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NAZI LIKE BEHAVIOR AND RHETORIC FROM THE ISRAELIS
"Israeli left-wing liberals find nothing wrong with co-signing
a "covenant" with a Jew like Brigadier General (res.) Effi
Eitam, who called the Palestinians a "cancer in the body
of the nation." The fact that the Nazis were especially fond
of this metaphor is probably not lost on the general....
Jews, it seems, are allowed everything."
MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington, DC - 4/04/2002:
Israeli and international Jewish societies are far more troubled than most
Israelis and Jews dare admit at this point, especially in public. Indeed, the
survival of Israel is now a subject begin nervously discussed, as is the heretofore
extremist notion of "transferring" (that is expelling by death and force) the
Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza. That subject even made it to
national TV in the US last evening when CBS interviewed the major public perveyer of
the view that the Palestinians must be thrown out -- the son of the assassinated
Israeli Minister who was such a close ally and supporter of non other than today's
Israeli Prime Minister.
But please, make no doubt about it, all that is going on is not just about Ariel
Sharon -- it is the Israelis as a society, and world Jewry collectively, who must
inevitably be held responsible. Ehud Barak has been on public display fully endorsing
what is happening; and both key positions of Defense Minister and Foreign Minister in
the "Sharon Government" are held by the top persons associated with Israel's Labor
Party. And so...the designation of "Nazi-like behavior" is no longer off limits
either in public discourse; as this article from Israel's own leading newspaper,
Ha'aretz, makes evident for the doubters.
What the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians is terribly shameful and
repulsive, all the more so for a people with their particular history. But the
silence of so many American Jews in the face of this "Nazi-like behavior" is even more
shameful....and disgusting.
A NAZI BY ANY OTHER NAME
By Akiva Eldar
[Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv - 4 April 2002]: The Israeli liberal left was quick to join
the chorus of protests against Nobel Literature laureate Jose Saramago for drawing a
comparison between the situation in Ramallah and the Auschwitz death camp. Gentiles
who liken Jews to Nazis or to collaborators with the Nazis are denounced - justly so -
as anti-Semites. Some even wrote that Saramago had made Israelis fair play for
assailants with his comments.
On the other hand, Israeli left-wing liberals find nothing wrong with co-signing a
"covenant" with a Jew like Brigadier General (res.) Effi Eitam, who called the
Palestinians a "cancer in the body of the nation." The fact that the Nazis were
especially fond of this metaphor is probably not lost on the general.
By the same token, the women members of "Kapowatch" - the response of the rightist
Women in Green to "Machsomwatch," which was set up to observe the behavior of Israeli
soldiers at checkpoints in the West Bank - know what a "kapo" is. The kapos were Jews
who acted as police for the Nazis in the death camps (although in the end most of them
were also murdered).
And what crime did the women who watch the checkpoints commit to be thus branded?
"They are a group of traitors from the extreme left," wrote Nadia Matar, the leader of
Women in Green to her colleagues last week. She urged them to stand up against "the
anti-Israeli organization that supports the enemy under the guise of being a human
rights organization that wants to ensure that the soldiers are nice to the Arabs."
Matar reports that she and Yael from the settlement of Tekoa and Jacqueline from the
Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo visited an army checkpoint north of Bethlehem early one
morning to boost the morale of the soldiers and offer them refreshments. "At 7 o'clock
the traitors from the left arrived," Matar wrote. "I had asked Jacqueline to bring a
camera and I started to follow the women and photograph them. They asked me who I was
and I replied, `We are from KapoWatch, we are photographing Jewish traitors. We are
adding your names to the black list of collaborators with the Arab enemy, so that when
the time comes you will be placed on trial for crimes against the Jewish people on its
soil.'"
If KapoWatch members don't understand they are emulating Samarago, they would do well
to have a look at a book by former Knesset Speaker Dov Shilansky, "In a Jewish Jail:
From the Diary of a Political Prisoner." On page 18 Shilansky, who was a member of the
National Military Organization (Irgun, led by Menachem Begin) and afterward a Herut
and Likud MK, writes about the Jewish collaborators: "Everyone murdered, including the
Jews in the service of the Germans, and nearly every Jew who wore a ribbon of a deputy
Kapo on his hand murdered, with only a few exceptions."
In his book "The Seventh Million" Tom Segev reports how Holocaust survivors lynched
former Kapos. On January 9, 1946, the daily Hatzofeh, the organ of the religious
Zionist movement, called on the authorized institutions "to liquidate these people."
Jews, it seems, are allowed everything. That includes the liberty of likening Jews to
Israel's worst enemies, while at the same time whining about those who liken Jews to
Israel's worst enemies. They can foment a disturbance against the playing of Wagner as
an encore to those in the audience who want to stay and hear it. They can also shrug
off as a "technical mistake" an army officer's order to write numbers on the arms of
Palestinian prisoners.
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