EXTREME POLITICS

I think they have documented the phenomenon well, but not understood its reasoning:

A wave of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric in Europe is being met by a surprising countertrend: right-wing political factions, including those rooted in Nazism, who have embraced Jews and Israel as “the quintessential guardians of European culture.”

So argues Matti Bunzl, director of the program in Jewish culture and society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who contends that the European far Right is becoming “genuinely philo-Semitic.”

“Even strong support of Israel among the Right is driven by Islamophobia and perception of Israel as a bastion of European civilization,” said Bunzl, author of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe. For European nationalists, “the Jewish state is trying to preserve its European values against the onslaught of Muslims. It is a European state trying to defend itself and its Western culture and democracy.”

NJJN

The reason the far-right is supporting Jews is that Jews in Israel are creating an ethno-state, or “nation” (as opposed to nation-state like the USA), in which an ethnic population, its religion and its values, its language and its customs, are one with the government.

This means one ethnicity per nation. Upholding that idea is the essential concept of the far right; Blood and Soil means not only the ethnostate, but ethnic stewardship of the local environment and culture as a more important goal than commerce or popularity with the drones. The far-right desires this kind of society.

This is why you’re seeing stuff like this:

On May 15, the Gregorian date in which the State of Israel was established, a group called National Socialists for Israel launched its online manifest.

“A strong nation is worthy of life; an ailing nation deserves death,” it said, before detailing an ideology sporting the traditional Nazi concept of purity of the race on the one hand, and calling on National Socialists to let go of their hatred for Jews and support the Jewish people’s right to their own homeland on the other.

“Deportations, pogroms and inquisitions were all understandable acts which were carried out by nations merely trying to defend themselves,” said the website of past persecution of Jews.

“That is also the context in which the event called the ‘Holocaust’ must be viewed… This does not justify it. Instead of destroying the Jews we should have taken every measure possible to support the Zionist movement.”

YNET

Both groups are fighting the same war: to avoid being assimilated by globalism/diversity/multiculturalism, and by avoiding that assimilation, being able to hold on to their religions, traditions, culture, values, customs and heritages.

This isn’t written to play into the hands of the mostly leftist pundits who compare Israel to the NSDAP. Instead, it’s to speak honestly of nationalism, which demands one ethnicity per nation and that the nation instead of being divided by infighting, be unified in religion, culture, heritage, and values.

It can even be tolerant in doing so. A nation can group actions and ideas into three categories: those supporting the national values system, those against it, and those indifferent to it. It can politely ignore the third category, prosecute the second, and embrace the first.

In Israel, we are seeing a unified culture, religion and heritage that is defending itself against a diverse population which grows faster than it does, thus stands to inherit Israel unless stopped by political or military means:

Hamas is beginning to see something else. At this point, the best way to destroy Israel, is to leave it exactly as it is.

Titrate, adjust the flow of rockets fired at Israeli civilians to a level which is thoroughly acceptable to the rest of the world, but which is also entirely unbearable to Israelis.

Then, sit back and watch demographics and despair work their magic. No wonder Hamas officials who are seen as moderates urge a 50-year truce. By that time, Israeli Arabs will be able to simply vote the Jewish state off the map.

Ha’aretz

Jews have traditionally not supported nationalist movements because nationalists want only one ethnicity per nation, which excludes Jews from anywhere but Israel. However, both sides are coming closer — because both want to assert the right of any ethnicity to have a one-state solution.

Even worse, the left which has traditionally allied itself with immigrants’ rights issues has now turned against Israel, prompting a rise in anti-Semitic acts which show how much larger the left is than the right:

The number of anti-Semitic incidences in Europe through the first three months of this calendar year exceeds the total number of such occurrences from all of 2008, according to a report issued by the European Jewish Congress.

The report cites the reaction to this past January’s Israel Defense Forces operation in Gaza as one of the key triggers of anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish communities in Europe. In addition, the current financial crisis is giving rise to age-old anti-Semitic stereotypes suggesting “Jewish control of the global financial system.”

“Public opinion links Israel with the local Jewish community, which turns us into enemies,” [ Rony ] Smolar [ head of Scandinavian Jewish community ] said, adding that his country has seen “a dramatic rise” in the number and severity of anti-Semitic attacks.

Ha’aretz

It seems to me that true hate crimes are not as much a political statement as a demographic one: holding territory, and forcing others out like you’d squeeze a tube of toothpaste. In other words, it’s not designed to send up a flag for a political theory or even a bigger idea; it’s pure inter-group demographic warfare.

And even from Canada — Canada! — where leftist interests and a strong Muslim population have converged to create hate crimes where people draw the swastikas backward:

Anti-Semitism in Canada reached an all-time high last year, despite the government’s efforts to combat the phenomenon, B’nai Brith said Tuesday in its annual report, adding that Jews were being used as scapegoats for the ailing economy.

The report also linked the rise in anti-Semitism in Canada to the Bernard Madoff fiasco and Israel’s recent military offensive in Gaza.

The group’s audit counted 1,135 attacks on Jews or Jewish targets in 2008, an 8.9% increase over the previous year, and a more than fourfold increase over the past decade.

YNET

Generally regarded as left-leaning in the West because they opposed nationalism after WWII, Jews are now being seen as right-leaning because they wish to have an ethnic state — some call this an assault on diversity, others point out that for us to have diversity we must preserve cultures/heritages intact — and as the outcry from the left against Israel grows to the point of blatant anti-Semitism, they’re starting to see what the far right was saying all along: if nationalism is not defended, the crowd will inundate every nation in generic culture with generic heritages.

Militia Report 2009 from Missouri

This report is really well done, in my opinion. It looks into the reasons why militias emerge in addition to describing them factually, giving a compassionate yet realistic look into their psychology.

Even more interesting, it describes their fears — RFID, marked ammunition, the NWO — and points toward others theorizing the USA will break up because of a permanent values schism between the liberal Left and the traditional Right.

With incidents like these, you know there’s a finger on the pulse. The most visible event always conceals many that don’t get reported:

Erica Connor was forced into early retirement through stress after governors at New Monument School in Woking turned her into a scapegoat by claiming she was Islamophobic.

The court heard that in 1998 Mrs Connor took over the school – where up to 85 per cent of pupils were Muslim and 90 per cent spoke English as a second language – and test results improved “very considerably” for the first few years.

However in 2003 two new members – Paul Martin, a parent governor, and Mumtaz Saleem, a nominee of the local education authority – joined its governing body and tried to take it over.

While clearing Mr Saleem of harassment, the judge added: “Mr Saleem’s approach extended to offensive verbal attacks at governing body meetings.”

Eventually Mr Martin was voted off the “dysfunctional” governing body but claimed he had been “removed for blowing the whistle on institutional racism” and “cited an old school document with pictures of seven children, only one of them dark-skinned”, the court was told.

An anonymous petition was circulated, “attacking Mrs Connor falsely and in vituperative terms”, it was claimed.

The High Court agreed that the Surrey County Council was negligent in not stepping in to support the headteacher, and ordered it to pay £407,781 in compensation.

The Telegraph

How does this happen? Monkey follow monkey: everyone is afraid of being called a racist, so if someone brings it up, they automatically assume the accused is guilty. Not surprisingly, this gets abused by those who hunger for power. But apparently such events are relatively commonplace, and the tension is rising.

Last September, Austria’s far right gained massive political influence in an election that saw the FPO along with another far right party – Alliance For The Future (BZO) – gain 29 per cent of the vote, the same share as Austria’s main party, the Social Democrats. The election stirred up terrifying memories of the rise of the Nazi Party in the Thirties.

Recently, in Hitler’s home town of Braunau, a swastika flag was publicly unveiled. The FPO wants to legalise Nazi symbols, while its firebrand leader has been accused of having links to far right extremists.

After the FPO’s election victory, Nick Griffin, leader of the British Nationalist Party (BNP), sent a personal message to Strache.

‘The Jew on Wall Street is responsible for the world’s current economic crisis. It is the same now as in 1929 when 90 per cent of money was in the hands of the Jew. Hitler had the right solutions then,’ [former SS man Herbert Schweiger] says, invoking the language of Goebbels.

‘The black man only thinks in the present and when his belly is full he does not think of the future,’ he says. ‘They reproduce en masse even when they have no food, so supporting Africans is suicide for the white race.

‘It is not nation against nation now but race against race. It is a question of survival that Europe unites against the rise of Asia. There is an unstoppable war between the white and yellow races. In England and Scotland there is very strong racial potential.

Daily Mail

That’s about enough extreme for us, but it’s quoted for a reason: you’ll see reference to those issues again.

We all know that the far-right has been rising in Austria. The BNP continues to succeed in England.

And in Germany?

“The neo-Nazi scene, both inside and outside the NPD, is becoming stronger, not as a nationwide electoral force but in its influence on racist attitudes and violence,” Professor Hajo Funke, a prominent analyst of the far right at Berlin’s Free University, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “There are places I wouldn’t advise anyone who looks foreign to go without protection.”

Funke’s analysis was backed up this week by a major new study which showed that fully one in seven German teenagers — 14.4 percent — have attitudes deemed highly xenophobic. They agreed with statements like, for example, “Most immigrants are criminal.”

The two-year, government-commissioned survey of more than 20,000 15-year-old schoolchildren concluded that a further 26.2 percent held “fairly xenophobic” attitudes. A proportion of 5.2 percent of teenagers were classified as far-right because they had racist views, listened to neo-Nazi music, wore corresponding fashions or had committed a far-right crime, the survey showed. A further 11.5 percent had strong far-right sympathies.

Of more concern is the fact that the financial crisis may boost the NPD, which has proved before that it can win protest votes by tapping discontent about the economy. In 2004, it won 9.2 percent in the last regional election in Saxony after it campaigned against cuts to unemployment benefits.

Der Spiegel

What’s most interesting, and this is why the neo-Nazi is cited above, is that the same problems still exist with the same solutions which do not appear to be working. Therefore, people are turning to more extreme forms of activity, which is why they qualify as EXTREME POLITICS.

Yet for all the differences, intriguing echoes from the 1930s can still be heard. It is not that bits of Europe are flirting with fascism again. It is rather that the same issues irk voters then as now—and politicians are responding to them in similar ways.

Today’s German and French governments talk loudly about clamping down on tax havens: this is a highly visible way to seek extra revenue and punish errant plutocrats. Almost 80 years ago, an identical outrage gripped Europe, when French police in 1932 raided the Paris offices of a Swiss bank for customer records, coming away with the names of French members of parliament, newspaper editors and a brace of bishops.

Before the depression, France also had one of Europe’s most open labour markets, home to millions of Poles, Czechs, Belgians, Italians, Spaniards and Swiss, plus impressive numbers of political refugees. But between 1932 and 1935, a string of laws and decrees set quotas on foreign workers and stopped them moving from job to job. Tens of thousands, mostly Poles, were eventually expelled by force. The middle classes also protected themselves: new laws closed the French medical and legal professions to foreign-born graduates, often Jewish refugees.

The Economist

I think this is what governments must understand: successful responses to problems indicate a vital civilization. Inability to deal with problems suggests a civilization which is oblivious to reality, and that’s when anger converges on an intellectual desire for a different type of society, and people go to the extremes.

A final note on an even earlier historical cycle –

Social conditions by 1848 had piled up tinder for a conflagration. Resentments over everything from unemployment and taxes to labor demands on peasants — not to mention the aspirations among regional elites for greater autonomy — had rallied support for revolution. But transforming myriad grievances into positive program proved difficult. Tocqueville saw France drifting in June from political struggle to a social war of proletariat against the propertied classes. The specter of social revolution turned many toward accommodation with governments that, however imperfect, would at least provide security.

Many older accounts of 1848 depict the year’s events as a flowering of liberal nationalism crushed by the forces of order. A.J.P. Taylor described abortive revolution in Germany as a turning point that failed to turn, thereby directing Germany on a separate path — toward authoritarianism rather than liberal democracy. In “1848,” Mike Rapport sympathizes with European liberals but nonetheless offers a fully nuanced portrait of a tumultuous year. Ethnic conflict and deep social tensions, he notes, complicated the task of constructing liberal, constitutional regimes. Different interests had their own agenda, and Otto von Bismarck, the German statesman, grasped an essential point when he argued that liberalism appealed only to the urban middle classes. That fact gave the revolution a narrower foundation than its architects had expected.

Ethnic conflict had a major role in the events of 1848 because nationalism served to exclude as well as unite. Liberal nationalists were caught in a now familiar dilemma: whether citizenship would rest on pluralism or require the assimilation of ethnic and religious minorities. Smaller nationalities looked suspiciously at German and Hungarian aspirations, especially when nationalist leaders spoke of Slavs with disdain. The Czech liberal Frantisek Palacky argued that Austria protected the Slavonic peoples from both internal strife and Russian domination. Localism, and loyalty to the Catholic Church, remained a strong counterweight to nationalism in Italy. Even Giuseppe Garibaldi came to see “how little the national cause inspired the local inhabitants of the countryside.”

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Conservatives before 1848 failed to implement the reforms that the most imaginative of them had envisioned to create a more flexible political order — one that would draw local elites and subjects into closer cooperation. (British leaders had managed to do just that decades before.) After 1848, the backlash against revolution brought an insistence on authority that made politics less flexible. Even where some liberal reforms survived, they operated to consolidate state power. The experience demonstrated that change with continuity works much better than revolution.

WSJ

As in that time, the liberal rhetoric dominates politics. But problems remain, and people are starting to wonder if liberalism addresses the issues at hand, or whether it has always been a means of pacifying the proles while business as usual goes on.

All things have a beginning, a middle and an end, except perhaps existence itself.

At the middle point, they’re at the height of their powers, but also are halfway through the cycle, which means they can be outlasted.

That’s when the pundits start talking about breakup. They did it with Rome; they’re doing it with the USA.

“I think it’s ongoing right now,” Corsi says. “We’re already becoming a dual country.”

The author, pundit and political scientist says that Obama is using open borders, economic integration, and the crises surrounding the financial meltdown to “advance the agenda of worldwide integration, economically on the way to political integration.”

The goal is simple: “redistribution of income.”

“I think the idea for Democrats on the left is that open borders imports an underclass which will vote Democratic for generations to come,” Corsi says of the administration’s plan to nationalize illegal aliens. But Republicans, too, are responsible for the trend: their pro-business wing favors “cheap workers that can be used in the jobs that can’t be outsourced overseas,” Corsi says.

NewsMax

Corsi sometimes comes across as an extreme paleoconservative version of Alex Jones, but if we’re open-minded, we can see there is some historical truth to what he’s saying. This is a nation divided. It was once conservative; now it’s mostly liberal. Those who are conservative don’t want to live by the agenda of the liberal, and liberals find living under conservative rule unbearable.

Yet liberals have popularity and demographics on their side:

The electoral victory of Barack Obama symbolizes the culmination of the long march from the streets of Chicago to full institutionalization of the radical Left of a previous era. That Obama, the individual, is more of a centrist than a leftist and was only a child in 1968 is less significant than what he represents. The 68ers have now seized the establishment and those who insisted the establishment could never be trusted have become the establishment.

On virtually every issue, the radical Left of the 1960s has either won or is in the process of winning.

Though the Left has achieved complete or nearly complete victory on just about every issue, the Left will never admit as much. Sixties radicalism has become what any other movement becomes once it is institutionalized. The purpose of the Left today is to simply perpetuate its own existence and its own vested interests. For this reason, invisible armies of racists, sexists, homophobes and theocrats must constantly be said to be hiding behind every rock or tree. Heretics who dissent from left-wing orthodoxy on any number of matters must be constantly sought out for denunciation, repression or persecution.

Attack the System

While some will claim this is a transition into tyranny as predicted by Plato in The Republic, others point out that it’s part of an evolving process of self-definition for the most powerful nation without a native culture:

But as Juan Enriquez notes in his amazing PopTech talk, based on his book “The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future”, no US president has ever died under the same flag that he was born under. That is, the borders of the United States has constantly shifted even in modern times. The last state was added in 1959 (after I was born!) and more could be added still. Americans are comfortable ADDING states, but it might not take much to subtract one. The outcome of the US Civil War has biased Americans to disbelieving in subtraction, but that might change.

In past decades bold American thinkers have imagined how the US might break up, but these were more thought experiments indicating the cultural differences within this large country.

Kevin Kelly

Many others understand Plato’s logic.

A civilization needs to have some core that binds it together. In America, we have always thought that was a belief in freedom, but now as we seem to have different definitions of freedom, that gets difficult. What if we’re using the same word to mean radically different things?

We worry that we cannot reconcile these claims. After all, America was born as a nation-state when the nation-state was still new; previously, nations, or ethnic groups incorporated into political entities, prevailed. The nation-state grouped people together by a political belief, like belief in the ideals of the French Revolution, and made nationality secondary.

Since then, liberal politicians have used demographics as a means of controlling their presence in nation-states, which conservatives have danced around the fact that their ideology only functions well in a nation. Some simply point to the values divide: if you have a Christian-values right, and a relativist/Marxist-values left, how on earth will the two ever get along?

If either one gets control, it’s oppression to the other.

Patrick Buchanan, in his book, Day of Reckoning, writes, “To hold together a multiethnic or multilingual state, either an authoritarian regime or a dominant ethnocultural core is essential.”

In the past, immigrants and natural-born citizens alike worked together to get through difficult times, and though there were still distinct differences in ethnicity, culture and race, they were bound together by their common Christian-Judeo roots. But many of the immigrants that come to America today do not come here with the intent to assimilate themselves as Americans, nor do they come here with the same kind of faith that core Americans hold.

This drive toward socialism, if not a thinly veiled dictatorship, has been determined to be the answer to this not-so-silent breakup of our country.

Tulsa Beacon

Setting aside the “thinly veiled dictatorship” for another blog post, let’s think about the silent breakup. If two groups exist in the same community, but do not interact, and basically hate each others’ ideologies, how are they going to collaborate? If a war comes, the party that started it will be left to fight it; the others may even work against them. If a long-term plan is needed, it will be voted out of existence the instant the other party gets into office. And so on.

The American experiment is only 220 years old. It will be interesting to see how it mutates to fit this new stage, or whether it dissolves into two or more nations of contradictory beliefs.

Once you’ve been a world power, you don’t want to let that out of your sight.

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia has been trying to return to that state of power.

Its government increasingly resembles the Communist ideal, toned down to a socialist system that admits but controls capitalism.

In defiance of the West, it does not mind autocratic leaders or oligarchs.

And its military power is ratling its sabers.

Russia is planning a “comprehensive rearmament” of its military, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday.

The country will aim for 70 percent of its weaponry to be “modern” by 2020, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said, according to RIA-Novosti, the state-run news agency.

Russia invaded Georgia, to its south, in August of last year — the first time Russian military forces had engaged in an offensive outside their borders since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

CNN

Russia is also looking for allies. In addition to making oil-based business partnerships with Venezuela and Cuba, Russia has been courting some old allies — and some new. Among other things, she’s getting cozy with India and China, who like Russia do not identify themselves as European. The new Russian vision is of Russia as a superpower, with strong allies to form a Bloc against the west.

First, look at how all three are preparing themselves for the kind of conflict that can be waged without triggering nuclear war — high intensity conventional air-driven combat. This means that a huge ground force surges in, but unlike past East Bloc strategies, this ground force has a NATO-style air shield over it and overwhelming munitions capacity.

In the last two years, Russia, India and China have all announced or clarified major defense programs that include everything from the development of advanced fighters to upgrading aircraft carriers.

It turns out that adversaries took careful note of the way the United States
and its allies used air dominance in all its operations. They reshaped their defense plans to make inroads on that asymmetric advantage. They are building advanced missiles, aircraft and subsystems, and there’s also a world market for their best wares.

UPI

Next, look at how Russia is shoring up its national borders:

• Russia Scapegoats Migrants in Economic Downturn
• Rabbis’ expulsion worries Russia’s Jews
• Russia to deploy new warheads in December

What does this look like, my fellow students of history and politics? It’s a classic power-concentrating move. First, gain allies out there in the world who will make you look good and provide support. Second, kick out the ethnics and others who threaten the solidarity of culture and values. Finally, bulk up your military and rattle some sabers.

The most interesting things here are that Russia is learning from NATO’s successful strategies of years past, including the knowledge that in wargaming with NATO, Russia lost out because of its diminished air power, and that Russia is determined to meet the West technology-for-technology and force-for-force. See this:

Russia has deployed its second state-of-the-art S-400 anti-ballistic missile system regiment, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday.

Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said the regiment had been armed with the new S-400 Triumf air defense missile system and it already had been put into combat service in Russia, the report said.

If the S-400 (NATO designation SA-21 Growler) lives up to its specifications, it could be the most advanced air defense system in the world against low-flying aircraft, cruise missiles and even intermediate-range ballistic missiles. U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles are far more vulnerable to advanced air defense interceptor systems because they fly relatively slowly, at only 650 mph, a subsonic speed. By contrast, Russia’s most advanced cruise missiles fly at three times that speed — Mach 2.8, or 1,900 mph.

UPI

The message is clear: we can stop enough of your missiles, and hit you with enough of ours, that you’re not the only top dog in town. The keyword Russia and its allies want to stress is “multipolar world order,” or one in which there is more than one superpower. They want you to know that one of those superpowers is Russia, that she’s back and she’s bad, and you’d better not cross her or you’ll face the wrath.

Israel should realize by now that it has become an enemy of the left. I view this as very sad, considering the vast contributions by many supporters of Israel toward making the left a more interesting read and experience.

After all, extreme politics is my hobby, which lets me be insincerely transparent and just enjoy the great game it is, even if the stakes are humanity’s future.

By now, many in Israel have realized the following thought process:

1. The Palestinians are never going to love us, because no one loves being a minority.
2. The Palestinians will outbreed us and eventually dominate us. All they have to do is hang around and, in 25 years, they win.
3. The rest of the world is going to beat up on us because the Palestinians are the underdog, so in the narrative of media/culture we’re the oppressor.
4. If we do nothing, they will continue to launch rockets or suicide bomb or do whatever they can to provoke us, hoping the rest of the world will then beat up on us.
5. However, most people are nitwits who forget what was in the news two weeks ago.
6. Ergo, if we beat up on the Palestinians in quick bursts and drive them out of Israel, people will forget two weeks later; if we keep trying monthly police actions, we’ll always be in the increasingly anti-Israel media as The Oppressor.

This is why Israel has gotten more serious about aggression against Palestinians. The longer it drags on, the more Israel loses. It’s exactly like the situation the USA was in in Vietnam, or any other situation of first-world versus third-world.

At one point, the excited audience reportedly chanted “Zionism is Nazism” and worse.

Jewish leaders condemned this hate-fest as a dangerous invitation to anti-Semitic hysteria, and pointed to the chilling effect it had on UCLA students and faculty on a campus known for its open and civil atmosphere. The organizers, some of them Jewish, took refuge in “academic freedom” and the argument that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.

Anti-Zionism rejects the very notion that Jews are a nation — a collective bonded by a common history — and, accordingly, denies Jews the right to self-determination in their historical birthplace. It seeks the dismantling of the Jewish nation-state: Israel.

Anti-Zionism earns its discriminatory character by denying the Jewish people what it grants to other historically bonded collectives (e.g. French, Spanish, Palestinians), namely, the right to nationhood, self-determination and legitimate coexistence with other indigenous claimants.

LA Times

The basic question revolves around how we define a nation.

In the oldest and most enduring use, it means an organic society: a single set of customs, a single language, a single religion, a single set of values, a single philosophy, a single culture, and a single heritage, ethnicity or racial make-up.

Oh wait — that’s a taboo. Speaking about race is bad enough, but mentioning racial exclusivity is bad. None of us want to end up being Simon Legree, so we demand that none of us can have any society that is racially homogenous by its own choice.

National Socialism Comes To Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu chooses Avigdor Lieberman as his Foreign Minister. We Leftists have always considered Zionism to be more or less be [ National Socialism ] anyway, and now I figure the mask has finally fallen off. This is more predictable than anything else. Why doesn’t the fascist Right around the world cheer for this? Because fascism and Nazism are only bad when Jews do it.

Nothing good can possibly come of this, but the Middle East has been pretty hopeless for a while now. It will be entertaining to watch the traitors in AIPAC cheer on this little Jewish Hitler. The fetes at the White House for this guy ought to be a kick too. Who says realpolitik can’t be entertainment?

Robert Lindsay

In that sense, Zionism is like National Socialism (Nazism): it demands an organic society. “Germany for Germans!” and “Israel for Jews!” aren’t so different. But as any conservationist will tell you, in order for us to have true diversity, we need to preserve each distinct population.

That means that while some areas will be the great racial grab-bag of multiculture (diversity), other areas need to be ethnically isolated so that we can have all the different ingredients of a successful diversity.

The big threat of diversity is that it will become a de facto monoculture, blending everyone into the exact same mixture over time, thus destroying actual diversity.

Bradley Burston, never a fool when it comes to international politics, knows this:

Hamas is beginning to see something else. At this point, the best way to destroy Israel, is to leave it exactly as it is.

Titrate, adjust the flow of rockets fired at Israeli civilians to a level which is thoroughly acceptable to the rest of the world, but which is also entirely unbearable to Israelis.

Then, sit back and watch demographics and despair work their magic. No wonder Hamas officials who are seen as moderates urge a 50-year truce. By that time, Israeli Arabs will be able to simply vote the Jewish state off the map.

Haaretz

The historical name for the organic society is Nationalism. That term is used now to mean patriotism, but patriotism is really a replacement for nationalism. Patriotism is a belief in the politics, policies and ideals of a nation-state, where nationalism deals with a nation — a political entity where the economic, social, political and physical state is determined by the people, or the nation, that founded it.

National Socialism in Germany was to a great degree borrowed from the ideals that have kept Jews worldwide healthy for centuries. Keep the people together; exclude outsiders. Study hard, work hard, and think harder and fight harder than the other guy. Always have loyalty to the same principles, not only in religion but in philosophy and values. Recognize that those who want you to take on a relaxed dogma of letting it all hang out really just want your culture to decay, so you decay, so they can feast on the rotting remains.

Seems harsh, but, history seems to be shifting in favor of the Nationalists. Here’s an example of how much the Germans understood the Jewish quest to remain an organic society distinct from all others:

If we destroy any organizational cooperation of the Jews and expel the dangerous, subversive Jewish agitators who show any signs of conspiratorial activities, the Jews will still have the synagogue, the rabbi, to shield them. If we support Zionist plans and attempt an international solution by establishing a homeland for the Jews, we will be able to solve the Jewish Question not only in Germany, but in Europe and the entire world. The entire world has an interest in such a solution, on eliminating this source of disorder, which constantly proceeds from Bolshevism. We must establish that clearly.

Perhaps the Jews will be able to become a nation, a people. That would require that Jewish workers, craftsmen, and settlers would develop from the Jewish population. If we regulate this plan, they we will create new foundations for such a settlement. Scattering the Jews to the four winds does not solve the Jewish Question, but rather makes it worse. A systematic program of settlement, therefore, is the best solution.

“Solving the Jewish Question” by Dr. Achim Gercke, Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, Heft 38 (May 1933), pp. 195-197

In the eyes of Nationalists, Anti-racism (applied everywhere) is racism (in their home countries). They want the right to keep Germany German, Israel Jewish, Britain British and Latvia Latvian — in culture, language, customs, values and heritage, all together at once.

ABOUT 300 Latvians marched through Riga on Monday to honour soldiers who fought in an elite nazi unit during World War II.

The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the Legionnaires Day rally as a march by nazi supporters and drew parallels between it and Holocaust denial.

Soviet soldiers moved into Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in June 1940 but were driven out by nazi occupation forces a year later…the Red Army liberated the country in 1944.

Relations between Russia and Latvia and Estonia have been strained by the two Baltic states’ persecution of Red Army veterans…The dismantling of the Soviet war memorial…triggered street protests in which over 1,000 people were arrested and one Russian national was killed.

Morning Star

Latvians want to be Latvians. They sided with the German Nazis, and created a strong Latvian Nazi movement, because they wanted to keep the Russians out. Russians are not Baltics in heritage, like Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are; Russians are Slavic. Not surprisingly, Russians often treat Latvians badly, and Latvians mostly hate Russians as a result.

The same is true of Jews and Arabs. They are from similar but distinct ethnic groups and Jews, like Baltics, are the more successful but less numerous group. The others want to absorb them and take their wealth, and they know their best strategy is to pick away slowly at their culture, destroying it and the ethnicity behind it, while encouraging the rest of the world to call them fascists.

Roughly one in twenty 15-year-old German males is a member of a neo-Nazi group, a higher proportion than are involved in mainstream politics, according to a newly released study.

Many politicians fear a resurgence of right-wing extremism as unemployment creeps higher in Germany, which is facing its deepest recession since World War Two. Government figures have shown anti-Semitic crimes rose at the end of last year.

Pfeiffer said fewer than 2 percent of young men were active in mainstream politics, compared to the 5 percent involved in far-right groups.

The study, conducted in 2007 and 2008, also revealed that neo Nazi-symbols – in either rock music, stickers or special clothing – were used by one in 10 of the youths surveyed.

Reuters

Ironically, it’s this conflict — the perceived need to take on Nationalism to defend against cultural assimilation by the world at large — that is driving Nationalism back into the political sphere, not away from it. But this would not be the first time well-meaning people created their nightmare by fighting too literally against it.

Violence broke out as 30 people surrounded a BNP vehicle outside the Ellesmere Pub in St Helens Road in Leigh on Friday evening, said police.

Tony Ward, 48, was hit with a hammer and later treated in hospital.

One witness told BBC News: “They had hammers and they smacked the vehicle to pieces, smashed all the windows and tore off the bumper, completely decimated it.

BBC

When the economy tanks, everyone’s fed up with the political elites, and doom is on the horizon, people get serious about politics. And this causes violent right-left clashes to become more common. Luckily, this process forces people to define themselves politically, which in turn forces them to figure out what they actually think about the meta-platforms of right and left. Look for more excitement coming in England, Germany and Austria soon.