Limelight: River of blood

Lubna Abdel-Aziz
Saturday 5 Jul 2025

Not a shred of humanity can be perceived throughout the alien land called Israel. A land coveted by fraudulent colonialists keeps accusing others of their own violence and murder.

 

Once a garden in bloom, the whole Gaza Strip is now a desert of dust and ash. Watch the ghastly relics of grey cadavers as they lie spread across the filling fields.

Saddened and stunned by the senseless bloodshed we recall several historic mentions of “river of blood”, in the aftermath of massacres in battles and wars. There was no battle, no war, only a one-sided slaughter of unarmed, helpless innocents as their daily exercise.

Is there no contempt or condemnation of those heinous acts?

Feeble and lukewarm disapprovals of the governments of Canada, France, and the UK are inadequate and ineffective. Bullets of rain come down in torrents of blood that fall on starving crowds searching food and drink for another day.

Who aids Netanyahu and Co. as they drive Gazans into a corner of the Strip, while the rest will perish and die? Who is complicit in the extermination of a race, hopeless and helpless, feeding into the cauldron of daily killings? If others accept 6,000 killed after the approved ceasefire in March, they are cut from the same cloth as Netanyahu.

Those countries that condemned the Nazis are only happy to applaud the utter devastation of the Zionists. They too are cut from the same cloth.

Consider the hatred and violence of the Nazi-like Zionists, who arrest and detain seven-year-old children. They are not only similar but have surpassed their masters.

It is easy to compare Israel and Nazi Germany, given the legacy of the Holocaust now raging and shocking to the core. In the 20th century a wide variety of academics and politicians have invoked comparisons between Zionism and Nazism. Is it hatred or admiration?

Which started, the chicken or the egg?

Zionism was a political movement to create a homeland for the Jews since the 19th century, long before Hitler. Their reasons, excuses, or defences lie in the antisemitic campaigns of persecution throughout Europe. However, those European Jews were never Semites, they were Eastern Europeans.

Like the Aryan race needed to create a separate state as a means of defending themselves, so do the Zionists. Both justified their actions as an attempt to defend themselves against supposed genocides. Both are militaristic, supremacist ideologies — the only difference is the perpetrators and their victims.

Did Hitler believe in a Master Race? So does Netanyahu and all the Zionists — they are the “Chosen People”, superior to all others, regardless of the fact that had no relation with the original concept in the Bible. Those Zionists or Ashkenazis, are known as Turkic tribes who lived north of the Caucasus, between the Black and Caspian seas. At their height of power, from the seventh to the ninth century, they decided to convert to Judaism. When they were attacked by the Mongol invaders they escaped to neighbouring countries, mostly Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. Because they adhered to Judaism, they were identified as Jews by Eastern Europeans. That is why DNA research finds 97.5 per cent of Israelis are Eastern Europeans, not Semites.

Like the Nazis, Zionists put racial groups in ghettos and camps, like Auschwitz and Gaza. They both use languages to dehumanise inferiors and engaged in collective punishment. Zionists did not establish gas chambers yet, but their “carpet bombing” performs the job admirably.

Race is at the essence of the Zionist cultural identity.

Redefining the faith of Judaism is abhorrent to Orthodox Jews, a perversion of the Biblical religion. Believers of the faith detest the principle of Zionism which has now become a national ideology.

The entire propaganda of the Zionists to project all Jews as a single ethnic racial entity, makes them the overall encompassing totalitarian fascists, which they are. Why then do Europeans cooperate with fascists? What about Nazi Germany? Are they not complicit today as they were when they established Israel? The very origins of Nazism and racism are the identical ideologies in nature, of totalitarianism and fascism, fought in the 20th century, embraced in the 21st century.

No wonder they say: “Zionism is Fascism… exactly.”

“The spirit of Hitler lives,” murmur a few intellectuals outside the US, while the US remain deaf, dumb, and blind. They cry “the Jews have the right to live in peace,” while beneath them they refuse to see the river of blood as it flows, in silence.

Zionism has taken up the mantle of the Nazis, just shifting the scene from Europe to the Middle East. Has anyone noticed?

Even Albert Einstein, a devout Jew, supported the idea of a Jewish homeland, but not that of a Jewish state. Historian Arnold J Toynbee reconsidered his view that Zionism was like Nazism. Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz introduced the term “Judeo-Nazis” and argued that “military occupation of the Palestinian territories would lead to the moral degradation of Israeli Defence Force.” And so it happened, only worse.

“The whole Gaza Strip needs to be emptied. Flattened. Just like in Auschwitz.” That is their daily catchphrase as some Israelis still remember, and they clap and cheer.

Revisiting the battle cry of antisemitism, we mention The Times of Israel quoting professor Shai Carmi, following his study of Israeli DNA: “No DNA sequences exist for Ashkenazi Jewry.”

There is only semitic DNA of Palestinians as dead bodies flow in their rivers of blood.

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

* A version of this article appears in print in the 3 July, 2025 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly

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