Lebanese Nazis Continue Grotesque Displays

POLITICS. .

Why the Lebanese Nazis?

If only the Nazi officials seeking to escape prosecution in post WW2 Europe knew that some quarters of Lebanon are such hospitable territory. Or maybe that would be too close to Israel after 1948.

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nazi2 420 07810054546 VZG5p 19672

Why is Lebanon, a tiny Middle Eastern nation, exhibiting such vulgar celebration of an extreme genocidal regime which despised Jews and did not hold any regard for their semitic kin the Arabs? In the world of Nazis, Lebanese would not be allowed to sit at the table. So why the Nazi-Love?

This is a reflection of a grotesque strain of ultra-Lebanese nationalism. In 1936, a young Lebanese athlete, Pierre Gemayel, at the Berlin Olympics was impressed by the Nazi ideal of ultra-nationalism, unity and youth indoctrination. He came back to Lebanon to found his own imitation named the Phalange (or Kataab in Arabic). The Phalange, a far-right sectarian Christian student organization, morphed into one of the biggest political parties in Lebanon (at one point electing a president) and later played a brutal role in the Civil War.

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nazi 230 sJ23J 19672

The ultra-nationalism of the Phalange borrows heavily, naturally given its founding inspiration, from the Nazis. It promotes the idea of a 'specialness' to Lebanon - that the Lebanese are a superior people than most - and champions a fixed Christian power over Muslims in the nation even when demographics began to favor Muslims under the vulgar banner of "quality versus quantity". The Phalange, in its extreme nationalism designed to create the false notion of a Lebanese nation existing for over thousands of years instead of being the actual and unworkable invention of French colonists in the 20th century, also parrots the comical notion that the Lebanese are "Phoenicians" (i.e. white and not the dreaded Arabs. Which is hilarious; in an effort to make themselves 'white' the ultra-nationalisms settled with a long-lost people with darker skin tones than Arabs. That's how desperate they are not to be Arab that they did not consider the implications of being "Phoenician". But Phalange propaganda never had logic.)

swastikas blog iVOX2 19672
swastikas blog iVOX2 19672

So when far-right Lebanese hold the flag of white supremacists, do not be surprised. These delusional zealots think they are included in that banner of racist supremacy. The hold the flag of the Nazis because they harbor the same grotesques notions of nationalism and the same delusion of supremacy and the same lament that they could not rule in this world over those they view as inferior and not rid them from their nation.

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