Thanks to Phil Weiss for this one…
My oh my. I couldn’t make this one up even if I tried. The settler-right seems to have lost its collective mind. How else to explain this lunatic graphic featured at the pro-settler, Kumah: Neo-Zionist Uberblog (whatever that means)?
And what to make of former Haaretz editor and TV journalist Gil Ronen, who penned this “eloquent” harbinger of nuclear apocalypse that accompanied this “evocative” image?
Since the time of Hitler, civilization has never been so close to the brink of total catastrophe. This American election will decide whether civilization as we know it will survive….This election is about whether there will be a nuclear holocaust.
And by God, don’t you know, if that schvartze Nazi gets his hands on the White House the ayatollahs will be firing up those ballistic missiles momentarily.
Zayer schein (“very nice”–meant ironically). Dear, oh dear. What else can one say? These rightists appear to have lost not just their head, but their minds.
With enemies like this is it any wonder Obama is sweeping 74% of the U.S. Jewish vote?? Were JTA or the Forward to feature this image the numbers would probably go up to 80% in no time. I have a better idea: why doesn’t the Republican Jewish Coalition run this ad? They’ve already called Obama and his “friends” “hostile to America” (not to mention Israel). Why not go whole hog (pardon the expression) and liken him to der Fuhrer? Isn’t that the logical conclusion of such hate rhetoric?
You could conclude that the purpose of a incendiary graphic like the one above was to incite violence.
Interestingly Oct 24 was the Israeli commemoration of the death of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Recall that the exact same propaganda was used to create the hate-filled climate in which the assassination of Rabin took place. Right down to creating posters with Rabin’s face on a Nazi.
I hope Obama’s security detail is very vigilant.
“Kumah: Neo-Zionist Uberblog (whatever that means)?”
Kuma comes from the verb to arise or rise up (Richard I thought you knew Hebrew). Neo-Zionist its like Neo-Con but Zionist instead of Con. Uberblog means super-blog (I thought you were a germano-phile as well)!
So let me get this straight: you are attributing this graphic to 400,000 settlers based on a pro-settler blog? Isn’t that itself a form of hate against them? Don’t you slam Obsession and Third Jihad for the same reasons?
@Devil’s Advocate: Of course I know what kumah means. Don’t be a dolt. That’s not what I was referring to. I was referring to “Uberblog.” Very strange to use a vaguely German coinage in such a context I thought.
@Yoni: Oh puh-leeze. I’m merely displaying their own incitement for all the world to see. I didn’t put up the graphic. If you or they are afraid that as a result of this graphic people will hate settlers then they shouldn’t have posted it. They did. So they pay the price.
I never said Kumah represents all 400,000 settlers. But it IS a multi author blog by Israeli-Americans who include a prominent media journalist. This is a political hate statement which does represent the sentiments of a significant number of settlers, though by no means all.
“I’m merely displaying their own incitement for all the world to see.”
Isn’t this exactly what Obsession and Third Jihad do? Isn’t this exactly what scholars like Daniel Pipes write about? And when it comes to Islamism there is much more material to work with, spanning the globe and millions of people. Yet you call all these people rabid Muslim haters and racists.
@Yoni: Once again, I have not said that Kuman represents all settlers. In fact, I even called the site representative of the “settler right.”
Clarion Fund, Pipes, et al make the mistake of finding a few disturbing incidents & extrapolating fr. these incidents as if they represent the whole. Besides, the films you mention & Pipes are full of outright lies & distortions so severe as to do damage to truth & fact. I, on the other hand, have not exagerrated the views of those who blog at Kumah. I merely quote them.
In fact one of the main government controlled newspapers in Egypt portrayed Shimon Peres as Hitler, at the height of the Oslo Accords no less. But if I were to point that out, or Obsession or Pipes, as an example of the hatred that exists in the Arab world, that makes us Islamophobes and racists I presume (and remember this is a freakin government controlled newspaper not just some guy’s blog)
@Yoni: Why don’t you also point out that Israeli rightists paraded with placards picturing Rabin in Nazi regalia before they offed him, just as the settler website pictured Obama in a Brown Shirt uniform. But that type of Jewish hate doesn’t bother you does it? Because you’re guilty of it yrself when you declared here that any Israeli PM who shares Jerusalem should be hung? Aren’t you?
Actually, if you did a little research you would see that the those Israeli rightist were in fact leftist “agent provocateurs” meant to slander and discredit the right such as Avishai Raviv. This is pretty well known. Here is a random NYTimes article from 1995 found through google:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D61339F937A15752C1A963958260
Just google “agents provocateur rabin nazi” or something similar to find sources.
@Yoni: Oh, you mean you’re expecting us to trust the claims of Abe Rosenthal, a NYT editor who admitted he saw himself as a mouthpiece for Israeli hasbara as part of his editorial job, quoting arch right-winger Natan Sharansky on this subject???
Avishai Raviv didn’t kill Rabin. Yigal Amir did. Or are you claiming Amir was a government agent as well?