NoW UPDATE: GAZA: RELEASING YOUR INNER NAZI

 

ONE OF THE THINGS that is most disturbing about Israel’s assault on Gaza over these past nineteen months is the fact that so many Israeli Jews  have a favourable opinion of the Netanyahu government’s policies with respect to the Palestinian people. A recent poll by the University of Pennsylvania and published in the Haaretz newspaper found: 

👉Over 80% of Jewish Israelis are in favour of the forced expulsions of Palestinians from Gaza. 

👉More disturbingly, nearly 50% of Jewish Israelis favour killing all the Palestinians in Gaza. A shocking figure.

👉57% favour continuing to blockade all humanitarian from entering Gaza.

👉Nearly 70% of secular Israelis (the so-called ‘liberals’ in Israeli society) agree with Netanyahu’s planned expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza. 

👉56% of Israeli Jews want the expulsion of Palestinian citizens* of Israel which would include those Palestinians living in Israel proper, and in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. We’re talking about millions of Palestinians who are slated for deportation. Or worse. And make no mistake, Israel is conducting genocide and war crimes in Gaza, along with its campaign to ethnically cleanse every last Palestinian who happens to live on land the Israelis claim as theirs.

 

AND ONE WONDERS how such a mindset and world view came to pass. Perhaps by decades of indoctrination, of being told by the media, the schools, religious institutions, civil society, and the government how they were superior, better than their Arab neighbours, that they were special—God’s chosen people. And eventually, they came to believe their own hype. Past military victories by the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) reinforced this  view among Jewish Israelis, that they were an unstoppable force for good in the region. Their country prospered. Money poured in. Billions of dollars in aid and weaponry, and investment from the United States, and from rich donors abroad came in each year, filling the state coffers. Jewish Israeli citizens lived comfortable lives much like white South Africans did during the years of apartheid.

‘Facts on the ground’ seemed to confirm their world view: They were safe, protected by an advanced military armed with the latest weaponry. Their intelligence services and special operations forces were second to none. The periodic “mowing-the-lawn” operations conducted by the IDF to quell dissent among the native Arab population seemed to be working. Years of peace were punctuated only occasionally by episodes of resistance from the captive Gazans under their sway. Increasingly, Israelis walled themselves off from the Palestinians they co-habitated with in the Levant, living separate lives in gated communities and commuting along Jewish-only highways. It became easier to forget their Shangri-La, was built on a foundation of sand.

 

IT’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE Jewish Israeli views have hardened since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. A couple of links here (at the 14:18 mark) and here, suggest how mainstream these ideas have become. REMEMBER that 47% of those polled thought the situation in Gaza had parallels with the biblical story of Jericho, where the ancient Israelites killed the entire population of the city. In another biblical reference, Palestinians are called “Amalek” by the Israeli PM, among others, a tribe the escaping Israelites fought and destroyed to the last man, woman and child (and goat, apparently), as they made their way out of Egypt. In 2025, texts from the bible are used as precedents to justify the mass murder of Palestinians.

THE VID of a former Knesset member posted at the 14:18 mark on the Judge Napolitano podcast is especially infuriating. Moshe Feiglin’s short speech, AI dubbed into English, could give Heinrich Himmler a run for his money! And Feiglin is contemplating running again for a seat in the Knesset.

Rivka Lafair is an Israeli yoga instructor who “blends spirituality with ethnic cleansing…” Huh?! This "YogaNazi" tells her followers that killing Palestinians “from infant to old woman,” like music, involves “altering one’s consciousness.” Feiglin and Lafair have certainly worked hard in bringing their inner Nazis to the surface.

 

AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, these beliefs, or perceptions, or core tenents held by the majority of Israelis today suggest a society that is psychologically sick and one that may not recover from this latest and most virulent outbreak of a kind of collective madness or psychosis. And not to put too fine a point on it, this same society possesses nuclear weapons. Buckle up.

 

Cheers, Jake. ____________________________________

 

* Palestinians who are Israeli citizens do not have the same rights, under law, as Jewish Israelis. Israel is a “heavily segregated and hierarchical state”, and a clear candidate deserving the world’s opprobrium as an apartheid state:

 

“At first glance it does seem that all citizens in Israel enjoy the same rights, they can all vote, for example, among many other rights granted by citizenship. However, after a more thorough look it becomes clear that this talking point is only held together by the omission of one very important fact:

It is relevant because many of the rights you are accorded in Israel stem from your nationality not your citizenship. Meaning an “Arab” Israeli citizen and a Jewish Israeli citizen, while both citizens, enjoy different rights and privileges determined by their “nationality.” (DecolonizePalestine)

FUN FACT:  "Unicef estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 children in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated. That small tract of earth is now home to more child amputees per inhabitant than anywhere else in the world." (The Guardian)

FUN FACT: Did you know that Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing the Israeli Defense Forces through charitable organizations operating in Canada despite recent statements made by the Canadian government critical of Israel's military actions in Gaza and the International Court of Justice's preliminary findings that Israel has been committing genocide and ethnic cleansing there?  Should not such organizations be labelled as "lobbyists" and lose their charitable status, which allows donors to claim tax deductions, leaving Canadian taxpayers to foot the bill? One would think so.