Israel follows the path of Nazi Germany

A striking similarity between Israel’s strategy in Palestine and Nazi long-term policy of extermination and annexation in Poland during the Second World War is clearly demonstrated by the Nuremberg Tribunal Charges and the Nuremberg Tribunal Judgement against Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor-General of the non-annexed occupied Poland in 1939 - 1945. It is absolutely shocking to read the documents and to see how many objectives and tactics in these two occupation theatres can be seen as parallel.

The memory of Hans Frank, “the butcher of Cracow” and the overseer of extermination camps in occupied Poland, must still be deeply embedded in Jewish collective consciousness. At different occasions, Frank has made it clear that European Jews must be eliminated:

“We, National Socialists, have started with anti-Semitism in our fight to free the German people, to re-establish a German Reich and to build our entire German spiritual, cultural and social life on the indestructible foundation of our race. We started a gigantic battle in 1919. It took all the self-confidence of German manhood to withstand and to triumph in this fight to substitute the German spirit for Jewish corruption over the concerted attacks of powerful world groups of which Jewry is a representative.” (…)
“Severe measures must and will be adopted against Jews leaving the Ghettos. Death sentences pending against Jews for this reason must be carried out as quickly as possible. This order, according to which every Jew found outside the Ghetto is to be executed, must be carried out without fail.” (…)
“As far as the Jews are concerned, I want to tell you quite frankly, that they must be done away with in one way or another. The Fuehrer said once: should united Jewry again succeed in provoking a world war, the blood of not only the nations which have been forced into the war by them will be shed, but the Jew will have found his end in Europe.” (…)
“Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews, wherever we find them and wherever it is possible, in order to maintain here the structure of the Reich as a whole. (…) We must find, at any rate, a way which leads to the goal, and my thoughts are working in that direction.” (…)

Defendant Hans Frank (Nazi Governor of occupied Poland) in a witness box, Nuremberg Trial, 1945 - 1946.

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Since 1948, and especially since 1967, Israel is consistently breaking international law and committing numerous crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. In Palestine these atrocities include:

• state sponsored kidnapping, assassination, and arbitrary imprisonment of political opponents;
• military operations targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure;
• use of illegal weapons (i.e.: depleted uranium, white phosphorus, cluster bombs);
• ethnic cleansing (intimidation, expulsion and extermination of Palestinian population);
• deliberate creation of conditions resulting in humanitarian catastrophe;
• development and protection of illegal settlements in the Occupied Territories;
• displacement of local population and denial of the right of refugees to return home or to fair compensation;
• boycott and military targeting of democratically elected Palestinian government;
• application of collective responsibility and collective punishment;
• deliberate sabotage of peace initiatives in order to continue the above agendas.

We often hear an excuse that Israel has the right to defend itself. The hypocrisy of this statement must be exposed and denounced. Military atrocities against popular resistance in illegally occupied territories are not a form of defence, they are a form of aggression. Hamas is defending Palestine and its people. Israel is the aggressor. Attempts to reverse this obvious truth are like saying that Germans had the right to “defend themselves” when they put down the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

Another lie, often used to justify Israeli war crimes, alleges that Hamas’s stated goal is the destruction of Israel. In fact, Hamas has many times issued official statements to the contrary, repeatedly announcing that it was ready to peacefully co-exist with Israel withing the pre-1967 borders.

Israeli Foreign Minister and Kadima leader, Tzipi Livni, under a swastika. Photo Björnbrum.

It does not really matter what Israel’s intentions are, it does not matter what “excuses” Israel is using to justify its criminal theft of Palestinian land. In politics intentions don’t count, results do. Like German leaders in Nuremberg, Israeli political and military leaders bear full responsibility for crimes committed in the process.

Text taken from here.

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Personal note

Among the terrible pictures that I have seen on the Web, the most terrible was not of shattered, mutilated bodies, of blasted lives and unendurable pain. The most terrible was a picture of young Israelis standing within their secure borders (of occupied Palestine!) looking at the devastation being visited on the terrified civilians of Gaza a couple of miles away. And the unremitting horror of that image was that those who watched the bombs bursting in air and the puffs of death rising—they were smiling.

Young Israelis observe the northern Gaza Strip from a hill near the southern town of Sderot.