Lebensraum: American & Israeli Neo-cons
Add More WWII Words To Their Dictionary
05 December 2012
By Jane Stillwater
Holy crap, I am now 70 years old -- and do you know
what that means? "That you're over the hill?" Well,
maybe that too. But it also means I'm probably going
to be one of the last living members of the "Greatest
Generation".
My parents, after surviving the Great Depression by
living on walnuts and working three jobs apiece to get
themselves through UCLA, were finally able to relax
financially by 1941. They'd purchased a home. My pop
had a job with the Los Angeles post office helping to
set up Social Security accounts. My older sister was
out of diapers. "It's all good," said my mother. "So
let's have another kid." And thus I was happily
conceived -- two months before Pearl Harbor. Oops.
And that's the true story about how I became a WWII
child.
But a few years from now, I'm most likely going to
become one of the last people alive on earth today who
was also alive during World War II. And thus all of
those words and phrases that every single American
used to say every day will soon be totally forgotten.
"Loose lips sink ships" and "Yes we can!" and "victory
garden" and "scrap metal drive" and... Gone the same
way as sayings and phrases used in the Civil War, the
Napoleonic War, the Crusades.
Well, not to worry. Many of those World War II words
and phrases are not only being still preserved today
but are actually becoming living breathing
facts-on-the-ground -- in America and Israel of all
places. Even as we speak, American and Israeli
neo-cons are adding word after word from WW II to
their modern-day dictionary.
Some of the favorite words among America's 1% and
Israel's ruling 16 families right now come straight
out of any half-way decent WWII lexicon. Coming alive
right here, right now are words like "Blitzkrieg" and
"Homeland" and "Stormtroopers". Perhaps the words
themselves have been changed in some cases -- but both
Israeli and American neo-cons are definitely hanging
on to their meaning!
Of course "Blitzkrieg" has been retired in favor of
the more hip "Shock and Awe" and "Cast Lead," but the
idea is exactly the same.
"Master Race" and "Aryans" have also become
disappeared WWII words but, again, not to worry.
They've still around -- just morphed into phrases like
"The Chosen People" and actions like the new Jim Crow
voting laws in Florida.
"National Socialism" may also be an out-of-date phrase
now-- but it's been easily replaced with words like
"Neo-Con" and "Corporate Welfare" and "Endless War".
"Non-consensual medical experiments"? In the 1950s,
the U.S. fed unsuspecting citizens LSD just to see how
they would react -- and they reacted badly. That
happened to a friend of mine, a young woman. It
screwed up her life for many years.
And American and Israeli neo-cons performed that
famous "ringworm" radiation experiment on
approximately 100,000 Sephardi Jewish school children,
killing many of them and giving many others horrible
cancers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMp1tef4lg4.
Then there's the more recent "U.S apologizes to
Guatemala for infecting prisioners with syphilis" bit.
Yuck! http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/01/
us-usa-guatemala-experiment-idUSTRE6903RZ20101001
And don't forget all the ongoing Israeli organ
trafficking scandals either. "To fill this need [for
organs] former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, then health
minister of Israel, organized a big donor campaign in
the summer of 1992. ...While the campaign was running,
young Palestinian men started to disappear from
villages in the West Bank and Gaza. After five days
Israeli soldiers would bring them back dead, with
their bodies ripped open." http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/08/28/israeli-organ-harvesting/
Dr. Mengele would have been so proud.
And American and Israeli neo-cons no longer use that
WW II term "Propaganda" any more. Why not? Because
"Public Relations" sounds so much better. But no
matter what you call it, a lie is still a lie.
World War II terms like "Sleeper Agents" and "Mole"
are also popular words in America and Israel these
days. Think Paul Wolfowitz, duel-citizenship, AIPAC,
the CIA-Mossad connection and that truly weird "stand
down" order from the Pentagon while Israeli fighter
jets repeatedly bombed and strafed the USS Liberty
http://www.usslibertyveterans.org/lvablog/#sthash.I2BA71mB.dpbs.
"Stalag"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hExHLM2raJA
Got that word covered too. Now we've got "Guantanamo"
and "Gaza".
Then there's the phrase "Gestapho," which clearly fits
the description of Israel's Shin Beth, apparently
responsible for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin --
among other things http://www.roitov.com/articles/rabin.htm.
And in America, we used to have Conintelpro. But now
we've got "Homeland Security".
And since the creation of Cast Lead II against Gaza,
even more World War II words and/or ideas have been
preserved by Netanyahu and his Wolf Pack, including
"Concentrations Camps" and "Lebensraum" and "Final
Solution" http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=8579.
PS: In Palestine right now, another word is being used
more and more frequently: "Nonviolence". And
nonviolent protests have become especially effective
in the West Bank as Israeli neo-con forces become more
and more sadistic and repulsive as "Greater Israel"
reaches out for more and more "Lebensraum". http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/11/23/roy/
sctFniw6Wn2n9nTdxZ91RJ/story.html
But how can Palestine's new and weak nonviolent forces
possibly stand up to Netanyahu's American-armed-and
dangerous multi-billion-dollar Shock and Awe? There is
a way. It's called "hacking." Or to use another WWII
word, "Decoding". A modern army such as the IDF runs
not on manpower or F16s or white phosphorus or nuclear
reactors or torture and other forms of breaking Geneva
conventions. A modern army runs on computers. Hack
them and the Big Guns are screwed.
This is also a lesson that the American and Israeli
"Resistance" might need to learn too. If you truly
want to defeat the neo-cons' "Thousand-Year Reich,"
don't hoard ammunition, learn to fire assault weapons
and survive in the woods. That's too old skool. Get a
degree in computer science instead. Then keep the GOP
from hacking our voting machines. Join Wikileaks. Join
Anonymous! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/17/anonymous-
hacks-israel-all-your-base_n_2150881.html
PPS: Doesn't anybody in Israel or America ever notice
that "Occupation" never works? Apparently not. It
didn't work for the Vichy government in France or for
the Japanese in Nanking or Bataan -- or for the
Americans in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan for that
matter. And "Occupation" is not working out in
Palestine either. 60 years of bloody occupation later,
"The Resistance" there is still going strong.
Punishment always leads to resistance. This seems to
be a basic rule of human nature. And with all these
harsh Thousand-Year-Reich occupations, something
always seems to go wrong! Kindness toward our fellow
human beings always works better. Plus here's an added
extra benefit: Kind people don't rot in Hell when they
die. Or in Gehenna.
PPPS: For years now, American neo-cons have used the
"Good War" idea to justify all kinds of Lebensraum
brutality all over the world. And as for the Israeli
neo-cons? They have become "Holocaust" ghouls --
preying on the memory of the horrible suffering of
European Jews during World War II in order to justify
the infliction of this very same suffering onto the
poor trapped "Warsaw Ghetto" Palestinians.