Cheap and clichéd politicking relies on sloppy associations. Can’t explain yourself or you think the voters are idiots? Just call your opponent a racist. And if you really want to use the big guns, call him a Nazi.

As much as we disagree with political figures, there aren’t many whom the Nazi label fits.

Let’s look back a few decades. Neville Chamberlain was no Nazi. Yes, he was a polite antisemite, as was fashionable in the British upper circles of those days. His policies, of course, enabled Hitler immensely and dispirited the opponents of Nazism. Yes, Chamberlain’s obscene White Paper of 1939 closed British-run Palestine to Jewish immigration just as his appeasement was guaranteeing that the Nazis would be able to dominate Europe and exterminate its Jews. (READ MORE from Shmuel Klatzkin: Israel 50 Years On: Blessings and Challenges)

But he was no Nazi. He declared war on Hitler and until he died, was an important member of Churchill’s War Cabinet, helping the war on Nazism.

Foreign Minister Lord Edward Halifax was no Nazi. Yes, he went hunting with Hermann Göring and seemed not to see anything untoward in a Germany that was arming itself to the teeth, had already deprived its Jews of their political rights, and was throwing its political and racial targets into concentration camps. Yes, his championing of Chamberlain’s policies meant death for millions, though he never intended it so.

But he was no Nazi. He held several high positions under Churchill, lastly as ambassador to the United States, and labored hard to defeat the Germany that he had enabled. 

Joe Biden is no Nazi.  He isn’t even an antisemite in the way that Chamberlain was, though he certainly lacks Chamberlain’s personal rectitude — Joe’s family influence peddling racket would have appalled the prim Chamberlain. Yes, Joe has snubbed Israel’s prime minister endlessly (until now). Yes, he revived Iran’s economy, sending over $50 billion their way, refusing to enforce oil sanctions so that Iran sells two million barrels a day, keeping its multitude of terror organizations flush with money. Yes, he has returned funding to the Palestinians, knowing full well that the money he gives in one area releases money to flow to Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other allied terrorists. Yes, he believes that it is realistic that Iran will be impressed enough and civilized enough to participate in a stable balance of power in the Middle East, that it will be constrained within civilized bounds through proper diplomacy and that it is proper to force Israel to accept this. He never intended for these atrocities to happen. He was wrong and thousands have paid for it with their lives, with torture, rape, and mutilation. 

Now he is doing the right thing, because he is no Nazi. In war, like Chamberlain, he has a role and is part of the effort. Like Chamberlain, he no longer deserves the highest position, if he ever did. It will be best when someone closer to Churchill than to Chamberlain is the chief executive. (READ MORE: We Ought to Know Better Than This!)

Anthony Blinken is no Nazi. His work organizing the diversion of American intelligence resources to fight political opponents and  encroaching on freedom of the press and free speech was a successful police action helped to win an election. That same intelligence force, forcibly directed towards treating conservative Catholics and concerned parents at school board meetings as existential threats to our democracy failed to detect a true existential threat to the entire civilized order of the world. Unintended, for Blinken is no Nazi. His family suffered under the Nazis. Nonetheless, his failure in his work as an official of tremendous power has brought about a recrudescence of what his family suffered through. Now, he seems to be working for the good, but, like Halifax, he no longer deserves his high responsibility, if he ever did. No doubt he could serve honorably and usefully in a lesser capacity.

No Nazis here. Just failed policies and failed politicians. Let them redeem themselves, by all means, but the sooner they are at lower levels more appropriate to their level of competence and usefulness, the better.

Where are the real Nazis? Anyone not hopelessly ignorant or morally depraved can see.

They already let us know who they really are decades ago. The damned spirits of Hitler and Goebbels speak through these words of Hamas itself in its defining document, its 1987 Covenant. Read them and wonder why we have not had the courage to treat them as the Nazis they have always been and allowed them and enabled them to mutilate, rape, and murder, as we have.

Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious…

For a long time, the enemies have been planning, skillfully and with precision, for the achievement of what they have attained. They took into consideration the causes affecting the current of events. They strived to amass great and substantive material wealth which they devoted to the realization of their dream. With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there. 

You may speak as much as you want about regional and world wars. They were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate, making financial gains and controlling resources. They obtained the Balfour Declaration, formed the League of Nations through which they could rule the world. They were behind World War II, through which they made huge financial gains by trading in armaments, and paved the way for the establishment of their state. It was they who instigated the replacement of the League of Nations with the United Nations and the Security Council to enable them to rule the world through them. There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it. 

This is who has ruled Gaza, identical aside from its Islamist window dressing with what ruled Berlin and what set up a kingdom of slavery and death unparalleled in its horror. (READ MORE: Israel’s Left Wants Unlimited Power)

Note that the enemy is not the Israelis but the Jews. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism. Not the polite kind, but the kind that set the entire world on fire, that took the lives of tens of thousands of Americans, and that threatened to beat us to the atom bomb. 

Israel is working to finish that same task that our soldiers, sailors, and aviators gave their lives for and which has nearly been undermined. Let us give them the unstinting support that they deserve. Civilization hangs in the balance.