“The Nazis at least had a sense enough of a sense of shame and guilt that they tried to conceal what they were doing. The Israelis are completely open about” their treatment of Palestinians, stated recently retired American diplomat Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Such an outrageous Holocaust inversion comparison of the Jewish state of Israel with past Nazi exterminators of Jews typified the anti-Israel invective he spewed during a January 4 interview with the Salt Cube Analytics podcast.
Freeman, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, has a long record of radical and anti-Israel views, which ultimately sunk his 2009 nomination by President Barack Obama to be chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Freeman’s discussion of Israeli policy towards the Gaza Strip, from which Hamas jihadists launched their murderous October 7, 2023, assaults upon Israel, continued his old habit of demonizing Israel. The podcast’s leftist Dutch moderator, Thomas Karat, meanwhile giddily affirmed Freeman’s opposition to the “all pervasive propaganda of the global war machine.”
The “Gaza concentration camp,” Freeman argued with his Israel/Third Reich analysis, “is the largest in the world,” although Gaza’s living standard compared rather favorably globally despite Hamas’ incessant warfare with Israel. Accordingly, the Israeli Supernova music festival next to the Gaza Strip, scene of a horrific Hamas massacre with 260 dead and numerous kidnappings, provoked warped reactions from Freeman. His comments focused not on Hamas’ insidious ambush of innocent concertgoers, but rather their supposed deadly indifference for “having a music festival on the border of a concentration camp.”
By contrast, the “Hamas military arm organized a spectacular jailbreak and rather like slave revolts in our own history in the United States carried out grievous atrocities,” Freeman grotesquely stated. He was “grateful to Norman Finkelstein,” a rabid Israel-hater, “for bringing up the analogy of slave revolts in the United States,” such as his analysis of Nat Turner’s 1831 Virginia uprising. This “had as its objective the murder of every white person they encountered,” Freeman recalled, and Turner’s followers “murdered some 60 White people, the majority also women and children.”
“Is the violence of the slave owner the same morally as the violence of a slave trying to end that violence?” Freeman philosophically mused as he whitewashed Hamas’ jihad to destroy Israel. The “same moral issue arises with Israeli oppression of Palestinians versus Palestinian resistance to oppression,” he claimed in his absurd moral reversal of Jewish victims and their terrorist, genocidal persecutors. While Hamas members committed some October 7 atrocities, the “bulk of the atrocities were committed by other Gazans, people who sought revenge for the abuses that they have suffered for so very long,” he stated without the slightest evidence.
Meanwhile the “hostage taking that Hamas carried out,” Freeman claimed, “was aimed primarily by Hamas at taking Israeli soldiers.” Hamas’ “objective was military” in nature, he ludicrously stated. Numerous women, often raped, and children kidnapped by Hamas would beg to differ.
In Freeman’s telling, the Israeli military appeared more dangerous to Israeli civilians than Hamas. The “Israelis lacked discipline and the training necessary to respond effectively” to Hamas attacks, he absurdly stated of one the world’s most renowned militaries, an assertion of Israeli incompetence parroted by other Israel-haters. The Supernova music festival participants “were largely killed, it appears, by Hellfire missiles and by other undisciplined fire by Israeli forces, who reacted in a chaotic manner,” he stated, reiterating a debunked claim.
A strange fixation to demean the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) seemed to possess Freeman. To suggest a “disgrace” of incompetence, he cherry-picked friendly fire incidents, inevitable in all warfare and especially so in urban areas, such as Israeli tanks firing “incendiary rounds directed at buildings.” He also distorted the IDF’s Hannibal directive, withdrawn in 2016, which allowed the IDF to take extraordinary measures to prevent the capture of Israeli soldiers, even if such actions might endanger the threatened soldiers. “The Hannibal directive basically says that, rather than get into bargaining over a hostage exchange, you should just kill the Israeli hostages along with their captors,” he said.
Armchair strategist Freeman extended his military analysis to the current IDF offensive into Gaza. “It is now a ground battle between what appear to be very well-trained Hamas warriors and a very poorly trained Israeli Defense Force,” he said, flying in the face of all factual information. “Perhaps as many as 5,000 Israeli troops have suffered wounds or died,” he said, even though the latest IDF casualty figures list 522 dead and 2,536 wounded.
Nonetheless, Freeman portrayed this IDF as inflicting inhumane cruelty upon Gaza’s people, even as the IDF has fought against Hamas with historically low civilian casualties and kept Gaza open for humanitarian aid. Gazans “have been treated as though they were in a prison or concentration camp periodically bombed and strafed and who are now subject to a campaign of annihilation by Israel,” he said. With a “desire for revenge,” Israel is now perpetrating “genocide,” a “crime against humanity” in Gaza, “to expel or murder all the Palestinians there,” either “with bombing or murder them by starvation.”
Continuing Freeman’s reductio ad Hitler caricature of Israel, he condemned President Joe Biden’s offers of a Gaza ceasefire as a “farce.” This was “a little bit like offering someone at Auschwitz a drink of cold water while they wait to go to the gas chamber,” he said.
This American Nazi-like policy towards Gaza, Freeman indicated, derived from Jewish influence upon American politics, and not any reasonable American national interest. Congress members now “seem to vie to create a new organization called Jews for genocide,” he stated. Especially “Biden is historically the largest single recipient of Zionist Israel Lobby contributions,” he added.
Although America’s successful Jewish community has an outsized financial influence upon American politics, Freeman interpreted such facts as merely reflecting nefarious Jews and their money. In America a “disproportionate percentage of campaign donations originate with Jewish plutocrats, very wealthy people who are committed to the state of Israel,” he said. This “is emphatically the case in the Democratic party, where about 50 percent of donations come from such people; it is less so in the Republican party,” he stated, without noting that precisely Republicans are more pro-Israel than Democrats. Only with respect to Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, of Indian ancestry, did he offer non-Jewish reasons for pro-Israel sentiment, for she “may very well share some of the Islamophobia that has gripped India.”
The only thing darker than this depiction of America’s Jews was Freeman’s diagnosis of the “Israeli version” of apartheid, with an “enormous number of Palestinian hostages” in prisons, namely dangerous terrorists. “Saving Israel from itself would require a one-state solution,” he claimed, which would join Israel with Gaza and other Palestinian territories in a supposedly secular “single democracy” with equality for all. The absurdity of Jews sharing a state with a murderously antisemitic Arab population did not seem to disturb his fantasies, for he claimed, oblivious to all public opinion surveys, that Hamas “was extremely unpopular in Gaza.”
Such views make Freeman sound not like an American ambassador to Saudi Arabia, but rather a Saudi ambassador to America. The wonder is not that he lost a bid for any high governmental office, but that he was ever a candidate to begin with. In his long, distinguished diplomatic career, Freeman has apparently gone native among America’s enemies, an ideological treason that only calls into question just how many others of his ilk inhabit America’s corridors of power.
SC says
Where are the Mossad wetwork teams when you need them.
Kenneth Johnson says
Hard to believe that therse people held lpositioins of honor. KEN
tgusa says
If I must go to a concentration camp please send me to Gaza not Auschwitz. I want to be able to see a movie, make a phone call, access the internet, order a pizza, take a leisurely stroll around the city, while I’m there. I also want electrical power, plumbing, a nice warm bed, etc etc.
tgusa says
And nice warm showers, tacos, access to medications and medical care!
Angeli says
This guy is a deluded fascist liar and low life.
Mr McGoo says
If ever I have heard an hour of unbelievable shite this is it!!!
This prick has it all wrong! I grew up in wonderful South Africa once upon a time, look at it now!!!
Israel in spite of everything that has been hurled it’s way in the last 75 years, has built itself into a powerhouse on the world stage in every field of endeavor, what have your mohahammedans contributed to the good of ANYTHING???
NOTHING except for blood, misery and death and all of you judgemental, smug, naive fools will also feel the cut of mohammedan swords sooner than later, I wish you ALL the luck in the world!!!!