Nazi tactics of the Israeli Security Forces

Nazi-style collective punishment tactics used by Israel against Gaza civilians.

by Michael Smith (Veshengro)

After an incursion of Israeli military into the Gaza strip and while those forces, after wreaking havoc were withdrawing, they came into an ambush by Hamas fighters. During the ensuing firefight 3 IDF soldiers were killed.

In retaliation for this Israel, in its usual Nazi tactics, launched air strikes up and down the Gaza border against civilian targets, though obviously the Israeli military and government yet again claim that they were attacking only terrorist strongholds.

This smacks very much of the way the German Fascist war machinery acted against the civilian population of occupied countries as and when partisans and resistance fighters fought with the Nazi military or had attacked some infrastructure targets.

So Hamas partisans and resistance fight against the incursions by Israel occupation forces into the Gaza strip and the Israelis retaliate with Nazi methods against the civilian population of Gaza. This is nothing but collective punishment. The same kind of collective punishment that was so favored by the German Nazis in their fight against partisans and resistance fighters.

And Israel still maintains and claims that this is not something that is akin to the collective punishment tactics of the Nazis who, supposedly, killed six million Jews.

I am afraid to say that it is, it is the very same tactics that the Nazis used and in using such tactics against the population, the ordinary Palestinians, men, women and children and the old, Israel is no better than Nazi Germany of that dark era in the 20th century. What Israel is doing is exactly the same as what the Nazis did and it is genocide.

I think, and I am sure that I am not alone here, that the Western governments should rethink in the way they interact with Israel and the so-called Jewish state. This is no way that a free and democratic country, which Israel claims to be, should act.

While the West is always very quick to boycott countries, be this trade sanction or diplomatic sanctions, that oppress their population, as has been done in the case of Zimbabwe – though they seem to be unwilling to do more – when it comes to Israel, which is not better, as in fact the ones oppressed are firstly not even in their country but on territory illegally occupied or reoccupied – if even for a few hours or days, in the fight against terrorism, supposedly – they are not even willing to condemn such actions against the Palestinians in any way shape or form. Talk of double standards. Surprising it probably should not be seeing the influences and lobby that the supporters of Israel, in the form of the Jews themselves and then those Christians that could not be more pro-Israel if they even tried because they believe that the “rebuilding” of Israel heralds the imminent Second coming of the Christ, who supposedly is the Messiah. Politicians in the Western world just do not dare to say anything too powerful or act against Israel as they might just lose the support of those powerful voters. It has nothing to do with ethics but all to do with power.

So, if the politicians are not willing to do anything maybe then people power is required. If no official sanctions and trade boycotts then it is up to us as ethical shoppers to boycott as and wherever possible Israeli goods and services, and may be more than just Israeli goods and services. Maybe including the services of any other supporters of the illegal state of Israel (and I do not care that that state has been officially accepted by the UN at that time). Israel is founded on stolen land.

© M Smith (Veshengro) & Tatchipen Media, April 2008