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8 - Concluding Thoughts: Humanity's Need for Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

David Patterson
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Dallas
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Do we not smell here…the odor of the camps? Violence is no longer a political phenomenon of war and peace.…It is the abyss of Auschwitz or the world at war. A world which has lost its “very worldliness.…” One must go back inside, even if there is terror inside. Is the fact of Israel unique? Does it not have its full meaning because it applies to all humanity? All men are on the verge of being in the situation of the State of Israel. The State of Israel is a category.

Emmanuel Lévinas, Nine Talmudic Readings

We have traced a genealogy of exterminationist Jew hatred from National Socialism to Islamic Jihadism. The branches of the tree, the web of interrelations, are intricate and complex, yet the influences and the parallels are clear. Abdul Al'a Maududi, Hasan al-Banna, and Michel Aflaq were admirers and students of Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, and Johannes von Leers. Haj Amin al-Husseini was connected, both ideologically and politically, to al-Banna and the Brotherhood, as well as to Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, and Heinrich Himmler; among his most notorious protégées was Yasser Arafat. Al-Husseini also had ties to Iraqi Baathist Kairallah Tulfah, the guardian and mentor of Saddam Hussein. The Brotherhood branched out to establish itself in the Sudan, first under Hasan al-Turabi and then under Omar al-Bashir.

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A Genealogy of Evil
Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad
, pp. 254 - 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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