{"id":34398,"date":"2024-06-17T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34398"},"modified":"2024-06-17T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:44:49","slug":"israeli-politician-quotes-hitler-to-argue-for-resettlement-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/israeli-politician-quotes-hitler-to-argue-for-resettlement-of-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Politician Quotes Hitler to Argue for Resettlement of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/moshe-feiglin.jpg?id=52460147&amp;width=1200&amp;height=400&amp;quality=90&amp;coordinates=0%2C422%2C0%2C1357\" alt=\"Moshe Feiglin.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli far-right Zehout (identity) political party chairman Moshe Feiglin gives a joint press statement with Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu (unseen) in Ramat Gan, near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on August 29, 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo: Jack Guez\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;In what kind of society can one openly advocate policies modeled on Hitler&#8217;s conduct? In a society that feels complete impunity due to America&#8217;s protection,&#8221; one foreign policy expert said.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/oliviarosane\">OLIVIA ROSANE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jun 16, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<a href=\"https:\/\/giving.commondreams.org\/-\/XKQWGZVR\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Israeli Knesset member Moshe Feiglin quoted Adolf Hitler as he called for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/israel\">Israel<\/a>&nbsp;to resettle the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/gaza\">Gaza<\/a>&nbsp;Strip and create a &#8220;Hebrew Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feiglin, who quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s Likud Party to found the right-wing Zehut Party and plans to challenge Likud in Israel&#8217;s next elections, made the comments during a panel discussion on Israel&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Channel 12&nbsp;<\/em>that was shared on social media on Sunday, as&nbsp;<em>Middle East Eye&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israeli-former-knesset-member-moshe-feiglin-invokes-hitler-while-calling-gaza-resettlement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it&#8230;&#8221; Feiglin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Etanetan23\/status\/1802310599776276750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, adding, &#8220;As Hitler said, &#8216;I cannot live if one Jew is left.&#8217; We can&#8217;t live here if one &#8216;Islamo-Nazi&#8217; remains in Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/N12News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@N12News<\/a> Israel&#39;s most watched news show, former Likud MP Moshe Feiglin invokes ***Hitler*** to justify Gaza resettlement:<br><br> &quot;As Hitler said, &#39;I cannot live if one Jew is left,&#39; we can&#39;t live here if one &#39;Islamo-nazi&#39; remains in Gaza.&quot;<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ONAVTON8jk\">pic.twitter.com\/ONAVTON8jk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Etan Nechin (@Etanetan23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Etanetan23\/status\/1802310599776276750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feiglin&#8217;s remarks earned widespread condemnation on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In what kind of society can one openly advocate policies modeled on Hitler&#8217;s conduct?&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tparsi\/status\/1802413822373773491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>&nbsp;Trita Parsi, the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. &#8220;In a society that feels complete impunity due to America&#8217;s protection.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Greek Finance Minister and leader of the pan-European leftist political party DiEM25&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/yanis-varoufakis\">Yanis Varoufakis<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yanisvaroufakis\/status\/1802370896708939903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;that &#8220;the evidence of genocidal intentions is mounting&#8221; and asked, &#8220;When will the ICC [International Criminal Court] act?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MOHGaza1994\/posts\/pfbid0GzZybHv1cJNWYx5gUGrUBmPM9ckWjciH653KActx1mqmdSyemXWkQdzWCXXpGJPil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has killed<\/a>&nbsp;at least 37,337 people and injured 85,299 in its war on Gaza since October 7, when Hamas carried out a lethal attack against southern Israel, killing around 1,100 people and taking more than 240 hostage. Prior to the attack, Israel had maintained a 16-year blockade of the narrow enclave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/south-africa-icj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brought a case<\/a>&nbsp;before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, citing the vast destruction of its bombing campaign as well as statements made by high-level Israeli politicians, including Netanyahu, that portray all Gazans as complicit in the October 7 attacks. Several human rights experts and scholars have also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/genocide-gaza#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concluded<\/a>&nbsp;that Israel is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/gaza-genocide-2667597341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">committing<\/a>&nbsp;genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time that Feiglin, who served in the Knesset from 2013 to 2015, has called for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need a different prime minister who is willing to stick his neck out to win. Zehut will provide, whenever elections happen, such a candidate,&#8221; he told supporters in January, according to&nbsp;<em>Middle East Eye<\/em>. &#8220;For us, the war in Gaza is not merely a defensive war. It&#8217;s a war of liberation, the liberation of the land from its occupiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an October 2023 interview with&nbsp;<em>Al Jazeera,&nbsp;<\/em>he also advocated for the &#8220;complete destruction of Gaza, before invading it&#8230; Destruction like Dresden and Hiroshima, without a nuclear weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zehut&#8217;s 2019 platform included the cancellation of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2024-06-16\/ty-article\/former-israeli-mk-quotes-hitler-while-discussing-gaza-war\/00000190-224f-d231-a1b2-e65f76fe0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a><em>Haaretz.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t talk to me about international law, because there is not such a thing. You know, the minute you use the word &#8216;Palestinian,&#8217; you stop saying the truth. Because there is no Palestinian nation, and they know it,&#8221; Feiglin said that same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other currently governing Israeli politicians have also called for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/israeli-minister-evict-gazans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in January that the Israeli government should &#8220;encourage the migration&#8221; of Palestinians out of Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later the same month, Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/israeli-ministers-settler-conference\" target=\"_blank\">attended<\/a>\u00a0a right-wing conference calling for the &#8220;resettlement&#8221; of Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/oliviarosane\">OLIVIA ROSANE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivia Rosane is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/oliviarosane\">Full Bio ><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/moshe-feiglin-hitler?utm_source=Common+Dreams&amp;utm_campaign=af4dfba027-Weekend+Edition%3A+Sun.+6%2F16%2F24&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/moshe-feiglin-hitler?utm_source=Common+Dreams&amp;utm_campaign=af4dfba027-Weekend+Edition%3A+Sun.+6%2F16%2F24&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli far-right Zehout (identity) political party chairman Moshe Feiglin gives a joint press statement with Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu (unseen) in Ramat Gan, near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on August 29, 2019.&nbsp; (Photo: Jack Guez\/AFP via Getty Images) &#8220;In what kind of society can&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/israeli-politician-quotes-hitler-to-argue-for-resettlement-of-gaza\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34399,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398\/revisions\/34399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}