During a White House presser on April 11, 2017, a revealing question and answer exchange took place between members of the White House press corps and Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer.  Several probing questions on the U.S. attack on Syria had been asked by members of the press corps and Spicer’s replies all centered around Russia’s backing the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom he tried to compare to the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler.

In response to one question on whether Trump still felt that Putin was “smart,” given charges by U.S officials of Russian complicity in the alleged chemical attack on Khan Sheikhun, Spicer stated that “Russia is isolated.  They have aligned themselves with North Korea, Syria, Iran. ...  With the exception of Russia, they are all failed states.”  Predictably, there was no outcry in the U.S. for the asinine allegation that the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has the fastest scientific growth rate in the world, was a “failed state.”

Another reporter, after pointing to the strong alliance between Russia and Syria, asked Spicer to explain why he thought Putin might pull back his support for President Assad at this point. Referring to the U.S., Spicer stated that “we didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II.”  Of course, the U.S. and the U.K. both had plans to use chemical weapons, and, in fact, the U.S. had even shipped 60 tons of mustard gas bombs on the merchant ship John Harvey to the Italian port of Bari.  When the German Luftwaffe attacked on December 2, 1943, the cargo detonated dispersing mustard gas and killing over a thousand.  This could be similar to what happened in Syria at Khan Sheikhun, where insurgents reportedly were storing chemical munitions.

Continuing to ignore the troublesome fact that the nature of and responsibility for the Syrian incident have yet to be established, Spicer next crossed a Zionist red line by attempting to portray the Syrian president as worse than Hitler.  “You look -- You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,” declared Spicer.  While Hitler, like the U.S. and U.K., had contingency plans to use chemical weapons, which included sarin, tabun and soman, he did not deploy them to the battlefronts, possibly because he himself was a victim of a chemical attack in WWI.

Given Washington’s insistence that President Assad was responsible for the alleged chemical attack, Spicer was merely trying to substantiate his assertion that Russia should reconsider remaining aligned with Syria.  “So you have to, if you’re Russia, ask yourself is this a country that you and a regime that you want to align yourself with?”   

So by hairsplitting on the technicality that neither the U.S. nor the Third Reich actually used chemical weapons at the battlefronts, and accepting the Washington regime’s allegations on the Syrian chemical incident, Spicer was at least logically consistent.  But of course, the Zionist lobby, ever vigilant to play the “Holocaust card” took Spicer to task for overlooking the Jewish victims of Hitler’s gas chambers, while conveniently ignoring the Roma, Slavs, the disabled, political dissidents, Soviet prisoners of war and others who also perished in the death camps.

Nevertheless, the outcry from the Zionist lobby was shrill.  “On Passover no less, Sean Spicer has engaged in Holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying Hitler gassed millions of Jews to death,” said Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect.  Most interesting was a remark by Zeke J. Miller, a political reporter for Time, who wrote, “Besides violating one of the cardinal rules of politics — Holocaust comparisons are always more risk than they’re worth — the gaffe distracted the White House from the good press it was earning for its decision to retaliate against the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.”

One is tempted to ask, why are Holocaust comparisons such taboos?  British scholar John Rose explains, “It is certainly possible to understand the twentieth-century Nazi genocide as an adaptation, albeit with its own terrifying peculiarities, of good old-fashioned European imperialism and its nineteenth-century theories of biological race science.”  Hitler sometimes compared his war on Russia to the Euro-American colonizers’ war on the North American Native Peoples; indeed, both were cases of the genocidal results of European imperialism.  

To put it another way, the Holocaust, as the Nazi genocide is inevitably called in the western “democracies,” arose from the heart of the self-same European “civilization” that brought the Age of Enlightenment.  Therefore, the “Holocaust” must be viewed as unique and the sole responsibility for it placed upon “ordinary Germans,” otherwise, the systemic flaws deep inside European civilization that led to the Nazi genocide might be exposed for all to see.

This is precisely the point former President of Iran Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was trying to make concerning the Nazi genocide in his 2006 letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Pointing to the high culture of Germany, Dr. Ahmadinejad began his letter saying, “If it had not been for Germany being a great contributor to progress in science, philosophy, literature, arts and politics; ... I would not have found the motive to write this letter.”  

Clearly, Dr. Ahmadinejad’s intention was not to deny the Nazi genocide, as he emphasized, “I have no intention of arguing about the Holocaust.” Rather—and this is not well understood in the west—his intention was to inquire subtly how could such a horrible atrocity have arisen in a nation at the heart of the great European civilization? As New-York based Iranian author Hooman Majd explained, the former Iranian President “was essentially getting the Europeans to admit that they were entirely capable of genocide again.”  Nevertheless, Dr. Ahmadinejad was branded a “Holocaust denier” by the Zionists and the western powers followed their lead.  

Years before the Holocaust, chemical warfare itself arose from European high culture.  The Jewish-German scientist Fritz Haber developed the idea of using poison gas as a weapon to an initially skeptical military, which quickly embraced the new weapon of mass destruction after its deployment on April 22, 1915 near Ypres, Belgium (later known as Flanders Fields) killed over 1,100 Allied troops.  Ironically, the use of poison gas by the Third Reich during the Nazi genocide killed members of Haber’s own family.

Returning to the current imbroglio, Spicer postulated, “There’s no question that you can’t have a peaceful Syria with Assad in charge.”  When pressed on further whether or not the White House now thinks “Assad must go” as did a previous U.S. secretary of state, he confided, “I don’t see a future Syria that has Bashar al-Assad as the leader of that government.”  Likewise, the Zionist lobby does not appear to see a future that has Spicer as press secretary of the Trump regime.

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