Parallels Between Israel and 1930s Germany – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
125/05/2016 by socialistfight
‘Please don’t write about Ya’ir Golan!’ a friend begged me, “Anything a leftist like you writes will only harm him!’ So I abstained for some weeks. But I can’t keep quiet any longer. General Ya’ir Golan, the deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, made a speech on Holocaust Memorial Day. Wearing his uniform, …
Source: Parallels Between Israel and 1930s Germany – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
Socialist Fight 
This is a really unfortunate precedent totally inappropriate. The reference is to the Curragh Mutiny if February 1914 when the Tory elite in the British Army allied with the reactionary Orange men led by Carson to defy the democratic Liberal government in a putsch from the right. Far from sacrificing their careers these officers who had committed a crime that carried the death penalty in the army were rewarded with promotions and seats in the House of Lords. I was the Irish nationalists who were executed for treason for defending their country’s right to self-determination. Totally wrong reference in an otherwise courageous article.
(Somehow I recall an article published by the British magazine Punch before World War I, when a group of junior army officers issued a statement opposing the government’s policy in Ireland. The magazine said that while disapproving the opinion expressed by the mutinous officers, it took pride in the fact that such youthful officers were ready to sacrifice their careers for their convictions.)
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