

It’s February, 1941. Pres. Charles Lindbergh has been in office one month, after defeating Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. Known for his isolationist, America First foreign policy, he’s moved from advocating neutrality in the conflict raging in Europe, to a more decidedly pro-German stance. In fact, he’s invited the Nazi leader, Adolph Hitler to the White House to discuss a role the new president might play in negotiating a truce between the parties to the conflict.
US intelligence has warned the president that based on communications intercepts and HUMINT intelligence sources, Hitler has set in motion a massive plan to expel or exterminate the European Jews in countries he has occupied. Lindbergh, caught up in a wave of nativist anti-Semitism, shares Hitler’s distaste for Jews and seeks to discuss the German approach, believing it might be a model for dealing with the massive influx of Jewish immigrants to the US from central and eastern Europe.
Lindbergh discounts the intelligence reports. He doesn’t believe Hitler’s plan, even if it were genuine, would be practicable. There is no technical ability developed to dispose of so many. Besides, he believes that international pressure might not only stop implementation, but damage Germany’s reputation irreparably. Not to mention that Hitler himself has denied any such intention. The president believes him to be sincere.
Lindbergh invites Hitler to the White House, a remarkable coup for the German leader, who’s been treated as a pariah in most of Europe. In doing so, he ties himself and America to a rising star in the ascendant world fascist movement.

Fast forward to Monday, April 7th. Pres. Trump has issued an invitation for Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, where he will be feted with an official state visit. It will be his 19th trip to the US since his first term as prime minister. Most of them were either state visits or discussions with senior administration officials.
Despite charges of genocide in Gaza and an ICC arrest warrant; despite the IDF summary execution of Palestinian emergency personnel on a rescue mission in Gaza; despite Netanyahu’s multiple looming corruption charges; despite his scandalous legislative proposals to destroy Israeli democracy–Trump will clap him on the back as a fellow-fascist leader in a world teeming with them.
Leaders of the Democratic opposition won’t raise a whisper against the visit. After all, many of their candidates rely on the largess of pro-Israel billionaires to fund their campaigns. Not even fierce critics like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders have raised their voices against this moral schandeh.
In retrospect, a visit to the White House by Adolph Hitler seems preposterous. While a similar visit tomorrow of a leader engaged in genocide to the seat of American power is a nonevent. How times have changed. How we’ve normalized genocide; despite the international bodies created in the aftermath of the Holocaust to prevent such catastrophes and hold perpetrators accountable.
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was a key figure in creating the United Nations and International Criminal Court, seems a fleeting and distant memory. Her vision of a community of nations governed by a rules based order lies tattered on the ground. The country which championed the post-WWII institutions has not only flouted them; it has proudly embraced the type of genocidal leaders whom it once tried and executed for crimes against humanity.

IDF summarily executes Gaza emergency medical workers
Despite the world’s understandable horror in the face of Israeli genocide in Gaza, it’s easy to overlook the 80-year history of Israeli mass murder and race hatred which foreshadowed today’s crimes. We are justifiably outraged at the summary execution of 15 Palestinian emergency medical workers by IDF murderers in uniform.
But they are not unique events. No one, especially not liberal Zionists, who’ve denied such crimes were possible given Israel’s “democratic,” “humane” values, can ignore that the seeds of such crimes against humanity were planted in the soil of Zionism from its inception: the Nakba, Mossad assassinations, the biological weapons attacks, ethnic cleansing, land theft. All are part and parcel of the ideology that underpins the Israeli state.
Israel has committed wanton slaughter so many thousands of times in Gaza, the horror has become normalized. Every day brings yet another desecration of the human spirit. Yet one of the latest is particularly heinous. Last week, Palestinian emergency vehicles including an ambulance and fire truck with lights flashing were ambushed by an IDF unit which fired hundreds of bullets at the convoy. But they didn’t kill all 15 of the medical personnel initially. They were captured, their hands tied, and bullets fired point blank, execution-style.
Then, the unit called in army bulldozers which tossed the corpses into a ditch and even buried all the vehicles, as if to try to erase the evidence. When UN personnel began to inquire about the missing aid workers, the IDF professed no knowledge of them. Only a week later did it reveal the location. Remarkably, they permitted Palestinians to excavate and remove the bodies without killing them as well.
At first, the IDF claimed its troops believed the vehicles to be potential terrorists. It added that their headlights and emergency flashers were turned off. All of this was a lie, of course; disproved by a phone video recorded by one of the victims and retrieved from his grave. It shows the vehicles under attack despite flashing emergency lights and headlights and disproves the army account.
Now, faced with video evidence (the only thing which ever forces the IDF to come clean about its crimes and tell something resembling to the truth), it admits there was “a mistake.” As if the execution of 15 human beings is merely a mistake. Yet still the IDF continues its lies, claiming six of those murdered had terrorist ties. It never offers any proof for such charges. It merely throws them up on the wall hoping they’ll stick like a strand of spaghetti.
Israel has become an obscenity. Now, a war criminal with the blood of babies dripping from his fingers, will enter the White House as an esteemed guest of one of the most corrupt, vile presidents in US history. What have we have all done, what has the human race done to deserve this?
The murdered Palestinian medical personnel worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent. Please make a donation to support their work and proclaim to the world that we are not to be defined by this criminality.
Lindbergh and Hitler discussed trade and investment with leading corporate leaders GM, Ford Motor Company, Chemical Industry and Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (later IBM) to advance delivery of the Hollerith Tabulating Machines
Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas that interferes with cellular respiration, was first used as a pesticide in California in the 1880s. Farben’s activities in the U.S. were of strategic, rather than tactical value to the Wehrmacht. Later in German research this was developed into Zyklon.
How surprising is it after defeat of the Axis Powers, fascism/colonialism in Churchill’s Great Britain arose as did right-wing fascism as represented by McCarthy in the United States, gaining a permanent political foothold in the GOP. The OSS, later the CIA used fascists remnants across Europe to counteract Communism. The effects seen today. Fighting historical European wars of centuries past.
Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms were the foundation of the E.E.C. and European Union. Too his ideals have been shattered in recent years, not by accident but pre-planned. United Nations, the UN Charter and the World Court (ICJ) est. June 1945. The ICC came about post Yugoslav wars in July 2002.
US-led onslaught on ICC over Israel has Europe fearing court’s demise
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/europe/2025/04/05/us-led-onslaught-on-icc-over-israel-has-europe-fearing-courts-demise/
Recent publication Responsible Statecraft:
EU hypocrisy on parade as Netanyahu goes to Hungary without a peep
Where are war hawks VDL and Kallas? Lacking moral guidance in judicial decisions ICJ and ICC.
City of Peace and International Justice
https://nos.nl/artikel/2562846-minister-veldkamp-ontbiedt-ambassadeur-israel-om-dood-hulpverleners-in-gaza
Dutch majority cabinet of right-wing parties refuses to hold Israel to account for war crimes
The west adored and feted Hitler, the Royal family were happy with the nazi salute in the 1930′,s Churchill in the UK declared Hitler a marvel for Germany and white supremacist Australia (whose Attorney General Evatt helped author the UDHR while stealing black kids and carrying on the white Australia policy), thought the same.
They did not care about jews one bit, in 1938 at Evian with 21 other western nations they voted against Jews in Australia due to ”we don’t have a racial problem so we are not desirous of importing one”.. Even after the end of the war we hardly accepted any and the white Australia policy persisted until 1973.
The west did not care and now they do not care what Israel does to the Palestinians who had nothing to do with any of it even though there are hundreds of documents in our war memorials documenting our allied partners in both wars – till we betrayed them.
Following the October 7 horrors, Israel’s cross-party consensus upgraded the Gaza Ghetto to a death-camp.
The US cross-party consensus supplies Israel with ever more potent Zyklon-B.
First ever? Astounding and totally unacceptable.
Kaja Kallas – EEAS
Today we had the first-ever EU High Level Dialogue with the Palestinian Authority.
We discussed the war in Gaza and our support to the Palestinian people.
My joint press conference with Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa
https://x.com/kajakallas/status/1911827675221475494
Basque Country, in northern Spain, was bombed during the Spanish Civil War in 1937 … the rise of fascism across Europe.
Flag of humanity in Spain:
once war-ravaged Guernica residents
show solidarity for Gaza.
https://x.com/Scoopdotmy/status/1907720071935570067