{"id":296,"date":"2009-01-12T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T15:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-01-12T17:51:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T15:51:36","slug":"ghostbusters-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/ghostbusters-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostbusters in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ghostbusters.jpg\"In an extraordinary interview in today’s Times, a 24-year old Hamas fighter named \u201cMohammed\u201d explains in some detail how the organization is preparing to deal a crushing blow to the Zionist enemy. He talks about their tunnels and booby-traps and how Hamas has essentially already won the war.
\n\u201cWe are the soldiers who run towards death,\u201d he boasts. \u201cThey run away from it.\u201d
\nAnd adds: \u201cI tell you, even our ghosts will defeat the Israelis.\u201d
\nOur ghosts?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n


\nThe Times interviewer let that one slide, but I was instantly reminded of how other racist, totalitarian terror-states used similar comic-book rhetoric in their moments of defeat.
\nAt the very end of the Second World War, the Nazi SS under Himmler’s orders decided to launch resistance operations behind the lines of the advancing Allied armies.
\nGerman defeat was at this stage of the war a certainty, though Goebbels’ propaganda machine continued to talk as if Germany was luring the Allies into a trap as they advanced into Germany proper.
\nThey had to come up with a name to describe these heroic young lads who were going to turn the Reich into a graveyard for the invaders. Names like ‘partisan’ and ‘maquis’ had already been taken by the other side, so they come up with an original one rooted deep in the national psyche \u2013 and Hollywood horror films.
\nThe last fighting Nazis were to be called \u201cwerewolves.\u201d
\nAre we noticing a pattern here?
\nThe SS-Werwolf organization was an utter failure. With Hitler’s death, German resistance collapsed. The Reich turned out not to be the graveyard of the invading Allied armies as the Nazis had boasted but the graveyard of millions of Germans, civilians and soldiers alike.
\nAs the battle in Gaza seems to be drawing to a close, the increasingly delusional behaviour of Hamas, holed up in their bunkers, resembles the final days of the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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