Israel: Nuke Iran and Germany

by Ariadna Theokopoulos, Fig Trees and Vineyards:

’20-30 nuclear bombs will assure the job gets done,’ an opinion piece on right-wing Israel National News site says.

From a March 11 report from the Times of Israel:

Right-wing media outlet Israel National News published an opinion piece calling on Israel to launch nuclear bombs at Iran and Germany, only days after the outlet came under fire for publishing a piece accusing a war widow of killing her husband over her pro-peace views.

In the opinion article published Tuesday, the author claims that only through nuclear annihilation of Iran and Germany, with 20 or 30 nuclear bombs each, can Israelis prevent the state’s destruction.

If Israel does not walk in the ways of God’s Bible,” author Chen Ben-Eliyahu wrote in Hebrew, “it will receive a heavy punishment of near complete destruction and doom and only a few will be saved.”

One of Israel’s missions is to remember the crimes of Amalek, a tribe representative of pure evil in the Bible, whom Jews are commanded to obliterate. Among those descended from the band, the author writes, are Iranian leaders Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and current President Hassan Rouhani.

“They don’t miss an opportunity to discuss the need for the annihilation of Israel,” he wrote.

To combat this Israel must respond in kind, Ben-Eliyahu declared. “To an existential threat we must respond with an existential threat,” he wrote, “not with speeches in Congress. We must make it clear to the Iranians that Israel will wipe out their nuclear program and Tehran and Isfahan as well.”

“If [an enemy] rises up to destroy you, rise earlier to destroy him: twenty, thirty nuclear bombs will do to assure the job gets done,” he continued.

He also called on the Jewish people to remember its near destruction at the hands of the Nazis and exact revenge on Germany, now a staunch ally of Israel.

When the Messiah comes, Ben-Eliyahu wrote, Israel will reverse the Final Solution. “Twenty, thirty atomic bombs on Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Nuremberg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dresden, Dortmund and so on to assure the job gets done. And the land will be quiet for a thousand years,” he wrote.

Israel National News refused to comment on the website’s decision to run the op-ed.

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There are those who condemn “Jewish extremism,” which they blame on Israel’s “far right” (Likkud, etc).  Among them there are Jewish voices like Blumentahl, Weiss (of Mondoweiss) and Chomsky. It is impossible not to agree with them that this segment of the Jewish community, whether in Israel or in the “diaspora,” animated by a dark, tribal, messianic vision of Jewish supremacy are a great danger to world peace. The article above exemplifies it amply.

Those critics of the far right, however, are derisively called “anti-zionist zionists” by Gilad Atzmon,  who accuses them of duplicity, double standards, and insidious infiltration and highjacking of pro-Palestinian organizations. It is impossible not to agree with him, knowing that this segment of the Jewish community, wherever they are, seek to place Jewish interests above all others (e.g,., the ‘fight against antisemitism,” defense of the Holocaust myth and Israel’s “right to exist”). He also claims that religious Jews tend to be peaceful: they have never been responsible for massacres like those committed by secular Jews (e.g., the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the zionist-perpetrated Nakba), although that is a tenuous claim to make given the religious indoctrination of the IDF and the fact that while refusing to enlist in the army, the pious Jews fully support the massacres in Palestine. In the article above the references are all from Judaic texts.

One side says: zionism is bad, it gives Jews and judaism a bad name. The other says: zionism no longer exists; it is Jewish power (secular) that gives Jews and judaism a bad name.

Perhaps neither side has hit the nail on the head: zionism is bad because it was invented by jews and for Jews against an innocent nation which they insist does not even exist; Jewish power is bad because it is wielded by Jews and for Jews against the world; and judaism is bad because Jews created it and it has shaped them, irrespective of where they are in the world and what ‘segment’ they belong to. In Israel Jewish identity has bloomed to its full potential and it speaks through writers like Chen Ben-Eliyahu.

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