Fascism and moral equivalence
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:
- The Palestinians are never going to love us, because no one loves being a minority.
- The Palestinians will outbreed us and eventually dominate us. All they have to do is hang around and, in 25 years, they win.
- 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.
- 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.
- However, most people are nitwits who forget what was in the news two weeks ago.
- 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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.