Genocide Blog 21 – The Intention of Israel is a Final Solution
19.12.2023
Two beautiful, big, black street dogs in Ragoo Lane – their owner moved away to a flat somewhere, leaving them – get fed by and loved by all in Ragoo Lane. They are such bossy dogs, so sure they belong to Ragoo Lane that they lie in the middle of the road and don’t move for cars to get by, even if you hoot. Sometimes you have to get out of your car to plead with them to move off the road. Anyway, they were nearly imprisoned by the dog-catchers last week. That would mean they risk being put to death. A “final solution” for a State that finds dogs a problem. Luckily, one neighbour saw danger approaching, and managed to get them both off the road, and out of sight just in time. Otherwise, they would have fallen prey to the kind of “final solution” that often lies in wait for animals. I have personally rescued three dogs from this fate – each one’s rescue a long story, in itself. The “final solution” is a “ghoulish euphemism” used by the Nazis to describe the death camps, in which Jews, Gypsies and others intentionally put to death by the German State’s genocide, with the complicity often of other States – like France, Poland, Austria. The term “goulish Euphemism” was coined by Anne Boyer, the respected New York Times Magazine’s editor in her recent resignation letter protesting the pro-Israeli content in the magazine that employed her.
She was right. We have had an earful of ghoulish euphemisms designed to cover up the Israeli genocide, or final solution. The Western countries and media that support Israel impose it. Even now, the use of the term “ceasefire”, which we have to use, is a ghoulish euphemism. We really mean, “Stop the genocide”.
Today, we would like to reproduce an extract from the Chris Hedges report of 4 November, in which he exposes the proof of the fascist political movement that has taken root in Israel that has come to power and is, in fact, going ahead with a “final solution” against the Palestinians. In the text, he says, “It is a grave mistake not to take the blood curdling calls for the wholesale eradication and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians seriously. This rhetoric is not hyperbolic. It is a literal prescription.” He is a calm, informed journalist. He clearly loves the children of Gaza. He wrote for the New York Times for 15 years and is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is also a Presbyterian minister. Listen to his fine, heart-rending address on 8 December on a video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly6lfhOxTe0
He wrote on 4 November:
“I covered the birth of Jewish fascism in Israel. I reported on the extremist Meir Kahane, who was barred from running for office and whose Kach Party was outlawed in 1994 and declared a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States. I attended political rallies held by Benjamin Netanyahu, who received lavish funding from rightwing Americans, when he ran against Yitzhak Rabin, who was negotiating a peace settlement with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s supporters chanted ‘Death to Rabin’. They burned an effigy of Rabin dressed in a Nazi uniform. Netanyahu marched in front of a mock funeral for Rabin.
“Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated on Nov. 4, 1995 by a Jewish fanatic. Rabin’s widow, Lehea, blamed Netanyahu and his supporters for her husband’s murder.
“Netanyahu, who first became prime minister in 1996, has spent his political career nurturing Jewish extremists, including Avigdor Lieberman, Gideon Sa’ar, Naftali Bennett, and Ayelet Shaked. His father, Benzion — who worked as an assistant to the Zionist pioneer Vladimir Jabotinsky, who Benito Mussolini referred to as ‘a good fascist’ – was a leader in the Herut Party that called on the Jewish state to seize all the land of historic Palestine. Many of those who formed the Herut Party carried out terrorist attacks during the 1948 war that established the state of Israel. Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook and other Jewish intellectuals, described the Herut Party in a statement published in The New York Times as a ‘political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to Nazi and Fascist parties.’
“There has always been a strain of Jewish fascism within the Zionist project. Now it has taken control of the Israeli state.
“ ‘The left is no longer capable of overcoming the toxic ultra-nationalism that has evolved here,’ Zeev Sternhell, a Holocaust survivor and Israel’s foremost authority on fascism, warned in 2018, ‘the kind whose European strain almost wiped out a majority of the Jewish people.’ Sternhell added, ‘[W]e see not just a growing Israeli fascism but racism akin to Nazism in its early stages.’
“The decision to obliterate Gaza has long been the dream of Israel’s crypto-fascists, heirs of Kahane’s movement. These Jewish extremists, which make up the ruling coalition government, are orchestrating the genocide in Gaza, where hundreds of Palestinians are dying daily. They champion the iconography and language of their homegrown fascism. Jewish identity and Jewish nationalism are the Zionist versions of blood and soil. Jewish supremacy is sanctified by God, as is the slaughter of the Palestinians, who Netanyahu compared to the Biblical Ammonites, massacred by the Israelites. Enemies — usually Muslims — slated for extinction are subhuman who embody evil. Violence and the threat of violence are the only forms of communication those outside the magical circle of Jewish nationalism understand. Millions of Muslims and Christians, including those with Israeli citizenship, are to be purged.
“A leaked 10-page document from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence dated Oct. 13, 2023 recommends the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
“It is a grave mistake not to take the blood curdling calls for the wholesale eradication and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians seriously. This rhetoric is not hyperbolic. It is a literal prescription. Netanyahu in a tweet, later removed, described the battle with Hamas as a ‘struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle.’
“These Jewish fanatics have begun their version of the final solution to the Palestinian problem.” Then Chris Hedges gives the figures for the obliteration of Gaza in terms of tons of bombs dropped and percentage of housing units destroyed, “They have no intention of being detoured, even by Washington.”
“ ‘It became evident to U.S. officials that Israeli leaders believed mass civilian casualties were an acceptable price in the military campaign,’ The New York Times reported.
“ ‘In private conversations with American counterparts, Israeli officials referred to how the United States and other allied powers resorted to devastating bombings in Germany and Japan during World War II — including the dropping of the two atomic warheads in Hiroshima and Nagasaki — to try to defeat those countries,’ the paper continued.
“The goal is a ‘pure’ Israel, cleansed of Palestinian contaminants. Gaza is to become a wasteland. The Palestinians in Gaza will be killed or forced into refugee camps over the border in Egypt. Messianic redemption will take place once the Palestinians are expelled. Jewish extremists call for the Al-Aqsa mosque - the third holiest shrine for Muslims, built on the ruins of the Jewish Second Temple, which was destroyed in 70 CE by the Roman army - to be demolished. The mosque is to be replaced by a “Third” Jewish temple, a move that would set the Muslim world alight. The West Bank, which the zealots call ‘Judea and Samaria,’ will be formally annexed by Israel. Israel, governed by the religious laws imposed by the ultra-orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, will be a Jewish version of Iran.
“It is a short step to total Israeli control over Palestinian land. Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements, restricted military zones, closed highways and army compounds have seized over 60 percent of the West Bank, turning Palestinian towns and villages into ringed ghettos. There are over 65 laws which discriminate directly or indirectly against Palestinian citizens of Israel and those living in the occupied territories. The campaign of indiscriminate killing of Palestinians in the West Bank, many by rogue Jewish militias, along with house and school demolitions and the seizure of remaining Palestinian land will explode.” Chris Hedges then gives figures for the number of Palestinians killed and rounded up, humiliated and taken prisoner in the West Bank by the Israeli army and Jewish settlers since the 7 October Hamas incursion.
“Israel, at the same time, is turning on “Jewish traitors” who refuse to embrace the demented vision of the ruling Jewish fascists and who denounce the horrific violence of the state. The familiar enemies of fascism — journalists, human rights advocates, intellectuals, artists, feminists, liberals, the left, homosexuals and pacifists — are already being targeted. The judiciary, according to plans put forward by Netanyahu, will be neutered. Public debate will wither. Civil society and the rule of law will cease to exist. Those branded as “disloyal” will be deported.
“Fascists do not respect the sanctity of life. Human beings, even from their own tribe, are expendable to build their deranged utopia.” Chris Hedges wrote this before the Israeli Defense Force executed three Israeli hostages, one of them holding up a white flag. He then described the IDF killing of Israelis on 7 October, which we have written about before in our blogs, probably invoking the Hanibal doctrine that we have outlined before.
He ends his excellent article with the chilling words, “Gaza is the start. The West Bank is next.
“Israelis who cheer on the Palestinian nightmare will soon endure a nightmare of their own.”
In LALIT, we can say the same for the world. We will all be the doomed dogs, trapped in the nets of those who mete out the final solution to us. If we let the Israeli State – with the USA and its lackeys in Europe and settler colonies colluding – continue this “final solution”, treating Palestinians like the dog-catchers treat strays, without being forced to face a series of international trials as well as reparations to the Palestinians, the whole of the world will soon endure a nightmare of our own, too. The Israeli leaders first call the Palestinians “human animals”, then proceed with the genocide against them.
We must continue to pressure Pravind Jugnauth to cut diplomatic ties with Israel, as an action, and to annul and ban any contracts, starting with CEB and CWA, with Israeli companies. It is urgent. A clear stand must be taken.
Lindsey Collen, for LALIT.
