ADL - September 2001
Syrian Times: Zionism Reproduces Nazism Under a New Guise RULE
"Zionism Reproduces Nazism" by R. Zein
English language Syria Times, September 5, 2001 (reproduced in entirety)
(Note: This article from the tightly government-controlled Syrian Media is an example of the anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, anti-Israel propaganda coming from official sources. It is part of an ongoing campaign throughout the Arab World aimed at inflaming public opinion against Israel and Jews.)
What is going on in the occupied Palestinian territories, where Israeli anti-Palestinian genocide, killing, destruction and oppression have been at full swing, is an irrefutable evidence that Zionism and its off-shoot Israel are reminiscent of Nazism. Many analysts and observers confirm that crimes being committed by the Israeli occupation army of the government of butcher Ariel Sharon against the unarmed Palestinian people have exceeded those perpetrated by Hitler.
It is not an exaggeration to say then that Zionism re-produces Nazism under a new guise of alleged "peace and security" banners, and that Sharon is embodying -if not actually representing- Hitlerism. Racist Sharon was always repeating the saying : "If I became a prime minister, I would wipe out all Arabs, kill every newly-born Palestinian baby and knife the abdomen of every woman who is pregnant from an Arab. Those dogs should not be close to the chosen people of god"!! When Sharon was a war minister in 1982, he was quoted as saying about Israel's sphere of influence: "It is the region that includes the strategic interests of Israel and which covers all adjacent Arab areas in addition to Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Northern Africa and even Zimbabwe"!
During the election campaign for a premiership, Sharon addressed the Israelis by stressing that: "Genociding the Arabs and killing them are the only weapon in dealing with them. There will not be peace between us and the Arabs as our future is built only by wiping them out. Keeping one Arab alive in the region is a dagger in the back of Israel"!! Sharon outlined his racist and criminal policy by saying: "The might of Israel lies in occupying the lands of the Arabs and in expelling them. We shall terminate them individual after individual without making them feel we are killing them"! Bloodthirsty Sharon was enthusiastic enough when he told Israeli would-be voters: "Give me power for a short time and I will show you what to do with the Arabs"!!
Sharon is now in power as a premier and is representing the Israelis as their chosen leader. He is in fact keeping his promises and continues to carry out savage attacks against the unarmed Palestinians, to shoot out youngsters of the Palestinian uprising, to mastermind the policy of assassination against Palestinian leaders and uprising activists and to eventually wiping out the Palestinian people. The policy of Sharon and his ilk, which is based on the racist and expansionist ideology of Zionism, is unquestionably a Nazi one. Almost all Israeli leaders are war-lords and war criminals. The history of Israel, which was established on the use of brutal force and on the debris of the native Arab population of Palestine, is abundant with massacres and crimes perpetrated against the Arabs, especially the Palestinians. The massacres of Deir Yassin, Qibieh, Kafar Qassem, Da'el, Bahr al-Baqar, Sabra and Shatilla, Hebron, Jerusalem and Qana are few examples that cannot be forgotten. Israel's state policy of terrorism, genocide and cold-blood killing which has been at full swing under the pretexts of security and other groundless allegations is the racist back bone of the Zionist movement and Israel. Going through what the Nazis did against the Jews would reach the clear conclusion that criminal acts of the Nazis are not different from those being carried out by the racist and Zionist Israelis. Like what the Nazi ideology was based on racial superiority, Zionism based its ideology on the "chosen people of god". Both Nazism and Zionism represent two faces of the same coin as each derives it ideology from racism, genocide and terrorism. Both are strong advocates of racist killing and both deny basic rights of other peoples and openly disregard human principles.
Butcher Sharon and his criminal ilk and the Israeli military establishment will, like the Nazi Hitlerism, certainly undergo a smashing defeat sooner or later. The wheel of history cannot go backward. Victory will be to those fighting for liberation, freedom and progress. The human principles of right, justice and equality will have the upper hand irrespective of time and great sacrifices. The steadfast Palestinian people and their bold uprising as well as national Arab forces will continue to resist occupation and mount the struggle until all forms of Israel's occupation and aggression are terminated, usurped Arab rights and lands are fully recovered and a just and comprehensive Middle East peace based on the prestigious resolutions of the international legitimacy is eventually materialized.
'Now I know how the Israelis feel'
The Jerusalem Post
September 12, 2001
By Melissa Radler
NEW YORK (September 12) - An airplane flying too low over downtown Manhattan caught my attention while I was walking to work yesterday morning.
I was standing on a street corner about a kilometer away from the World Trade Center when the first of two aircraft crashed into the north tower. (It turned out to be an American Airlines passenger plane en route from Boston to Los Angeles.)
The boom sounded like a truck hitting a pothole.
Less than an hour later, a truck driver stopped his car on the same street corner. He opened the window and turned the radio up so that crowds fleeing the scene of the worst terrorist attack in US history could hear President George W. Bush observe a moment of silence for the thousands who are feared dead.
But at 8:45 a.m. New York-time yesterday, most people crossing Canal Street on their way to work didn't flinch at the initial boom, until billowing gray smoke and thousands of glass shards started to cloud the skyline. A man on the street thought the airplane's pilot was disoriented and shook his head with concern.
Two women whose family members work in the north tower tried frantically to contact relatives via cellular phone.
With no cellular phone service in the area, I turned around and walked home to call my parents and turn on the TV. I live a 10-minute walk from the WTC with a perfect view of the twin towers. When I was just outside my building, a second airplane hit the south tower with a boom that sounded like rolling thunder and caused people on the street to clutch their hearts and throats and bend over in horror.
Sixteen-year old Tashauna Sanders had just arrived at Murray Bergtaum High School when her school shook from the blast. "It blew up and we felt it. Everybody ran out the door and it blew up again. The whole thing just blew up and it was gone," she said.
Sanders' mother, Evelyn Carroll, was already at work at The Jerusalem Post office yesterday morning when her daughter called to tell her that the WTC had exploded. With most public transportation halted, Sanders had to walk for more than two hours to get home to Brooklyn.
A friend who works on Wall Street said she was bombarded with papers and ash while walking to work. "The first plane had probably just hit," said Talia Nagar, 27. "I looked up and saw black smoke coming out. I thought there was a fire until I turned on the TV."
When I left my building and restarted my daily walk to the office, I was joined by a massive exodus of people fleeing lower Manhattan, many of them with cellular phones in hand that didn't work. Lines were forming outside pay phones and people, crying, were comforting strangers and listening to lists of family members and friends they had yet to track down.
People gathered in small groups next to cars whose radios were switched on. In the elevator on the way up to an office, a man said, "Now I know what Israelis feel like."
City Councilman Noach Dear echoed the thought, and added. "We realize now that terrorism can happen anywhere."
From my apartment, I saw the twin towers burning, with holes gaping and smoke tumbling out. According to witnesses, people were also tumbling out, leaping from as high as 80 stories from their offices to their deaths. My neighborhood was soon evacuated.
"This is just an unimaginable tragedy. There is nothing that I have seen in my lifetime that compares to having to witness the most deliberate evil," said the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Mortimer Zuckerman, less than two hours later, after the WTC's twin towers had collapsed in a heap of smoke, debris and bodies. Zuckerman called from a Paris hotel room, where he was stuck after the US cancelled all air travel. He said he was watching television images of people in Arab countries taking to the streets to celebrate the attack.
About 50,000 people worked in the towers, a classic New York landmark and tourist attraction.
"We were standing there on West Broadway watching it," said Robert Bernstein, a coworker. "You could see the building start to peel, you could see the windows coming off. The heat of the fire was actually melting the building. I kept thinking, there's an airplane in there!"
"You could see the fire going down floor by floor. You could see it starting to melt. All of a sudden, there was an explosion. Then you saw the tower just go down into the building. The whole building just collapsed into itself," Bernstein said.
Echoing a comment heard on many radio stations and TV sets today, Bernstein said, "This is Pearl Harbor. We're at war. This is war."
Primaries for the New York mayoral and city council elections were immediately cancelled. Councilman Dear said that the Jewish community was rife with rumors of suspicious packages and bombs at synagogues. Israeli consulates and embassies were evacuated. Hatzolah, the Jewish volunteer ambulance corps, was one of many groups helping out with the rescue operation.
"The act of terrorism experienced in New York today is as heinous as it is appalling, but our immediate concerns are for those who were injured and the families of those who were so callously murdered. I can't even verbalize how we feel," said Michael Miller, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.
Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League had boarded an airplane to Washington, DC when the attacks occurred. Within 10 minutes, his flight had been cancelled and the plane evacuated.
"I think it's a realization of our worst nightmare," Foxman said.
He added: "I had lunch yesterday with [Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel. He said that we have to alert the world to the dangers of terrorism, and maybe we should plan a conference to remind the world that democracy is threatened. How ironic that that's what we talked about. We don't need to alert the world anymore."
