‘”Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler’”
—-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, referring to the murder of two young Israelis by a man who screamed “Free Palestine” in Washington, D.C.
The context of that quote, from Netenyahu’s remarks last week:
“….A brutal terrorist shot in cold blood a young, beautiful couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Yaron had just bought an engagement ring for Sarah. He was planning to give it to her in Jerusalem next week. They were planning to start a new and happy life together… that tragically did not happen… Yaron and Sarah weren’t the victims of a random crime. The terrorists who cruelly gunned them down did so for one reason and one reason alone: he wanted to kill Jews… “Free Palestine”… is exactly the same chant we heard on October 7, [2023]. On that day, thousands of terrorists stormed into Israel from Gaza. They beheaded men, they raped women, they burned babies alive. They butchered 1200 innocent people and took 251 innocent people hostage to the dungeons of Gaza…. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz… said to me, “These Hamas terrorists are exactly like the Nazis.” “and if they could get away with it, these Hamas terrorists would have slaughtered every last Jew on Earth.” …For these Neo-Nazis, “Free Palestine” is just today’s version of “Heil Hitler.” They don’t want a Palestinian state. They want to destroy the Jewish state. They want to annihilate the Jewish people who’ve been in the land of Israel for 3500 years…I could never understand how this simple truth evades the leaders of France, Britain, Canada and others. They’re now proposing to establish a Palestinian state and reward these murderers with the ultimate prize… [F]or 18 years, we had a de facto Palestinian state. It’s called Gaza. And what did we get? Peace? No, we got the most savage slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. You won’t be surprised to learn that Hamas thanked President Macron and Prime Ministers Starmer and Carney for demanding that Israel end its war in Gaza… Hamas was right to thank them, because by issuing their demand, replete with a threat of sanctions against Israel—against Israel, not Hamas — these three leaders effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power…want Israel to stand down and accept that Hamas’s army of mass murderers will survive, rebuild, and repeat the October 7 massacre again and again and again, because that’s what Hamas has vowed to do. When mass murderers, rapists, baby killers, and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice, you’re on the wrong side of humanity, and you’re on the wrong side of history. Now these leaders may think that they’re advancing peace. They’re not. They’re emboldening Hamas to continue fighting forever. And they give them hope to establish a second Palestinian state, on which Hamas will again seek to destroy the Jewish state.”
The pro-Hamas, “Aww, poor Gaza!” distortion was the position of the Biden Administration, whoever that was, as well. It is the current position of the Democratic Party, progressives and their allies, the journalism and higher education Axis cabal.
Case in point: Here is the reference to the October 7 Hamas massacre in Harvard’s latest yearbook:
Harvard Chabad, the campus community center for Jewish students, pointed out that this whitewashing is the equivalent of describing 9/11 as “War breaks out in Afghanistan.” It urged employers: “If you are going to hire Harvard graduates from 2024-2028, please ask them what they were doing on campus the last two years,” suggesting that if they called for a free Palestine, maybe the employers should look elsewhere.
What’s Hebrew for “Bingo!”?
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If these people despise the likes of the National Alliance, the White Aryan Resistance, and the Stormfront White Nationalist Community, it is only because they consider them to be rival gangs.
“What’s Hebrew for ‘Bingo!‘?”
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Europe has despised the Jews for centuries, simply because they were the “other” who just simply refused to disappear and who accumulated wealth. Edward I kicked them out of England and Wales, Ferdinand and Isabella kicked them out of Spain the same time they threw the Muslims out, and the Holy Roman Empire kept them in a state of permanent helplessness to the point, supposedly, that one of their rabbi/wizards built the clay giant the Golem to protect them. I don’t believe there was ever any such creation, BUT, the point of the story is well taken. Then there were the Russian pogroms, which were just blatant hatred. A parallel could be drawn with the Turks’ hatred of the Armenians, also a religious minority that punched above their weight class. More to the point, the fact is that the Hebrews who later became the Israelis pushed the British mandate rulers out by force and by asymmetrical warfare, which has never sat well with the Europeans.
Not that Europe is particularly friends with Arabs either, but they need access to their oil and are in much closer range of state sponsored terror. Not to mention they are filling up fast Muslim (not always Arab) refugees and liberal political parties don’t say a word about it. The mayors of multiple important cities in the UK, and not just ethnic enclaves like Bradford (aka Bradistan), are all Muslim. So they look the other way on most of what happens with the enemies of Israel in the name of keeping the oil flowing and the terrorists from targeting them too much.
However, the Islamist/Palestinian ideology is like a cancer, if it is unchecked it metastasizes, and the next generation, or some of it, starts to really believe it. It helps that there are many apostles of Islamism in these countries now like Anjem Choudary who are home-grown and can’t just be shipped back to the Middle East. There aren’t as many of them here, but there are enough to spread their message, the good and the bad, and enough bored young people out there who find their direction in life in this hatred, just like bored and underemployed young people in interwar Germany saw direction in Nazism.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: evil returns again and again in every age. Each time it has a different name, wears a different face, and has a different plan, but it always wants the same thing. Each time it also pits groups against one another, because if any nation unites against it, its power is that much less. Each time it also wants to prove power by destroying. Hamas made the mistake of assaulting a nation that it was not powerful enough to destroy and now is using the death of its own people to try to hook onto the anti-colonialism and pro-poc approach of Black Lives Matter and other movements that have now lost their potency five years after the fact. In that sense yes, “Free Palestine” is no different than “Heil Hitler” or “Gott mit uns” or any other slogan that means “we are right and no one is allowed to say otherwise.”
Very good point. They wouldn’t involve themselves in Germany’s internal policies back in the ’30s but seem perfectly willing to pass judgment on Israel’s handling of very real violence now.
It is nice for Netanyahu that he makes great soundbites that receive praise at Ethics Alarms, however actions should always matter more than words for a Prime Minister at War. Why does Gaza still exist? Why has Gaza not gone the way of Carthage? Truth of the matter is that Gaza is still fighting with strong spirit, and Israel’s spirit has been deflated since October 7th 2023. Why is it that a highly technologically advanced nuclear power cannot win from a backward entity like Gaza? (Thinking further about this is why did the United States not win from those Koran-thumpers in Afghanistan)?
The X-treat below argues that Western countries such as Israel and the USA have become too “ethical” and too concerned about “committing war crimes”, “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” , and that these concerns actually get in the way of actually winning the war. I agree with that point of view.
Whatever Netanyahu says, his words fall greatly on deaf ears in the west; as Hamas is winning the PR battle in many Western countries. My opinion is that Netanyahu should talk less and exercise the same bloody-mindedness as Hamas to end the conflict in Israel’s favor. And Netanyahu should not give a flying f.. about what the Western opinion makers, ICC and the United Nations think about that. Netanyahu will also (re)gain a lot of respect in the Arab world, as they understand how power works, and as in most Arab countries the Palestinians are despised and hated.
I find it mind-boggling that many in the West 1) worry about the “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza, 2) expect Israel to feed its enemy, and 3) Israel is actually doing so.
Should Britain have supplied food to Germany during WWII? Someone, give me your best argument for doing so. I could use the laugh.