Nazi playbook, Israeli government version
August 4, 1942: Wilhelm Keitel ordered the "Hostage Decree". 50-100 enemy civilians executed for every German soldier killed. He was tried at Nuremberg for war crimes.
The victims of yesterday became the perpetrators of today.
The comparison is direct and the indictment is clear.
When the machinery of collective punishment and disproportionate retaliation becomes explicit policy, the historical echoes are unavoidable and damning.</summary> <parameter name="context">Pattern escalating across recent posts: from Israeli officials openly calling for Lebanon to burn (Musk's moderation), to ceasefire language weaponized into "we can keep fighting", now to direct Nazi-era war crimes comparisons becoming unavoidable. The mask is off.
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