{"id":14961,"date":"2024-03-08T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:25:15","slug":"echoes-of-hitlers-final-solution-in-trumps-call-to-finish-the-problem-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14961","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of Hitler&#8217;s &#8216;Final Solution&#8217; in Trump&#8217;s Call to &#8216;Finish the Problem&#8217; in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a moment of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2024\/3\/6\/gaza_update\">potential Holocaust<\/a> in Gaza, Donald Trump&#8217;s Super Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-israel-finish-problem-gaza-1234981038\/\">call<\/a> for Israel&#8217;s right wing extremist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to &#8220;finish the problem&#8221; in Gaza sounds ominously like Adolf Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/final-solution-overview\">Final Solution<\/a>&#8221; to the &#8220;Jewish Problem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not one accepts South Africa&#8217;s <a href=https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-court-israel-genocide-gaza-south-africa-774ab3c3d57fd7bcc627602eaf47fd98>claim<\/a> that the &#8220;scale of destruction in Gaza&#8221; reflects &#8220;genocidal intent&#8221;, there can be no question but that a failure to heed VP Kamala Harris&#8217; <a href=https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/3\/4\/us-vp-harris-calls-for-immediate-gaza-ceasefire-in-rare-rebuke-of-israel>poignant call<\/a> on Sunday for an &#8220;immediate ceasefire&#8221; in Gaza, along with an unhindered flow of humanitarian aid, could lead to an annihilation of Gaza&#8217;s civilian population.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 5 months, the Israeli military has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/4c66a9fd-b444-4aa2-8a63-b8f043c3e4a5\">reduced<\/a> most of Northern Gaza into an uninhabitable wasteland.  Approximately 80% of the Palestinian population (1.9 million) has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrc.no\/news\/2023\/december\/gaza-displacement\/#:~:text=A%20staggering%201.9%20million%20Palestinians,additional%2050%2C000%20units%20completely%20destroyed.\">internally displaced<\/a> and pushed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/2\/25\/two-month-old-palestinian-boy-dies-of-hunger-amid-israels-war-on-gaza#:~:text=The%20UN%20says%20some%202.3,for%20humanitarian%20aid%20in%20December.\">brink of famine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In normal times, Hitler comparisons might seem over the top.  These are not normal times&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is a <a href=https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/donald-trumps-history-adolf-hitler-nazi-writings-analysis\/story?id=105810745>Hitler admiring<\/a> demagogue, who is said to have previously <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8>kept<\/a> a book of Hitler&#8217;s speeches by his bed.  His comments about immigrants &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsinexaminer.com\/2024\/01\/29\/trump-knows-exactly-what-poisoning-the-blood-or-our-country-meant\/\">poisoning our blood<\/a>&#8220;, which the former President repeated on Super Tuesday, echoes passages from Hitler&#8217;s infamous 1925 book, <i>Mein Kampf<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/19\/us\/politics\/trump-immigrants-hitler-mein-kampf.html\">according to <i>The New York Times<\/i><\/a>.  In one chapter, Hitler warned against the &#8220;contamination of blood&#8221;.  In another, Germany&#8217;s sociopathic dictator referred to the &#8220;influx of foreign blood&#8221; as a &#8220;poison which has invaded the national body.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has clearly told us that he is the embodiment of the very evil that approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/warfarehistorynetwork.com\/us-involvement-in-wwii-how-the-military-grew\/#:~:text=By%20Allyn%20Vannoy,660%2C000%20in%20the%20Marine%20Corps.\">16 million<\/a> members of the U.S. military strove to defeat during WWII &#8212; an endeavor in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/students-teachers\/student-resources\/research-starters\/research-starters-us-military-numbers\">671,278 Americans<\/a> gave their last measure of devotion.<\/p>\n<p>Come November, anything less than a massive rejection of Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election bid will be tantamount to a betrayal of those who fought and died to protect our democracy against the threat of fascism that previously came from abroad &#8212; a threat that now comes from within.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/center><i>Ernest A. Canning is a retired attorney, author, and Vietnam Veteran (4th Infantry, Central Highlands 1968).  He previously served as a Senior Advisor to <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/vetsforbernie.org\/\">Veterans For Bernie<\/a>.<\/span> Canning has been a member of the California state bar since 1977. In addition to a juris doctor, he has received both undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science. Follow him on twitter: <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cann4ing\"><b>@cann4ing<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a moment of a potential Holocaust in Gaza, Donald Trump&#8217;s Super Tuesday call for Israel&#8217;s right wing extremist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to &#8220;finish the problem&#8221; in Gaza sounds ominously like Adolf Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;Final Solution&#8221; to the &#8220;Jewish Problem&#8221;. Whether or not one accepts South Africa&#8217;s claim that the &#8220;scale of destruction in Gaza&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,882,1307,479,1611,1943,428,924],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2128],"class_list":["post-14961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-adolf-hitler","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-donald-trump","category-election-2024","category-gaza","category-israel","category-kamala-harris","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16385,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions\/16385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}