The Jewish Nazis

AT PENPOINT

The Israeli state has followed no one so closely as the Nazis in their genocide in the Gaza Strip. It is almost as if they have learnt the history of the Holocaust so as to apply it to Gaza. However, the latest example, the imposition of a blockade and the starvation of the population, resembles the techniques adopted by the German Wehrmacht in its siege of Leningrad rather than anything done to Jews specifically.

One of the best-known tropes of the Holocaust is the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. The IDF has converted the Gaza Strip into a ghetto where the Palestinian population is isolated. It could be argued that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank had already become ghettos since 1967, when they were first occupied, but they had never been subjected to such tight control as now.

The Nazi concept of Lebensraum, of empty lands in East waiting to be occupied by Germans, seems eerily like the basic Zionist slogan of Palestine being a ‘land without a people for a people without a land.’ Just as the Nazis declined to acknowledge that the Slav inhabitants, Russians, Poles and Ukrainians, were people, the Zionists refuse to acknowledge the humanity of the Palestinians. The Nazis blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War I, but Israel had no similar historical catastrophe to explain away. Zionists did teach children that Arabs wanted to kill them, something which the Nazis did not claim about the Jews.

This is the reason why the tenuous evidence that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin Al-Hussaini, learnt of the Holocaust from Hermann Goering before the West did, has been converted into the Zionist belief that Al-Husseini somehow played a part in instigating the Final Solution.

Another strange echo has been the book-burning by some Israeli soldiers. Before World War II, the Nazi student organization, the German Students Union organized burnings of the books of various writers, including Jews but generally of anyone disagreeing with Nazi ideology. It is interesting that Israelis are burning Palestinian books and papers, because Israelis have claimed that Palestine is a recent artificial construct, not a national identity. This ignores the large number of references to Palestine in pre-Mandate and in Ottoman literature and documents. Therefore, the destruction of Palestinian printed and written material is of essence.

However, the main adoption of Nazi tactics is seen in the blockade of the Gaza Strip, and the starvation of the population in it. That does not seem merely an exigency of war, but something borrowed from the Nazi tactics used against Leningrad, and for the same motives. It is worth noting that the Nazis did not use starvation in the prison camps, or the ghettos, including the WarsawGhetto. The food’s quality or adequacy were poor. No one says prison camp prisoners were well-fed.

However, when the Wehrmacht invested Leningrad, the former capital of Russia and still its main port, there was a dellibrtsyr decision to starve the populace to death, and not to accept a surrender if one was offered. The logic was that the city was to ser4ve as the capital of a Nazi Government General, and would be best denuded. Germany also did not want the responsibility of feeding the population, which consisted of Slavs anyway.

The city, however, did not fall. The siege was imposed in September 1941 and lasted until January 1943. However, the corridor that had been opened up by the meeting of relieving armies remained dangerous, for it remained within range of German artillery, which continued to punish supply convoys until January 1944, when they were finally swept away.

A million people starved to death. Among the attempts at survival came cannibalism, but there were also a spate of murders for ration cards reported. No less than 1216 such murders were reported in the first six months of 1942. Food was rationed, so if one murdered someone else and obtained his or her ration card, one could obtain those rations for oneself.

Once it began to emerge, it could well move so fast that the West and Israel would both be caught flatfooted. The Muslim world can probably afford to wait it out. Can the West?

Leningrad was relieved by two Fronts (Army Groups) simultaneously, commanded by Generals `Govorov and Mertskov, both of whom were subsequently promoted to Marshal. Similarly, Stalingrad was blockaded, with the same intention of starving the population, for the same reason. However, here casualties were not so horrendous. Perhaps one reason was that the blockaders werethemselves blockaded, and the German, Italian and Rumanian forces also suffered from shortages of supplies, including food. Like the besiegers of Leningrad, the Israeli Defence Force suffers no shortage of food.

Israel wishes to obtain more land for settlement. Lebensraum, in short. The Zionist entity still has steps to take. There are none of the horrible ‘experiments’ carried out on Palestinians, such as were carried out on prisoners (and not just Jews) These included altitude experiments, freezing experiments and seawater drinking experiments. There were concentration camp experiments to find a method of sterilization for Jews, Roma and other groups the Nazis wanted to exterminate. That is echoed in the shooting of Palestinian boy children in the genitals.

One thing the Israelis have not done so far is herd Palestinians into concentration camps. With the camps actually acting as extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, one of the seminal events of Zionist history, took place as the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto refused to be sent to Treblinka for extermination. It is surprising that the excuse the Germans gave, resettlement, should have been repeated by Donald Trump, and which Israel still insists upon.

Jews were killed in their tens of thousands in these camps by being herded into showers where instead of water, Zyklon B gas, containing potassium cyanide, came out of the showerheads. That industrialisation of murder has not yet been committed.

The Western powers continue to ignore this. It may be that the enthusiastic support given Israel is not just because of Israeli monetary donations of parties and politicians, but because of an anxiety that Jews remain out of the West. It is a strange racism at work, for it now seems that the Neo-Nazis have been neutralized, the Christians no longer mention that Jews are Christ-killers. It is possible for Elon Musk to be an enthusiastic supporter of Israel, and enough of a Nazi sympathizer to snap out a Nazi salute.

The Western powers may feel that they can do something, but Israel is ignoring them. Does the West expect Gaza to be relieved by Gonorov and Mertskov? Or do they want a Saladin to rise? The last time Jerusalem was liberated was in 1189. It was taken again by the British from the Ottomans, and Field Marshal Allenby famously said, “Saladin, we are back” at a visit to Saladin’s tomb in Jerusalem.

Saladin was very much a worldly ruler, but he was personally observant. However, he failed to perform the Hajj. Though he was very much a worldly ruler, his commitment to jihad was noticeable, and he was also committed to the liberation of Jerusalem. He was very much a soldier, but he cultivated the company of scholars. Would the West like such a person to emerge at the head of Muslim armies? Would it not be better to rein in Israel?

At the moment, this represents an empty threat. However, once it began to emerge, it could well move so fast that the West and Israel would both be caught flatfooted. The Muslim world can probably afford to wait it out. Can the West?