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In 1938, Nazi minor embassy official Ernst vom Rath was assassinated in Paris by Jewish refugee Herschel Grynszpan. Thereby providing the pretext for the horrors of Krystallnacht.
Von Rath’s Jewish killer acted in retaliation for Nazi persecution of Jews. Yesterday’s killer acted in retaliation for Zionist persecution of Palestinians. Total war in action. It also has to be pointed out that at that point, Grynzspan had far fewer deaths to fuel his murder. Krystallnacht and the death-camps came afterwards. Nutteryahoo’s genocide is in progress now. A Hiroshima in slow-motion we can all see and ignore in comfort.
The bitter irony is totally lost on Israels many apologists today, who have been quick to label obediently yesterday’s assassinations as ‘antisemitic’, with absolutely no foundation in fact. This is the standard apologist reaction to any attack on the Zionist regime, one which ignores the inevitable retaliation to be expected for a blatant obscenity like the Gazan genocide, which kills 11,000 children every year. The list of Israel’s crimes committed in its total war of collective guilt make its overseas representatives valid military targets. As widely predicted, Netanyahoo’s strategy has driven the historic Middle-eastern water-war back onto the High Street.
Netanyahoo’s Zionism is just kosher fascism, as Einstein predicted. Like all nationalisms, it is a genocidal lie based on a genocidal origin myth. Absolute control of land and irrigation rights From The River to the Sea.
By its actions in Gaza, Israel is exposed as surprisingly incapable of learning lessons from its own history. The name of Hadrian is still cursed (‘God rot his bones‘) for his role in the brutal suppression of the 135AD Bar-Kokhbar revolt and the following expulsion of all Jews from Judea for centuries to come. And yet the victims of that genocide and mass ethnic cleansing are now using exactly the same techniques in Gaza. As if one effect of traumatic victimhood is worship for the tyrant. Which may well be true.
A year after Krystallnacht, on the eve of war, W.H. Auden warned about the punitive treatment of Germany in the Versailles Treaty:
‘Those to whom evil is done do evil in return.’
He might well have been writing about the state of Israel since 1948, especially now.