    Israel is a country bad enough as it is, without making historical
    comparisons.

    “Israel Military action is an unjustified aggression that is being
    carried out in a style of Hitler, in a fascist fashion.” (Venezuelan
    President Hugo Chavez)

    “Clearly, President Chavez needs a reality check when it comes to the
    Middle East conflict.” (Anti-Defamation League National Director,
    Abraham H. Foxman)

    There is a trend amongst us all, the critical voices of Israel and
    Zionism. Time after time we compare Israel to the Third Reich; we equate
    the IDF to the Wehrmacht, we find a resemblance between the Israeli Air
    Force’s tactics to the blitz technique of the Luftwafe, we occasionally
    associate Sharon’s and Olmert’s war crimes with those of Hitler. I
    myself have fallen into this very trap more than once. But I have now
    made up my mind. This fashion of speaking must be stopped once and for
    all.

    To regard Hitler as the ultimate evil is nothing but surrendering to the
    Zio-centric discourse. To regard Hitler as the wickedest man and the
    Third Reich as the embodiment of evilness is to let Israel off the hook.
    To compare Olmert to Hitler is to provide Israel and Olmert with a
    metaphorical moral shield. It maintains Hitler at the lead and allows
    Olmert to stay in the tail.

    My mother, indeed a very clever woman, challenged me a long time ago
    asking: “Tell me Gilad, why is it that you and your friends always
    compare Israel to the Nazis? Isn’t Israel bad enough?” At the time I
    found her remark rather amusing, but my mother’s cynical instinct was
    more than correct. Israel is indeed ‘bad enough’. Israel has already
    established a unique interpretation of the notion of wickedness that has
    managed to surpass any other evil. It is about time we internalise the
    fact that Israel and Zionism are the ultimate Evil with no comparison.
    And if this is not enough, unlike Nazism that belongs to the past,
    Zionism’s wickedness is a crime which is still unfolding and worsening.
    Chavez obviously has the absolute right to say what he said, yet I have
    to remind the adorable Venezuelan President that Hitler has never
    flattened a country for no reason at all, and this is exactly what the
    Israelis have been doing in Lebanon for four weeks already and in Gaza
    for years and years. Looking at the carnage and the devastation in
    Lebanon doesn’t leave any room for doubt. The current Israeli brutality
    is nothing but evilness for the sake of evilness. Retribution that knows
    no mercy. Israel is a devastating collective resurrection of the
    Biblical Samson. It is a modern representation of the man who kills
    women, children and the elderly, the Hebraic victorious master of blind
    indiscriminate retaliation.

    For years, politically correct liberals who present themselves as
    leftists have been insisting upon telling us that Israeli aggression
    should be understood in expansionist colonial terms. This line of
    thinking is still promoted by more than a few Jewish peace activists
    around the world. The reason is simple; as long as Israel is a
    colonialist state, then the archaic 19th century Marxist orthodox
    paradigm can be applied to the conflict. Moreover, if Israel is indeed
    an expansionist colonial regional force, then nothing is categorically
    wrong with the Israelis, they are just like the British were, but 150
    years too late.

    Nonsense! The above dated interpretation is fundamentally wrong and
    deliberately misleading. Moreover, it is not applicable anymore, not
    even as a Judeo-centric PC fig leaf. Watching the devastation the
    Israeli Air Force has left in its wake, looking at the death and carnage
    in Lebanon doesn’t leave any room for doubt. It has nothing to do with
    colonialism or expansionism. Lebanon and Beirut are not and have never
    been part of the Zionist Lebensraum aspiration. It is the other way
    around, till the late 1960’s the Israelis were totally sure that Lebanon
    would be the first Arab country to make peace with the Jewish State.
    Israel has never had any interest in the north of the Litani River and
    in spite of that, Israel has now destroyed every single Lebanese bridge,
    every airport, every power station. Hospitals are bombed, villages and
    neighbourhood have been wiped out, one thousand Lebanese civilians have
    lost their lives and over a million citizens are displaced and homeless.
    Now is the time to stand up and say it, unlike the Nazis who had respect
    for other national movements including Zionism, Israel has zero respect
    for anyone including its next door neighbours. The Israeli behaviour
    should be realised as the ultimate vulgar biblical barbarism on the
    verge of cannibalism. Israel is nothing but evilness for the sake of
    evilness. It is wickedness with no comparison.

    Hence, there is no room for comparison between Israel and the Nazis. If
    a comparison is to be made, then it is the Israelis who win the
    championship of ruthlessness and the reasons are obvious. Nazi Germany
    was a tyranny, Israel is a democracy led by a centre-left national unity
    government. While we do not have any formal objective tool to determine
    the German people’s approval of Nazi crimes (in the first place, Germans
    were not informed about Nazi homicidal crimes. Secondly, there was no
    objective independent poll system active in Germany at the time), the
    Israelis collectively approve their government’s crimes in Lebanon and
    this fact is overwhelmingly documented in more than a few polls.

    Nazis were indeed proper expansionists, they were trying to take towns
    and land intact. Carpet bombing and total erasure of populated areas
    that is so trendy amongst Israeli military and politicians (as well as
    Anglo-Americans) has never been a Nazi tactic or strategy. Apparently,
    Israel isn’t trying to take Lebanon; Israelis do not seem to be
    interested in Lebanese land. They just want to demolish it. One may
    wonder what it is that they really want to achieve. In fact no one in
    Israel, or anywhere else for that matter, knows. Do they want to
    dismantle the Hezbollah? Surely, they have achieved the very opposite.
    Their impression that Hezbollah is a small faction of minority
    fundamentalist militia that could be done away with effortlessly is
    shown as a ridiculous thesis with each passing day. Not only has it
    demonstrated itself as a force to be reckoned with, Hezbollah is now
    supported by 85% of the Lebanese people and this includes the Christian
    population (80% support among the Christian Lebanese). Does Israel want
    to maintain its power of deterrence? Surely it achieved the very
    opposite. By now, every Arab knows that the Israeli Army isn’t that
    glamorous anymore. In fact the photos of the Israeli military boot left
    on Lebanese soil says it all. In this war, it is the Israeli soldier who
    is taking off his military boots and running away for his life. Does
    Israel want to secure its populated centres? Surely it has achieved the
    very opposite. The more Israel hits Lebanon’s infrastructure, the
    greater are the barrages of missiles that are falling on Israeli cities.
    In fact, it is just a question of time before Tel Aviv gets a glimpse
    into the notion of life in Gaza and Beirut. Indeed Israel has no plan or
    strategy; instead it practices the lowest form of collective barbarian
    zeal. The Israelis demolish for the sake of demolishing. Israel is
    indeed an evil with no comparison.

    Yet, we have to admit that Nazis were pretty good in provoking some
    international outrage. Not many loved Hitler beyond the Germanic world
    (and the English aristocracy). Israeli cannibalism, on the other hand,
    is adored by some Western leaders, and it is Blair, Bush and even Merkel
    who are afraid to stand up to Zionist barbarism. While Nazism was
    defeated 12 years after it took power, Zionist brutality is a snowball
    of repulsive anger that knows no boundaries and no end. It rolls over
    the West and recruits the most morally deteriorated forces around,
    whether they are Blair and his ilk or some radical American Christian
    Fundamentalists. Zionism aims at turning our planet into a bloody
    battlefield. For the time being it is reducing the UN institution into
    an American neoconservative puppet. It is time we admit that Zionists
    are standing in the very centre of the so-called ‘Cultural Clash’. While
    Nazism was a nationalist expansionist movement with extensive yet
    limited ambitions, the Jewish State and its Zionist lobbies are trying
    to revive the spirit of a global crusade in the name of a bizarre
    religious war (Judeo-Christian versus Muslim). If we want to save this
    world, if we want to live in a humane planet, we must focus on the
    gravest enemy of peace, those who are wicked for the sake of evilness:
    the Israeli State and world Zionism.

    It is about time to get out of the closet and to say it all loudly.
    Israel and Zionism endanger our world. It isn’t just Lebanon, Palestine
    and the Arabs who suffer. It is now Britain and America that are dragged
    into an idiotic war. It is the entire West that is asked to rescue what
    the Israelis left out of Lebanon. We all have to de-Zionise ourselves
    before it is too late. We have to admit that Israel is the ultimate evil
    rather than Nazi Germany. Abe Foxman and the ADL are correct for a
    change, we all need a reality check. We should never compare Israel to
    Nazi Germany. As far as evilness is concerned, we should now let Israel
    take the lead.

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