Nazism and Zionism

in 1995 Zev sterel then the Leon Bloom chair of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published the founding myths of Israel nationalism socialism and the making of the Jewish State the English edition was published in 1998 the book primarily delves into the history of the labor movement in the yesu the pre-1948 Jewish community in Palestine before the of Israel was founded the book details how David benan the future Prime Minister shrewdly Consolidated power and came to dominate the labor movement which would rule the state of Israel for four decades it was the labor

movement in Stern hell's opinion which upheld a facade of a Frugal pioneering kibo society as beneran described the kibuts in March 1936 the kots is the Jewish form of settlement par excellance no form of colonization could be more zionis there is nothing like it the kudim and additionally mavim were the collective agricultural settlements that dotted the frontiers of the yeshu from the beginning the kibuts had a special place in the Zionist ethos the weapon bearing farmers were an outstanding symbol of the land's Conquest indeed for the Zionist movement Collective settlement was proof of the labor

movement's practical capabilities what was anyone comparable as an example of Zionist values to the farmer soldiers of the newly founded Kut Sim however the idealizing of the settlers in the kibuts was a means of raising funds for the Zionist project and veiled the existence of a burgeoning capitalist highly urbanized and economically disperate Society the kibuts was a kind of magnificent showcase behind which a very different reality was taking shape agricultural comp communes were admired throughout the Jewish World in its name budgets were provided by the Zionist organization agricultural collectives were exhibited with great pride to

all visitors from abroad and all of them Jews and non-jews socialists and members of the European nobility were thrilled and excited at the sight of the egalitarian Utopia coming to life in the land of the Bible however on the eve of Independence at the end of 1947 in a general population of more than 600,000 Jews only some 24,000 lived in kibuts the kibuts and moshavim this is an embarrassing Truth for all those For Whom the kibuts was a raon Detra for an entire existence were not a means to a social Revolution but Tools in forging

National sovereignty the fiction of collective ownership achieved the classic aims of nationalist socialism the elimination of class friction the strengthening of national solidarity and the creation of a sense of responsibility for the national economy among workers hey everyone gdf here if you want to support me consider becoming a patron to watch exclusive videos that aren't up on YouTube and you can join the Discord server there also I accept donations and here sternhell introduces a term with the intent to explain the Zionist movement's synthesis of two seemingly contradictory ideologies nationalist socialism properly understood appeared in Europe

in the last years of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th as an alternative to both Marxism and liberalism I have used the term nationalist socialism despite the fact that it does not figure in an American Dictionary where the more usual term national socialism is preferred but national socialism which was commonly used at the beginning of the 20th century has been contaminated by its association with the Nazis an enlightening history of the development of Zionism as a form of nationalist socialism can be found in David Ban's evolving language indeed Zionism was just one

of a number of examples of nationalist socialism where strictly speaking the equality and Welfare of society is cast aside in favor of furthering National aims it is in this atmosphere where beneran can declare that class interests are identical with national interests and where he could Advance his ambition that the yesu be transformed from a working class into a working Nation beneran summarized his nationalist socialist principles as follows our movement has always had the socialistic idea that the party of the working class unlike the parties of other classes is not only a Class party solely concerned

with matters affecting the class but a national party responsible for the future of the entire people he later condemned the class concept that obscures the national character of our movement an early contribution to Modern Zionism were the writings of Moses hes a German Jew from Bon he became deeply involved in radical German politics by the mid 19th century naturally he became acquainted with marks and angles though by the publishing of the Communist Manifesto hes had fallen out with the pair in 1862 he published Roman Jerusalem Judaism as a nationality has a natural basis which cannot

be set aside by mere conversion to another Faith as is the case in other religions a Jew belongs to his race and consequently also to Judaism in spite of the fact that he or his ancestors have become apostates the converted Jew remains a Jew no matter how much he objects to it this was apparently the first instance of a Jew making an explicit statement that Jews were a race and in the age of Proto Zionism and later the modern Zionist movement the established Orthodoxy among many mainstream European thinkers was that nationhood was characterized by racial

or blood relation indeed the 19th century marked the dawn of European nationalism and it was in this context that the modern Zionist movement emerged Zev Vladimir japo insky was not a labor Zionist he led the right flank of the Zionist movement known as revisionist Zionism which spawned the iron and Stern gang paramilitary groups hailing from Odessa he was a veteran of the first world war co-founding the Jewish Legion of the British army from his revisionist movement came the ideological successors of herut and later the leud party a few years ago I asked myself where does

our Dee rooted feeling of national self-identity originate I studied this question in depth and answered in the blood the feeling of national self-identity is ingrained in the man's blood in his physical racial type and only in it preservation of national identity is Possible only under conditions where racial Purity is preserved and for that we need a territory of Our Own in which our people will be the decisive majority the famed philosopher Martin bber was an early supporter of Theodore Herzel and the Zionist movement though he later struggled with the concept of a Jewish state for

a period he was editor of devel the flagship news newspaper of the Zionist movement in 1977 Bernard suser wrote for political theory of the parallels between Bubba's work and the various romantic Vish elitist and irrationalist currents that later fed the flood tide of national socialism nowhere was this multivalence more strikingly in evidence than when the Nazis cited buba in support of their racial theories buba interprets Judaism in typically Vish manner he locates the heart of Jewish identity in the community of blood gine shaft zus blus indeed Martin bba's writings were cited by none other than

Dr Hans Friedrich Kal gun a prominent racial theorist in the Third Reich a worthy and evident solution of the Jewish question lies in the separation of the Jews from the Gentiles that withdrawing of the Jews from the Gentile Nations which Zionism seeks to bring about within the European peoples whose racial compositions is quite other than out of the Jews these latter have the effect to quote the Jewish writer buba of a wedge driven by Asia into the European structure a thing of ferment and disturbance beginning in 1908 Arthur rupin directed The Palestine Office of the

Zionist executive later the Jewish Agency for Israel his role in the colonization of Palestine can't be overstated as he's considered the father of the Zionist national settlement as described by schlomo sand it would not be an exaggeration to say that rupin was to Zionist colonization what Herzel was for the organized national movement rupin has additionally been described as the father of Israeli sociology he was appointed lecturer in the sociology of the Jews at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem his contacts included Dr Hans Gunter who he traveled to Germany to visit in 1933 after Adolf Hitler's

descent as chancellor of Germany a diary entry read on August 11th I went to yina to see Professor G the founder of the National Socialist racial Theory we talked for 2 hours Guna was very affable he argued that he had no copyright on the concept of aryanism and agreed with me that the Jews are not inferior only different and that the problem must be resolved fairly rin's contact with Guna continued until as late as 1939 years after the nurg laws but before the Holocaust after which rupin had ceased all connections with him on a related

note in their efforts to justify the nurburg laws the Nazis published a pamphlet entitled why the Aryan law a contribution to the Jewish question which summarized the Aran law and argued in favor of its beneficial effects in this 54-page pamphlet designed for Mass distribution the literary agents who wrote the pamphlet quoted rupin extensively we can easily observe in the the pamphlet how the concept of immutable racial characteristics of Jews had been used to justify their persecution the Jews are One race and baptism does not wipe away alien racial characteristics that are repugnant to the German

people Arthur rupin also directed The absorption of German Jewish immigrants along with their possessions as part of the transfer agreement secured between the Zionist leaders and Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1941 the agreement secured the immigration of some 55,000 German Jews to Palestine along with their personal wealth with the German State taking a percentage breaking an international boycott if in terms of German Jew's wealth the transfer agreement was by no means decisive it was crucial to Palestinian Zionism some 60% of all capital invested in Palestine between August 1933 and September 1939 was channeled through the

agreement with the Nazis their Capital generated a boom giving Palestine a holy artificial prosperity in the midst of the worldwide depression the fact is that Hitler's Third Reich did more than any other government during the 1930s to support Zionist development in Palestine indeed rupin was hostile to a boycott on Germany not only through his Central role in the so-called havara agreement agement in 1933 a planned London boycott conference never came to fruition a gapo spy named Dr reichart undercover as a journalist for a German paper revealed in a dispatch to his superiors in Germany London

boycott conference was torpedoed from Tel Aviv because the head of the transfer in Palestine referring to Arthur rupin in close contact with Consulate in Jerusalem sent cables to London it was after a Dutch communist Set Fire to the reog in February 1933 that Hitler declared his war on communism in listening to the speech on the radio was Arthur rupin who wrote in his diary two days later I heard on the radio Hitler's speech in the rice dog it was a much better speech than all his election speeches full of content interesting fascinating in June of

1933 the Zionist Federation of Germany published an address to the new German state which read in part our acknowledgement of Jewish nationality provides for a clear and sincere relationship to the German people and its National and racial realities precisely because we do not wish to falsify these fundamentals because we too are against mixed marriage and for maintaining the purity of the Jewish group and reject any trespass of the cultural domain we having been brought up in the German language and German culture can show an interest in the works and values of German culture with admiration

and internal sympathy as for their solution to the Jewish question Zionism wishes to shape Jewish immigration to Palestine in such a way that a reduction of pressure on the Jewish position in Germany will result additionally boycott propaganda such as is currently being carried out against Germany and many ways is in essence unionist because Zionism wants not to do battle but to convince and to build indeed these German zionists brought up in German culture as they put it invoked the concept of racial Purity an area of focus of Richard vadari minister of food and Agriculture and

author of a new nobility of blood and soil where he alleged that the Germanic nobleman derived his origin from a Divine ancestor whose blood in other words genetic material had to be passed on by the Descendants to The Offspring in the purest possible form as described by Israeli geneticist Raphael ful author of Zionism and the biology of the Jews borrowing from the Romantic European nationalist movements political Zionism grounded the Jewish diaspora sociocultural religious concept not on the traditional blood and God which deferred the return to the Homeland indefinitely until the coming of the Messiah but

rather on the European notion of blood and soil ironically zionists thus accepted an ancient anti-semitic notion that the anomaly of the Jews is inherent in the dissociation of their blood from their soil elaborated on numberless Times by The Towering figure of Arthur rupin yet another example I wish to establish the right of the Jews to come to Palestine not on the basis of some political agreement or concession but rather on the historical and racial link to the land of Israel it was none other than Reinhard hadrich who wrote in a May 1935 article for dash

fataka the official organ of the SS the zionists profess a strictly racial concept and through immigration to Palestine they helped to build their own Jewish State our good wishes and our official Goodwill go with them hadrich as chief of the rich Security main office oversaw the Gestapo kipo and the zahit de hadrich ordered the prohibition of speeches and activities which counseled Jews to remain in Germany the SD encouraged Zionist propaganda and activities in the summer of 1919 following the Great War US President woodro Wilson sent a commission to survey the Middle East following the collapse

of the Ottoman Empire the commission led by Henry Churchill King and Charles Richard crane would be called simply King crane the Commissioners began their study of Zionism with Minds predisposed in its favor they wrote but the actual facts in Palestine coupled with the force of the general principles proclaimed by the allies and accepted by the syrians have driven them to the recommendation here made the world didn't learn of these recommendations for years with the New York Times publishing their report only in December 1922 as William T Ellis reacted to the information the world is a

skew today because facts have been concealed or perverted if in 1918 or 199 the world had seen the international situation stripped of all camouflage with every secret treaty opened and every National condition made clear it would have insisted on a totally different outcome of events as the king crane commission concluded about the Zionist movement the commission recognized that definite encouragement had been given to the zionists by the Allies in Mr balor's often quoted statement if however the strict terms of the Balor statement are adhered to favoring The Establishment in Palestine of a national home for

the Jewish people it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may Prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-jewish communities in Palestine it can hardly be doubted that the extreme Zionist program must be greatly modified for a national home for the Jewish people is not equivalent to making Palestine into a Jewish State nor can the erection of such a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing non-jewish communities in Palestine the fact came out repeatedly in the commission's conference with Jewish Representatives that the zionists

looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-jewish inhabitants of Palestine by various forms of purchase however they ominously foresaw the natural outcome of this expropriation no British officer consulted by the Commissioners believed that the Zionist program could be carried out except by Force of Arms further the commission were not compelled by Zionist claims to the entire land of Palestine the initial claim often submitted by Zionist Representatives that they have a right to Palestine based on an occupation of 2,000 years ago can hardly be seriously considered perhaps the EV jabotinsky most lasting Legacy

is his founding the doctrine of the Iron Wall building up great military capacity and maintaining a Perpetual state of aggression japa insky was admittedly a revisionist on the right flank of the Zionist movement however his Doctrine is of course the one that prevailed in his foundational Iron Wall article from 1923 japa insky laid out his vision my readers have a general idea of the history of colonization in other countries I suggest that they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonization being carried out

with the consent of the native population there is no such precedent we may tell them whatever we like about the innocence of our aims watering them down and sweetening them with honeyed words to make them palatable but they know what we want as as well as we know what they do not want every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonized Zionist colonization must either stop or else proceed regardless of the native population which means that it

can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population behind an iron wall which the native population cannot breach as described by sternhell the Nationalist ideology of the Jewish labor movement was to conquer as much land as possible on the leader of the labor movement David beneran from the beginning he was convinced that settling Jews on the soil of heret Israel would mean a conquest of land and a rivalry with Arabs beneran declared in December 1922 the one great concern that should govern our thought and work is

the conquest of the land and building it up through extensive immigration the possibility of our Conquering the land is liable to slip out of our grasp this concise concentrated programmatic and important speech contained not a single word about equality Justice Universal values or the creation of an alternative Society this was the nature of the Primacy of the national aims despite being labeled the Socialist it is significant that beneran hardly ever used the word proletariat the proletariat according to the Marxist view accepted by all socialist parties was universalistic it was not representative of national interests at

all as Stern hell shows beneran very much harnessed private property and capital to further nationalist aims per the interpretation of nationhood prevalent in European nationalism and the dominant strand of Labor Zionism where beneran was concerned the only Criterion that mattered was and remained a functional and utilitarian criterian private Capital fulfills a Zionist Mission If it creates Jewish employment and public Capital falls short of Zionism if it does not serve this purpose the public Capital invested in the building of zikon and binyamina two settlements were Arab labor dominated failed Zionism the private Capital that built mcdel

and raah two settlements that employed Jewish workers exclusively fulfilled a Zionist Mission 100% this was elaborated on more directly in 1931 we have no special interests in a socialist regime or a commune in this country if those involved are not Jewish workers employment of Arab labor in the Jewish settlement Ben grian declared carried with it the danger of a hostile alien element in our midst the outbreak of the second world war on September 1st 1939 saw Poland Sky swarmed with planes and opened the floodgates of Hitler's Blitz C at the same time Germany's Advance Eastward

would yield the Reich with new territory to depopulate and repopulate with German settlers utilizing the new living space or leben despite the enormous resources involved in the Nazi war planning the settlement of its new Eastern possessions was an immediate consideration upon his return from Poland's besieged and bombed out Capital Hitler boasted in a speech to the rice doog [Music] of course Warsaw was subjected to a month-long bombardment and Siege which killed some 25,000 people the lift vafa bombed civilian and Military targets the same contrary to Hitler's claims of Distinction Hitler also dismissed Poland's nationhood celebrating

fore [Laughter] [Laughter] to implement this Hitler commissioned the rice SS Hinrich himler to lead a rice kamarat for the strengthening of gerom the commission had three objectives number one bring back those German citizens and racial Germans abroad who are eligible for permanent return to the right number two eliminate the harmful influence of such alien parts of the population as constitute a danger to the Reich and the German community and number three create new German colonies by resettlement of German citizens and racial Germans coming back from abroad Robert Lewis Cole an American Army intelligence surveyor in

German occupied Europe during World War II provided valuable insight into the German settlement policy Hitler made it quite clear that he thought in terms of settling Germans on the new soil and expelling the natives this soil must be tilled by Germans said Hitler the great mistake of our former times was to imagine that Germans could take land with the alien peoples upon it have them till it and germanize them the result in intermarriage only put German blood at the disposal of other nationalities such as the poles who would ultimately take the land back if they

continued to till it the scattered Germans of the world must be Consolidated on this newly won soil as the sole owner the new society would consist of pastoral German communities the farmer would serve as the Vanguard of the Nazi conquest of the East idealization of Rural Life and of the unspoiled German peasant in the East was combined with a utopian fantasy of a new communal socialism to be built up in Eastern Europe under German leadership however as was typical of other nationalist socialist societies the idealization of pastoral living Veil the reality where the state harnessed

the wealth of powerful private interests to further the wealth and power of the nation the Reconstruction of the German economy and the rearmament of the third W was carried out in Alliance with organized German business interests Germany's professional Soldier class and the bureaucracy in spite of all their Petty Bourgeois slogans the Nazi leaders had gradually come to realize that only compromise and temporary Coalition would enable them to seize and hold power they had grasped by 1933 three that reconstruction and rearmament were the goals of powerful groups outside the movement which could be harnessed to it

through the more opportunistic members of these groups in this way the outermost layer of the movement the statists like papen Shak and Bloomberg as well as countless smaller figures in the party served to bind to national socialism the machinery and the skills of tried and experienced segments of the German ruling class ehor kinety as well exposed the ideological underpinnings of German settlement in his revealing work secret Nazi plans for Eastern Europe a study of leben ham policies Nazi authorities wanted to see hundreds of thousands of volunteers from the old Reich either from peasant stock or

from those willing to embrace wholeheartedly the ideology of blood and soil become Pioneer peasants in this newly conquered leben hel in building the new Nazi Society racial criteria were chosen instead of the Criterion of social origin the common unit considered for this purpose was in the Nazi case the nation as a whole rather than a class from his position not only as ricea s s but now settlement Zar himler described the aim of so-called germanization it is not our task to germanize the east in the old sense that is to teach the people there the

German language and the German law but to see to it that only people of purely Germanic blood live in the east the playright hust traveled with the heisa throughout occupied Poland where they stood there like prehistoric farmers and laughed to one another with twinkling eyes all of this was now once more German soil here the German plow will soon change the picture here trees and bushes will soon be planted Poland rightfully belonged to Germany as far as the German leaders were concerned as I covered in my last video polish city names were changed and some

1 and A2 million poles were expelled from their homes Warsaw was to be depopulated from a city of 1.3 million to just 880,000 and settled with 130,000 German colonists every building was to be destroyed by the end of the war they had largely carried this out as described by Alexander Richie the ideological justification for the Eraser of Warsaw was simple Warsaw had at one time been German but had been corrupted by the Poes and the Jews in a 1942 edition of Das Fel a periodical for Germans living in occupied Poland the Nazi historian Dr Hans

Hof wrote in 1420 85% of the names of burgers in Warsaw were German and they were the only ones who brought any cultural and economic life Administration and Justice to the city During the period of military control of Poland wrote Richard Lucas 531 towns and Villages were burned history contains many Eerie coincidences as ilon Pape had famously revealed in his work the ethnic cleansing of Palestine when it was over more than half of palestine's native population close to 800,000 people had been uprooted 531 Villages had been destroyed and 11 Urban neighborhoods emptied of their inhabitants

the plan decided upon on March 10th 1948 and above all its systematic implementation in the following months was a clearcut case of an ethnic cleansing operation regarded under international law today as a crime against humanity in 1993 Israeli historian Tom Sev published the 7th million the Israelis and the Holocaust in 1968 he writes in the book The newspaper Lam merav had published a long interview with Saul friedlander who was just then beginning to be recognized around the world as one of the important Scholars of the Holocaust a failure said freedlander himself a holocaust Survivor when

asked about the yeshu reaction to the extermination of the Jews in Europe I do not claim that from a technical operational point of view they could have done more than they actually did he explained I claim that the yeshu leadership and the public as a whole did not give enough thought to the matter the rescue of the Jews in Europe was not at the top of the yeshu leaders list of priorities for them the most important thing was the effort to establish the state thus emerges an uncomfortable conversation somewhat overlooked in the history about the

yeshu leadership in 1935 David beneran would be elected as chairman of the Jewish agency executive he'd hold the position until 1948 through the whole of the second world war and onward by the end of 1942 news of a systematic campaign of killing of Jews in Europe had become frequent and credible enough that the Jewish agency made an official statement to that effect in November following the announcement the Jewish agency established an official rescue committee to be led by itak grun bomb an especially explosive item in segev's history is a memorandum from the rescue committee apparently

written at the beginning of 1943 by apollinari heart glass a zist activist from Poland who coordinated the committee's work and here reflected its opinions in the parts of Europe through which the war has passed in Germany the occupied countries and the Axis countries we may expect the extermination of more than 7 million Jews it is clear to us today that we cannot dream of saving more than 12,000 or some tens of thousands of Jews what this committee can do is only a drop in the sea it is self- delusion or conscience salving and not real

action we must hope that despite all the atrocities a large part of European jury many more than the committee is able to save will be saved by the force of the will to live on the question of whom to save should we help everyone in need without regard to the quality of the people should we not give this activity a Zionist National character and try foremost to save those who can be of use to the land of Israel and to jewry I understand that it seems cruel to put the question in this form but unfortunately

we must state that if we are able to save only 10,000 people from among 50,000 who can contribute to building the country and to the National Revival of the people as against saving a million Jews who will be a burden or at best an apathetic element we must restrain ourselves and save the 10,000 that can be saved from among the 50,000 despite the accusations and pleas of the million going on from this assumption we must save children first because they are the best material for the yesu purely philanthropic rescue such as the the rescue of

German jewry can only cause damage from a Zionist perspective particularly if the possibilities are so limited and the disaster so large we were able to use this method for the German Jews since they had one advantage they brought property with them the current refugees lack this advantage since they arrive without anything they therefore do not give anything to the yeshu had we the means to save them all there can be no doubt that we would have to accept these things but sadly we do not have sufficient means to save even the good elements so we

have no choice but to give up on saving the bad elements for his part grun bomb declared in a meeting that Zionism is above everything they will say that I am anti-semitic that I don't want to save the Exile that I don't have a warm Jewish heart let them say what they want I will not demand that the Jewish agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 Sterling to help European jurry and I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-zionist act interestingly enough segv observes ironically at one meeting of the Jewish agency

executive grun bomb asked for an appropriation of 100 Palestinian pounds about $400 to pay for cables he had sent to Europe in an effort to receive information on the condition of the Jews it seems to me that 5050 would suffice to send the telegrams responded the agency's treasurer it is difficult to compute how much money the Yu actually spent on saving Jews the total comes to several million dollars according to one Reckoning about a quarter of the entire Jewish agency budget significantly more was spent on buying land and establishing new settlements Zev sternhell made special

mention of the Yu's policy of and indeed treatment of the Jews of the diaspora before the war the yesu and the Zionist movement did not Accord the diaspora any intrinsic value Zionism was based on a negation of the diaspora during the war and especially when the Machinery of extermination began to operate this view gained a terrible implication consequently the Jewish communities of the diaspora were recognized as having only one function to serve the ISU at least this was regarded as their principal function the legacy of the Holocaust on Israeli Society has been exhaustively addressed not

only by sagev but also Edith zerall from her analysis it's hard not to see how the memory of the Holocaust has been weaponized zal's book Israel's Holocaust and the politics of nationhood was published during the second intifa there has not been a war in Israel from 1948 till the present ongoing Outburst of violence which began in October 2000 that has not been perceived defined and conceptualized in terms of the Holocaust and the Holocaust zerol contends became in due course as the Israeli historical situation was further removed in time and circumstances from the Holocaust a rather

devalued cliche in an especially powerful statement zaral wrote by means of aitz which has become over the years Israel's main reference in its relations with a world defined repeatedly as anti-semitic and forever hostile Israel rendered itself immune to criticism and impervious to a rational dialogue with the world around her furthermore while insisting and rightly so on the unique nature of the Holocaust in an Epoch of genocide and vast scale human catastrophes Israel because of its wholesale and outof context use of the Holocaust became a prime example of devaluation of the meaning and enormity of the

Holocaust in 2018 an 82-year-old Zev sternhell wrote an opinion piece for harats with the title in Israel growing Fascism and a racism akin to early Nazism the left is no longer capable of overcoming the toxic Ultra nationalism that has evolved here the kind whose European strain almost wiped out a majority of the Jewish people like every ideology the Nazi race theory developed over the years at first it only deprives Jews of their civil and human rights it's possible that without World War II the Jewish problem would have ended only with the voluntary expulsion of Jews

from Reich lands after all most of Austria and Germany's Jews made it out in time it's possible that this is the future facing Palestinians ominous words years before the current situation just last month historian Benny Morris wrote in the same paper that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza but it may be on the way there in terms of hearts and Minds a portion of the nation is already there even if it does not realize this the Israelis that like to site amalec in reference to the Palestinians a Biblical enemy of the Israelites the Torah

decreed that any memory of the amalec must be exterminated these are the same Israelis that speak aloud or in whispers about uprooting the Palestinians from their land about Exile and transfers it may be worth recalling here that the Nazis in the beginning of World War II in 1939 to 1940 talked about exiling the Jews of Europe to Madagascar or somewhere else before they started in on the Mass extermination the dehumanization that has to take root before mass murder is already here once upon a time a minister in Israel talked about cockroaches in a bottle and

was reprimanded today there are hardly any reprimands the dehumanization is evident every day Apparent from the soldiers testimonies from the killing of civilians in Gaza from the brutality shown by soldiers and jailers while detes some from Hamas and some civilians are LED half naked to the detention camps from the routine of beatings and torture in the detention camps and prisons themselves the Jewish Israeli public is indifferent to all of it these are all signs of the dehumanization that precedes and promotes genocide the trigger will come and then the genocide will follow maybe there will be

a combination of ethnic cleansing and mass murder as the Turks did to the Christian communities in Asia Minor between 1894 and 1924 contrary to Benny Morris's contention that no genocide has occurred thus far in Gaza two historians from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem Amos Goldberg and Daniel blatman State a comprehensive case in an article titled there's no aitz in Gaza but it's still genocide a meticulous comparative examination of events over the past year leads to the painful conclusion that Israel is indeed committing genocide in Gaza can intent be proven in the case of Gaza aside

from the idea of of using Atomic weapons Israeli politicians among them prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu president Isaac Herzog and former Defense Minister y of gallant and Senior military officials have made numerous statements indicating genocidal intent all of which have been documented there are no Innocents in Gaza we will carry out a second nakba We Must Destroy AMC and more most instances of genocide in modern times have occurred after prolonged violent conflicts between the group of perpetrators and the group of victims for example prior to the Ottomans genocide of Armenians which began in 1915 Armenians revolted

against ottoman tyranny and the suppression of their National aspirations engaging in Acts of Terror against the state as early as the late 19th century in this context it is essential to note that most acts of genocide are perceived by their perpetrators as acts of self-defense against their victims genocide does not have to conform to the Nazi Paradigm which viewed every Jew as an enemy to be extermin ated genocide is also never linear and contradictory processes always exist within it for instance while Armenians were deported and massacred in vast areas of the Ottoman Empire in major

cities like ismir and Istanbul they were hardly affected in certain cases Heinrich himler architect of the final solution temporarily halted the extermination of Jews at specific places or times due to economic or diplomatic considerations similarly Israel has allowed humanitarian Aid into Gaza while while simultaneously killing innocent civilians there almost always the orders to carry out mass murders are vague Elusive and open to interpretation this was also the case with the Germans Final Solution no extermination order was issued from the top of the pyramid Adolf Hitler to the bottom instead complex interactions that included green lights

to escalate violent measures hints of approval for murderous acts and Grassroots initiatives combined to add up to a rolling escalation only at a later stage did the process crystallized into a clear resolution whose impact became visible on the ground here the analogy to what is happening in Gaza is also relevant in Myanmar starting in 2016 some 850,000 rohinga were expelled to Bangladesh and about 9,000 were murdered this means that there was no physical extermination of all rohinga but rather of only a small percentage of the group currently a lawsuit against Myanmar is being heard by

the international court of justice it was submitted by The Gambia which was joined by several other countries including Germany and the United Kingdom the statements by Myanmar officials about Myanmar intent to exterminate the rohinga are weak and incidental compared to the flood of genocidal statements heard from all corridors of politics Society media and the military in Israel expressing extreme dehumanization of Palestinians and a desire for their widespread extermination genocide is any action that leads to the destruction of a collective's ability to exist the murder of children starvation destruction of infrastructure including that of the Health

Care System destruction of most homes including the Eraser of entire neighborhoods and towns such as jabalia and Rafa ethnic cleansing in the northern strip destruction of all of gaza's universities and most cultural institutions and mosques destruction of government and organizational infrastructure Mass Graves destruction of infrastructure for local food production and water distribution Gaza as a human National Collective entity no longer exists this is precisely what genocide looks like what is happening in Gaza is not the Holocaust there is no aitz and no Treblinka there however it is a crime from the same family a crime

of genocide