et cetera" because it's all so familiar by now. But to do that is to dismiss, and therefore accept, such grotesqueries as trivialities, when in fact such charges are deeply revealing -- just not about Israel.
First, let us note that if supposedly all-powerful Israel is dedicated to exterminating the Palestinian people, it is doing a bad job. The Palestinian population has only grown since 1948. There are more Arab citizens living in Israel proper today than there were in all of Palestine the year Israel was founded.
Perhaps one reason Israel fails at genocide is that it isn't interested in genocide? That would explain why Israel warned thousands of Gazans by cell phone to leave homes near Hamas rocket stockpiles. It would clarify why, even amid all-out war, it offers aid to enemy civilians. It would even illuminate the otherwise mysterious clamor from Israelis for a viable "peace partner."
But no. For millions of Israel haters, the more plausible explanation is that the "defiant" Palestinians have miraculously survived Israel's determination to wipe them out.
Meanwhile, calls for the complete extermination of Israel are routine. The Hamas charter, invoking the fraudulent "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as justification, demands the destruction of Israel. Hamas exists solely because it is dedicated to the complete obliteration of the "Zionist entity." Remove that "principle" and Hamas is meaningless.
A sick mixture of Holocaust envy and Holocaust denial is the defining spirit of Hamas. Indeed, Holocaust denial passes for a scholarly pursuit not just in Gaza but throughout much of the Arab and Muslim world.
The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, literally earned a doctorate in it. His doctoral thesis became a book, "The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism," in which he denounces "the Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that 6 million Jews were killed." In Hamas' eyes, Abbas is an incorrigible moderate.
It's Palestinian Islamists who have ideological and political ties to Nazism stretching back to the days of "Hitler's Mufti," Haj Amin al-Husseini, a happy warrior for the Nazi cause.
So why the obsession with casting the Israelis as the new Hitlerites? One answer is surely that critics know such charges are painful to a country largely born of the Holocaust and marked by its scars. It also grabs attention, galvanizes radicals, vents legitimate frustrations and anger, and helps demonize the enemy and, hence, justify the murder of "Zionists everywhere," as Hamas often declares in its communiques.
But I think the desire to cast the Israelis as Nazis is fueled, deep down, by the haters' need to see their own hatreds and ambitions mirrored in their enemy's actions. Hamas has an avowedly Hitlerite agenda. The only way to make such an agenda defensible is to convince yourself and others that the Israelis deserve it. Hence, Hamas and its allies insist that when they aim rockets at grade schools and playgrounds, they are resisting the "new Nazis." It brings to mind Huey Long's reported prophecy that if fascism ever came to America, it would be called anti-fascism. Well, with Hamas, Hitlerism comes to the Middle East wearing the mask of anti-Hitlerism.
“Hitler’s Mufti”. Didn’t he have a famous son?
It’s obvious to everyone except left wingers who the Nazis are. Left wingers favor Hamas because they never met an enemy of the United States they didn’t like.
This is another reason why I like to use the term Islamo fascism for all of them (Palistinean Arabs, Iranian Mullahs, Al Quada, Taliban etc..). They are blood brothers with the Nazis and other fascists of the 30s. Using their religion as the allegiance to the state. The Islamo fascists and the liberals have so much in common. Black is white, white is black, do not believe your eyes, ears or any of your other senses, believe only what we tell you.
It disgusted me that there was a protest in my city.
How I wish we had a rapid response network of some kind. Those Israel-supporters needed help.
Imagine if those camel-jockies were outnumbered 3 to 1 by American patriots like us !
I’m assuming that the protestors all came from a certain sect of society and that certain sect of society has not come out and protested the terrible things that were said at the protest. That’s what you have to love about free speech. Let them speak. Your enemies have come out. Keep your powder dry and handy because they are...
the PC crowd of sniveling liberals are the real socialist nazis.
ML/NJ
I don’t agree with castigating all Pallie Arabs. There are even Christians and Israeli citizens among them.
It’s not fair to embrace the same attitudes as the opposition.
The Left continually try to paint the Right as “NAZIS” whereas the truth is that the NAZI Party’s real name was the “National SOCIALIST German Workers’ Party”.
Yup, they were socialists.
Iwonder if some of these pitiful people are more anti-Jew or more pro-Palestinian because of all the propaganda?
Questions, always questions. Who was that female who said “Go back to the ovens.”?
Was the Pali demonstrator a Hamasimian or a generic Palisimian?
Future social analysts will want to know.
I hope that the FBI was there taking pictures and getting names of these people from “the religion of Peace”
Their blatant attitude is only because of our tolerance.
They mistake kindness for weakness.
You did see when I said I’m assuming. I didn’t say it was a fact. I’m sure there were some token protestors from other walks of life also. For one thing, I’m sure it’s all the rage at the local college to be down for the Palistinean people. A sort of modern day apartheid South Africa thing. However, the vast majority of protestors I saw in the video clips were Arabs. Tell me where I’m wrong?
You said ALL and that’s what I was responding to as not all Palestinian people are even muslim let alone supporters of the Hamas version of Islamic fascism.
Protestors are protestors, who cares. They don’t illuminate morality, they attempt to defile it.
We should not meet them at their level.
Islam is a destructive, barbaric political system in religious drag.
Quite right. Always bring a gun to a knife fight.
Oh you’re just talking about winning strategy.
Nothing wrong with that. :)
It certainly can be, but untold millions of muslims pose no threat to anyone.
The integration of the system with politics is certainly toxic.
“...untold millions of muslims pose no threat to anyone.”
How about “excision” - the process where a young female Muslim has her vaginal lips, and clitoris cut off. And, it is often done without any anesthesia.
Islam is both antithetical to, and irreconcilable with, America and the West.
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