I rarely say anything in my blog about the Middle East in general and Israel in particular. One reason is that I am 100% in favour of the state of Israel, which is the only democracy in that part of the world. That is not to say that I have any time for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu or the ghastly right wing government he leads, but that has no effect on how I feel about Israel and its people. And one reason I say very little about the Middle East is because I don’t particularly want to lose Facebook friends.
Let us be crystal clear about Hamas, who have launched their campaign of mass murder on innocent people. They have captured and killed countless people, taken hostages and paraded the corpses of the people they have murdered in public. They attacked innocent people at a music festival, killing many, and raped some of the young women before killing them, smashing up their bodies and, again, parading the bodies to their fellow fanatics.
Hamas is described as a Palestinian Islamist militant group which rules the Gaza Strip. It is sworn to the destruction of Israel. This is a kind description. I would call them a Palestinian Islamist terrorist group because that is what they are. Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was formed by a Nazi worshipper and initially funded by Nazi Germany. They are also the direct inheritors of Nazi ideology, rounding up Jewish women and children into rooms and machine-gunned them, like Einsatzgruppen did. Look at the photo that heads this blog, taken in New York City at the weekend.
I am aware that some people have unsavoury views about Israel and Jews. Indeed, someone I know locally made some dreadful comments about Jews and about Israelis. I did not make a fuss about it but that person is now persona non grata to me and I’d rather not have the same thing happen in what is admittedly the make believe world of social media.
The links between Palestinian terrorists and Naziism are as strong as ever. It is one thing having major reservations at the policies and actions of Israel’s government but racism in general and, in this instances, antisemitism represent a red line for me. Which is why I won’t be writing anything else about the current wave of Hamas terrorism.
