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2024-10-07 09:01:32   •   ID: 2387

From the river to the sea? The return of Einsatzgruppen on October 7th 2023

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Figure 1 and 2: A late Neolithic battle axe of S/W-Germany origin. Figure 3 and 4: A middle Bronze Age spearhead, found during the 1890ies in S/W-Germany.

During the late Neolithic of Europe (Figure 1 and 2; Beaker cultures), an increasing social individuali-zation is emerging. This becomes apparent, among other things, from the changes in burial customs. Instead of collective graves, individual graves now predominated--See here: 1322 .

In the Interplay of individualization, increasing social stratification, inequality of wealth and the pursuit of prestige, an ideology of the splendid warrior emerged-see here: 1670 . The rise of individuality and the presence of battle-axes in the new burial tradition means they must have been part of some aspect of the individual, whether it be to show status, power, or warrior success.

The Bronze Age testified the global emergence of a warrior society with a culture, chacterized by a variety of new, efficient weapons that remained in use for the millennia to come. Since then, humans have always been very innovative in the destruction of other humans. Indeed, “War is the Father of All Things” (Heraclitus). Since the First World War, the dimension of an industrialized war has become clear to everyone.

At the beginning of August 1945, the Allies established an International Military Tribunal to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace. The Nuremberg trials revolutionized international law and for the first time attempted to adapt it to the conditions of modern military technology and its consequences.

One result of Nuremberg is the outlawing of aggressive war. Anyone who starts a war of aggression commits a crime against humanity.

"Splendid warriors" of Hamas attacked Israel - this unique rescue project of the Jews-on October 7th 2023 and committed massacres of civilians that can only be compared to the crimes of the German Einsatzgruppen during the Second World War.

The comparison is by no means so far-fetched: In one day, Hamas killed the same number of people (around 1200) as the Germans did every single day on the bloodlands of Eastern Europe (sensu: Timothy Snyder) between August 1941 and the end of the Second World War.

However, Hamas was even far more brutal in its methods. You can only imagine what the cry “From the river to the sea” would mean.....




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