http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/01/02/p22289

Emulating the Nazis
Khalid Amayreh

The current Israeli government seems to be living on staple diet
consisting of murder, lying and theft. I am saying this because hardly
a day passes without this wicked, racist regime indulging in these
vices.

Two days ago, Israeli soldiers manning the Beit Hanun border-crossing,
otherwise known as the Erez Checkpoint, at the northern edge of the
Gaza Strip, opened fire on exhausted Palestinian pilgrims returning
from Makka. One woman was instantly killed, and five other pilgrims
were injured, one seriously.

Following the incident, the Israeli army issued four concocted
narratives of what happened. At first, the army spokesman said "The
IDF has no knowledge of the incident, but we are investigating."

Then two hours later, another spokesperson said "it was very likely
that the woman was shot and killed by Palestinian, not Israeli, fire."

The third narrative didn't wait long as the Israeli army Radio,
Galletsahal quoted a military spokesman as saying that "the Gazans
were shot during an exchange of fire between our forces and
Palestinian militants."

Then, finally, toward the evening, the dosage of lies was culminated
with a new narrative, claiming that the soldiers felt threatened and
had to open fire at the Palestinian crowd.

In truth, there was no Palestinian shooting whatsoever, and no
exchange of fire between Israeli and Palestinian troops took place in
that area at that time, and, indeed, the soldiers who opened fire did
not really feel threatened.

Many people in the West don't really understand what makes soldiers
open fire on innocent and helpless civilians passing through a border-
crossing. After all, such a cold-blooded murder defies all logic and
flies in the face of basic human nature. This is why many westerners,
long-time consumers of Zionist propaganda, would more or less accept
Israeli accounts of such murderous "incidents" because they can't
imagine that, of all people, Israeli Jews, the former victims of
Nazism, could stoop to the level of thugs and common criminals.

I have been searching in vain for a logical explanation for such
manifestly nefarious behavior, but to no avail.

Eventually, I reached the inescapable conclusion that many or probably
most Israeli soldiers operating in the occupied territories are
actually indoctrinated in deep psychological hatred of Palestinians,
occasionally reaching the point of believing that the Palestinians,
not the Nazis, carried out the holocaust. This means that every
Palestinian man, woman and child becomes at least a vicarious Nazi
that must be killed, maimed, tormented or humiliated.

It is a kind of a reversed anti-Semitism syndrome whereby Jewish
soldiers seek, at least subconsciously, to emulate their former
tormentors, employing a similarly morbid mindset that combines deep
hatred with racist contempt for the "other," the Palestinian.

Many Israeli soldiers actually view Palestinians very much like the
Nazi Gestapo and SS viewed Jews, as sub-humans, scum, vermin and dirty
animals that ought to be exterminated. Yes, there are differences but
these have mainly to do with style, not with substance.

Of course, western audiences are unlikely to hear Israeli soldiers and
politicians saying openly that Palestinians are scum and vermin and
dirty animals that ought to be exterminated.

That would be a public relations disaster and Israeli soldiers and
officers uttering such words would probably be rebuked or punished for
besmirching Israel's and the Jews' image.

Non the less, every honest observer of Israeli treatment of
Palestinians knows deep in his or her heart that the intensive racist
indoctrination Israeli Jews in general are exposed to from cradle to
grave eventually leads to a profound dehumanization of Palestinians in
Israelis' perceptions, a collective psychosis that makes Israeli
soldiers murder Palestinians with stunning ease and feel no guilt for
the murder.

As I said, such demonic crimes against a helpless and nearly-decimated
people are routine. Last week, Israeli soldiers patrolling a Ramallah
suburb opened fire on a group of Palestinians who were on mid-
afternoon picnic.

A bullet hit one of the picnickers in his stomach causing him a
massive internal bleeding. He died five hours later in the Ramallah
Government hospital, leaving a young wife and two small daughters,
aged two and eight respectively.

In a terse statement, the Israeli army blamed the Palestinians, saying
that "they were acting suspiciously" and "holding in their hands
suspicious objects," an apparent reference to cans of soft drinks.

You see, under this nefarious military occupation, even holding a can
of Pepsi Cola could cost you your life if you are a Palestinian and on
a picnic and Israeli soldiers happen to be in your vicinity.

I don't know if Israeli and pro-Israeli hasbara agents in North
America pay any attention to such vile crimes when they seek to incite
the largely misinformed north American Christians against Palestinians
...who, we are told, teach their children to hate Jewsl!!

Well, are bereaved kids supposed to love their fathers' killers? Are
these two daughters who will live fatherless for the rest of their
lives supposed to give their killers the benefit of the doubt? Are
they supposed to take at face value the mendacious Israeli army
account that the their father, uncle and their friends, were acting
suspiciously and that they brought this upon themselves?

It may be futile to even evoke such questions since entire generations
of Israelis have grown up believing that the best Palestinian is one
that is dead and that Israelis should kill Palestinians first and ask
questions later. Aren't these the unholy commandments of Zionism's
Gospel of Satan.

Israeli apologists and propagandists, especially in Europe and North
America, seek always to spread the myth that Israel is democratic
western country where the rule of law is supreme.

However, in truth, this is a obscene lie amounting to a kind of
fornication with language. It is a cardinal mendacity because truly
democratic and civilized states don't murder innocent people in cold
blood and then claim that they were killed because they were behaving
suspiciously. And Israel has not done it just once, or twice or a
hundred times. Israel has been doing it from the very inception of its
misbegotten birth.

The Palestinian victims of Israel's murderous racism are dying unwept
by a hypocritical and morally-depraved world that is overwhelmed by
spin and political expediency.

Had the Ramallah man and the Gaza woman, whose children and
grandchildren were awaiting her return just a few hundred meters away,
been British or American citizens, an outcry would have been made and
a serious investigation would have been ordered.
However, it is obvious that these unprotected Palestinians are being
viewed as children of a lesser God, whose lives count less and whose
blood is too cheap...very much like the Jews of Europe were viewed by
the Third Reich more than sixty years ago.

Yes, Israel may not be a Jewish Third Reich. However, the moral
distance between 1938-Germany and 2007-Israel is definitely shorter,
much shorter, than many people think.