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Hitler and Hamas
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Last week, you read here a crucial excerpt from Hamas’s 1987 charter which set out its belief that its enemy was not the Israeli but the Jew. In doing so, Hamas indicated that it was not just engaged in seeking territorial adjustment or the settlement of some grievance such as nations often have and which sometimes lead to war. Rather, its aims are directed against a people wherever they might be and their aim that leads them is not a mere adjustment of differences, but, at the least, total subjugation. But as any reasonably observant person can see, as in a recent photo of a smiling young Hamas supporter holding aloft his smart phone on which a swastika is displayed full screen, what they find preferable and necessary is not merely subjugation, but extermination.

It is only seen from this perspective that Hamas’s murderous attack can be fully understood.

There is a narrative in Islam that its triumphs pave the way for peace. The territories conquered by it have been called Dar es Salaam, the realm of peace, and the rest of the world is deemed Dar el Harb, the realm of the sword. As a narrative, it shares the contours of the other Western religions, whether in the narratives of the conquest of Canaan or in the idea set out in the more modern hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers.” (READ MORE from Shmuel Klatzkin: The New York Times’ Reputation Was Never Earned)

So while there is unanimity amongst these religions that the good must be fought for and that its triumph brings good to all, there is also a rather large problem: religion has often become a rationalization and a powerful motivator for unnecessary bloodshed, even of atrocities.

Hamas from the get-go has told you that it operates under Nazi ideation, modified to fit Islamist sensibilities.

The biblical mandate to war against the Canaanites ended with the conquest of the Canaanites. The Torah did not command Israel to conquer nations to convert them. Jewish law has taught for millennia that all are asked only to observe the Seven Noahide Laws, and that no further uniformity is necessary as a precondition for peace and harmony. Rather, uniformity is sought by the despotic and tyrannical whose idea of peace is not wholeness (the core meaning of the Hebrew word for peace, shalom) but the reduction, subjugation, and elimination of every differing thought and thinker. 

Christian Europe largely gave up on that latter path after the failure of the Thirty Years’ War between Protestants and Catholics to eliminate one side or the other. The architects of the peace that came after used the idea of the Seven Noahide Laws as the inspiration and underpinning of their order. In this order peace could be established without exterminating or subjugating the other nations whose approach to religion was different.. 

A Europe built on such ideas was a Europe that began to act more tolerantly toward its Jews. Medieval Jews had been subject periodically to dispossession, expulsion, and slaughter in country after country. The image of the Jew as a monstrous and powerful evil, capable even of thwarting the Deity itself, burrowed deeply into the culture. Jews were accused of slaughtering Christian children and using their blood to make matza. They were even accused of stealing communion wafers in order to murder the Deity incarnate again, an accusation ludicrously presuming that Jews believed in transubstantiation. It was not ludicrous to the accusers, nor to the Jews tortured and murdered for “profanation of the host.” (READ MORE: Hamas Terrorists Are the Real Nazis)

But in the Dutch home of the greatest figure behind the new European peace, Hugo Grotius, Jews were now welcomed. This was a stark contrast to their 1492 expulsion from all Spanish lands. And in the England of Grotius’s scholarly admirer, John Selden, Jews were soon admitted back to the England that had been the first of European countries to expel them. As well, Selden’s influential scholarship stressed an ongoing connection between Jewish law and the concepts and practices of English Common Law and its ideas of constitutionality and liberty.

Nazism rejected at the core the peaceful order that inspired Holland and England and later, America. It was animated by a revival of the very worst demons that had plagued Europe and which had been seemingly mastered by an evolving enlightened culture. Nazism was built on the idea that all evil comes from one source, the Jew. And that evil had to be decisively eliminated.

Historian Lucy Dawidowicz put it this way: 

[The Jew was] the mythic omnipotent superadversary, on whom war in the greatest scale had to be conducted. The Jew was … a germ, a bacillus, to be killed without conscience … the mortal enemy to be killed in self-defense.

In a paranoid vision, [the Nazis] believed themselves to be innocent and aggrieved victims, outwitted by the machinations of a supercunning and all-powerful antagonist, engaged in a struggle for their very existence. It was a struggle, as Hitler put it, of “either—or….”

They became possessed by the belief that world Jewry was committed to their destruction. Consequently, in the deluded German mind, every Jewish man, woman, and child became a panoplied warrior of a vast Satanic fighting machine.

And so the extermination of the people in its entirety, unarmed men, women, and children, could be justified and advanced.

In exactly the same way, the constant aim of Hamas at Israeli civilians can be understood. To them,  each dancer at a music festival was really a Satanic threat, deserving of being gunned down. Raping women was really just humiliating the devil, and every Jew, even little children and babies in their cribs, are as dangerous as Ebola and as wicked as sin. Thus the celebrations in the streets of Gaza upon the display of half-naked mutilated Jews, or the proud display online of a captured nine-year-old boy being humiliated by his captors. Those captors impress on him his utter helplessness at their hands and indicate with cruel humor that their intentions towards him are not to protect, but to take joy in his helplessness and to follow its logic through to its end.

Hamas from the get-go has told you that it operates under Nazi ideation, modified to fit Islamist sensibilities. They are at war and will use peace only as Hitler did — to take advantage of the human desire of the rest of the world for peace, and manipulate that yearning for subtle and powerful advantage, the better to increase the odds in their favor when the war they seek is fought.

Read again Hamas’s words: 

You may speak as much as you want about regional and world wars. They were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate, making financial gains and controlling resources. They obtained the Balfour Declaration, formed the League of Nations through which they could rule the world. They were behind World War II, through which they made huge financial gains by trading in armaments, and paved the way for the establishment of their state. It was they who instigated the replacement of the League of Nations with the United Nations and the Security Council to enable them to rule the world through them. There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it. 

See how it is a direct extension of Hitler’s own words:

It is the inexorable Jew who struggles for his domination over the nations. 

Embracing the Nazi ideation, they embrace as well their methods, which Hitler describes himself:

No nation can remove this hand from its throat except by the sword. Only the assembled and concentrated might of a national passion rearing up in its strength can defy the international enslavement of peoples. Such a process is and remains a bloody one.

One sees the image of the mother and child with their hands up, being sent by soldiers with pointed guns towards the trains that will take them to the gas. One sees the bodies of families gunned down in their homes in Israel and the young women, the children, and grandmothers being hauled off from their lives and their homes by the brave soldiers of Hamas. (READ MORE: Israel 50 Years On: Blessings and Challenges)

As Orwell put it at the end of Animal Farm:

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

 

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