Gaza and the Language of Genocide I #5

Quotes

“A Nazi is a Nazi be he a Jew or otherwise, and it is false sentiment of the Jewish people to condemn Nazism and condone Jewish fascism.”

Protest by the Jewish socialist group Hashomer Hatzair, March 13, 1946, at a secret meeting of the Hagana

“Defining Jews by blood descent is consistent with the Nazi definition of a Jew, rather than the traditional concept of a Jew as someone who follows Judaism.”

Thomas Suarez

“If I knew that it would be possible to save all the (Jewish) children in Germany by bringing them over to England, and only half of them to Eretz Israel, then I would opt for the second alternative.”

Ben-Gurion, 1938

“Naturally, the common people do not want war [...] But in the end it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always easy to bring the people to join in, whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. [...] That’s easy. One just has to tell the people they’re being attacked, and accuse the pacifists of lack of patriotism and claim that they’re exposing the country to danger. This method works in any country.”

Hermann Goering 1946

“When 2.5 million people live in a closed off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will be even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.”

Arnon Soffer May 2004

“The respect that we owe other people is therefore not one single commandment, not a commandment among commandments. Instead, recognition of one’s neighbour represents the entire content of morality, the whole richness of that which God demands from us for the sake of our God-given human dignity. It is the very essence of obligation. Hillel, and Akiba later, already emphasised this significance. They found in the sum of the Torah, the all-encompassing principle.”

Das Wesen des Judentums, Nathansen & Lamm, Berlin 1905