Alhayat Aljadeeda, Palestine
The New Nazism Taking Hold in the West

By Hafez al-Bargouti

Translated By Aja Ishmael

March 4, 2006

Alhayat Aljadeeda - Palestine - Original Article (Arabic)    

Maybe it's foolish to go over the topic of freedom of expression again, after the  insulting cartoons of the noble Prophet were published … and after the tide of Western democracy has washed over the Arab and Muslim world, leaving in its wake traces of corpses, body parts, coffins and tombs. But what's happening with Israeli influence in the United States raises even more questions.

There are now two films in Hollywood, one by the American-Jewish director Steven Spielberg, about the Munich incident, [Munich: ] in which Israeli athletes were killed - mostly by the bullets of German police, and not by the bullets of the initial attackers - and the Israeli response of assassinating Palestinians abroad who had no relation to the incident. The other is a Palestinian film directed by Hani Abu As'ad, about the last moments of two freedom fighters [Paradise Now:].

The two films have incited the hostility of the Jewish lobby, which has a grudge against peace, because they resent questions being asked about the Palestinian issue. They are uncomfortable with the way the film pushes viewers to raise objective and personal questions that expose the lies of the occupation. It is because the film firmly establishes the existence of Palestine that the enemies of freedom and peace claimed that since there is no Palestinian state, the film must be ejected from competition. This argument is uglier than sin … because the Israelis are killing us every day, and despite this, they claim that there is no Palestinian partner of peace, because they don't want us as partners in life but rather in death.

Indeed, this is twisted, cruel, harebrained logic, and perhaps its greatest significance is that it comes at a time when the topic of free of expression has been prominently raised, with America and the European West hiding their weakness, cruelty and arbitrariness toward others behind the issue of press freedom.

Perhaps the straw that has broken the camel's back is the cancellation of a New York theatrical production about Rachel Corrie [], the American activist crushed by bulldozers at the Rafah refugee camp], under the pretense that the Jewish community there [in New York] was in a state of tension over the illness of [Israeli] Prime Minister Sharon. But in the end, it was he who killed Rachel. Even in Tel Aviv, this play can be presented without any outcry.

What ugliness this is that leads the Western world. And what ugliness this is, that the West violates human rights, culture and freedom of expression in this way.

There is a new ideological Nazism [] taking control in the West, which doesn't openly declare its totalitarianism, but actually practices it nonetheless. And I see nothing in most of the major and minor Western officials except cloned copies of Hitler. It has gotten to the point that many Western institutions look as though they are run by the Gestapo and the SS [the Schutzstaffel]. [].

And if the Jews thought that they were uninvolved in this Nazism that is being directed toward Latin Americans and the peoples of the Third World, then they are mistaken, because there is every possibility that these cruel Nazi ideas will be directed against them one day. One should not be fooled into believing that they have influence over the West, because Neo-Conservatism was originally derived from remnants of Nazi thought, and holds to the theory of Aryan supremacy under a new name.

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