The Fascist Character of the Israeli State

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Issa Nakhleh: the Fascist Character of the Israeli State

AKA: The Cosy Story of Olmert, Kadima, Likud, the Revisionist Zionists and the Fascists

Kurt Nimmo | August 8 2006

Ehud Olmert's political party, Kadima, currently leading the
murderous charge in Lebanon, was forged out of Likud, and Likud out
of Herut, the political party of Zeev Jabotinsky's Revisionist
Zionism, a movement at odds with socialist Zionism and taking its
cues from Benito Mussolini and fascism.

In 1940, Avraham Stern, inspired by Jabotinsky, formed Irgun Zvai
Leumi be-Yisrael, or simply Lehi, a terrorist group dedicated to
killing not only officials and soldiers of British colonialism in
Palestine, but anybody, regardless of race or religion (including
Jews), who stood in the way of realizing a "homeland in the Land of
Israel within the borders delineated in the Bible," as Stern
declared in his 18 Principles of Rebirth (see David Ohana's
Zarathustra in Jerusalem: Nietzsche and the "New Hebrews"). Stern
and Lehi, also called the Stern Gang, attempted to team up with the
Nazis during the Second World War, declaring a "common interests
could exist between the establishment of a new order in Europe in
conformity with the German concept, and the true national
aspirations of the Jewish people as they are embodied by the NMO
(Lehi)."

"Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can negate the use of
terror as a means of battle," an article published in a Lehi
underground newspaper stated in 1943. "We are quite far from moral
hesitations on the national battlefield. We see before us the
command of the Torah, the most moral teaching in the world:
Obliterate—until destruction. We are particularly far from this sort
of hesitation in regard to an enemy whose moral perversion is
admitted by all…. But primarily terror is part of our political
battle under present conditions and its role is large and great." In
other words, as commanded in the Old Testament (the reference
to "obliteration" is taken from Exodus 17:14 and Numbers 14:45),
enemies should be destroyed completely and their "remembrance"
blotted out for all history. Such mass murder and brutality,
uncoupled from any moral restraint, "shakes the Yishuv [settlers]
from their complacency" (see the Wikipedia entry on Lehi and the
justification for terrorism).

After assassinating Lord Moyne in Cairo in 1944, followed by the
murder of the UN Mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte in 1948
(Bernadotte was assassinated in part for revealing the depth of
Zionist efforts to murder and ethnically cleanse Palestinians), Lehi
was integrated into the Israeli Defense Forces on May 31, 1948, and
a member was elected to the first Knesset. In short, terrorism
became a military and state policy after the British decided to
withdraw from the Palestine Mandate and the UN General Assembly
approved a 1947 UN Partition Plan dividing the Palestine into two
states (or rather one state, as the Israelis not only reneged on the
promise to abide by the plan, but began ethnically cleansing Arabs
in short order).

In the months prior to declaring a Zionist state (in fact, declared
one day before the expiry of the Palestine Mandate), according to
British Colonial Office and Foreign Office files, "the Irgun Z'vai
Leumi and the Stern Gang, in coordination with the Hagana, committed
the infamous massacre of Deir Yassin, where 250 men, women and
children were butchered and many of their houses blown up over their
heads," writes the Palestinian Christian Issa Nakhleh, a
representative of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine in New
York City 1947-1948 (see Nakhleh's Encyclopedia of the Palestinian
Problem, Chapter 7, Zionist Crimes and Terrorism in Palestine; at
the end of this chapter there is a detailed description of numerous
terrorist crimes committed by Irgun-Hagana).

The details of the crimes committed by Zionist terrorist
organizations in 1948 are … verbatim reports photocopied from the
War Office, Colonial Office and Foreign Office files i d Public
Record Office, Kew Gardens, Surrey, the United Kingdom. Following is
a summary of the types of crimes committed by Zionist terrorists in
1948:

1. Sneak attacks on many Arab villages, resulting in the death of
many men, women and children.
2. Blowing up of bridges in different parts of the country.
3. Blowing up of Arab houses and hotels.
4. Firing on Arab cars and killing many Arabs.
5. Robbery of Barclay's Bank.
6. Assaulting British officers walking alone.
7. Firing into cafes and streets and cars, killing many innocent
civilians.
8. Blowing up Arab trucks and killing occupants.
9. Attacking Arab shepherds and stealing their flocks.
10. Throwing hand grenades into churches.
11. Robbery of arms, ammunition, trucks, provisions and equipment
from British Army depots.
12. Throwing bombs into Arab markets, killing and injuring many men,
women and children.
13. Blowing up of trains and killing many passengers; in one
incident alone, 40 Arabs were killed.

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As Nakhleh notes, it was the fascist orientation of the Jabotinsky
Zionists that permitted and excused these terrorist crimes. "By
reason of their very objectives, Nazis and Zionists are fascists, a
fact confirmed by their methods of doing things, and their attitude
toward human life. This is demonstrated in their attitude toward
war," a method of war completely at odds with international
humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, a fact demonstrated
once again with the invasion and ethnic cleansing of Lebanon. In
essence, the bombardment and invasion of Lebanon is a repeat of the
1948 expulsion of the Palestinians:

In the first period of the Zionist war for the partition of
Palestine, the Zionist forces bombarded indiscriminately every
possible Arab village with mortar fire, killing innocent men, women
and children. In some cases the villagers fled the murderous fire on
their own; in other cases Arab authorities recommended flight to the
villagers to escape the murderous fire raining down upon them for no
apparent military reason…. In many cases the Zionists killed
Palestinian villagers by bombardment from the air, the same type of
war crime they continued for decades afterwards against Palestinians
in refugee camps…. When bombing and shelling and the shooting of
unarmed civilians to set an example of the fate awaiting those who
would remain in their village was insufficient to force the
Palestinians out, the Zionists would simply order the inhabitants to
leave…. After expelling those Palestinian Arabs they had not
murdered, the Zionists wantonly burned and destroyed the houses of
the inhabitants they had expelled…. Many times Palestinian Arabs
from villages on main roads fled temporarily for safety to nearby
villages, expecting to return to their homes when the fighting died
down. When they tried to return home, they found that the Zionists
had wantonly destroyed their homes to make it impossible for the
indigenous Arab populace to return. (Nakhleh, Chapter Nine, The
Conspiracy to Expel and the Expulsion of Palestinian Arabs 1948-
1950).

Although the pro-Israel (and some would contend Zionist controlled)
corporate media engages in nothing short of a herculean effort to
portray Israel's invasion and bombardment of Lebanon as a justified
response to Hezbollah provocation, the fact is Israel is repeating
what is now an established historical pattern. In a preface to Livia
Rokach's Israel's Sacred Terrorism, Nasser H. Aruri writes:

The personal diary of Moshe Sharett [the second prime minister of
Israel, 1954-1955] sheds light … by amply documenting the rationale
and mechanics of Israel's "Arab policy" in the late 1940s and the
1950s. The policy portrayed, in its most intimate particulars, is
one of deliberate Israeli acts of provocation, intended to generate
Arab hostility and thus to create pretexts for armed action and
territorial expansion. Sharett's records document this policy
of "sacred terrorism" and expose the myths of Israel's "security
needs" and the "Arab threat" that have been treated like self-
evident truths from the creation of Israel to the present, when
Israeli terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip, and against Palestinians and Lebanese in South Lebanon, has
reached an intolerable level. It is becoming increasingly evident
that the exceptional demographic and geographic alterations in
Israeli society within the present generation have been brought
about, not as the accidental results of the endeavor to
guard "Israel's security" against an "Arab threat," but by a drive
for lebensraum.

In addition to the Nazi philosophy of Lebensraum (ethnically
cleansing an area in the interest of colonial settlement), the
Israeli scorched earth policy in Lebanon, as in Gaza and the West
Bank, is designed to destroy the economic infrastructure of the
Arabs (a process well along in the latter areas). "The exact
parallel between Nazi Germany's willful destruction of the economies
within Axis-occupied Europe, and Israel's willful destruction of the
economy of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is of
fundamental importance," notes Issa Nakhleh. "The destruction of the
economies of Nazi-occupied Europe was not implemented solely for the
purpose of exploiting the assets and labor of the occupied nations.
It was not simply transitory wanton destruction in acts of war. It
was for the purpose of expanding the Third Reich through the
integration of the territories of occupied nations into Nazi Germany
and utilizing the destruction of the economies of the indigent
inhabitants as a prelude to their expulsion" (Chapter Nineteen, the
Willful Destruction of the Palestinian Economy in the West Bank and
the Gaza Strip).

In grotesque fashion, the corporate media papers over the repeat of
these crimes by Olmert and the supposed "centrist" Kadima dominated
government of Israel, refusing to note the obvious pattern of
pathological and murderous Zionist behavior. Instead of noting or
even hinting at the fascistic character of this behavior, we are
told "some civilians are more innocent than others" (Dershowitz) and
Hezbollah is responsible for Israel's extermination of hundreds,
possibly thousands of Lebanese civilians. "The Zionist and Israeli
leaders have followed in the footsteps of the Nazis. 3,000 Zionist
and Israeli political and military leaders, during a period from
1939-1989, participated as organizers, instigators and accomplices
in the commission of crimes of terrorism, crimes against peace, war
crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the
Palestinians and peoples of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt,"
writes Nakhleh in the preface to his online book.

All members of the Hagana, Palmach, Irgun Z'vai Leumi, the Stern
Gang, the Jewish Agency and the Jewish National Fund are charged
with these crimes. Many of them became Presidents, Cabinet
Ministers, Generals, officers of the Armed Forces and continued to
participate in the commission of the aforementioned crimes. Many of
them occupy high positions in Israeli society. It seems that
participating in the commission of these crimes was, and still is,
an essential qualification for advancement in the Israeli government
and charged with these crimes are still at large, enjoying the
fruits of their crimes. They are referred to as heroes. Many of them
are being honored and received as heads of State, Prime Ministers,
cabinet ministers, high government officials and scholars of an
allegedly democratic state. The Palestinians who have been victims
of these crimes are until today condemned to a life of a nation in
exile deprived of all their rights. Their homeland is occupied.
Thousands of them were murdered, hundreds of thousands have been
imprisoned and tortured, suffering until today under barbaric
Israeli occupation.

The victims are called terrorists, murderers and criminals and the
real terrorists and war criminals are being received as respectable
representatives of a democratic society.

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More anti semitism dressed in neatly protected newspaper articles.....

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"Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism"

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.
"Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so.

"Why is this? You know that Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. The Jewish people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of whichever tyrant happened to rule over them.

"The Negro people, my friend, know what it is to suffer the torment of tyranny under rulers not of our choosing. Our brothers in Africa have begged, pleaded, requested--DEMANDED the recognition and realization of our inborn right to live in peace under our own sovereignty in our own country.

"How easy it should be, for anyone who holds dear this inalienable right of all mankind, to understand and support the right of the Jewish People to live in their ancient Land of Israel. All men of good will exult in the fulfilment of God's promise, that his People should return in joy to rebuild their plundered land.

This is Zionism, nothing more, nothing less.

"And what is anti-Zionist? It is the denial to the Jewish people of a fundamental right that we justly claim for the people of Africa and freely accord all other nations of the Globe. It is discrimination against Jews, my friend, because they are Jews. In short, it is antisemitism.

"The antisemite rejoices at any opportunity to vent his malice. The times have made it unpopular, in the West, to proclaim openly a hatred of the Jews. This being the case, the antisemite must constantly seek new forms and forums for his poison. How he must revel in the new masquerade! He does not hate the Jews, he is just 'anti-Zionist'!

"My friend, I do not accuse you of deliberate antisemitism. I know you feel, as I do, a deep love of truth and justice and a revulsion for racism, prejudice, and discrimination. But I know you have been misled--as others have been--into thinking you can be 'anti-Zionist' and yet remain true to these heartfelt principles that you and I share.

Let my words echo in the depths of your soul: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--make no mistake about it."

From M.L. King Jr., "Letter to an Anti-Zionist Friend," Saturday Review_XLVII (Aug. 1967)