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One of the most accurate aspects about Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is the use of the word Nazi to describe the terrorist enemy. No other label or historical parallel could capture the chilling ferocious madness – but not scope – of Palestinian butchery of Israelis. The Nazi vilification epithet has now become conventional Israeli discourse in public and media circles with the vivid revelation – in words and photos – of Palestinian savagery and barbarism by Hamas on October 7. Hamas terrorists, without an ounce of inhibition or remorse, shot youth in cold blood at the music festival at Re’im, burnt and beheaded Jews, vaunting their sadistic impulses upon children, men, and the elderly – raping women and girls. They decapitated a baby cut from the mother’s womb in front of her eyes. The pyromaniacs set fire to homes, barns and cars.
Nazis and Jews
The murder of approximately 1,200 Israelis in an orgy of bloodshed evoked the sensation that Nazis carried out such a horrific massacre of helpless Jews on that ‘Black Saturday’ on Gaza’s border. Decades of Palestinian terrorism upgraded from stoning and stabbing Jews to the diabolical nightmare of Nazi crematoria – burning Jewish people alive. Later, in a child’s room in Gaza, Israeli soldiers came upon an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf, Hitler’s bible. The kidnapping of 241 Israelis to Gaza became an additional chilling chapter of this unparalleled ordeal.
Are the Palestinians Nazis by ideology?
Berl Katznelson, the foremost leader of Labor Zionism until his death in 1944, was a witness to Arab massacres of Jews in the 1920s and 1930s. He referred to “the Palestinian Nazis who succeeded to unite here in [Eretz] Israel the zoological antisemitism of Europe and the lust for the dagger of the Orient.” The connection between Nazis and Palestinians led the esteemed songwriter Naomi Shemer to offer a remarkable insight:
“Arabs like their murder hot, moist, and steamy, and if they will ever be free to fulfill themselves, we [Jews] will yearn for the good sterile gasses of the Germans.”
In Kfar Aza and Be’eri, Nir Oz and Sderot, there was no Palestinian industrialized war machine in operation; rather just primitive hordes of “Muhammad’s monsters”[1] mangling and mutilating Jews whose innocence, in the double sense of the word, became ready prey for the Gazan rabble run wild. To define those Hamas Palestinian as ‘terrorists’ is a gross understatement, perhaps a euphemism.
In Israel today, after the October 7 pogrom, the liberation of language has allowed the use of ‘Nazi’ to describe the horrendous event. During the entire year prior to the pogrom, the leftist street protests against the judicial reform package of the Netanyahu government introduced the odious word – Nazi – specifically targeting Netanyahu himself. Placards portrayed him in a Nazi uniform, the demonization of the prime minister becoming a central axis of the intense brainwashing campaign. The year 1933 became a symbolic benchmark for Netanyahu’s devious dictatorial designs – said the protest.
Of memorable notoriety was ex-general and member of Knesset Yair Golan’s “processes speech” from 2018 that hinted Israel was already adopting Nazi features in its ideological transformation from a democracy to a dictatorship. The end of liberty in Israel was approaching. The leftist-liberal secular camp, unhinged and full of hatred for Netanyahu during the decades of his premiership, had lost its cultural poise and historical judgment.[2] When the Arab Nazis struck and slaughtered in October, the outrageous accusation that the rightist-nationalist camp is Nazi-like paled and dissolved.
The gruesome real Nazis changed the contours of the domestic Israeli dialogue. Now Netanyahu, the would-be Nazi in the furtive imagination of some bewitched Israelis, labeled Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, “a little Hitler hiding in a bunker” on November 5. Here was a candidate worthy of the title.
However, many years earlier, the enemies of Israel from near and far had adopted the Nazi charge against the Jewish state as an ideological staple of de-legitimization. The Russians had initiated this perversion of comparing Zionism to Nazism, and their Syrian proxy followed suit. The loathsome ‘Zionism-is-Nazism’ canard served to vilify Israel and render its existence to be a wicked injustice imposed on the Arabs, Muslims, and the world.[3] This fabricated indictment shaped the victimology of the Palestinians that became a marketable political logo.
Incompatibilities and Conflict: The Primacy of Islam
Islam, the religion of the Muslim faithful, predominates in the political calculus of Hamas (an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement). This turns the Israeli–Palestinian clash into a Muslim–Jewish religious war. In the language of the Hamas covenant from 1988 (Art. 15): “the Palestinian problem is a religious problem” which obligates Muslims to conduct jihad. In Articles 20 and 31 Hamas makes the heinous accusation that Israel uses Nazi methods against the Palestinian people. Where has Israel concealed those death camps and gas ovens? Needless to say that the very victims of Nazism are not the Palestinians but the Jews, then in Europe and now in the Middle East.
It is worth recalling that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) earlier flung the Nazi charge against Israel in its 1964 Charter (Art. 22). This diatribe against Zionism is an incredulous inversion of truth, no less because of the intimate collaboration in World War II between Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Palestinian leader in British-mandated Palestine. The latter’s ideological and nationalist successor, Yasser Arafat, stated in an interview in 1981 that “the Zionist invasion recalled the Nazi invasion” (of Austria, Poland…).[4] Fatah, the core faction in the PLO, and Hamas are of one Palestinian mind.
The religious engine instructing, validating, inspiring, and mobilizing Hamas is, expectedly, the Koran. The book of Allah revealed to the prophet Muhammad guidance in confirming that the only true faith is Islam (3:18), it is above all religions (48:28), and it will conquer or convert the entire world. To “fight for the cause of Allah” (9:111) against “those who do not embrace the true faith” (9:29) is the greatest deed a Muslim can do. The “believers” (Muslims) must confront the “unbelievers” (Jews) and thereby establish truth and justice on earth. Indeed, “ruthlessness toward unbelievers” (48:29), beheading without mercy, is the mark of Islam as a complete religious-political way of life. For hundreds of years Muslim regimes applied restrictions and humiliations against dhimmi Jews (and Christians) in the lands of Islam[5] – similar to Nazi Germany’s anti-Semitic legislation, turning Jewish citizens into outcasts and dwarfing their public presence. With the spread of armed radical Islam, militant and triumphalist, Muslims seek nothing less than a resounding victory against the Jewish people.
With an ineluctable mandate from Kitab Allah (The Book of God), no moral restrictions stayed the hand of Hamas savages. Like the Nazis in the 1930s, Hamas was always rearming and preparing for the war it would start. Nazis reviled the godless communists, Hamas reviled godless Fatah – and both saw the Jews as the ultimate and diabolical enemy. Hitler aroused frenzy among the Germans, he whipped up passion and hatred, and the mob would follow him; all this featured in the role of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his successors – Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar. In both cases, Germany and Palestine, exultant mass support for the regime as befits totalitarian movements was more essential than the democratic vote that brought them to power.
Hamas cutthroats and murderers assaulted civilian communities and military posts across the Gaza line and slaughtered the Israelis. The spirit of Itbach el-Yahud – “slaughter the Jews” – filled the air. This sacred mission gave life significance and purpose. Twelve hundred dead Israelis and 241 Israeli hostages were a trophy of victory that, when the news of the operation spread, brought the Gazan Palestinians to the streets, joyous at the Jewish blood spilled, and – as is customary – to distribute sweets and candies in celebration. Fatah followers in the West Bank were no less exuberant.
The Hamas plan for war was sophisticated in its tactical maneuvers and deceptive in implementation. In the months prior, Sinwar had avoided provoking Israel, rather conveying his emphasis on economic development for Gaza and shying away from joining the more active terror campaign by Islamic Jihad in Samaria. Netanyahu apparently may have believed that Israel had successfully deterred Hamas from any concerted military campaign. In the German case, until September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, Hitler conducted a disinformation campaign aimed at America, England, and Russia, to conceal his intention to go to war.[6] In the end, Hitler fooled Chamberlain and later Stalin; Sinwar arguably fooled Netanyahu – as Arafat fooled Rabin, not with war but with a peace offensive.
War is at the heart of Islam and conquest is the banner of its glory. Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran inspiring, training, arming, and financing Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups, declared in a speech in 1942 that Islam is not a religion of peace. Rather, “Kill them [the non-Muslims] put them to the sword…Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword.”[7] Religious euphoria bonds with the Islamic maxim: Din Muhammad bi’l Saif (the religion of Muhammad by the sword). Khomeini demanded that no one should insult Islam by calling it a religion of peace. His Hamas proxies, bold and ferocious, did not disappoint.
The classic Islamic works – Sirat Rasul Allah and The Sahih Al-Bukhari Anthology – relate the gruesome actions and instructions of Muhammad against enemy forces. They document his war against his own Quraysh tribe, the expulsion of the Bani al-Nadir tribe, and the slaughter of the Bani Qurayza. Mercy, attributed to Allah in the opening Al-Fatiha Koranic verse, was not included in the arsenal of qualities or attributes of Muhammad’s Muslims. A traditional saying commands: “Kill any Jews that fall into your power.” The Hamas Charter (Art. 8) cites the movement’s slogan: “Allah is its target, the prophet is its model, the Koran its constitutions, jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.” In a street rally in Ramallah weeks into the Gaza War, the chant arose: “Whoever has a rifle, shoot a Jew.”[8]
The goal of the Nazis was to kill all the Jews and cleanse Germany of any Jewish presence. The Palestinians are unarguably their true successors and ideological compatriots in the Middle East, fighting to cleanse Israel of all Jews.
Reflections on Gnostic Heresy
The Hamas-Nazi analogy requires a few final reflections. Four distinctive features define the resemblance:
One: they engaged in the dehumanization of the Jews, as vermin (rats and parasitic insects) by the Nazis, and as apes and pigs by Hamas;
Two: they had the singular and obsessive objective of killing Jews more than even victory in war;
Three: they aspired to achieve global conquest in the name of their ideology – Nazism and Islamism – without compromise.
Four: German Nazism emerged in the 1920s with a fervent hatred of Great Britain and saw her as the major strategic rival, so to the Muslim Brotherhood – Hamas’ parent organization – was born in the same decade and saw Britain, with its mandate over Palestine, its Great Power enemy. The shame of the Versailles Treaty for Germany compared with the humiliation of the Balfour Declaration for the Arabs.
Germans and Palestinians acted under a mysterious spell, they did things out-of-the-ordinary in a conflictual-military context. They burnt Jews alive, and Hamas in earlier years conjured up the holocaust “still to come upon the Jews.”[9] A primordial force operated in such cultures dedicated to domination but also destruction, the perpetrators never blaming themselves. They do not countenance the possibility of error. The Nazi truth and the Hamas truth are unassailable: the faithful ask no questions. Hitler youth in Germany and Islamic youth in Palestine receive an education that prepared them to sacrifice, murder, and die.[10] Anointed to rule with a mission to launch a new era, Nazism and Islamism set forth to build a new world.
Only with such language and interpretation can we begin to grasp the violent nightmares that these diabolical gnostic forces imposed on their Jewish victims, and the world.[11] Hitler’s declaration of the Thousand Year Reich, and Islam’s belief in the Coming of the Mahdi or the Day of Judgment, make possible and permit every conceivable monstrosity.
Dr. Mordechai Nisan taught Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Notes:
[1] The title of a book edited by David Bukay, Muhammad’s Monsters, Green Forest, Arkansas: Balfour Books, 2004.
[2] See my book The Crack-up of the Israeli Left, Canada: Mantua Books, 2019.
[3] Robert S. Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia: An Existential Threat,” in Muhammad’s Monsters, pp. 195-219.
[4] “A Discussion with Yasser Arafat,” Journal of Palestine Studies, 42, Winter 1982, pp. 4-5.
[5] Bat Ye’or, “Dhimmi Peoples – Oppressed Nations,” in Robert Spencer, ed., The Myth of Islamic Tolerance, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004, chapter 6, pp. 115-146. For most purposes, the Islamic diatribes against Jews are also against the Christians.
[6] See William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Pub., 1960, chapters 14-16.
[7] In Andrew G. Bostom, ed., The Legacy of Jihad, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, p. 226.
[8] The source is Palestinian Media Watch, Nov. 11, 2023.
[9] Markos Zographos, Genocidal Antisemitism: A Core Ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, Occasional Paper Series, no. 4, 2001, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, p. 41.
[10] Rafael Medoff, “Hitler Youth in Gaza,” Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, Nov. 17, 2023.
[11] See Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1952, chapter VI, on the phenomenon of gnosticism in politics.
“Germans and Palestinians acted under a mysterious spell… A primordial force operated in such cultures… The Nazi truth and the Hamas truth are unassailable: the faithful ask no questions. Hitler youth in Germany and Islamic youth in Palestine receive an education that prepared them to sacrifice, murder, and die.”
The operative concepts are “faith” and “sacrifice”. Faith and self-sacrifice in and for the Fuhrer and the Aryan Race and faith and self-sacrifice in and for Allah, Mohamed, and the Ummah.
Judaism prepared the ground for Christianity, and both, prepared the ground for Islam, Marxism, and Nazism. All of these belief systems, whether explicitly and overtly religious, or pretending to be based on reason and science as in the case of Marxism, are based on mysticism, supernaturalism, faith, and self-sacrifice.
“Religious writers often claim that the cause of Nazism is the secularism or the scientific spirit of the modern world. This evades the fact that the Germans at the time, especially in Prussia, were one of the most religious peoples in Western Europe; that the Weimar Republic was a hotbed of mystic cults, of which Nazism was one; and that Germany’s largest and most devout religious group, the Lutherans, counted themselves among Hitler’s staunchest followers….
There was also Martin Luther, regarded by the Nazis as a major hero, who was the greatest single power in the development of German religion and, through this means, an influence on the philosophies of both Kant and Hegel. Luther is anti-reason (“Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason”), intensely pro-German, and crudely anti-semitic (“Fie on you wherever you be, you damned Jews, who dare to clasp this earnest, glorious, consoling Word of God to your maggoty, mortal, miserly belly, and are not ashamed to display your greed so openly”). He formally enlists God on the side of the state. Unconditional obedience to the government’s edicts, he holds, is a Christian virtue. “In like manner we must endure the authority of the prince. If he misuse or abuse his authority, we are not to entertain a grudge, seek revenge or punishment. Obedience is to be rendered for God’s sake, for the ruler is God’s representative. However they may tax or exact, we must obey and endure patiently.” – Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom In America”
Your lack of knowledge of Theology is total, which does not prevent you from telling your bullshit here for years. There is nothing in Christianity that can lead one to want to create a Nazi state, with a Führer taking himself for God. And Nazism is totally idolatrous, with pagan beliefs in addition. Do you know paganism? You should study the myth of the Tower of Babel and meditate on it, you will understand why and how God tarnishes in this way those who want to take themselves for God and believe they can do better than divine creation. Jesus is not a collectivist, and God will not judge a collective, but each person individually. Jesus names those who follow him and takes into account their own individuality, their particularities, he does not include them in a collectivist whole in which the individual disappears.
Go and spread your shitty, sectarian propaganda elsewhere. Poor clown.
Your lack of knowledge of the connection between the Vat & it’s star pupils –Pope Adolf and Fr Stalin S.J. — neither of whom would have ever been installed in power w/o the church of the 7 headed beast organizing it — is appalling. While there is nothing Christian about wanting to create a nazi state , there is everything in the Cult of Jesus that imposes a state church that has everything to do with the roman empire and nothing to do with what Jesus ever taught his followers ! Don’t believe me ? Then tell us , o enlightened one , who was commandant at ther Opfren pit of Jasenovac ???!!! Hint — he was an ARCHBISHOP .
” there is everything in the Cult of Jesus that imposes a state church that has everything to do with the roman empire and nothing to do with what Jesus ever taught his followers ”
Oh man…
Without the Catholic Church, as imperfect as it was, there would have been no European flowering, and Europe, because of obscurantist, “integrist” sects, rejecting all developments, would have sunk into chaos.
You don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re making shitty anti-Catholic propaganda here. You don’t know the subject.
And the Catholic Church has in no way been totalitarian in nature and has allowed within it a gigantic movement of ideas and thoughts, philosophical, societal, scientific, theological, humanist, artistic…
We are thousands of thousands of kilometers away from a totalitarian Nazi state. Nazi state which collapsed in a few years, unlike the Catholic Church which is still there. With within it a movement of ideas and thought, not all Catholics think the same things regarding all social issues.
The inquisitions made it possible to maintain unity, unity without which Europe, once again, without which Europe would have completely collapsed. Which doesn’t mean they weren’t sometimes unfair. But you have to analyze this in detail, and you will realize the immense complexity of the subject, and that it is not black or white.
Go educate yourself a little more, it will save you from talking stupid things here.
Without the Catholic Church, absolute chaos, with sects seeking to take power, and believe me it would have been much more violent, and its sects would have been much less lenient than the Catholic inquisitions.
The Catholic Church is fully consistent with faith and altruism, the rejection of reason.
Catholic has contributed hugely to the fight for freedom.
Today, the Catholic Church allies itself with its kindred spirit in Islam.
@Dvid Goldstein
And you forgot (do you even know it existed) the encyclical Divini Redemptoris condemning atheistic communism. Pius XI bluntly condemned the rise of totalitarianism. The encyclical is clearly a comprehensive and rigorous condemnation of Marxism by the leader of Christianity. And concerning fascism, he saw in the fascist regime which was becoming brutalized in Italy and in Nazism above all a cult of the superman and of the race which radically contradicted the message of humanity of Christianity. Faced with the persecution of the Jews, he even came to rediscover the ancient relationship between the Church and the Synagogue. The last years of the pope were devoted to this fight.
Go read the “Mit brennender Sorge”, denouncing the non-compliance with the concordat of July 20, 1933, containing criticism of the national socialist ideology, condemning racism, naturalism, the non-primacy of the principles of grace and dignity human life, the questioning of the value of human life, the cult of the State and the leader and paganism.
“Your lack of knowledge of the connection between the Vat & it’s star pupils –Pope Adolf and Fr Stalin S.J. — neither of whom would have ever been installed in power w/o the church of the 7 headed beast organizing it ”
I realize you’re a goddamn hateful idiot spewing blood libel, but this is a hell of a whopper even by the standards of THX and his ilk.
Stalin as a Star Pupil of “The Vat(ican)”? It is true that Stalin was a seminary student (before losing his religious faith and becoming a virulent anti-theist), but his seminary was of the EASTERN ORTHODDOX CHURCH, which split from “the Vatican” in practice about a thousand years ago and officially about 800 years before Stalin was born.
While Hitler was a Catholic officially, he was so due to societal pressure and the influence of his by all accounts loving, gentle mother. When she died he left the church in spirit and as early as WWI had discarded the Bible in favor of carrying around Nietzsche. One of his closest friends and allies Goebbels confirmed he was fervently anti-Christian and anti-Jewish.
I have plenty of issues with the Vatican but it was precisely the disillusionment with the Church and their desire for a more secular, anti-Christian ideology as well as a general feeling of aimlessness that led them to Fascism and Communism, where they worked and manipulated through the ranks to succeed their party’s founders.
Consistency and objectivity with the facts of reality are requirements of reason, science, and rational philosophy not of faith, religion, and theology.
Once you abandon reality and try to rewrite reality (which is what faith and theology do) — anything goes.
In such an abandoning of the facts of reality even Adolf Hitler can be believed to be the Second Coming of Christ.
“Consistency and objectivity with the facts of reality are requirements of reason, science, and rational philosophy not of faith, religion, and theology.”
You should meditate on your own words, you have been coming here for years spreading your propaganda disconnected from any Christian theological reality, disconnected from the complexity of the subject..; 2000 of Christian history that you reduce to your propaganda. It is ethically despicable to do this.
THX the clown wrote : You are just a sectarian ideologue, and like all sectarians, incapable of realizing your profound weakness.
You are not here to enlighten people, but to make your propaganda. Which you repeat endlessly. It’s disgusting.
Go and uncondition your brain of all the stupidity that is there. I doubt you’re capable of it as it seems to have completely taken over your mind.
Erratum : THW wrote : “Consistency and objectivity with the facts of reality are requirements of reason, science, and rational philosophy not of faith, religion, and theology.”
And not : “THX wrote : You are just a sectarian ideologue, and like all sectarians, incapable of realizing your profound weakness. …”
Thank you.
You abandoned reality the moment you got hoodwinked by Ayn Rand’s and Peikoff’s grift
And you try to hoodwink by pretending that Ayn Rand was wrong.
She was correct.
You believe matter is eternal even though it has scientifically measurable half-life.
You believe matter exploded and thereby brought forth that which was greater than itself: order, complexity and even life. And you want to claim scientific support?
You believe “consciousness” precedes existence. Does that mean matter is conscious?
This is faith without evidence, AGAINST evidence.
Say what?!
Lady, there’s no arguing with you!
NEVER have I said that consciousness precedes existence.
It is your religion, Christianity, that claims that consciousness, the alleged supernatural consciousness of your Jehovah, is eternal and preceded and created existence.
“You believe “consciousness” precedes existence. Does that mean matter is conscious?”
Yes, and Yes.
“Does that mean matter is conscious?”
I previously answered yes.
However I meant to say yes, matter is borne of consciousness and not conscious of itself.
THX: I apologize if I have misremembered your consciousness / existence faith.
You believe matter is eternal, and so I took your confusing philosphy to mean that matter had to be conscious.
Now, we must deal with consciousness being eternal. THX, is this not SUPERNATURAL? The very thing that sends you into a tizzy?
Let reason and reality govern your thinking. Do not criticize others who likewise embrace the supernatural when you must depend or parasitize upon it.
Either way, let’s accept the hypothesis that there is no first cause, and no one will ever know the why or how.
Can you explain how it is possible that there is no first cause? Since everything to be, needs something which is priority to it. The world did not come from nothing. And that which begat the world did not come from nothing, and that which begat, that which begat the world, also.
And so on.
Tell me where does your rationality fit here? On what it can be based, starting from the hypothesis that there is no first cause.
You will see the limits of rationalism… And it is in this field that a belief can be born. Because there is indeed something inexplicable by rationalism. And there is necessarily something irrational that can arise from the fact that there is no primary cause. Because this is beyond human understanding.
Exactly. The infinite regress.
@Kynarion Hellenis
Rationalism comes up against this. Because everyone knows that for something to be, something must first have generated it. Nothing can come from nothing. Consequence = cause = concequence = cause = and so on. But what is the first cause?
Rationalism is an illusion, or it only rationalizes a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the whole. It only relies on human logic, logic incapable of explaining why and how something can be without a first cause. There is, if one is rational, no origin. But this rationality cannot explain how something cannot have an origin.
Because for human logic there is something that appears to be irrational in the fact that the world has no origin.
And I do not believe that the being, the spirit can live with this irrayionality, as a basis for its existence, and for its own spirituality. It needs a first cause, it needs a beginning in that which has no beginning.
Nothing ever started. The mind cannot accept this. So a start was invented. The story needs a beginning.
A reference, a starting point. It’s trivial, but it’s normal, it’s human.
Best !
“Consistency and objectivity with the facts of reality are requirements of reason, science, and rational philosophy not of faith, religion, and theology.”
And you, Rand, and Peikoff have shown yourselves to be quite guilty of not practicing what you preach, as we have discussed. You cling to your Gibbon and ignorant twisting of Aristotle with a fanaticism worthy of slaves and an ignorant faith that would be deemed unseemly even among medieval Flagellants, ignoring centuries of scholarly research and development.
It is why you keep banging on about the “Thousand Year Christian Dark Ages” while writing the Carolingian Renaissance, the Eastern Roman Empire, Nordic and Baltic Paganism, the Roman Imperial Cult, and the Alexandrine God-Kings out of history.
“Once you abandon reality and try to rewrite reality (which is what faith and theology do) — anything goes.”
Indeed. One can even pretend that the Carolingian Renaissance never happened or that knowledge of Aristotle was not at its peak in the Eastern Roman Empire at the precise time it was its most authoritarian, hidebound, and Christian.
Oh yeah, and one can avoid ever having to explain which thousand years were the “Thousand Year Christian Dark Age.”
“In such an abandoning of the facts of reality even Adolf Hitler can be believed to be the Second Coming of Christ.”
True and many ignorant, dishonest, or both “German Christians” did indeed claim that. But they were hit on the head by rebuttals from both Christians and the more fervently anti-Clerical Nazis like Goebbels.
On the contrary, the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany fully implemented faith and altruism.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics also fully implemented faith and altruism.
Yes. You are right.
But they tried to syncretize / pervert Christian faith in order to harness political power in service of evil. Strong Christians did not accept this false religion and many paid with their lives.
Satan masquerades as an angel of light. Deception is evil’s greatest power.
Where is the source for the amazing quote from Naomi Shemer?
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What is that irritating noise? Oh it’s you. Were you blabbering about Nazis and Martin Luther again by channeling Leonard again?.
You’re a name-caller. It’s boring and stupid. Based on your other comments, you’re better than that. Engage. Stop the peeing contest.
With this guy there is nothing to engage. He posts the same crap over and over so what’s the point?
Sorry, THX, but anti-Semitism is overwhelmingly left-wing, and SECULAR … Maybe not 500 years ago, but that is the reality of today … The students and faculty of Harvard screaming for Jews to be exterminated aren’t born-again Christians wearing MAGA hats …
Hello Kevin,
What will be called anti-Semitism begins in the Middle Ages, where Jews in France are frowned upon because of their money-related work. Anti-Semitic stereotypes and prejudices are beginning to appear (this has nothing to do with anti-Judaism). In the 19th century, the greatest promoters of anti-Semitism will clearly be on the left of the political spectrum. Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Aryanist, theoretician of eugenics and scientific racism, and anti-Semite, who strongly inspired the Nazis, was a Marxist activist. And Karl Marx “On the Jewish Question”: What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in the face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.”
Jewish identity is reduced to an economic function. THE Jew (all Jews), is only interested in money and does evil with it. He manipulates… It is totally irrational, and this will partly be the basis of Hitlerism.
And there is a movement within Nazism wanting to de-Judaize the Bible. A sect. Christians who supported Nazism should have been punished for heresy by an inquisition.
Best !
On the contrary, anti-Semitism is religious and leftist.
Even anti-Semitic Jews are left-wing and secular. Your observation is unassailable.
Para 1: “The Nazi truth and the Hamas truth are unassailable: the faithful ask no questions.”
Baloney. They did not give the kind of universal blind obedience you render unto Objectivism.
Para 3: “Judaism prepared the ground for Christianity, and both, prepared the ground for Islam, Marxism, and Nazism.”
Baloney. Judaism and Christianity are both messianic faiths beginning when God first created the heavens and the earth. The Jews were chosen to preserve and protect the scriptures and to give the world the Messiah. The Christians worship Jesus as Messiah, Whom we believe is God incarnate.
Marxism and Nazism are products of enlightenment rather than Judaism or Christianity. Islam is a demonic religion formed to fight Jews and Christians. Muslims worship the “talking snake,” as do you, although you are too blind to see it.
Para 4: ALL people are religious people, including objectivist and “secularists.” Hitler’s attempts to harness the Church’s political power to impose his syncretic religion is not the fault of the Church.
Para 5: ““Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason,” may not be a Luther quote at all. If it is, it probably came from one of his Table Talks and consisted of students’ notes and not a direct quote. But, if it is, then what is the context? Luther was a brilliant man who also professed, under fierce persecution and threat of death, his allegiance to reason:
“Unless I am convinced by scripture and by plain reason…I cannot and I will not recant.”
“Given their commitment to the method of faith (and their tendency to imitate the Catholic Church), it is not astonishing that some Nazis went all the way in this issue. A tendency never given the status of official ideology yet fairly prominent in the movement was voiced in a demand made by several of its leading figures (though Hitler himself regarded it as impractical until the Nazis won the war): the demand that Nazism itself be turned into a full-fledged religion. These voices urged a state religion supplanting the older creeds, with its own symbols, its own rituals, and its own zealots avid to convert Christians into fanatic Hitler believers, as, once, ancient missionaries had converted pagans into fanatic Christians. “Adolf Hitler,” exclaimed one such believer (the Nazi Minister for Church Affairs), “is the true Holy Ghost!” The Nazis did not survive long enough to complete this development.
To the end, they could not decide whether to retain Christianity, construing Nazism merely as its latest, truest version (“positive Christianity,” this wing often called it)—or to concoct a distinctively Nazi creed out of a hodgepodge of elements drawn from pagan Teutonic mythology and romanticist metaphysics. In either case, however, whether advanced as a form of or successor to Christianity, what Nazism did unfailingly demand of its followers was the essence of the religious mentality: an attitude of awed, submissive, faithful adoration. “We believe on this earth solely in Adolf Hitler … ,” intoned Dr. Robert Ley to a reverent audience of 15,000 Hitler Youths. “We believe that God has sent us Adolf Hitler.
Seventeen centuries earlier, Tertullian, one of the Church Fathers, had explained that religion by its nature requires the subversion of reason, the belief in the irrational because it is irrational. He had delivered a ringing anti-reason manifesto, declaring, in regard to the dogma of God’s self- sacrifice on the cross: “It is believable, because it is absurd; it is certain, because it is impossible.” If Tertullian’s is the correct view of religion, the Nazis were evidently qualified to enter the field. The absurdity of their dogma matched
anything offered by the medievals.” – Leonard Peikoff, “The Ominous Parallels”
Pt 2
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz—-Huh?
What is that irritating noise? Oh it’s you. Were you blabbering about Nazis again by channeling Leonard Peeka-Boo…………………………………. again?.
So the Nazi Minister for Church Affairs is a credible source for academics?
The zero degree of analysis… This guy is just a sectarian propagandist, an ideologue full of prejudices regarding Christian thought, and whose knowledge of theology must be close to zero, if it is not zero. .
He knows absolutely nothing in detail, no finesse in this analysis. It’s shitty work.
To indoctrinate morons like you.
For years you have been coming here to spread your shitty propaganda, without shame.
And in my opinion this is perverse.
You are pathetic.
Well said. And concise.
I see he gave you his requisite downvote. He does the same thing to me because 1) he can’t take the fact, or escape the fact that no one is buying his grift, so 2) he ducks and covers because he has no response except to repeat his stupidity, for the umpteenth time.
He is fully correct.
National socialism had the ground prepared for it by centuries of faith and altruism.
“National socialism had the ground prepared for it by centuries of faith and altruism”
It looks like an advertising slogan.
Just do it.
HA HA HA !
The Nazis were a reaction against Judeo-Christian faith and the idea of universal altruism. Theirs was an explicitly tribalistic, nationalistic, and among the inner elite like Hitler Neo-Heathen and Socially Darwinistic, Eugenicist philosophy. This is also not subject to serious dispute given the writings of men such as Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini (aka Vero Eretico, “True Heretic”), D’’Anunnunzio, and Ludendorff.
It’s rather ironic that you try to grasp on to the fascist movements and leaders that were most divorced from and hostile to the Judeo-Christian faith and traditions, as opposed to say Koch, Pavelic, and Codreanu who were all confessing and apparently devout Christians. But people like you aren’t actually interested in explaining how and why these people interacted with the Italian Fascist or German National Socialist movements because that would involve knowing history or how the influence of those helped corrupt and replace Christian theology. You are not merely bigoted, but incompetent.
Intrepid is right, but I want to add that THX’s knowledge is less than zero. Zero would indicate nothing.
THX twists context and word meanings in order to support his weak, irrational faith. I used to try to engage him, but he is without ability to reason or engage beyond a parrot repeating phrases without deep understanding of the implications of his thoughts. Hence his long, tiresome quotes from objectivist nonsense.
And so now I simply point out the inconsistencies and watch him squirm. Maybe, one day, he will find comfort in that which needs no defense – simply let the Lion out of the cage. As it is, he must dance upon the hot coals while his beloved talking snake plays the tune.
Your Tertullian quote is inaccurate, and is a misrepresentation created by Enlightenment buffoons to attack Christianity. Remember they installed the Goddess of Reason in Notre Dame. They are, like Ojbectivists, parasites sucking the teat of Christian accomplishment and then stupidly proclaiming, “I MADE that!”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/abs/i-believe-because-it-is-absurd-the-enlightenment-invention-of-tertullians-credo/69340C3AF8366E79BCF3BDD804DED82E
“Seventeen centuries earlier, Tertullian”
First, thank you Kynarion Hellenis for your article.
Leonard Peikoff perhaps believes that Christians are degenerates who all follow like sheep what other Christians have written, without discussion, without debate, without any critical spirit.
But above all we must place Tertullian in his time, contextualize. It is impossible to detach all of what he wrote from a context.
To then use what he could say against Christians.
It’s absolutely perverse.
The fact is, regarding the quote in the extrac abovet: “Patristic scholars have long pointed out that Tertullian never said this or meant anything like it.”
“Arabs like their murder hot, moist, and steamy, and if they will ever be free to fulfill themselves, we [Jews] will yearn for the good sterile gasses of the Germans.”
I’ve long suspected that the the “Palestinians” if they ever get the power to do so will kill a la Rwandan Genocide- with knives, guns, fists and stones or even automobiles for ramming attacks (which already took place and microwave ovens for roasting infants. The killing would include women and children as active, enthusiastic participants. If there is a difference between Nazis and “Palestinians” it’s that the latter lack the squeamishness Himmler displayed after he witnessed the murder of Jews by Einsatzgruppen in Minsk in 1941, and thus embarked upon industrialized genocide.
The “Palestinians” have also unleashed a lust for Jewish blood amongst their Western supporters in Europe, Australia and the Americas, who’ve turned out by the hundreds of thousands to cheer them on. But they prefer “armchair genocide” in which they deny atrocities that Hamas not only acknowledges but makes videos of.
Islam is the only religion on earth in which there is no mandate for the believer to use the tenets of the faith to become a better person. It’s power-mad, cruel, primitive and proudly evil. It is also the only faith whose numbers are increasing all over the world, a situation that will not turn out well for civilized people anywhere.
A better person by what kind of moral standard? An objective standard or a faith-based standard?
The Muslim Jihadist becomes a morally perfect person in the eyes of Allah and is rewarded by Allah with eternal life in Muslim Paradise.
That does not make any rational sense. And by a rational and objective moral standard, the Jihadist is an evil monster. But religion is not based on the facts of reality, and therefore, not based on reason, logic, and objectivity.
What most rational people fail to understand is that in their fully indoctrinated minds, the Nazi, Communist, and the Muslim Jihadist, are pursuing what the true-believer is convinced is the moral ideal.
“But religion is not based on the facts of reality, and therefore, not based on reason, logic, and objectivity.”
And it is for this reason that during 2000 years of Christianity, no reason, no logic, science, philosophy, humanism, prosperity, flowering, could develop in Europe….
HA HA HA!
But Napoleon appeared, and with him all kinds of sects, which did much better than the Church, than Christian thought. Socialism, communism, anarchism, statism, progressivism.
Then hundreds and hundreds of millions of people in total suffering, famines like never before in the history of humanity, because the person no longer has values, he can be a thing, a piece of meat , she can become cannon fodder, be sent to concentration camps. Hundreds of millions of deaths… Much better than what Christian thought has done…
The fall of the church leaves room for obscurantist sects of your kind seeking to take power, spreading their sectarianism in universities, indoctrinating the youngest and sowing chaos.
You assert that what would like to put an end to Christianity is in fact found in Christianity, that it is because of Christianity that there is communism. This is not based on any theological reality. Christianity is not collectivism, Jesus is not a collectivist,
Look at what American society has become, look at all its sects ready to massacre, like the Islamo-leftist sect, all these communists, pro-Hamas fanatics.
This is what happens when the Bible is discarded, and it is written in the Bible.
And it’s not your objectivism that’s going to save anything.
On the contrary, he is not a member of any sect, he is an advocate of reason.
Communism, Fascism and National Socialism all derive from faith and altruism.
And your final paragraph is the exact opposite of reality:
The philosophy of Objectivism is correct and your philosophical is pure poison on epistemology and ethics.
“The philosophy of Objectivism is correct”
This is why no one gives a damn about your sectarian objectivism. You know absolutely nothing about Christian theology, you judge on thin air, on nothing. Go educate yourself.
Who gives a damn about your objectivism. No one except your sect knows what it is.
What a success!
You are one of the failures in the history of human thought and ideas.
Even Asterix is more interesting than your pseudo-philosophy.
HA HA HA!
PS : In 2021, the number of Bibles sold worldwide exceeds 100 million copies. The number of Bibles sold throughout history is between 5000 and 7000 million copies.
@Bruce A Crichton,
And you wrote above: Catholic has contributed enormously to the fight for freedom.
I challenge you to explain to me here, where the concept of freedom was born. From what he was born.
Also, the problem is that you are convinced that the philosophy you support is better than what is said in the Bible, in theology, and in Orthodox Judaism.
So you studied Christian theology and Orthodox Judaism.
Tell me about your teachings, your teachers, the texts you have read and meditated on.
Make my day.
Then help THX, who has been unable to counter the fact that reason alone cannot produce moral good, but can, in fact justify evil:
https://www.prageru.com/video/is-evil-rational
And Ayn Rand frequently calls her fellow human beings “no better than animals” because she judges them “unreasoning.”
THE HISTORY OF MUSLIMS AND HISTORY – Hitler failed to conquer Europe. Muslims are winning!
The last element of Hitler’s Nazi Axis is in the Middle East. Hitler’s Mufti, Haj Amin Al-Husseini spent WWII in Berlin conferring with the Führer on how best to exterminate the Jews. This is the last bastion of Nazism and was never conquered or defeated after the war. It remains today; Hitler’s agents acting on his behalf from beyond his grave. Al-Husseini helped found the Muslim Brotherhood whose military arm is Hamas.
Then there are the tens of thousands of “Palestinian” leftist supporters in academia and elsewhere aggregating in rallies all over the world with swastikas and cries of “Gas the Jews” or “Finish what Hitler started” which puts the fetid icing on their rancid cake.
The left’s embrace of this demonic narrative continues its efforts to destroy any hope of western victory in every war. “Every war” now includes WWII which Hamas and its allies on the left are continuing with the hope of destroying not just the war in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq (and yes, the Cold War) but the ultimate allied victory itself … that of the Second World War.
Read recent books and articles on the Nazi-Islamic relationship by Jeffrey Herf and by Matthias Kuentzel.
As we can all see, the rise of wickedness is in overdrive as well as the decline of man’s character.
As we know even Neville Chamberlain did not provide Hitler with $150 billion to arm or strengthen his army. The Iran deal is enough to destroy the entire world. Looks like its not just the United states thats fundamentally transformed, but the entire world, Nazism and Islamism to control the world, and America rendered as inconsequential.
Jews now need to look into a mirror. Their religion has divided into two cults. One is the original sky god tribal allegiance Semitic crowd and two is the socialist splinter religion crowd who follow the equality gibberish. What is the percent of jews that have followed this schism of socialism? That is the key to survival of the geographic entity of Israel. They may just be receiving all of the press etcetera and actually be a small group. They could also be a political schism wanting power in the parliament. If unity fails, self immolation by emotional instability is guaranteed.
There is only one answer that always is successful.
“and they created a desert and called it peace”
Jews being called Nazis is so unbelievably absurd, who could take it seriously? But, then, I had no idea until Dinesh D’Souza pointed it out that Democrats owned the majority of the millions of black slaves with Republicans owning maybe ten, and I’m not alone. Such info should be automatic knowledge to most Americans but isn’t. And so the Democrats get away with—absurdly—calling Republicans racists.
You say the Nazi genocide of the Jews was larger in scope than the 1,400-year slaughter of Jews by Islam. I beg to differ. The favorite pastime of Islam is the slaughter of Jews. I think that Islam has slaughtered more Jews in the 1,400 some odd years of their existence, than Hitler’s regime slaughtered in his short life span. It is part of their religion to kill Jews and other non-Muslims wherever they find them. If you visit the Tears of Jihad site, you will find how many individuals Islam has slaughtered, and I think the numbers are vastly undercounted. Counting the dead bodies after raids was not a priority of the winner of battles back in the day.
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II.
After the war, after escaping from a military prison, in Egypt, Otto Skorzeny recruited a staff made up of former SS and Wehrmacht officers to train the Egyptian army. Among these officers were former Wehrmacht generals Wilhelm Fahrmbacher and Oskar Munzel; the head of the Gestapo Department for Jewish Affairs in occupied Poland Leopold Gleim; and Joachim Daemling, former chief of the Gestapo in Düsseldorf. In addition to training the army, Skorzeny also trained Arab volunteers in commando tactics for possible use against British troops stationed in the Suez Canal zone. Several Palestinian refugees also received commando training, and Skorzeny planned their raids into Israel via the Gaza Strip in 1953–1954. One of these Palestinians was Yasser Arafat.
The use of the word Nazis is out of place in this article. I am amused at the inaccurate statements made about Germany regarding the Second World War. So go on and believe the fairy tales about the war because that is your right to believe in inaccurate facts.
For all who care to know the Truth of God’s word.
The First of the 10 commandments is: THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.
That means idols and false religions. IDOLATRY. Other Gods include deities of other religions, superstitions, sexual immorality, horoscopes, money, possessions, addictions, fame and power. Anything that comes before God, and idolizing them.
Romans 14:12 “So then every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.”
James 4:12 “There is one lawgiver, Christ, who is able to save and to Destroy.”
Matthew 23:27. Jesus said, “Woe to you Hypocrites”. You take care of the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones.”
So much for the ideology of cults , and deception, and saying anything they think justifies their cause or their hatred.
The concept of genocide is a jewish invention. Genocide is commanded by their god throughout their religious text, the tanakh.
“Genocide is commanded by their god throughout their religious text,”
And where was humanity to save the Jews? When the Nazis arrived in Corsica, was asked: “give us the Jews”, the Corsican leader replied: “here, there are no Jews.”
Do you know where G. was when the Jews were gassed? He was with the Jews.
In gas chambers and in crematorium ovens.
Wherever a Jew suffers, G. is with him.
And why did the Shoah happen? Only G. knows, and at your level you cannot have a precise answer to this question.
“ The concept of genocide is a jewish invention. “
No, it is not. It is a human invention as old as we have records, separately invented and practiced by people for thousands of years with no contact with Jews, whether it be the killing of non-combatants at Tollense, the mass scalpings at pre-Colombian American sites like Crow Creek, th e campaigns of Chinese Xia statelets like the Qin against non-Chinese like the Xia, or the gleeful boasting of mass murders and exterminations by Mesopotamian God-Kings like Ashurbanipal and Merneptah. Indeed, the very first non-Jewish, non-Israelite source we have of the existence of the Israelites is the Merneptah Stele that declared “The Foreigners of Israel is laid waste—its seed is no more.”
“ Genocide is commanded by their god throughout their religious text, the tanakh.”
This is true and worth considering. But it was absolutely not invented by them. But I am not surprised to see someone going by the pseudonym “Amalek” would be spreading genocidal blood libel.
An excellent review, but it neglects a deeper connection between the Holocaust and Palestinian Jew-hatred. The picture of al-Husseini conferring with Hitler was taken a few months before the Wannsee Conference which decided on extermination as the “Final Solution” to the “Jewish Problem” in Europe. Prior to those events, the Nazis would have been happy to render Europe Judenrein by some combination of emigration (mostly to Palestine) and murder. Al-Husseini made it clear that the Jews were not welcomed in Palestine and suggested simply killing them all.