Even the Nazis Didn’t Murder Red Cross Workers & Bomb Hospitals, Schools & Ambulances - Israel’s Execution of 15 Red Crescent & Aid Workers Marks a New Low

 On 24 April 1945 when Berlin was Liberated the Jewish Hospital Was Functioning, its 800 Jewish Patients Still Alive

It was a chance remark at the 2019 Palestine Expo Conference in London that so enraged the Zionists. I was speaking from the floor after having been asked to clarify a point someone had made about Ha’avara, the Zionist trade agreement with the Nazis. I explained that for the Zionists, the rise of Hitler had been a golden opportunity which they seized with both hands. I said that

“Nazi Germany in a sense built the state of Israel at a crucial time and you can actually say that the state of Israel today is Hitler’s bastard offspring because the ideology, the ideology that permeates Israel, Jewish racial supremacy, originated in the fascist states of Europe.”

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However I did not envisage that the Israeli state would sink to the levels of depravity, sadism and cruelty that we have seen since October 7^th where Israeli government ministers take pleasure in trying to outdo each other in their declarations of how cruel they can be.

Israel’s Fascist Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich complained last August that

“No one in the world will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages.”

Not to be outdone the deputy speaker of the Knesset, Nissim Vaturi, called for the separation of children from their mothers and the killing of adults in Gaza. During an interview with Kol BaRama radio, Nissim Vaturi called Palestinians “subhumans”.

The rear garden of Berlin's Jewish Hospital

Now that Israel is actually starving Gaza’s Palestinians, having blocked all aid shipments for a month, none of the imperialist powers is saying anything.

Hans Frank - Nazi Governor-General of Poland who Implemented the Death by Hunger Policy the Zionists have adopted

It was the Nazi Governor-General of Poland’s General Government, Hans Frank, who declared a policy of death by hunger. 80,000 Jews in Warsaw and 45,000 in Lodz died, not from deportation but starvation.

But even the Nazis allowed some food into the ghettos. Israel for the past month has allowed no food or medicine or fuel into Gaza. This is a war crime yet the Western governments say nothing, see nothing and hear nothing. That miserable apology for a human being Starmer can only refer to 7 October, the revolt of the slaves.

The position of the German government is more understandable. Having been involved in 4 genocides so far (Maji Maji, Herero/Nama, Armenian & the Nazi Holocaust) it is no surprise that they are funding and arming Israel’s genocide. After all there isn’t a genocide that the German State hasn’t smiled upon. But what of the silence of the rest of Europe?

From the very start Israel had a simple policy. It was to destroy all traces of Palestinian civilisation and society in Gaza. According to Israel, every hospital, school, mosque, church and university that they have bombed have been Hamas ‘command and control’ bases. If you believe that then I have a bridge to sell you.

Main entrance to Berlin's Jewish Hospital seen from the inner garden of the hospital. Source: Jüdisches Museum

Israel’s lies have been just that.  If Hamas has any command and control centers then they will be located underground in the tunnels not in hospital wards.  But western imperialism and the United States, which committed the same war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, was more than prepared to accept Israel’s lies.

The fact that not one Hamas fighter has been photographed firing out of a hospital is proof in itself of Israel’s lies. One can only imagine what the reaction would be if Russia started making the same claims in Ukraine.

It was no surprise that after having targeted journalists, health, UN and humanitarian aid workers that Israel would murder 8 Red Crescent and 6 civil defence workers as well as one UNWRA employee. UNWRA after all has been declared a ‘terrorist’ organisation so why not kill its employees?

But we should reflect.  Not even Nazi Germany targeted ambulances, Red Cross workers or hospitals. Even Nazi Germany respected the Geneva Convention in regard to captured soldiers (Russians excepted) and didn’t torture them to death.

Nazi Germany is rightly condemned for its extermination of 6 million Jews as well as millions of others. It is well known that poison gas was used to murder many of these.  What is not known is why this was so.

The first mass killings of Jews took place in the wake of the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 when four killing squads of SS men, the Einsatzgruppen, were sent in the rear of the German army to murder Jews and Communists.

These killings usually took place on the outskirts of towns and the victims were forced to dig their own graves and undress before they were shot. The reason that this method of murder, at least 1 million were killed this way, did not continue was because of its effect on the SS men.

SS Obergruppenfuehrer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski told Himmler that: ‘These men were now finished for the rest of their lives: they would either be neurotics or savages….’ The SS established a mental institution in the East by November 1941 for men suffering from the effects of murdering women and children.

It was then that the Nazis began experimenting in other ways to kill Jews and other undesirables. Arthur Nebe, the head of the Criminal Police who became head of Einsatzgruppe B, was given permission by Himmler to try out dynamite on the residents of  a mental asylum. His Wikipedia  entry describes how

One of the bunkers was loaded with explosives and 24 mental patients were put into it. Nebe gave the signal to detonate, but the resultant explosion failed to kill the patients. Several of them emerged from the bunker covered in blood and screaming loudly. Thereupon more explosives were brought up, the wounded patients were forced back into the bunker, and a second explosion finally finished the job. The bunker had become quiet and parts of bodies could be seen hanging from nearby trees

Nebe later confided to Zelewski that that the result of the experiments had been ‘woeful’. [Raul Hilberg, Destruction of the European Jews, p.344]

It was this that led on to the use of gas, firstly carbon monoxide and then Zyklon-B. One suspects that if the Nazis had had access to the high powered explosives and bombs that the Americans have supplied Israel with, then they may well have decided to bomb the Jewish ghettoes instead.  

Israel has embarked on a policy of extermination coupled with deliberate starvation and destruction of water sources, hospitals, schools and just about any form of shelter. Hence their murder of the Red Crescent and other workers and their deliberate firing on ambulances. Today, as International Law is rendered impotent there is no war crime that the Israeli military is not capable of.

We have been here before. In April 2024 Israel deliberately killed 7 World Food Kitchen workers who had supplied their coordinates to the Israelis beforehand. On the pretext of targeting a Hamas fighter Israel picked off one vehicle after another until it murdered the lot.  The world was outraged but that outrage didn’t extend to the mass murder of Palestinians.

Even supposing that Israel was targeting ‘terrorists’ is the Israeli army be entitled to bomb a hospital to kill them? Just imagine your local hospital. Someone is on the rampage there with a gun. Is the army entitled to destroy the whole hospital to kill one person?  Yet that is Israel’s excuse.

It is clear beyond all doubt that it is not Hamas but Israel that is the terrorist state and that the West is aiding its terrorism. We only need to contrast Hamas’ treatment of the Israeli hostages with Israel’s torture of Palestinian hostages.

We should ponder on the fact that on April 24, 1945, when Soviet troops liberated a Berlin hospital, they discovered, two years after Goebbels had declared Berlin Judenrein, that there was a Jewish hospital, where Jewish doctors and nurses had treated Jewish patients throughout the war. Some 800 Jews survived.

Unlike all of Gaza’s hospitals it hadn’t been bombed or shelled. That is why it is correct to say that the Israeli state is now a fitting successor to Nazi Germany and that it harbours exactly the same exterminationist mentality as the Waffen SS who ran the extermination and concentration camps. The main difference is that whereas the majority of the Israeli Jewish people consider Palestinians to be subhuman, in Germany it was only a minority who held to these views.

That was why all the extermination camps – Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Chelmno and Maidenek - were situated on Polish soil. The vast majority of Germans were unaware of what was taking place in their name. The same cannot be said of Israeli Jews who are well aware of what is happening in Gaza even if they pretend to the contrary.

And that is why  I was perfectly correct to describe Israel as Hitler’s Bastard Offspring.

Tony Greenstein