But then, in the first half of the 20th century, the Nazis said that Europeans are divided into three distinct races: Aryan, Slav, and Jew. As the old story went, a young SS member, sent to separate the Polish into races, asked, ‘How can you tell? They all look the same, they all speak multiple languages, most can understand German.’ The old SS officer said, ‘Watch me.’ They went into a shop, and the old SS officer asked, ‘Do you have any left-handed teapots?’
The first shop owner said, ‘There is no such thing as a left-handed teapot.’ The older SS officer said, ‘He’s a Slav. If he’ll work as a slave, we’ll let him live; if not, we’ll kill him.’
They went into a second shop. Again, the older SS officer asked the same question. The shop owner said, ‘Dummkopf. Take any right-handed teapot, turn it 180°, and you have a lefty-handed teapot.’
‘He’s an Aryan. He keeps his shop and we’ll also give him the Slav’s shop.’
They went into a third shop and the older SS officer asked the same question. The shop owner said, ‘Yes, I have one, but it is very rare, so it will cost you ten times as much as a right-handed teapot.’
‘He’s a Jew. Send him to the death camp,’ said the senior SS officer.
The story tells us nothing about Aryans, Slavs, or Jews, and it does not even agree with the book, My Struggle, by the man elected Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
The book My Struggle says that the Aryans must kill all the Slavs for lebensraum and make Europe Judenfrei by deporting all the Jews. Only the US and UK said that Jews were a big problem, but European Jews were Europe’s problem, they would not allow Europe to inflict their Jewish problem on any other place, so the Nazis, unable to deport the Jews, came up with their ‘Final Solution’ in 1940.
Then, after the Nazis lost, the world realised that the Nazis had killed many Jews (the exact number is not known, but the number 6 million is used as the best estimate we have). So the US insisted on sending most of the surviving Jews in Western Europe to Palestine for reasons that escape us. The British Anglican clergy wanted all Jews removed from Britain, and suggested Palestine as a good place to send them all, since Jesus cannot return until every Jew is in Palestine. But the British wanted Palestine as a British colony, not an option after WWII when the US ended up as the neo-Imperialist ruler of the neo-Colony Western Europe. Instead, Israel would be a US neo-Colony, and all the Jews from Western Europe would be shipped to Palestine. Having no choice, the Jews agreed to be shipped to Palestine and became violent Zionists, determined to take over all of Palestine and evict most of the Palestinians (with full American/Western European support and encouragement).
As depicted in the 1958 Leon Uris novel Exodus, the Jews came to Palestine in peace but were attacked by the Arabs who were all violent anti-Semites. The novel became a famous film in 1960 starring Paul Newman. The novel has little in common with the actual history, where the Jews evicted almost one million Palestinians from Palestine, something the Palestinians call the Nakba. The Jews and Arabs fought, and, in 1948, the UN divided Palestine into Israel, which was all the land then held by the Jews, and the Arabs were given the West Bank, officially considered part of Jordan, and the Ghaza, officially considered part of Egypt. Then, in 1967, the Jews overran the West Bank, the Ghaza, and also took parts of what had been Lebanon and Syria. The Jews were strongly supported by the US and, to a lesser extent, by Western Europe, who kept them well-armed and easily able to defeat the Arabs. The Jews had total air superiority, and with that, kept total battlefield control.
The concept of Zionism (but not the name) was stated by the Anglican clergyman Rev. Keith in the early 19th century. He said the UK must not host any of the Jewish deicides, but must send all of them to Palestine, which he said was 'A land without a people for a people without a land.' Seeing that the British wanted them all out of Britain (as must about every country wanted to be rid of Jews) Theodor Herzl, a Jew, said it would be best if all went to Palestine, and coined the word 'Zionism' for the idea that all Jews must go to Palestine. The Great and the Powerful British and Americans said this was how it must be, and what could Jews do but agree and go along with a plan they resisted at their peril, since the UK might decide to start with pogroms if they could not send the Jews to Palestine?
Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia all tried to regain Palestine for the Palestinians, but could not stand up to Israel backed by the US and Western Europe. The USSR tried to support the Arabs, and the Arabs had a brief success in 1973 when USSR air defence systems allowed Egypt to shoot down the Israeli Air Force and win one battle, but the Israelis managed to slip past the Egyptian guards, destroy the Soviet Air Defence system completely, regain total air dominance and quickly defeat the Arabs. Kissinger was in charge of the US in 1973 because of the Watergate Crisis, and put the US on DEFCON 1, ready to nuke the USSR if they interfered with Israel’s victory over the Arabs, after which the USSR withdrew all support for the Arabs and Israel regained total control. Egypt and Jordan surrendered and made peace with Israel, recognising Israel and establishing diplomatic relations.
Israel was in close contact with South Africa during the apartheid years, and is not an apartheid state. The word apartheid is a South African word, and only ethnic Europeans, which included Jews from Europe, could be citizens. One drop of African or Asian blood excluded one from being a South African citizen during the apartheid years. Israel has 2.5 million goyim citizens. Two million Palestinians (out of a total of about 7 million) have Israeli citizenship. The other 5 million goyim in Israel are illegal aliens, with no rights of any kind. So not like South African apartheid, since a few goyim have rights, while no non-Europeans had any rights in Apartheid South Africa.
Israel have said they will reduce the number of Philistines in Ghaza to less than 200,000 from an initial population of 2.3 million. Some call this genocide, some do not.
Genocide is killing or displacing an ethnic or religious group only for their ethnicity or religion. So, for example, the Mafia are all Italian, since one must be a member of an Italian family to be in the Mafia, but the US do not go after the Mafia because they are Italian, but because they engage in crime, so this is not genocide.
Israel say that all the Philistines in Ghaza are terrorists, so they are being killed or evicted not because of their ethnicity, but because they are terrorists, so this is not genocide. Some say that one cannot call a small child a terrorist, so the Israelis are killing some Philistines because of their ethnicity, not for any crime. Israel say that most Philistines above the age of 5 years or so are trained to engage in terrorist acts, and the deaths of those younger than 5 are collateral damage. The US had up to 90% collateral damage in Iraq, killing ten times as many non-combatants as combatants, while Israel has about 10% collateral damage, the lowest collateral damage of any combatant, only one dead civilian for every 10 dead terrorists, hence not genocide. But not everyone comes up with the same ratio of collateral damage in Ghaza as the Israelis.
The Israeli version is that the only genocide in the Ghaza was on 7 October, when Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1,000 Israelis, raping and murdering many women and killing many babies. I have heard, on Afshin Rattansi’s “Going Underground”, Alan Dershowitz, Emeritus Professor at Harvard Law School and author of War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism say he has seen videotapes, made by Hamas, showing their rapes and murders of women and babies on 7 October. Max Blumenthal of the Grayzone says careful study shows that those videotapes of ‘rapes’ and ‘murders’ by Hamas are provably fakes, one of the graphic videos of rape and murder can be traced to a film posted on the Internet in 2022, which conclusively debunks the veracity of those films presented as proof of Hamas terrorists raping Israeli women on 7 October 2023. Prof Dershowitz says that Blumenthal (who considers himself a Jew) is a rabid anti-Semite and a liar, and the veracity of those films has been verified. (The weight of the evidence is with Blumenthal, but that will never convince those who are sure the films show real rapes and murders of Israeli women on 7 October 2023.) As Blumenthal says, Israel studied the best ways to demonise the Hamas fighters, discovered that rape raised the most outrage, and proceeded to scour the Internet for graphic videos of real rapes and murders, none of which actually took place in Israel.
At this point, it looks like Israel will reduce the population of Palestinians in the Ghaza to less than 200,000 by starvation. The US fully supports the Israeli blockade of all food for the Ghaza Palestinians. The US did drop some food on the Palestinians, and the falling food packages killed some Palestinians.
Israel made life very difficult for the Palestinians in Ghaza before 7 October, food was limited, power was limited, building materials were limited, so not much prospects for those Palestinians locked in the Ghaza. Did this justify insurrection? Hamas and their supporters say ‘Yes!’ The Israeli and American governments and their supporters in Western Europe say, ‘No!’
Will the world let Israel and the US starve most of the Palestinians in Ghaza to death, or will some country agree to take some of the Palestinians and let them live, and if so, under what conditions?
I know a Jordanian who says there is no hunger in Ghaza, those photographs of starving children are not from Ghaza, Israel is allowing more than enough food into Ghaza, and he has verified that Jordan is sending more than 2,000 calories per Ghazan per day, so there is no hunger, no starvation. But I have no idea where he gets such information that is contradicted by the photographs everyone can see of starving children who are obviously Palestinians in Ghaza. I know a Moroccan who says that Jordan has not provided more than a minuscule few calories to Ghaza, it was Morocco that sent more than enough food to feed all the Ghazans. Most observers in Israel and Egypt say almost all that food donated for the Palestinians is still in Israel and Egypt, Israel will not let more than about one meal per week per resident of Ghaza, so we are starting to see many deaths, starting with the children.
Net: there is no agreement at all about Ghaza. Some, including some I know personally, say the Israelis are treating the Ghazans well, they are all getting plenty to eat, none except terrorists are being killed. Most agree that Israel, with full US/Western European/Arab support, have killed more than 30,000 Ghazans by bombing and shooting, mostly non-combatant women and children, and are starving almost everyone in Ghaza, with a goal of fewer than 200,000 Ghazans in Israel out of a population of 2.3 million, either by death or deportation if any other country will accept them (doesn’t matter which to the Israelis/Americans/Western Europeans).
In any case, death and/or deportation of any Palestinians in Ghaza only because they are Palestinians is genocide, by the definition of genocide. The Israelis claim the extermination and/or deportation is not because they are Palestinians but is only because they are all, including small Ghazan children, terrorists, in which case it is not genocide.
But the Americans, Arabs, and Western Europeans do not want to be seen as complicit in the eradication of all Ghazans by starvation so they pretend they are getting plenty of food into the Ghaza, more than 2,000 calories per person per day, a pretension that is rather obviously false.
But as long as one classifies all Palestinian children, including newborns, as terrorists, this is not genocide.
However, if one says that small children cannot be considered terrorists, then they are being killed only because they are Palestinians, and that meets the definition of genocide.
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