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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