The news values of nazis

All nazis aren't equally interesting in news reporting. If this is caused by the preferences of the editorial staffs, or of the news consumers, or both is best left unsaid. Yesterday SvD reported that a gang of nazis has been arrested in Israel.

Picture of the Israeli nazi gang.

A similar case was news bill material in Metro about a year ago. The nazis are Russians who immigrated to Israel and received citizenship in accordance with the Law of Return, which guarantees Israeli citizenship to Jews and persons with at least one Jewish grandparent.

It's obvious that the law leads to absurdities, but its purpose is honorable, and to abolish it would be madness. Israel's primary raison d'être is to protect Jews from the persecutions they are exposed to in Christian and Muslim countries. Similar Laws exist in Armenia, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kiribati, Lebanon, Poland, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Serbia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine.

Jackie Arklöf - ironic nazi.

The irony of nazis of Jewish origin as a phenomenon is hardly unnoticed by anyone, but it is not at all unique. Who doesn't remember the Swede Jackie Arklöf, who was a nazi and far from the Aryan ideal? And sure I can understand that it is amusing to revel in these absurd phenomena, even if they are marginal. Blond nazis with blue eyes are not as hot news material.

Unfortunately nazis aren't a marginal phenomenon in the Levant. They did de facto get an absolute majority in the Palestinian parliamentary elections. Read for example an excerpt from Hamas Charter, where the Jews (here only called "the Enemy") are accused of being behind both World Wars:

"Article Twenty-Two: The Powers which Support the Enemy
The enemies have been scheming for a long time, and they have consolidated their schemes, in order to achieve what they have achieved. They took advantage of key elements in unfolding events, and accumulated a huge and influential material wealth which they put to the service of implementing their dream. This wealth [permitted them to] take over control of the world media such as news agencies, the press, publication houses, broadcasting and the like. [They also used this] wealth to stir revolutions in various parts of the globe in order to fulfill their interests and pick the fruits. They stood behind the French and the Communist Revolutions and behind most of the revolutions we hear about here and there. They also used the money to establish clandestine organizations which are spreading around the world, in order to destroy societies and carry out Zionist interests. Such organizations are: the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B’nai B’rith and the like. All of them are destructive spying organizations. They also used the money to take over control of the Imperialist states and made them colonize many countries in order to exploit the wealth of those countries and spread their corruption therein. As regards local and world wars, it has come to pass and no one objects, that they stood behind World War I, so as to wipe out the Islamic Caliphate. They collected material gains and took control of many sources of wealth. They obtained the Balfour Declaration and established the League of Nations in order to rule the world by means of that organization. They also stood behind World War II, where they collected immense benefits from trading with war materials and prepared for the establishment of their state. They inspired the establishment of the United Nations and the Security Council to replace the League of Nations, in order to rule the world by their intermediary. There was no war that broke out anywhere without their fingerprints on it"

Fatah's lively youth movement.

Hezbollah have the same salute...

...as do Arafat's supporters.

This party got more than half of the votes. The second largest party, Fatah, isn't much better. The Hitler salute has been adopted by their youth movement, as well as by Hezbollah.

After World War II many nazis found a refuge in Arab countries. Worst was Syria, where Alois Brunner is still believed to live and prosper.

But Nazism had a stronghold in the Arab countries even before the war. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, assisted in recruiting Muslims in the Balkans to the SS during the war.

On June 1-2 1941 several hundreds of Jews were murdered in Baghdad in a nazi (Arab) pogrom, known as the Farhud.

There are more examples that all have one thing in common - they occurred long before there was a single Palestinian refugee.