How many Nazis does it take to ruin a country? The Nazi party never won a majority in a free German election. Yet their poison effectively contaminated the whole. There were resistance movements on a small and ineffective scale‚ but the society as a whole did what it was asked to do and beyond. Biden wants to force Israel to cave to Hamas … and to do nothing effective to change the Palestinian culture of Nazi hate.  The Nazis actively controlled the culture‚ expunging the things they didn’t like. And they mined a deep seam of hatred that ran for centuries‚ in which the Jews were held to be an enemy so cunning and so ruthless that they could thwart God’s plan for salvation while conniving to control‚ destroy‚ or ruin everyone else. (READ MORE from Shmuel Klatzkin: Jordan Peterson Reclaims Religious Beliefs That Promote Freedom) Historian Daniel Goldhagen chronicled the participation of ordinary Germans in the organized extermination of the Jews of Europe. He found that‚ far from being reluctant and only complying with orders under dire threat of force‚ ordinary Germans took the initiative in attacking‚ torturing‚ and killing Jews.  We are accustomed of thinking that such behavior is aberrant. Holocaust denial seems reasonable if we assume that all people are like us and abhor such behavior. We wouldn’t ever do such a thing‚ so obviously no one would. But they do. And for it to be on a large scale‚ there is always a cultural breakdown involved‚ a renunciation‚ a turning away from the values of the of Jerusalem with the best of Athens that has been the foundation of free societies. We are molded by our culture. When that culture is underlain with such concepts as “love your neighbor as yourself” or “we are created in the image of the divine‚” we are careful and critical when we examine problems. But if those principles are ditched in favor of the narrative that  certain people are by nature entirely to blame for the disasters in our lives‚ we quite naturally are angry with those people who we are told are hurting us. We would be willing to do all kinds of things to them as they are not of the same humanity as we are.. Goldhagen writes: The belief that the Jews had already greatly harmed Germans and would always work to injure them still more‚ at least partly explains the tremendous cruelty that Germans inflicted on Jews … Demonological antisemitism … helped to produce cruelty towards Jews on [a] vast scale; perpetrating such cruelty often became a norm with no exceptions … Such beliefs were the necessary cause of such widespread‚ frequent‚ thorough‚ and unmerciful brutality towards the Jews‚ for they removed the Jews utterly from the purview of the ethical code that protected non-Jewish members of society. It seems beyond serious doubt that it is the same with the heirs of the Nazis in Gaza. Deborah Danan quotes an Israeli who survived the October 7 in a safe room: “The reality proves that there’s no such thing as a bilti me’urav (uninvolved) in Gaza. All of Gaza is Hamas.” While that is too absolute to be literally true‚ it seems effectively true‚ as her Tablet article (January 24) makes clear: Around 700 Palestinians stormed Barad’s kibbutz of Nir Oz — less than a five-minute drive from Gaza — that day‚ CCTV footage shows. The overwhelming majority of those — estimated by Eran Smilansky‚ a member of the kibbutz’s security squad‚ to be around 550 — were civilians. They were largely unarmed and not in uniform. Some of those civilians carried out wholesale acts of terror themselves‚ including rape and abduction — and in some cases‚ the eventual sale of hostages to Hamas — while others abetted the terrorists. Others still simply took advantage of the porous border to loot Israeli homes and farms‚ including stealing hundreds of thousands of shekels in agricultural equipment. (READ MORE: Do Not Let Hamas Escape Into Exile) Videos show the celebration that greeted the raiders on their return to Gaza. Videos show large crowds cheering‚ people spitting at the hostages‚ others kicking and spitting on the broken body of a woman killed by her captors. Later‚ on the release of some hostages in return for many times their number of convicted terrorists‚ crowds jeered‚ howled‚ and spat at the captives. Video records a great deal of passion‚ savage‚ and perversity‚ entirely unforced.  Perhaps most damning is the observation of an Israeli from the devastated left-wing kibbutz Be’eri‚ home of many who actively believed in rapprochement with Gaza. On October 7‚ the Israeli’s son was taken hostage. His attitude towards Gaza‚ for decades charitable‚ had changed. His working hypothesis had been disproved by reality. He said to Danan: “I don’t differentiate between [Gaza civilians] and Hamas. Let me know of one Palestinian in Gaza who tried to save a Jew and maybe I’ll change my mind.” The culture of the elites‚ stealthily introduced to our schools and then to our entrenched government‚ trades in the blame business. They assign blame‚ not by the principles of our religious and philosophical traditions that formed our culture for centuries‚ but by a neat grid matrix of group identity. All the moral work is done by assignment — one belongs to a group and that group has its position either as a victim or an oppressor. No debate may be held on the assignments‚ as no oppressor would admit being one.  The Jews are an oppressor in this matrix. End of story. It dovetails exactly with the Nazi narrative‚ which is‚ with some small adjustments‚ the narrative of Hamas and the culture of both Gaza and the PA‚ informing every child from their first breath through their death as “martyrs.” The Jew is not human‚ the Jew is demonic. This is supported by taxpayer dollars through the UN‚ whose UNRWA agency provides textbooks for Palestinian schoolchildren. A 2017 study of these textbooks by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and two other organizations concluded: UNRWA‚ in fact‚ not only does propagate a non-peaceful line contrary to UN resolutions on the Middle East‚ and not only does allow the presentation of Israel and its Jewish citizens as illegitimate with heavy layers of demonization. UNRWA also betrays its moral obligation toward the Palestinian children and youths’ human rights and well-being‚ by letting the PA prepare them for a future war with Israel. That war has arrived‚ and many of those students are suffering from it. Yet our Administration totters and weaves about‚ equivocating‚ desperately trying to find a place where the grim woke victimology that Obama nourished can be crammed into a narrative of reasonable support for Israel‚ which is the desire of a large majority of Americans. Biden wants to force Israel to cave to Hamas‚ to allow it continued control‚ to claim a great victory‚ and to do nothing effective to change the Palestinian culture of Nazi hate. (READ MORE: Israel’s High Court Pulls a Dred Scott) This new Nazism cannot be accommodated at all. Let its military be utterly crushed and the culture of hatred given no place at all. As we de-Nazified Germany‚ so must Gaza and the PA be de-Nazified as well. The last thing to do is to reward undying‚ eliminationist hatred with sovereignty and international respect. Clean the cancerous culture out. No more October 7s.   The post First‚ De-Nazify Gaza appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.