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Between Hitler and Hamas: The Dangers of Appeasement and Genocidal Aggression
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Dr. Joel Fishman - Appeasement was a policy which the British political class adopted during the first decades after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919). Many considered that the treaty's terms were so unfair that they would prevent the peaceful recovery of Germany. They considered it a moral necessity to correct the situation by appeasing Germany. The well-known failure of this policy was the Munich agreement of September 30, 1938, by which Britain conceded the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany and forced a third party, Czechoslovakia, to pay for this concession. This policy failed to bring "peace in our time," because Hitler had his own program of conquest and genocide. Hitler had a strategy of progressively weakening his victims and pursuing his goals by waging war as a tool of policy. One of the purposes of studying history is to learn from the mistakes of others. At the very least, we must try to understand the real goals and methods of our enemies. Recent searches by the IDF in Hebron and Gaza have produced copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf translated into Arabic. One of its key passages is Hitler's description of "The Big Lie" and its effectiveness. He explained that simple people can only handle small lies, but with repetition, big lies gain credibility, "and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie." If one takes into account the methods of The Big Lie which Hitler described in Mein Kampf and those of Hamas, one may observe a nearly identical choice of method. It is evident that the ideas of Mein Kampf remain current, and Hamas has copied a page or two. The writer is a fellow of the Jerusalem Center.