The settlers and their friends are classic fascists
 | By Joe Millis
August 5, 2011 | Share |
Stein Ugelvik Larsen, Bernt Hagtvet and Jan Petter Myklebust, in their Who were the Fascists: Social Roots of European Fascism, wrote that "Fascism is a radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology". That suits the settlers and the far right in Israel, as elsewhere down to a T.
Cyprian Blamires, in World Fascism: a Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1, notes that "Fascists seek to purge forces, ideas, people, and systems deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration, and to produce their nation's rebirth based on commitment to the national community based on organic unity, in which individuals are bound together by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood".
That'll be the settlers' political leaders, then. Fascist to the core, Jewish or not.
COMMENTS
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 10:50 Rate this: 0 points | This blog is disgusting. In calling every settler a "fascist", millis betrays his far leftist belief system, and incites against a whole swathe of disparate people. That the JC allows a casual and repeated incitement like this beggars belief. I wonder how much lower millis could sink. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 10:54 Rate this: 0 points | I'm sure the far right were hoping for some diversion, and Hamas obliged. But it seems that the protesters in Tel Aviv, whom you and the others on the far right were deriding only earlier this week, are not deterred. No one is buying this "we're all in this together" nonsense, because - surprise, surprise - Israelis aren't as stupid as the far right settlers had hoped. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 10:56 Rate this: 0 points | These tent protests are a joke. No wonder millis likes them. Completely demolished by Caroline Glick: |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:09 Rate this: 0 points | No of course you're right we are not all in it together. Because let me see we do not serve in the same units in the IDF groceries cost more in Tel Aviv than they do in Pisgat Ze'ev and someone living in Karnei Shomron pays less income tax than someone living in Haifa on the same wage. Our housing costs less? Well maybe that's due to the fact that more people want to live in North Tel Aviv than Beit El. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:19 Rate this: 0 points | No, it's due to the fact that housing and other cost-heavy commodities in the occupied territories are heavily subsidised by the government, which passes on the tax burden to the middle class. No mortgages, but grants instead. New roads for settlers only. All this costs money and the middle class pays the price. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:27 Rate this: 0 points | millis, labelling an entire swathe of people "fascist" demonstrates that it is indeed you, and not settlers, who has a fascistic mindset. The first rule of fascism - denigrate entire swathes of people without distinction n order to vilify. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:28 Rate this: 0 points | millis, who do you think I am? You still haven't said.... |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:35 Rate this: 0 points | You having an identity crisis? Don't you know who you are? I have said. And the JC implictly confirmed it by moderating it. Please note which of yours wasn't moderated. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:38 Rate this: 0 points | You have not said. Say it again - who do you think I am? |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:38 Rate this: 0 points | You mkade an accusation, and in cowardly fashion, refused to back it up. At least be explicit with the accusation. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:39 Rate this: 0 points | And are you also accusing the JC of knowingly covering up my identity? Why would they do that? |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:51 Rate this: 0 points | The real fascist danger comes from utopians like millis, who want to build the "perfect world" in their own image. No dissent can be allowed - and the method for achieving this is to label entire swathes of people in derogatory terms, so that it is easier to destroy and discredit them. hence, millis' disgusting use of the word "fascist" to describe every last Israeli settler. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:52 Rate this: 0 points | Not one of them is any good - every single one of those 300,000 is a "fascist". No doubt he considres every Jew living in Jerusalem a "fascist" as well. This is extremist hate speech. |
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 11:53 Rate this: 0 points | No doubt the Fogels had it coming to them, being "fascists" and all. millis, it is shameful. |
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Fri, 08/05/2011 - 10:07
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The gift that keeps giving - let's have some more intolerance - the period we are going through in the Jewish calendar is supposed to be a timely reminder of what happened to the Jews when they became intolerant of one another as I have been trying to point out. One can disagree even vehemently on ones political affiliations but to reduce the argument to name calling which you do consistently only shows anyone bothering to read them how vacuous your arguments are.
The Qassam/Grad rockets currently falling on South Israel make no distinction between religious or non-religious Jews why should you?