Ideological preparations for another holocaust

Submitted by Paul Walline (United States), Oct 26, 2003 at 10:08

The ideological justifications for wiping out all Jews in Israel are in place. All that remains is to find justifications for allowing all the Arabs in Israel to be killed along with the Jews, as WMD doesn't discriminate. That's why reaction in the Arab world to suicide bombings in which Arabs are killed is especially significant in my opinion. So far, Arabs killed by Palestinians have been labelled collaborators or SLA Christians (recent Haifa suicide bombing) or martyrs (suicide bombers). But if a more general justification or dispensation gains acceptance, I think the situation will be even more dangerous. Maybe all it would take is to declare that the Palestinian people have already chosen to become martyrs and will be rewarded in heaven en masse just as individual suicide bombers are.

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