Spinning Hitler

Posted by Geoff_Kennedy

Posted: November 2, 2009 - 11:27 pm

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Move over, Brian Sweeney and The_Insider. You’ve been outflanked. A new critic isn’t satisfied merely with calling me an anti-Semitic isolationist, but goes right for the Hitler card.

I’m accused of the “same tactics Hitler used when he wrote ‘Mein Kampf.’”

Now, I must confess I never read that tome. So I’m at a disadvantage here. Maybe the critic can specify what “Mein Kampf” said about the Goldstone Report, international law, US military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hamas terrorists, US foreign aid policies, the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, civilian deaths in Palestine and Gaza, collective punishment and the right of American citizens to challenge their government’s stealing their money and sending it to foreigners who attack America.

When I was a little kid, we opposed Hitler so much we didn’t have time to compare him to people we don’t agree with. In those days, we didn’t equate political incorrectness with mass murder. So, as a rule, I try to refrain from the Hitler card. It trivializes the slaughter of some six million innocent people. I don’t agree with Obama and feminists, but such disagreement doesn’t entitle me to call them Nazis.

But now that I’ve been dealt the Hitler card, I will say murder is murder. Ethnic cleansing Israeli-style may not match genocide Nazi-style, but there are similarities:
1) The Nazis came to power because of injustices imposed by its World War I enemies. Israel came to power because of the injustices of the Holocaust during World War II.
2) Nazis tried to make Germany an exclusively Aryan state by “purifying” itself from Jews and others it considered inferior. Israel is trying to make itself an exclusively Jewish state by “purifying” itself of Arabs and other Gentiles.
3) Nazi Germany stripped its Jewish citizens of their civil and human rights. Israel strips its Arab citizens of their civil and human rights.
4) Nazi Germany expanded its borders by taking territory from its neighbors. Israel has done the same.
5) Nazi Germany tried to justify its behavior by claiming it was destined to do so. Zionists try to justify Israel’s behavior by claiming it is destined to do so.

But there’s at least one significant difference. As far as I can tell, when the Nazis committed their crimes, they didn’t bill the American people for them.

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