Palestinians hold a sign depicting a swastika during clashes at Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah March 19, 2010. Stone-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces in several locations in East Jerusalem and the West Bank amid tensions over Israel's recently announced plan to build houses in East Jerusalem.
I don't know either but there are Lebanese groups that use swastikas or swastika-like symbols as their emblems.
Hitler and the Nazis are not reviled as he is here. And Mein Kampf is a big seller in the Middle East and there's great admiration of Hitler in Pakistan which is embarrassing for modern Germans but which explains some things:
I would assume this is what it looks like. Apart from admiration of Hitler, all over the world it's common to use Nazi symbols to insult Jews and there was a Nazi presence in the Middle East, including actual Germans who fled there after the war.
There's something else - if you watch Hezbollah videos, stuff like that - often the soundtrack will be sort of Middle Eastern Wagnerian - it doesn't sound like real Arabic music, it has a heavy Germanic feel to it. I was reading an article a few years ago about the Lebanese attack on the Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al Bared and one of the Lebanese soldiers killed there was named "Rommel" (his first name.) Also Germans were admired in the Ottoman Empire, obviously and Mein Kampf has recently become a best seller there, which is depressing.
No hyperbole, no exaggeration of any kind, is needed to label this "Obama's Intifada". It's more than that, obviously enough, but to label it Obama's Intifada is entirely apropos, in fact is apposite.
The arab nazi swastika flag flies along with the arab nazi hamass flag, the arab nazi hezbullah flag, with burqa wearing arab nazi women praising SHITler.
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I don't get it. Are these guys holding that swastika because they're praising Hitler or because they're saying that the Israelis are Nazis?
It's the same question that I have when I see Arab demonstrators in the US giving the swastika salute to pro-Israel demonstrators.
I don't know either but there are Lebanese groups that use swastikas or swastika-like symbols as their emblems.
Hitler and the Nazis are not reviled as he is here. And Mein Kampf is a big seller in the Middle East and there's great admiration of Hitler in Pakistan which is embarrassing for modern Germans but which explains some things:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,683966,00.html
I would assume this is what it looks like. Apart from admiration of Hitler, all over the world it's common to use Nazi symbols to insult Jews and there was a Nazi presence in the Middle East, including actual Germans who fled there after the war.
There's something else - if you watch Hezbollah videos, stuff like that - often the soundtrack will be sort of Middle Eastern Wagnerian - it doesn't sound like real Arabic music, it has a heavy Germanic feel to it. I was reading an article a few years ago about the Lebanese attack on the Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al Bared and one of the Lebanese soldiers killed there was named "Rommel" (his first name.) Also Germans were admired in the Ottoman Empire, obviously and Mein Kampf has recently become a best seller there, which is depressing.
Here's Hitchens and Michael Totten:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/05/christopher-hitchens200905
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/02/christopher-hit.php
No hyperbole, no exaggeration of any kind, is needed to label this "Obama's Intifada". It's more than that, obviously enough, but to label it Obama's Intifada is entirely apropos, in fact is apposite.
The arab nazi swastika flag flies along with the arab nazi hamass flag, the arab nazi hezbullah flag, with burqa wearing arab nazi women praising SHITler.