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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (98545)5/20/2003 1:07:47 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Finally, Lewis manages the most despicable calumny of all: the equation of the Arab world with the Nazi movement. He begins his extended discussion of this topic thus: “The Nazi version of German ideologies was influential in nationalist circles, notably among the founders and followers of the Ba’th Party in Syria and Iraq.” With this characterization in hand, what better reason could there be for the United States to invade this “axis of evil?”


Since when is the truth a calumny? The Nazis wooed the Arab world from the 30's on, and quite successfully, for obvious reasons - my enemy's enemy and all that. Nasser and Sadat were Nazis - members of the Egyptian branch of the Nazi Party. The Mufti was an ardent Nazi who spent WWII in Berlin after trying and failing to manage a Nazi-inspired coup in Iraq. It was Nazi influence that promoted the farhoud against the Jews in 1941, well before you can blame it on the evil Zionists.

During this period, the Nazi stereotypes of Jews - members of a diabolical cabal out to rule the world - replaced the traditional Arab stereotypes of Jews as despicable and clownish. The Arab world has repeated Nazi propaganda from that day to this, such as the forged remarks supposedly by Benjamin Franklin on the Jews that were printed in a Saudi paper last year, if I remember correctly.

This guy seems to be coming from your school of "ooh! it's beyond the pale to call anyone a Nazi" - even if they regularly goose-stepped and cried 'Heil Hitler'
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