“Every soldier is a coward at
heart.”
-
Major Bluntschli in ‘Arms and the Man’,
George Bernard Shaw
In juxtaposition to the cowardice of
Israeli soldiers, every revolutionary aiming for Palestinian freedom bravely
faces the Zionist Israeli army which is slaughtering civilians/ non-combatants
in Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem in full glare of public view
globally. The Israeli Generals should revisit the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Code
of Ethics which states inter alia:
“Purity of Arms
The
IDF serviceman will use force of arms only for the purpose of subduing the
enemy to the necessary extent and will limit his use of force so as to prevent
unnecessary harm to human life and limb, dignity and property.
The
IDF servicemen's purity of arms is their self-control in use of armed force.
They will use their arms only for the purpose of achieving their mission,
without inflicting unnecessary injury to human life or limb; dignity or
property, of both soldiers and civilians, with special consideration for the
defenseless, whether in wartime, or during routine security operations, or in
the absence of combat, or times of peace.”
The IDF needs to relook at the plight of
Nazi Army Generals and political leaders at Nuremberg trials. Just a few of
these citations will make them look at the reality:
1.
Nuremberg Executions (Wikipedia)
2.
Final moments of Nazis executed at
Nuremberg (The Guardian, 11/09/2009)
3.
Nazi war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg
(History
Channel)
4.
‘Death by hanging’: the Nuremberg Trials
(The National Archives, 20/11/
2015)
5.
‘I knew my father would be hanged’:
Remembering Nuremberg
(Al
Jazeera, 20/11/2020)
6.
The Execution of Nazi War Criminals
(Famous Trials)
7.
Eight Nazi S.S. Officers Sentenced to
Death for 1944 massacre At Ascq (You
Tube)
The 2.3 million Palestinians have
exposed the fascist character of the self-styled western liberal democracies.
Any teenager without exposure to socialism/ communism can appreciate this and
hence forth Karl Marx’s work would be more sought after than ever before. This
is a positive fall out of Israel’s war on Palestinians.
During the peak of Nazi era the
megalomaniac Hitler may not have ever remotely imagined the fall of his empire
and top Nazi leaders being brought to justice. Zionist Israel with its mentors/
allies will go down in history likewise. True that only a miniscule number of
Nazi political leaders/ army generals, soldiers were convicted; but it is
equally true that an international trial took place over several years and a
few were indeed convicted.
No power on earth can stop the
aspirations of freedom loving Palestinians. It is the working class with a
broad unity of all forces/ sections of society which have the interest of
masses at heart that will overthrow the present ruling classes in Israel, USA,
UK, France and Germany.
[P.S.
Sahni is a qualified orthopaedic surgeon. He has worked extensively at
India-Bangladesh border during the Bangladesh Liberation War resulting in 1971
Bangladesh Genocide of Hindus; the victims of Sikh Genocide in 1984; and amongst
victims of 1992 anti-Muslim violence.
Blogs: https://pilwatchgroup.blogspot.com/ ]
