"Hitler" is as "hitler" does

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Building a coalition? Present tense? That ship was launched at the turn of this century.

The more I read about the current collusion among the Saudi oil-suckers, the Israeli landgrabbers, and the Americans peeing on every threshold they come across, the more it seems clear that 9/11 was planned and executed in collusion by all three - to provide an excuse to carry out exactly what's been planned for the Middle East since even before that pivotal event - as recommended by the Project for the New American Century  - "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."

It doesn't seem like a coincidence that The Times Of Israel recently drew attention to a book writer's theory about Hitler, which is that Hitler saw the rest of humanity as less than human and therefore disposable, while Jews pricked his conscience with their abiding respect for all humanity - and therefore had to be disposed of.

I ask the Times, were you trying to make anti-Semites out of all of us so that you could say, "I told you so?" Well, it's not working, because I am positive there are plenty of Jews who would scoff at the suggestion that Israel's leadership has in any way respected the humanity of its own cousins, the Palestinians.

So ... did Hitler round up only the good Jews and somehow didn't notice the not-so-good ones? Jews are people, after all, not just one sweet person. As such, they had - and have - differing attitudes.

Quotes from the book:

• The Nazi dictator thought “races struggle against each other, kill each other, starve each other to death, and try and take land” — this is life in its purest and most true form.
• In Hitler’s eyes [...] the Jews subvert this natural order by introducing the idea that people can see each other as human beings.

Humanitarian Jews, maybe, but racist Israelis who elect right-wing criminals, not so much.

Totalitarianism is alive and well in leaders of every stripe, still waving its narcissistic flag at every opportunity, loudly claiming to protect certain humans from the bogeyman du jour by threatening, destroying and plundering certain other humans.

But this current drum beat won't fly. Too many of us now know too much.  It's no wonder they want to censor the Internet.

Anyone with a functioning brain who has watched the American leadership since the Bushes, and the Israeli leadership since Ariel Sharon, combined with the Saudi so-called Crown Prince - who would wipe out his whole family to ensure his own future - will not believe for a moment that plundering Iran (via Lebanon) will protect "democracy" from the Nazi/Fascist/Totalitarian whatever.

"We have met the enemy and he is us" (Pogo) as represented by these thoroughly immoral leaders and as permitted by other so-called democratic states.

Hannah Arendt, was not only an extremely clear thinker, but also a prophet with regard to how evil is justified and how leaders dupe their people into complicity:

• “Practically speaking, the totalitarian ruler proceeds like a man who persistently insults another man until everybody knows that the latter is his enemy, so that he can, with some plausibility, go out and kill him in self-defense.”
• "The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them."

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