Zionism Unmasked: Chutzpah, thy name is Zionism
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By Maidhc Ó  Cathail*
Chutzpah, a Yiddish word meaning "shameless audacity," has been  famously defined as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed  his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because  he is an orphan." Considering Israel's increasingly  outrageous  behaviour, perhaps it's time for a new definition. The one that springs  to mind is "that quality enshrined in a state, which having induced its  'allies' into a disastrous invasion of Iraq, then urges them to attack  Iran."
At a recent dinner in honour of visiting Italian premier Silvio  Berlusconi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took yet another  rhetorical swipe at Tehran. "Humanity stands before one of its most  difficult tests since World War II," Netanyahu intoned. "The radical  Islamic regime threats [sic] the well-being of the state of Israel, the  region, and all of humanity."
Sounding more like an Israeli envoy than the head of a sovereign  nation, Berlusconi responded, "My job is to make sure that world leaders  do not commit the same error of the past, the error of indifference  that brought about the greatest tragedy in history."
In Defamation, a highly revealing 2009 documentary on  anti-Semitism by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir, Professor Norman  Finkelstein noted this strategy of invoking past Jewish suffering to  justify future wars. "The irony is that the Nazi holocaust has now  become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression,"  said Finkelstein, the author of The  Holocaust Industry. "Every time you want to  launch a war of aggression, drag in the Nazi holocaust."
Or, to be more precise, every time Israel wants other countries to  launch a war of aggression on its behalf, it drags in the Nazi  holocaust. In the build-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Netanyahu was  one of many Zionists who did just that. In a September 20, 2002 Wall  Street Journal op-ed titled "The Case for Toppling Saddam," Netanyahu  laid on the guilt trip: "We now know that had the democracies taken  pre-emptive action to bring down Hitler's regime in the 1930s, the worst  horrors in history could have been avoided."
And as he and other Zionists are now doing with Iran, Netanyahu was  in 2002 hyping a non-existent Iraqi nuclear threat. Saddam Hussein, he  claimed, was "feverishly trying to acquire nuclear weapons." Moreover,  "the deadly material necessary for atomic bombs," the then former  Israeli Prime Minister speculated, could be produced "in centrifuges the  size of washing machines that can be hidden throughout the country-and  Iraq is a very big country." To uncover Saddam's hypothetical "portable  manufacturing sites of mass death," Netanyahu warned that "nothing less  than dismantling his regime will do."
One might think that with over a million people dead and almost five  million others displaced in Iraq-and not a weapon of mass destruction to  be found-that Netanyahu might be showing some remorse. Instead, he's  beating the drums loudest for an even more catastrophic war with Iran. 
That should tell us a lot not only about the man but about the nature  of the ideology that drives him. Zionism, like the fictional Jewish  parenticide, shamelessly attempts to turn reality on its head.
Instead of acknowledging that it is the only nuclear-armed state in  the Middle East, Israel and its supporters focus the world's attention  on imaginary threats from its regional rivals. 
Rather than apologizing for their crimes against humanity-most  notably, the dispossession and virtual imprisonment of the Palestinian  people- Zionists arrogantly portray themselves as the defenders of  humanity against Islamic aggression.
And instead of admitting that they lied about Iraqi WMD, Iraqi ties  to al-Qaeda, Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories, Iraqi  yellowcake uranium from Niger, and Iraqi meetings in Prague, Zionist  propagandists are busy concocting similarly brazen lies about Iran.
If world leaders are indeed committing an "error of indifference," it  is hardly their supposed resistance to Zionist scaremongering. Rather,  it is their indifference to the suffering of Arab and Muslim peoples.  Foremost among them are the Palestinians-the ultimate victims of the  shameless audacity of Zionism.
* Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely published writer based in Japan.