Townhall.com, Where Your Opinion Counts
Talk Radio:   Bill Bennett   Mike Gallagher   Dennis Prager   Michael Medved   Hugh Hewitt   
BREAKING NEWS  LeftArrow - Townhall.com : Conservative, Political, Republican   RightArrow - Townhall.com : Conservative, Political, Republican  
Columns, funnies & more in your inbox!
Login | What's Hot
  • Check the boxes and send us your email address to receveive your free newsletter
  • Your daily must-read of conservative columns, cartoons and news. Coulter, Sowell, Krauthammer and more.
  • Townhall.com’s weekly inside scoop on what’s happening behind the scenes in the world of politics. When news breaks, we report.
  • Signup to receive the latest daily Townhall cartoons
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Jonah Goldberg :: Townhall.com Columnist
Who Are the Real Nazis?
by Jonah Goldberg
Forward Print Share Single Page
Vote on It:
Average Vote:
[+] Text [-]
 
 
Poll
Do you feel the leaked information from a global warming alarmist organization is meaningful?



Email a ColumnistEmail a Columnist
If you are already registered, click here to login.
Note: Fields marked with a red asterisk (*) are required.
Salutation:
First Name:
*
Last Name:
*
Email:
*
Nickname:
*
Note: Nick name will be shown when you post comments.
Address 1:
*
Address 2:
City:
 *
State:
 *
Zip:
 *
Phone:
       
Your daily must-read of conservative columns, cartoons and news. Coulter, Sowell, Krauthammer and more.
(Bi-Weekly) We highlight the best opportunities from our partners for surveys, action items and more.
Your Subject:

Your Message:
 

"Go back to the oven! You need a big oven, that's what you need!"

This is what one young woman thought passed for acceptable discourse during an anti-Israel rally last week in, of all places, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Other chants were similarly unlovely. You can watch it on YouTube if you like.

But why bother? The Fort Lauderdale outburst is just one window on the upside-down world of Israel hatred. Across the Islamic world, and in too many points West, it is still considered a penetrating and poignant insight to call Zionists the "new Nazis." For instance, in Sunday's Gulf News, Mohammad Abdullah al Mutawa, a sociology professor at United Arab Emirates University, penned an essay titled "Zionists are the new Nazis." He began: "Today, the whole world stands as a witness to the fact that the Nazi Holocaust was a mere lie, which was devised by the Zionists to blackmail humanity."

At a Saturday protest in New York against Israel's military assault on Gaza, some carried signs that read: "Israel: The Fourth Reich," "Holocaust by Holocaust Survivors," "Stop Israel's Holocaust," "Holocaust in Gaza" and "Stop the Zionist Genocide in Gaza."

Type "Israel" and "Nazi" into any news search engine and you'll be rewarded, or punished, with a bounty of such statements from just the last week or so. Gaza is the new Auschwitz, the Israeli Defense Forces are SS troops ... I find myself tempted to simply write "et cetera" because it's all so familiar by now. But to do that is to dismiss, and therefore accept, such grotesqueries as trivialities, when in fact such charges are deeply revealing -- just not about Israel.

First, let us note that if supposedly all-powerful Israel is dedicated to exterminating the Palestinian people, it is doing a bad job. The Palestinian population has only grown since 1948. There are more Arab citizens living in Israel proper today than there were in all of Palestine the year Israel was founded.

Perhaps one reason Israel fails at genocide is that it isn't interested in genocide? That would explain why Israel warned thousands of Gazans by cell phone to leave homes near Hamas rocket stockpiles. It would clarify why, even amid all-out war, it offers aid to enemy civilians. It would even illuminate the otherwise mysterious clamor from Israelis for a viable "peace partner."

But no. For millions of Israel haters, the more plausible explanation is that the "defiant" Palestinians have miraculously survived Israel's determination to wipe them out. Continued...
1 2
| Full Article & Comments | Next >
Share:
Forward Print Single Page
Vote on It:
Average Vote:
 
About The Author
Jonah Goldberg is editor-at-large of National Review Online.
 
TOWNHALL DAILY: Be the first to read Jonah Goldberg's column. Sign up today and receive Townhall.com daily lineup delivered each morning to your inbox.

Join The Debate!

Post Your Comment
(233 comments so Far)
View in ascending order     View in descending order
Reply # 1
Date: Jan 8, 2009 - 4:02 PM EST
Akaqi: Birth Certificate.
That is one reason the tribe in Rodesia "revolted" by arming itself. Your words justified it. It happened about twenty years ago. I don't remember the tribal names but it is common. Check Congo now for instance. The Rebels belong to one tribe while the government belongs to another one. Africa seldom has the homogenity that we do here in taking sides. Like the Muslims, their divisions follow tribal or family lines. If you read what I said, I agree with the rebels that they have the right to defend themselves!!

So does Israel. As for driving the Palestinians off their lands, when Israel first was founded (by the UN on British territory) the Israelis didn't run off the Arabs. The Arabs left on their own so they wouldn't be in the way when the Jews were wiped out - which didn't happen. A large number of Arabs remained and their families are a part of Israel today. No "driving off" was done by the Israelis. They just didn't allow the ones who left to come back. Why should they? The ones who left were shooting at them! The refugee camps were set up by the various surrounding countries because they wanted the sympathy of square-heads who wouldn't bother to see what was going on. They needed the camps and the people there to generate that sympathy. And they refuse to allow those "Palestinians" to gain membership of their own countries because if they did, the cause would go away.

Palestine and Palestinians also did not exist then, regardless of what they might say now. That country was created at the same time Israel was. So Israel did not drive them off the land nor did they attack Palestine. Read some history books that actually tell what really happened. Modern ones tend to shade the truth, particularly those that are trying to be PC. You won't find them in most modern libraries, though, and will have to hunt for the books. They aren't easy to find.

Flag as Offensive

Reply # 2
Date: Jan 8, 2009 - 3:44 PM EST
When are people going to learn...
...that short of changing your DNA to be that of a descendant of Muhammad, dying, converting to Islam, or paying the Muslim tax, that you will never please these losers. You will always be Nazis to them.

If these human debris are going to use their women and children as human shields, what difference does it make what collateral damage they sustain. You will always be anathema to them regardless of what you actually do. So why worry? Ignore 'em.

Take care of business, Israel. Don't let anybody tell you when you need to cease fire. You should be done only when you think you are done. You don't owe them anything. Don't finish until the remnant of Hamas dogs whimper off of the battlefield with a severe limp.
Flag as Offensive
Sign Up to Post Your CommentsSign Up to Post Your Comments
If you are already registered, click here to login. Otherwise, please take a few seconds to register with Townhall.com. Once you sign up, you’ll be able to post your comments immediately, use the action center, get podcasts, and more!
Note: Fields marked with a red asterisk (*) are required.
Salutation:
First Name:
*
Last Name:
*
Email:
*
Nickname:
*
Note: Nick name will be shown when you post comments.
Address 1:
*
Address 2:
City:
 *
State:
 *
Zip:
 *
Phone:
       
Your daily must-read of conservative columns, cartoons and news. Coulter, Sowell, Krauthammer and more.
(Bi-Weekly) We highlight the best opportunities from our partners for surveys, action items and more.