Yehuda Stern
14th December 2008, 16:33
Recently, primeries took place in the Likud party. Likud is a right-wing bourgeois Zionist party, with historical links to the right-wing Zionist terrorist organizations Etzel and Lehi, whose relations with European and German Fascism have been exposed by Lenni Brenner in The Iron Wall.
With fascism in its past, it is no surprise that Likud still has fascist elements in it. In fact, many right-wing parties have such elements in them (the Republican Party, the CDU-CSU, etc.). In the last primeries, the fascists have shown their strength by getting their leader, Moshe Feiglin, to the 20th place on the Likud list for the Knesset elections this February.
Feiglin is not only a religious reactionary, who opposes the right of homosexuals to march in Jerusalem (or anywhere else for that matter), he is mainly a racist and pogromist who supports the expulsion of all Palestinians deemed "unloyal" from Israel.
"Judaism is certainly racist in a sense," says Feiglin, "and when the UN decided that Zionism is racist, I saw no reason to protest that. Anyone who interprets racism as recognizing a difference between people of different blood - which is a very basic thing - must conclude that Zionism is racist. (...) There is no Palestinian people. There is only a public of Arabic speakers, which has suddenly started identifying itself as a people, a negative to the Zionist movement, parasites. That they have not done so before merely underscores their inferiority. The Africans don't have peoples either. They only have Zulus and Tutsis."
But racism is nothing new in Israel - neither is Jewish fascism. But it has been quite some time since a Zionist politician could get away with saying the following:
"Hitler is a military genius unequalled by anyone in history. (...) Nazism brought Germany from a state of depression to a fantastic state, physically and ideologically - the ragged youth became clean and disciplined, and Germany achieved an exemplary regime, a good judicial system, and public order. Hitler enjoyed good music, he painted. We are not talking about a pack of thugs, they only used thugs and homosexuals."
The Zionists like to delegitimize the Palestinian struggle against the Zionist state by using the example of the Mufti, who supported Hitler in WWII. Few Palestinian leaders in history, though, have come even close to supporting Nazism in any way, certainly as explicitly as the Zionist fascist Feiglin.
This is the answer to all those who claim that Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East," or that it is part of the struggle against anti-Semitism. The only protest at Feiglin's election heard in Israel is that it was wrong of Binyamin Netanyahu, chairman of Likud, to use bureaucratic manouvers to get Feiglin lower in the list. Such is the public opinion of this democratic state.
With fascism in its past, it is no surprise that Likud still has fascist elements in it. In fact, many right-wing parties have such elements in them (the Republican Party, the CDU-CSU, etc.). In the last primeries, the fascists have shown their strength by getting their leader, Moshe Feiglin, to the 20th place on the Likud list for the Knesset elections this February.
Feiglin is not only a religious reactionary, who opposes the right of homosexuals to march in Jerusalem (or anywhere else for that matter), he is mainly a racist and pogromist who supports the expulsion of all Palestinians deemed "unloyal" from Israel.
"Judaism is certainly racist in a sense," says Feiglin, "and when the UN decided that Zionism is racist, I saw no reason to protest that. Anyone who interprets racism as recognizing a difference between people of different blood - which is a very basic thing - must conclude that Zionism is racist. (...) There is no Palestinian people. There is only a public of Arabic speakers, which has suddenly started identifying itself as a people, a negative to the Zionist movement, parasites. That they have not done so before merely underscores their inferiority. The Africans don't have peoples either. They only have Zulus and Tutsis."
But racism is nothing new in Israel - neither is Jewish fascism. But it has been quite some time since a Zionist politician could get away with saying the following:
"Hitler is a military genius unequalled by anyone in history. (...) Nazism brought Germany from a state of depression to a fantastic state, physically and ideologically - the ragged youth became clean and disciplined, and Germany achieved an exemplary regime, a good judicial system, and public order. Hitler enjoyed good music, he painted. We are not talking about a pack of thugs, they only used thugs and homosexuals."
The Zionists like to delegitimize the Palestinian struggle against the Zionist state by using the example of the Mufti, who supported Hitler in WWII. Few Palestinian leaders in history, though, have come even close to supporting Nazism in any way, certainly as explicitly as the Zionist fascist Feiglin.
This is the answer to all those who claim that Israel is "the only democracy in the Middle East," or that it is part of the struggle against anti-Semitism. The only protest at Feiglin's election heard in Israel is that it was wrong of Binyamin Netanyahu, chairman of Likud, to use bureaucratic manouvers to get Feiglin lower in the list. Such is the public opinion of this democratic state.