by Lilian Rosengarten

“I need to say again, as a Jew and refugee from Nazi Germany I am ashamed of Israel, a country I once hoped to love. Zionism has succeeded to activate the rise of anti-Semitism, a result in my view of a grisly, brutal agenda of ethnic cleansing, , apartheid and human rights crimes against Palestinians.”

A submarine, the biggest ever constructed in Germany is being delivered to the Israeli Navy that has the capacity to carry a nuclear weapon. The cost is more than 1 billion Euros, 33% has been covered by the German government. This is the 4th German built submarine delivered. That it was built by the Thyssen Krupp marine builders is an odd twist of fate. Krupp Industries employed workers conscripted by the Nazi regime from across Europe. These workers were initially paid, but as Nazi fortunes declined they were kept as slave workers. Krupp industries was prosecuted after the end of war for its support to the Nazi regime and use of forced labour.(Wikipedia) In 1997 a takeover created Thyssen Krupp Stahl AG. That Krupp industries employed workers forced to work for the Nazi Regime across Europe and to served Hitler in his war against Jews and other “undesirables” underlies an important question. How do we understand Germany’s surreal behavior as it supplies massive U Boats built for war to Zionist Israel? What ambivalence and hidden motives must feed into Germany’s relationship to Israel?

Surreal, terrifying. The nightmare from which I cannot wake is the shame I feel as a Jew to be witness once again to Nationalism and racism in the form of Zionist Israel’s crimes against Palestinians as well as blind collaborative support of Israel by the US and Germany in particular. Of course, this support is misdirected for to support genocide is a crime itself. What drives them in this misguided blindness? Of course we cannot exclude enormous financial gains in the business of war games that offer enormous monetary wealth through the killing machines. What existential fears create such a corruption of alliances as well as the destruction of the entire Middle East by NATO with the US at its helm. It goes on, reignited again at this moment to fight some other “terrorist” phantom.

I received a report from the Daily Beast It says: (Nico Hines and Sami Yosafzai 8/11/14)

Obama’s Pentagon Covered Up War Crimes in Afghanistan, Says Amnesty International

“The human-rights group reports the U.S. military systematically ignored evidence of torture and unlawful killings in Afghanistan as recently as last year.”

The U.S. military has systematically covered up or disregarded “abundant and compelling evidence” of war crimes, torture, and unlawful killings in Afghanistan as recently as last year, according to a report by Amnesty International published today in Kabul.

Shameful and not surprising that a nation capable of such evil, can without much conscience support evil.

Germany on the other hand appears to continue to carry leftover guilt of crimes against Jews. That this may be true indicates how the Holocaust has been transformed into big business, a black mark on the memory of the Nazi Holocaust as well as a betrayal of what it means to be Jewish.

I need to say again, as a Jew and refugee from Nazi Germany I am ashamed of Israel, a country I once hoped to love. Zionism has succeeded to activate the rise of anti-Semitism, a result in my view of a grisly, brutal agenda of ethnic cleansing, , apartheid and human rights crimes against Palestinians. In addition, it has created the completely false and destructive label of “anti-Semite “ to those who resist. We see evidence of “domestic terrorism,” that is the use of the Nazi Holocaust to create fear and guilt in populations that have an emotional connection and a fear of the rise of Nazism once again. Insanity is what comes to mind. A twisted ideology arising from generations of paranoia , wounds not healed and a Zionist belief in exceptionalism, better than, superiority, that which lends itself to racism. It is important to reiterate , Zionism and Judaism have no connection. One is a nationalistic political movement, the other a religion. It is Zionism that propels the Israel/Palestine into the fantasy of “Jewish State Only.” If there is to be a Democratic Israel/ Palestine, Zionism must cease to exist.

Lilian Rosengarten, author “From The Shadows Of Nazi Germany To The Jewish Boat To Gaza:” translated into German, “ Ein bewegtes Leben von den Schatten Nazi-Deutschlands Zum judischen Boot nach Gaza (Zambon). Contact : [email protected]

Copyright Lilian Rosengarten, Intifada, 2014