Article: The Axis of Powers; Nazi Tactics by Israel and America in the Phony War On Terror

As the Nazis viewed Jews, Slav, Gypsies and virtually all other nationalities as inferior to their "master race" so that their soldiers would not experience guilt over their genocidal slaughters, so do the Israelis and Bush administration actually view Muslims as inferior. The Axis sees "the other," the "enemy," as inferior, so that deaths of tens of thousands of "the other" seems justified while deaths on "our" side ï � �or kidnappings of a few in this case- are viewed by the Axis of Powers as horrendous and unforgivable. This dehumanization occurs officially and unofficially. It occurs officially, e.g., when Bush responds to a question about how many Iraqis have been killed by casually replying "oh, about 30,000," as though he were counting the cattle on his ranch. (As of August 2006, there are between 45,000 and 50,000 Iraqi dead according to US estimates!) It occurs unofficially, e.g., when troops on the ground dehumanize their enemy by calling them "towel heads" in the same way the US military in Vietnam called the Vietnamese "gooks." Even the media are co-opted in this dehumanization process as witness the daily reports of total American deaths, but virtually no reports of the overall death tolls among "the enemy."

Use of terms by US and Israeli propagandists like "Muslim Terrorists," "Muslim Extremists," and the latest demeaning term by Bush, "Muslim Fascists," is an attempt to taint all of Islamic religion and culture. Bush knows that the vast majority of his constituency in the US only hears the word "Muslim." Contrast that with the number of times we hear terms like "Christian Crusaders," "Christian or Jewish Extremists," "Christian or Jewish Neo-Nazis." These epithets are strictly off limits in the US, no matter how accurate they may be in depicting our government. The anti-Muslim insults are all part of the dehumanization process against people who are not only NOT terrorists or extremists, but defending their countries against illegal invasion and occupation by the Christian/Jewish Axis of Power.

Even more telling of this dehumanization is that the ratio of "enemy" killed to Americans and Israelis killed or kidnapped approaches hundreds to one. This is reminiscent of the same strategy used by the Nazis in WWII: slaughter of tens to hundreds of civilians when the Resistance killed even one German. Sadly, the US-Israeli ratio of our dead to their dead even exceeds the kill ratio of the Nazis! Can there be any clearer evidence of the view that "they," the "enemy," are seen as less worthy of life and dignity than "us?"

UNETHICAL AND ILLEGAL ENTRIES, SEARCHES AND DETENTIONS; USE OF TORTURE

There seems to be little disagreement, even from many US sources, that the Axis has violated international law and basic human decency by its violent repression of civilian populations. Both the US and Israel have deemed it their right to break in to any home in occupied territory that they wish in the search for "the enemy." Television news displays almost nightly present the images of Iraqi civilians screaming and crying in protest and desperation as occupation troops break into their homes, search any where they want, and then place hoods over the men, tie their hands behind their backs and roughly shove them to their knees. TO THEIR KNEES!

The US and Israel also hold THOUSANDS of prisoners from the lands they have invaded and occupied with basic human rights denied to many if not most of those prisoners. Even the puppet government of Britain has called for the release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, hundreds of whom have been held incommunicado FOR YEARS, with no contacts with family or legal representatives allowed. Meanwhile, the media have uncovered reports of secret prisons around the world where CIA victims are spirited to and never heard from again.

The visual reports from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq show the widespread use of torture there, and many international organizations ï � �from the United Nations to the Red Cross to Amnesty International- have provided evidence and protested the widespread use of torture by Americans and their allies, approved AS POLICY by the Bush administration!

All of these tactics are EXACTLY the same as the ones used by the Nazis in WWII. Are these prisons ï � �those that are known and the many that are secret- not American concentration camps?

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Of course, I want Israel to survive and flourish as a state, but alongside the equally flourishing Palestinian and Lebanese states whose autonomy and actual statehood Israel continues to deny, financially, militarily, and economically. As an American and as a Jew, my heart is broken; I cringe in disbelief and horror at the terror my own people have spread.

Terror bombing, illegal invasion of other countries using trumped up excuses, dehumanization of the enemy as inferior, widespread use of torture; these are exactly the same tactics the Nazis used. But these tactics will NEVER produce either the peace or victory the Axis of Powers claim they want. Remember WWII. The Nazis lost!

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