Israeli ambassador flings Nazi label at Israeli leaders, after latest authoritarian step

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are under attack and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
--A quote by Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, posted by Israeli Ambassador to Switzerland, Yigal Caspi, on Facebook, following the passing of the NGO bill.**

Caspi has removed the quotation. He clearly intended the comment as a warning to Israeli leaders. He is now under investigation for the statement. The NGO bill is a new law that forces leftleaning human-rights groups that receive substantial funds from overseas to wear labels when they come to the Israeli Knesset. Peace Now continues, “Another hot topic today was the comparisons to Nazis.”

    Hebrew University lecturer Dr. Ofer Cassif wrote on Facebook that Justice Minister Shaked is ‘Neo-Nazi scum’ and told Army Radio afterward, “I think it’s fair to compare Israel to Germany in the 1930s, and not to the years of genocide.” Cassif pointed to the Im Tirtzu video and Shaked’s NGO law. The article in Ynet noted that the Facebook posts come in the wake of the passing of the NGO bill, but it doesn’t mention that the bill requires the (mostly left-wing) NGO representatives to wear a special badge when they visit the Knesset committees to indicate that they receive more than 50% of their contributions from foreign states. Cassif shared on Facebook the post by his colleague Professor Amiram Goldblum, who sharply criticized Shaked for not revealing that she received ‘blood money’ contributions from a Jewish Belgian donor who is now in jail for selling arms to rebels in Sierra Leone. Private donations are not required to be revealed by the bill. Cassif was not alone in his comparison of Israel’s right-wing government to the Nazis. Israeli Ambassador to Switzerland, Yigal Caspi, posted a quote by a Nazi war criminal that described how fascist governments get their people to follow them, by “denouncing the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” Caspi added: “We’re on the right path…” Now, the ambassador faces punishment by the Foreign Ministry. Oddly, the article by Yedioth’s Itamar Eichner did not mention the context of the posting of the quote: the government’s approval of the NGO bill that labels left-wing Israeli human rights organizations.

Let’s be clear: anyone on the American left who used Nazi analogies for Israel was shunned for doing so, but Israeli leaders throw the Nazi stuff around readily. (For good reason; we all know that victims model their abuser when they gain any power.)

The Nazi charges of course go to the treatment of Palestinians. The NGOs all care about Palestinians. In its news list, Peace Now also mentions the latest failure in the investigation of the Duma murderers, Jewish zealots who torched a sleeping Palestinian family in occupied territory last summer. (Peace Now is virtually alone among liberal Zionist groups in recognizing the significance of the Duma murders as evidence of lawlessness, racism, and the fear among Palestinians.)

Many friends are saying that Israel is cracking up. “The end,” “Imploding,” “It’s over,” are two comments I’ve heard in the last day or two. Even J Street seems rattled (“deeply concerned and disappointed”). New Yorker editor David Remnick just got back from Jerusalem and said on the radio this morning that the situation is “tragic” and that Israel bears the greater share of responsibility for the failure of peace talks.

This crisis has long been evident to Palestinians. The knife attacks are of course a symptom of their loss of any faith in the many promises of freedom they have been given. Now the questions are: How long can Israel play out this crisis, as yet another burp in the managed-conflict model of persecution. And having long said that the status quo is unsustainable, will American leaders at last take a stand against apartheid and colonization? Who will speak up here, and show real leadership? Bernie? (And, to be parochial: how many secular American Jews will openly take on their parents and say what they believe in their hearts, that Jewish nationalism, the idea of a “Jewish democracy” established on lands belonging largely to others, is a snare and a delusion?)

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When your own Ambassador tells you that you are Nazis - you're Nazis!

Or actually insults the fact of what the Nazis stood for and shows no comparrison what so ever.
Anyone who makes such a comprrison is not only an idiot but insults all the victims of Nazism

Much as you like to think you are an authority on everything under the sun - I presume you have extra wide doors in your house to accommodate your head, the Israeli Ambassador know a bloody sight more about the situation than you ever will, being a RW neanderthal hasbara troll.

No I have far more an insight onto the policies and butchery of the Nazis's and there is utterly no comparrison and people who idiots such as yourself make comparrisons just like this idiot know nothing of Nazism.
Again even compare both is disgusting and reeks of nothing more to make the worst and unfounded claims on Israel.
Its nothing short of insulting every single victim who died through the cause of their hatred and aggreesions.

That is 60 mmillion people who died as a direct result of their actions and through the start of WW2 and the only comprrsion through naked aggression and where a nation is not excepted to exist comes from the Palestinians. Only therre is there an actual comparrison. Both started a conflict to erase a nation from the map. Germany succeeded in erasing Poland from the map, the Palestinians failed and yet you wish to seek to make out the aggressors in the Palestinians are victims. By that stupidity you make the same view to then make the Nazis victims

Ya didge, you know more than the Israeli Ambassador.  Jeez, have you any iidea how that re-inforces how unhinged you are?

I know more about history Sassy, what is his expertise on history?

Again the only comparrison to where a nation invaded another in modern times to erase it from history was also Nazi Germany.
You cannot stomach the fact that is so connected, because again the grand mufti and the Arab Palestinians also backed the holocasut and Nazism, a little fact you seem to neglect

My word, that says so much about you.  You need help.

And the usual copout reply, where as usual sassy cannot counter my factual points. How many Palestinians deny the holocasut. How many praise Hitler, how many during WW2 supported Hitler. Again two nations started a  conflict with the sole objective of erasing a country from existance.
Good thing the Israelis were able to defeat them and we would have been looking at A second holocasut within only 3 years of the last one ending

So you tell me sassy, is there a single point here I raised that is not accurate.
Watch the video and learn, because it shows how far removed you are frim even understanding the conflict and how even more winning peace requires both peoples understanding each other and the hardships they suffer