The Tragedy of Neo-Holocaust
By: Haedar Nashir (President of Muhammadiyah)
Do you still remember Adolf Hitler? World history gave birth to the darkest and terrible tragedy of the brutal action of the German Führer. Hitler was the most influential figure in declaring the Second World War as a tempest of the modern century.
Hitler’s great ambition to build an absolute new order of German hegemony in Europe and become a superpower in the universe. He founded Nazi (National Socialism or Nationalsozialismus), an extreme rightist and racist political party. This is the most violent party of political machinery, which became the instrument of horrible power at the time.
The German Chancellor of 1933-1945 is the figure of an ultra-racialist psychopath that declares the credo of German “Uber Alles”. It is about the superiority of the Germanic as the Aryan nation which is superior to the non-Aryan people which are considered inferior and must be annihilated. The Nazis became a gigantic force that spread terror and massive cruelty of genocide.
The cruelty of Hitler and the Nazis had resulted in the deaths of around 50 million people during World War II. In the tragedy, 6 million Jews and 5 million “non-Aryan” ethnics experienced slaughter and systematic extermination. This historical tragedy is known as the Holocaust, a massacre of killings and mass destruction in parts of Europe that leave historical trauma to this day.
In the Holocaust tragedy (which means “entirely burned”), millions of people who are mostly Jews, murdered brutally by the ultra-cruel Nazi forces. This incident includes a slaughter field in the Auschwitz concentration camp in the summer of 1944 in the southwest region of Krakow Poland, later known as the most terrible humanitarian tragedy in the history of the modern world.
Colonial Sense of Desire
The citizens of the world should scream and shout loudly so that the new Holocaust, Auschwitz, Nazis, and Hitler are not presented and reproduced in the 21st century. It should be no new Hitler, new Nazis, and any new Holocaust of any kind, whoever the actor is, and in any country whatsoever. We should close that dark pages of history so as not to become a new, more miserable tragedy.
Both vague and open, acts of aggression like the Zionist Israel plus the ultra-radical political ambitions of US President Donald J. Trump, if it is unstoppable it will lead to recycle the terrible tragedy of World War II. Will the reckless and arbitrary behavior of top Israeli officials backed by the United States in many incidents in the Gaza Strip and Palestine to establish hegemony in Jerusalem and the Middle East be considered as acceptable?
The United Nations should not allow the tragedy after the tragedy to recur. Including the establishment of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by Trump and the US Congress as the Pandora’s Box blocked the peace and sparked a new embers of conflict in the land of the Prophets. The mistake of the year 1947 should be redeemed when the United Nations approved the two countries of Israel and Palestine in the Mediterranean and Dead Sea region as the beginning of the Palestinian catastrophe. The State of Israel is getting stronger, while Palestine continues to be marginalized until one day it may be destroyed from the earth.
The reckless political stakes are not just the fate of Jerusalem and the unsettled zones of the Middle East that have gone on for decades. But at the same time the gambling of millions souls of people, peace, humanity, and civilization of mankind. The spark of war continues to threaten the Middle East region. The Jews should learn from their own dark history. The blood is paid for blood. The expulsion is avenged with expulsion. Also, aggression is avenged with aggression. What is the advantage of it? Is it indeed the mistakes of the Palestinians to bear the impact of suffering?
If Holocaust, Auschwitz, Nazis, and Hitler for the Jewish become collective grudges, then do not smash out to innocent Palestinians. Also not to Muslims and Christians who lived in the region Jerusalem for centuries with the Jews until the historic area is known as the city of three religions. Why do Palestine and the Middle East have to bear the burden of history, when the Jews who are expelled and now occupy the Zionist territory of Israel, is suffering because of Nazi and Hitler in Germany there?
Countries in Europe need to take responsibility for the Holocaust, Auschwitz, Nazi and Hitler tragedies so that they will not happened into other regions and continents, including on the Palestinian lands by the Zionist Israel and its allies. Is it not enough that Western countries invade, aggress, and occupy countries or territories that are not their rights to the Asian-African and Latin American peoples in the days of colonialism hundreds years ago? It includes the Indonesian nation which is colonized hundreds of years by the Dutch followed by Portuguese and Japanese in the era of colony full of sorrow.
The United States should also learn from the history of their independence from the shackles of England. Leaders and citizens of the United States, more specifically Donald Trump and members of Congress, should feel how suffering it is to be colonized nation and country. US presidents and members of the US Congress along with all the people should be empathetic for the Palestinian suffering that tens of years continue to be aggressed by Israel, instead of continuing to support the Zionist state thoughtlessly. Surviving in their own territory is not easy for Palestinian people, let alone have to fight the ferocity of Israel with the support of the superpower US.
Why do US members of the Congress and Trump still want to experiment with illegally and unilateral determination of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, whose consequences not only block the way for peace but open the Pandora of massive conflict. Did not they feel how unfortunate it was to be a colony from another country? Where is exactly the pulse of democracy, human rights, and the principles of independence of the modern nation that has been upheld in Uncle Sam’s country? For themselves or just for others?
United Kingdom, the United States and some other European countries have made a fatal mistake when supported and made the state of Israel in the Palestinian territories in 1948. Whereas in particular United Kingdom has also experienced in expanding colonialism in the Asia-Africa region. Is it not enough for the colonial desire to end soon for the future of a universal human civilization that is peaceful, democratic, just, prosperous, dignified, and sovereign as the living jargon of Western nations supposedly pro-universal human rights in the modern era!
End of the Modern World
The Jews must have suffered greatly from the Holocaust. In addition, those who are expelled from Europe must find the safest place to unfortunately have to go to the land of Palestine which later founded the state of Israel unilaterally. They felt the pain of the savage of Hitler and Nazis. However if the Israelites or Jews of Israel want to learn “passing over” to feel the same pain, then they should not impose the suffering on the Palestinians.
The Jews in their claims felt authorized to live in the land of Palestine as the descendants of the Judaic people with the “land promised by God”. But why not choose a peaceful way of life with the Palestinians and stop the unending aggression and expansion? Zionist Israel even continues to do massacre and annihilation of the Palestinian people, thus creating a new Holocaust or “Neo-Holocaust” with the same suffering. Because Israel with the US support and other allies are strong in every aspects, of course they are able, not only to aggress, but also to annihilate Palestine. But what for? Is it to imitate Nazi Germany who slaughtered their descendants in the past?
United Kingdom also should not let off their hands. With the power of the “British Mandate over Palestine” the country of Queen Elisabeth has unilaterally established the state of Israel on May 14, 1948. The British mandate was a colonial mandate, not a noble one. Colonialism should not be recycled and enshrined. Does Britain not fell guilty of all its colonialism in India, Malaysia, South Africa, and countries of the Sahara and the Middle East in the past? So, stop the Israeli ferocity and do not continue to support, because the victims are innocent Palestinians. Also prevent Trump so that he cancel the arbitrary decisions. It is enough Holocaust to happen once in history, do not be born a new Holocaust.
Holocaust and Auschwitz as the Nazi’s and Hitler’s brutal projects, for postmodern thinkers such as Jean-Francois Lyotard, are failures of the project of modernity, which shows an “irrational” or non-rational world. “The very real national-socialistic crime is in fact irrational,” Lyotard said. In fact, every totalitarian ideology everywhere always contains a contradiction that brings destruction. Surprisingly, Britain, the United States, and allied states of Israel do not want to learn from the dark history of Europe which among others gave birth to the Holocaust.
The massacre and annihilation of millions of humans is indeed terrible because it is done programmatically and systematically by psychopathic leaders whose brains are filled with all the chaotic ambitions and transgressions. According to German historian, Eberhard Jäckel, there has never been a state with a leader who is fully responsible for deciding and declaring the killing of certain groups of people, including women, children and infants. It should be, in the modern era of the 21st century, do not create new war areas and Holocaust tragedy on the land of Palestine and other regions.
So it becomes very ironic if in the era of the 21st century currently still entrenched Hitler-like humans and Nazi-style country that is hungry for land, power, and blood. Ironically, today’s postmodern world has created a thirst for aggression and invasion that affects the massacres and annihilations of other nations as well as the ambitious Israeli leaders of Israel such as Simon Perez, Golda Mier, Netanyahu, who has the support of Donald Trump, US current president. All citizens of the world must reject the desire of new colonialism and the new Holocaust (Neo-Holocaust) in the Palestinian Peninsula and on any earth of mankind. The United Nations should not be dictated by the superpower for the sake of world peace and stopping neocolonialism and new Holocaust.
Indeed, the Neo-Holocaust and Neo-Auschwitz with Neo-Nazi and Neo-Hitler seem to be incarnate in various devastating political adventures not only against a weak nation like the Palestinian people. The cruelty and aggression of the cruel extermination also threaten the civilization of mankind that should live peacefully, safely, independently and sovereignly.
Even for the lowest rational reason, it is hard to believe that in the recent era there are still ideologies, thoughts, and figures spreading colonial desire and Holocaust tragedies that destroy lives. Here is the end of modern thought and civilization built on the secular ideology of humanism and the gigantic project of liberalism. Since what emerge, it is the inflamed desire to invade and annihilate life. It is enough for modern human suffering to stop at the Holocaust tragedy of 1933-1945. It should not be reproduced in this century and onward by the new Hitler and the new Nazi powers with the Neo-Holocaust Tragedy at the center of the earth!
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