Putin, Netanyahu and World War II Exploitation

BThe longer the Israeli assault on Gaza drags on and worsens, the more stark the connections between Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin appear. First – in Gaza more than in Ukraine – there are systematic strikes on civilian infrastructure that drive local populations into desperation.

If so, the basic norms of humanitarian law are violated, leading the International Criminal Court (ICC) to seek arrest warrants against the Russian president and Israeli prime minister.

However, this does not seem to bother Joe Biden, whose unconditional support for Israel is based on more than half a century of open “Zionist” commitment. Russian and Israeli leaders’ biased references to World War II and their aggressive rewriting of such history should worry Western democracies celebrating the eightieth anniversary of the Normandy landings.

“Chief Historian”

The call for the Great Patriotic War, in which 26 million Soviets, including 16 million civilians, died from 1941 to 1945 has become the basis of the Kremlin’s ultra-nationalist and anti-Western propaganda. Nicholas Werth skillfully expresses in his work Putin, Chief Historian (Paris, Gallimard, 2022), “ Stalin atoned for Lenin’s sin. By restoring the values ​​of patriotism rejected by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, he restored Russia to its imperial greatness and led to the victory of 1945. “.

More permissive laws to roll back cooperation between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1941 were notably adopted after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and then a general invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Ukrainian resistance as a package “Nazis” A real engage Genocide » Against the Russian-speaking majority of the Donbass.

As for Benjamin Netanyahu, he never said a word about the 1933 agreement between the Nazi regime and the Zionist organization, which became the only recognized Jewish movement in Germany, allowing 53,000 German Jews to immigrate to Palestine. On the other hand, he was inexplicable in his association of Palestinian nationalists with the Nazis.

As early as 1993, when Israel signed the “Oslo” peace accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), then-opposition leader Netanyahu drew up a dubious parallel to the 1938 Munich Agreement with Czechoslovakia for the benefit of Nazi Germany: “Arab regimes have embarked on a campaign to convince the West that the Arabs living in the West Bank, like the Sudeten Germans, are a separate people worthy of self-determination. » He adds” Arabs were directly inspired by the Nazis to fight against Israel..

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