The Butcher of Beirut (Or Philosophy after Auschwitz)

The patron saint of Zionist irredentism, Ariel Sharon, expounded at length on his philosophy in the wake of his mass murders in 1982:

"You can call me anything you like. Call me a monster
or a murderer. Just note that I don't hate Arabs. On
the contrary. Personally, I am much more at east with
them, and especially with the Bedouin, than with Jews.
Those Arabs we haven't yet spoilt are proud people,
they are irrational, cruel and generous. It's the Yids
that are all twisted. In order to straighten them out
you have to first bend them sharply the other way.
That, in brief, is my whole ideology.
"Call Israel by any name you like, call it a
Judeo-Nazi state as does Leibowitz. Why not? Better a
live Judeo-Nazi than a dead saint. I don't care
whether I am like Ghadafi. I am not after the
admiration of the gentiles. I don't need their love. I
don't need to be loved by jews like you either. I have
to live, and I intend to ensure that my children will
live as well. With or without the blessing of the Pope
and the other religious leaders from the New York
Times. I will destroy anyone who will raise a hand
against my children, I will destroy him and his
children, with or without our famous purity of arms. I
don't care if he is Christian, Muslim, Jewish or
pagan. History teaches us that he who won't kill will
be killed by others. That is an iron law.

"Even if you'll prove to me by mathematical means that
the present war in Lebanon is a dirty immoral war, I
don't care. Moreover, even if you will prove to me
that we have not achieved and will not achieve any of
our aims in Lebanon, that we will neither create a
friendly regime in Lebanon nor destroy the Syrians or
even the PLO, even then I don't care. it was still
worth it. Even if Galilee is shelled again by
Katyushas in a year's time, I don't really care. We
shall start another war, kill and destroy more and
more, until they will have had enough. And do you know
why it is all worth it? Because it seems that this
war has made us more unpopular among the so-called
civilized world.

"We'll hear no more of that nonsense about the unique
Jewish morality, the moral lessons of the holocaust or
about the Jews who were supposed to have emerged from
the gas chambers pure and virtuous. No more of that.
The destruction of Eyn Hilwe (and it's a pity we did
not wipe out that hornet's nest completely!), the
healthy bombardment of Beirut and that tiny massacre
(can you call 500 Arabs a massacre?) in their camps
which we should have committed with our own delicate
hands rather than let the Phalangists do it, all these
good deeds finally killed the bullshit talk about a
unique people and of being a light upon the nations.
No more uniqueness and no more sweetness and light.
Good riddance."

"I personally don't want to be any better than
Khomeini or Brezhnev or Ghadafi or Assad or Mrs.
Thatcher, or even Harry Truman who killed half a
million Japanese with two fine bombs. I only want to
be smarter than they are, quicker and more efficient,
not better or more beautiful than they are. Tell me,
do the baddies of this world have a bad time? If
anyone tries to touch them, the evil men cut his hands
and legs off. They hunt and catch whatever they feel
like eating. They don't suffer from indigestion and
are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that
club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear
me instead of feeling sorry for me. Maybe they will
start to tremble, to fear my madness
instead of admiring my nobility. Thank god for that.
Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let
them understand that we are a wild country, dangerous
to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go
crazy if one of our children is murdered just one!
That we might go wild and burn all the oil fields in
the Middle East! If anything would happen to your
child, god forbid, you would talk like I do. Let them
be aware inWashington, Moscow, Damascus and China that
if one of our ambassadors is shot, or even a consul or
the most junior embassy official, we might start World
War Three just like that!"

"Let me tell me [sic] what is the most important
thing, the sweetest fruit of the war in Lebanon: It is
that now they don't just hate Israel. Thanks to us,
they now also hate all those Feinschmecker Jews in
Paris, London, New York, Frankfurt and Montreal, in
all their holes. At last they hate all these nice
Yids, who say they are different from us, that they
are not Israeli thugs, that they are different Jews,
clean and decent. Just like the assimilated Jew in
Vienna and Berlin begged the anti-Semite not to
confuse him with the screaming, stinking Ostjude, who
had smuggled himself into that cultural environment
out of the dirty ghettos of Ukraine and Poland. It
won't help them, those clean Yids, just as it did not
help them in Vienna and Berlin. Let them shout that
they condemn Israel, that they are all right, that
they did not want and don't want to hurt a fly, that
they always prefer being slaughtered to fighting, that they have
taken it upon themselves to teach the gentiles how to
be good Christians by always turning the other cheek.
It won't do them any good. Now they are getting it
there because of us, and I am telling you, it is a
pleasure to watch.

"They are the same Yids who persuaded the gentiles to
capitulate to the bastards in Vietnam, to give it in
to Khomeini, to Brezhnev, to feel sorry hr Sheikh
Yamani because of his tough childhood, to make love
not war. Or rather, to do neither, and instead write a
thesis on love and war. We are through with all that.
The Yid has been rejected, not only did he crucify
Jesus, but he also crucified Arafat in Sabra and
Shatila. They are being identified with us and that's
a good thing! their cemeteries are being desecrated,
their synagogues are set on fire, all their old
nicknames are being revived, they are being expelled
tom the best clubs, people shoot into their ethnic
restaurants murdering small children, forcing them to
remove any sign showing them to be Jews, forcing them
to move and change their profession. "Soon their
palaces will be smeared with the slogan: Yids, go to
Palestine! And you know what? They will go to
Palestine because they will have no other choice! All
this is a bonus we received from the Lebanese war.
Tell me, wasn't it worth it?

"Soon we will hit on good times.
The Jews will start arriving, the Israelis will stop
emigrating and those who already emigrated will
return. Those who had chosen assimilation will finally
understand that it wont help them to try and be the
conscience of the world. The 'conscience of the world'
will have to understand through its arse what it could
not get into its head. The gentiles have always felt
sick of the Yids and their conscience, and now the
Yids will have only one option: to come home, all of
them, fast, to install thick steel doors, to build a
strong fence, to have submachine guns positioned at
every comer of their fence here and to fight like
devils against anyone who dares to make a sound in
this region. And if anyone even raises his hand
against us we'll take away half his land and burn the
other half, including the oil. We might use nuclear
arms. We'll go on until he no longer feels like it...

"...You probably want to know whether I am not afraid
of the masses of Yids coming here to escape
anti-semitism smearing us with their olive oil until
we go all soft like them. Listen, history is funny in
that way, there is a dialectic here, irony. Who was it
who expanded the state of Israel almost up the
boundaries of the kingdom of King David? Who expanded
the state until it covered the area from Mount Hermon
to Raz Muhammad? Lei Eshkol. Of all people, it
was that follower of Gordon, that softie, that old
woman. Who, on the other hand, is about to push us
back into the walls of the ghetto? Who gave up all of
Sinai in order to retain a civilised image? Beitar's
governor in Poland, that proud man Menahem Begin. So
you can never tell. I only know one thing for sure: as
long as you are fighting for your life all is
permitted, even to drive out all the Arabs from the
West Bank, everything.

"Leibowitz is right, we are Judeo-Nazis, and why not?
Listen, a people that gave itself up to be
slaughtered, a people that let soap to be made of its
children and lamp shades from the skin of its women is
a worse criminal than its murderers. Worse than the
Nazis...if your nice civilized parents had come here
in time instead of writing books about the love for
humanity and singing Hear O Israel on the way to the
gas chambers, now don't be shocked, if they instead
had killed six million Arabs here or even one million,
what would have happened? Sure, two or three nasty
pages would have been written in the history books, we
would have been called all sorts of names, but we
could be here today as a people of 25 million!

"Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty
work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary,
to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have
everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the
feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced
to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one
or two synagogues here and there, I don't care. And I
don't mind if after the job is done you put me in
front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life.
Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. Then you can
spruce up your Jewish conscience and enter the
respectable club of civilized nations, nations that
are large and healthy. What you lot don't understand
is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet,
far from it. True, it could have been finished in
1948, but you interfered, you stopped it. And all this because of
the Jewishness in your souls, because of your Diaspora
mentality. For the Jews don't grasp things quickly. If
you open your eyes and look around the world you will
see that darkness is falling again. And we know what
happens to a Jew who stays out in the dark. So I am
glad that this small war in Lebanon frightened the
Yids. Let them be afraid, let them suffer. They should
hurry home before it gets really dark. So l am an
anti-Semite? Fine. So don't quote me, quote Lilienblum
instead [an early Russian Zionist - ed.]. There is no
need to quote an anti-Semite. Quote Lilienblum, and he
is definitely not an anti-Semite, there is even a
street in Tel Aviv named after him. (C. quotes from a
small notebook that was lying on his table when I
arrived) 'Is all that is happening not a clear sign
that our forefathers and ourselves...wented and still
want to be disgraced? That we enjoy living like
gypsies.' That's Lilienblum. Not me. Believe me. I
went through the Zionist literature, I can prove what
I say. "And you can write that I am disgrace to
humanity, I don't mind, on the contrary. Let's make a
deal: I will do all I can to expel the Arabs from
here, I will do all I can to increase anti-semitism, and you will write
poems and essays about the misery of the Arabs and be
prepared to absorb the Yids I will force to flee to
this country and teach them to be a light unto the
gentiles. How about it?"

(Interview of Ariel Sharon by Amos Oz, Israeli author, published in the Israeli daily Davar DEC 17, 1982)