straightUp wrote:
I didn't experience the holocaust myself, so I won't pretend to know what it's like but I can't imagine a more horrible experience. Right-wing Nazis making it a policy to marginalize Jews through a system of apartheid out of which they were systematically extracted and killed. Ethnic cleansing as a cold and calculated business.
We often think of this as a closed chapter in a dark history. But unfortunately, evil has reproductive powers. I've heard the phrase "evil begets evil" and that certainly applies. Many people arrested for domestic violence, for instance, are found to have themselves been victims of abusive parents. It seems there is a property to evil that transmits to the victim where it could develop into another instance of the same evil that they were once assaulted by.
I have often looked at the Zionists as being another example. They often cite the holocaust as justification for them to create a country for themselves in the Levant and certainly it was the holocaust that generated sympathy for their cause in the U.S. and around the world.
But then they set up yet another apartheid system, this time to marginalize the Palestinians. They took their land and their possessions, just like the Nazis did to the Jews and they routed them to Gaza to remain imprisoned in a small strip of land isolated from the rest of the world. Just like the Nazis did to the Jews.
They gave the Palestinians the "right" to govern themselves, but only within the confines of their imprisonment, just like the Nazis did for the Jews in their ghettos.
They also gave the Jewish settlers the right to harass and even kill Palestinians in occupied territories. Just like how the Nazis refused to discipline the German people for harassing or even killing Jews on the streets.
It really is incredible the parallels that show up when you start to think about it.
The only thing missing from Israel are the forms of eradication that the Nazis used, such as the ovens. Perhaps that would make the resurrection of Third Reich evil too obvious and unlike Germany, Israel actually depends on another country to defend its claim of "legitimacy" so they have to at least put on the act.
But, I think Netanyahu, the modern version of Hitler, is finding alternative methods of eradication. Such as pressure-cooking the Palestinians in such horrible life-threatening conditions that they eventually snap and THEN using that as an excuse to "defend" themselves from "aggressive" Palestinians.
It's very clear to me and everyone else outside the U.S.-Israeli media bubble, that the IDF is not targeting Hamas but as much of the people as possible.
I don't know which is worse... being guided to the showers only to realize for a brief moment that you are being killed, or surviving night after night of waiting in the dark with your family to be killed as bombs shake the ground all around you and knowing thousands of soldiers who hate you will be coming next.
What Israel, the spawn of Nazi Germany, is doing right now in Gaza is making the holocaust look humane.
I didn't experience the holocaust myself, so I won... (
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Political extremes misidentified, 'right' versus 'left'
An all-powerful controlling central government is essential to both communism and Nazism.
Both were backed by strong police state tactics monitoring political opposition.
Both had limited civil liberties, they silenced dissent and the individual became subservient to the state.
Under the brutal reality of Hitler (Nazi) and Stalin (communist) both were oppressive dictators who were militaristic, and killed their own people out of racial hate or eliminating opposition.
Incidentally, Nazis stood for National Socialism which is to the left of center, not right of center.
Both suppressed religion.
The Liberal Left would like us to believe that the ultra-right is represented by Nazis.
But since the right believes in limited government, the libertarian philosophy would likely be considered to the right of Conservatives.
Nazis believed in the same massive authoritarian state, as did the communists.
Both represented the extreme left.
Other than how they originated, the total domination of government, the brutality, and the suppression of individual rights by Nazis and communists were nearly identical.
Don't buy into the Nazi far-right misidentification.
Look at how they actually functioned, point by point, and you'll see very little difference.
Two seeds of political extremism in the same pod of tyranny.
https://www.dailycommercial.com/story/opinion/columns/2017/09/10/from-right-political-extremes-misidentified-right-versus-left/18844509007/