--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Why can a comparison to National Socialism not be
> made?
I am not saying it can't be made, just that there is something unseemly about the regular comparison to National Socialism whenever Israeli engages in atrocities which are not uncommon for any armed state engaged in war.
Chris Doss, for example, is something of a Putin fan, even though there are some parallels between Russian/Chechnya and Israel/Palestine. But nobody, other than the American Right, would think of calling Putin a Nazi.
Incidentally, the most fanatical defenders of Israel
on the German "left" also tend to be fans of Putin and
Milosevic. It's interesting that this is not the case
in the Anglophone left.
>
> They are both blood-based national movements using
> the logic of
> victimization to permit themselves anything while
> taking the moral high
> ground.
cf. Germany and former Yugoslavia.
> Is Israel, by definition, incapable of fascism?
No. Every nation-state, by default, is capable of fascism. When a mass movement emerges in Israel to demolish parliamentary democracy and disrupt trade-union meetings, I might take the idea seriously.
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