(Last update: June 7, 2020)
There are many similarities between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Nazi Germany. Both are virulently anti-Semitic. Both believe their culture and ideology are superior to those around them. Because of that sense of superiority, both became arrogant. Both are authoritarian. Both feel it is their destiny to conquer others.
And yet, these similarities seem jarring. They don't correspond to reality.
If anything, the PA is nothing like the Nazi world, which is why we can say that the PA has a "Nazi complex": like Nazis of old, the PA is vain, boastful and with an overly high opinion of itself; and, like Nazis of old, the PA seeks to ennoble itself through Jew-hate, even as such hate has proven that it destroys those who embrace it.
Embrace something that will destroy you? The PA doesn't care. It cleaves passionately to the murderous dreams of Nazi Jew-hate, despite Nazism's horrific end.
The PA and the Nazis. No two ideas could be more different.
Nazi Germany conquered all of Europe. Hitler's army was a juggernaut, unbeatable during the conquest period, September 1939-May,1941. Within this singular 21-month period, Nazi Germany conquered nine countries with a lightning-like speed: Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia and Greece. Its power during this process appeared overwhelming.
By contrast, the PA hasn't the power to conquer anyone (thank G-d). Yes, the PA is certainly desperate to conquer Israel. But it can't (again, thank G-d). So how does the PA press forward with its Nazi-dream of conquering the Jewish Israel? It draws cartoons showing Israelis as Nazis (here, using a Nazi image from 1936, here).
That's pathetic.
Compared to the raw and stunning military power of Nazi Germany, the PA is an empty drum. It makes a lot of noise. It certainly dreams of killing Jews. But all it can do is spit, cry and lie about Jews and Israel (for example, here).
This is also pathetic.
Even today, as Jewish sovereignty over parts of the Jordan River valley fast approaches (it's scheduled to happen at some point after July 1, 2020--maybe), the PA makes a lot of noise about what it will do should Israel act on 'sovereignty'. But the PA has no real options; it's powerless (here).
The PA has never developed a plan to create the state it claims it wants. The PA has never begun any plans for statehood. The only plans the PA has ever focused on are plans for inciting Palestinians to pick up a knife and attack heavily armed Jewish soldiers.
That's pathetic.
Nazi Germany by contrast, was everything the PA isn't. It was 'all action'. Nazi Germany did as it threatened. It acted. It conquered.
The PA's only tangible accomplishment is its ability to generate Jew-hating propaganda, 24-7. It produces nothing to support or to promote excitement about its future statehood.
Statehood? The PA has never created any detailed description of what a new Arab state should look like.
That's pathetic.
By contrast, Nazi Germany had a strong and well-organized national game-plan that went far beyond military conquest. Hitler had plans not only for the 'enemies of his state', but also for Germans who accepted him: he would rebuild Germany. He would carry Germany from poverty to prosperity (here). He fulfilled that promise.
Then, to promote the glory of the Nazi race (and its society), Nazis co-opted cinema, art, medicine, engineering and science to showcase what it saw as the genius of the Nazi mind (see here, esp at the 0:30-2:35 mark). Scientists and doctors didn't hesitate to join the Hitler bandwagon (ibid). Metaphorically speaking, they joined Hitler's Nazis with a smile and cheer.
By the mid-1930's, Nazi Germany had figured out how to promote and celebrate its 'glorious and triumphant' Aryan ideology. The Nazis did this through the power of propaganda (start here to look at the genius of filmmaker Leni Reifensthahl, at 8:25-10:10 mark, then watch a commentary on her propaganda masterpiece here). Nazi Germany celebrated its propaganda by turning it into high art (here, here).
The PA (thank G-d) doesn't produce such propaganda. It produces only bald-faced lies in the form of really disgusting--and sometimes outrageous--hate and incitement. (See, for example, here, here, here, here).
The truth is, no one can build a viable, modern nation-state on a recipe of hate and the arrogance that lies beneath that hate. Perhaps 600 years ago, that might have been possible--perhaps. But the modern world has been traditionally too interlinked, too complex to support such a state.
By contrast, Nazi Germany was, for its day, an ultra-modern, high-tech and science-based operation: organized, and focused on using some of the best/most current scientific knowledge to accomplish its goals (see especially the years 1933-1939). But Nazi Germany nonetheless failed because it was built on a recipe of hate and arrogance. That arrogance led to a war that destroyed the Nazi dream.
The PA is no high-tech powerhouse. It offers no scientific 'advancements'. Instead, it's a badly managed, almost primitive society that plainly embraces hate--and rejects everything Western, including science and medicine. It has no engineering or medicine to celebrate. The only thing it celebrates is either (1) demonizing Jews, (2) killing Jews (here), or (3) glorifying Palestinians who die while trying to kill Jews (here).
That's pathetic.
Ultimately, the world saw the horrors of the Nazi world-view. The same may be true for the Palestinian Cause. Where once the PA could dream of making Israel a pariah among the nations, it now sees Israel's international market value leap forward in most every category imaginable except, of course, in the UN, which stomps obsessively on Israel while, by the way, it becomes increasingly irrelevant (here, here, here, here, here, here).
Yes, Israel may be condemned by the despots who populate the UN, but Israel's high-tech culture, its expertise in cybersecurity, its success fighting terror--and now, its success fighting the coronavirus pandemic (here)--have all brought to Israel (literally) many admirers from the world's halls of power.
As Israel's star rises, it is Ramallah and Abbas who appear increasingly to be viewed as less-than-desirable. For example, support for the Palestinian Cause within the EU may be waning (here). Support for the Palestinians against Israel may be waning in much of the Arab world (here). Increasingly, Abbas's threats and laments fall on deaf ears (here). The Palestinian Cause seems to have failed so badly that PA President Mahmmoud Abbas complains openly that Arab states fail to condemn Israel's talk of Jewish sovereignty over land the PA says belongs to it (here).
The PA has no military power, just terrorism. It has no good life to offer, just mind-numbing victimhood. It is weak. It is, indeed, incompetent.
But it does have hate (here). Lots of hate.
In the end, there are two similarities the PA shares with Nazi Germany. Both hate. Both fail.
They fail because, ultimately, they are each built upon arrogance and hate. Arrogance and hate, you might wish to remember, do not, as a national goal, create modern, competitive, economically strong nation-states. Nations built on arrogance and hate are built on political quicksand. Ultimately, they sink because of the weight of their hate. Look at Iran. Look at the PA. Look at the majority of the Islamic world.
Nazi Germany was driven by arrogance and hate. It ended up destroyed. With an extraordinary passion, the PA has bought into Nazi Jew-hate. It, too, will be destroyed.
Put another way, the PA's destiny of destruction has already been set into its Nazi-chosen love affair: you see, the chickens come home to roost. They always do. If the competent Nazis failed, how much more so will the incompetent PA.
Stay tuned. Pay attention. Watch how the Palestinian world incites Palestinians to pick up a knife to attack Jews (here).
Such incitement is pathetic. A knife? Do you really believe the PA will win this war?
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