The Nazi, the colonial White Man and the Zionist share a common trait by Maung Trait
The Nazi, the colonial White Man and the Zionist share a common trait: they all claim God and Law to be on their side
Imagine a bunch of white settlers from Europe arrived in your homeland, dispossessed any of your native ancestors, grabbed their land, helped themselves to anything of value, above and underground, slaughtered any natives who got in their way, and framed those who survived the visitors’ initial savagery, as, well, “savages”, “subhumans”, “human animals”.
Then the white man slotted the surviving native populations, accordingly in the new order of things, as to places where they would be herded off, specific socio-economic conditions under which they would be allowed to exist, the establishment of cultural and knowledge systems in synch with the new “rule of law”, all set up solely for the control of native land, population and resources.
This early phase of European savagery – typically referred to as “a policy of pacification” – with the resultant “legal system”.
Welcome to the White Man’s Year Zero:
Savagery is civilization. Resistance is Terrorism. Law is an Ass.
Photo: Zarni, March 2026
One of the earliest uses of the word “pacification” which I take personal interest in was in specific reference to Britain’s attempts to put down organic, decentralized armed resistance against the advancing British troops, which followed Britain’s “decapitation” strategy of taking the king and two wives (sisters) into permanent exile in India in the winter of 1885.
The campaign, that included the collective punishment. Such punishment against resistance included wholesale torching of entire native villages, typically made up of highly flammable wooden, bamboo and thatch houses, where a handful of angry young men organized ambushes against the advancing Red Coats (British troops), Daesh- or IS-style beheading of captured native ringleaders.
The British, both the ruling class and the public, were reportedly horrified upon hearing the tales of the Terror by the Plebs in Parisian Squares in 1789 or during Paris Communes.
But in the 1880’s, the White Man from Victorian Britain had incorporated beheading as part of his colonial policy toolkit and leaving the severed heads atop bamboo posts: what could happen if any native refuses to embrace the White Man’s new Law and Order.
Some Red Coats with literary talents were even inspired to compose poetry, after hearing what he considered rhythmic sound of village fire, which he ignited, spreading from one thatch-roof to the next, aided by a strong tropical wind in the Dry Zone, known for its low annual rainfall.
This British Savagery was a foundational pillar of the colonial Burma.
The savagery was typically and officially framed as the “Civilizing Mission” among the predominantly Buddhist and with deep literary culture and faith system with their own “Books”. Note the plural.
Such brutal campaign of “pacifying” “any of the natives found in the way” typically worked. That is, until it didn’t.
By 1920, a new generation of resisters came of age, and they tried non-violence agitation and adopted “Say No to the White Man’s Rule”. “Boo Athin or Organizations that Say NO! to anything British” sprang up across the Burmese colony and adopted what we would call today BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).
It is worth noting that this resurgence of Burmese natives’ revolt this time, came about the time of the Irish War of Independence against the British rule in Dublin. So, the Irishmen who served in the British Imperial Military stationed in colonial Burma were sympathetic to and supportive of the Burmese agitators against the two-fold yoke of White Supremacy and systemic wealth-extraction by London or Edinburgh-headquartered corporations, after the mercantilist phase of the British East India Company spear-heading loot and land grab in South Asia.
Colonialism was never about one-off loot or material gains only.
“Pacified” human populations, “the natives”, were slotted into a hierarchy of cultures, civilizations and races atop of which the White Man “naturally” occupied. The institutions were created for permanent extraction of wealth, labour and land acquisition from other peoples’ lands.
Here Law was a crucial component in the assemblage of colonial states, which served both psycho-existential and practical/instrument needs of the White Man. It is not enough to beat up the weaker and less organized peoples for want of their land, resources, women, what have you.
When colonial schooling was established, the earliest courses offered were land survey and law. Land survey to assess the commercial potential of the newly grabbed land and law for the administrative and judicial control of the population freshly “pacified.”
That colonial law served the white colonizer’s interests while giving the ethical veneer of fairness is well-documented.
Law serves a deeper existential need of the white man as settler colonizer or bureaucratic-commercial colonizer.
In this process of establishing control and domination over the natives, the White Man still feels a need to be morally good and virtuous about himself, the policies he implements.
Noteworthy is the fact that the Nazi, the White Man/Colonizer and the Zionist share a common trait: without fail, they all claim God and Law on their side, even when they are killing any of the natives in the(ir) way.
A year ago, an American friend of mine, a former Green Beret in his late 60’s, and a devout Christian missionary, offered me his unmistakably internalized settler’s moral narrative over this process of land-grab.
He wrote me, “(m)y ancestors came to this country (USA) from Eastern Europe. They just wanted to have a new life, with 30-acres of land, start a ranch and live in peace.”
Needless to say, if any of the natives that didn’t welcome such uninvited settlement by the White Man got in the way, the former’s resistance would be generally viewed as “hostile acts.”
The White Man’s attempts to subdue or eliminate a threat to peace and harmony of the rancher-wannabe settler from Eastern Europe, was in accord with his Christian moral sentiments.
God blesses Slavery, Colonialism and Settler Colonialism
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This was an ideological phenomenon which a young student from Trinadad who arrived St Catherine’s College, Oxford, in 1931, discovered through his doctoral research on Britain’s slavery in the West Indies. His name was Eric Williams and he was a close junior friend of the already established fellow Caribbean writer and intellectual C.L.R. James.
In the highly cultured British metropolises such as London and Bristol of the 18th and early 19th centuries, neither slave trade nor slavery stirred up any cognitive dissonance amongst Britain’s slave-owning and -trading philanthropists, academicians, doctors, lawyers, factory-owners, lawmakers, intellectuals, artists, writers, Church of England clergymen, aristocrats and the Royal Family.
A typical White Man is Orwellian: while committing or being complicit in the crimes against humanity he feels the need to rationalize his savage wars of pacification or being complicit in them, as being in accord with the Law, and, equally important, with Christian moral sentiments.
It is in (his) Law, the White Man refashioned himself as the Peace-Giver, Social Stabilizer, and Deliverer of Justice as evidenced in Chief Commissioner of Burma (1887-1890) Sir Charles Crosthwaite’s Preface to his The Pacification of Burma (1887-1890) in 1912, the year of publication. In Crosthwaite’s self-congratulatory words, “(m)y purpose in writing has been to give an intelligible narrative of the work done in Burma following the annexation. … The work was, I believe, well done and has proved itself to be good. … I have endeavoured to show how the conduct of the solders of the Queen, British and Indian, helped the civil administration to establish peace.” (p. vi).
This new Burma administration for peace included White Only Clubs in all sizeable administrative towns and cities across Burma.
Of course, the Englishman who established the rule of law for peace in the newly annexed colony of Burma, and the Ruled or the natives could not be sipping a cup of tea together with the “lesser breeds”, riding in the same carriage or socialize together.
From Gandhi’s S. Africa or the Jim Crow American South, or the Jewish Supremacist apartheid and Israeli genocide-on-autopilot in the Occupied Palestine, or Nazi Germany, the White Man’s crimes are part of the “natural” order of things or simply covered up as the front jacket for George Orwell’s first-ever novel highlighted:
“EVERYBODY KNOWS that behind the glamorous forest of the white man’s rule in the East there are things so evil, so shocking, so dangerous that all officialdom services to cover them up. …”
Burmese Days cover, the first US edition, 1934: Wikipedia
It is no coincidence that both Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1941) and “The Burmese Days” (1934) by the ex-British Imperial Police inspector Eric Blair, (better known by his pen name George Orwell), had to be published originally in the United States. For both manuscripts, one scholarly and the other fictional, questioned and/or demolished the pretence of the moral foundation or sentiments of pro-slavery and pro-colony Britain of the time.
Under the Colonizer’s Law, torture (and summary execution) of the subjugated is as lawful as the grabbing of the latter’s land
As early 1982, the late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the renowned Lithuanian Jewish rabbinical scholar and recipient of Israel Prize, screamed foul that the Supreme Court of Israel under the British-educated Chief Justice Moshe Landau, specifically – legalized the torture of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Landau was considered a founder of Israeli law who presided over the Eichman Trial.
A half-century later after the completion of its “Pacification Campaign” amongst my Burmese ancestors, Britain repeated the execution of a similar mission in Palestine.
In his praise of Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State and the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 (Matthew Hughes, Cambridge University Press, 2020), Yigal Sheffy, the author of British Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign (1914-1918), summed up yet another case of Britain’s success in such endeavours thus:
Matthew Hughes’s ground-breaking study of Britain’s repression of the Arab rebellion in Palestine in the 1930’s is an outstanding military history of British colonial pacification methods. It details how Britain’s colonial emergency state successfully integrated draconian legal measures with the British Army’s long traditions of counter-insurgency to pacify Palestine and crush a rebellion that, as Hughes proves, lacked the internal strengthen to counter the power of the British Empire.”
To belabour the obvious, the word “pacification”, policy and practice, is a typical White Man’s euphemism in the early phase of colonization process designed to conceal the truly barbaric or savage nature of organized violence needed to put down various forms of natural resistance, yes, armed and violent, unapologetically, put up by the natives with organic ties to the land.
Despite their slight ideological differences, the Nazis of 1930’s and European colonizers of different periods are clever linguists: they have a penchant for euphemisms to talk about their heinous crimes against humanity, long before anything resembling international law was established.
Here is my favourite sample of polite society language: “liquidation” (mass extermination), “collective punishment” (genocidal starvation, siege, demolition), “protective custody” (ghettos).
These deadly repressive measures in the service of the White Man’s rule, control, domination and ultimately decimation are typically met with natural resistance by those on the receiving end of colonialism, settler or otherwise.
Call this resistance of the oppressed and the colonized what you will: “terrorism”, “insurgency” “a threat to Civilization”.
When there is repression and oppression, there will be resistance. It is as scientific as Newtonian law of mechanics.
To resist, by any means necessary, is to be human, whether the Jewish inmates having engaged themselves in the predictably suicidal mission of killing 4-SS officers and blowing up, though somewhat amateurishly, Crematorium IV at Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp on 7 October 1944. See HERE
The remnants of the partially dynamited Crematorium IV, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oct. 2023, photo by Zarni
A brief detour here.
Unlike the Israeli troops who have been exterminating Palestinians in Gaza sadistically and gleefully in close range, German Nazis who run mass extermination sites had wised up.
At the height of Israel’s war of annihilation, the Israeli Jewish society were gleefully involved: they felt celebratory and rejoiced hearing Boom! Boom! Gaza.
The overwhelming majority of Israeli public are variously involved in writing the latest chapter of the white man’s genocidal land grab. They do so with such un-concealed glee and collective sadism.
Photo from Robert Rosenthal
In sharp contrast, the “rational” German public maintained the pretence of NOT knowing what their “boys” were doing with the unwanted populations in the Nazi-occupied European territories.
In the latest phase of the Nazi genocide, “the Nazi boys (and girls)” in SS uniform did their job more rationally and bureaucratically.
The SS planners of liquidation scheme – infamously known as the Final Solution to the Jewish Question –came up with a bureaucratic formula: a team of 4-SS officers, with their smartly pressed uniform, were assigned the most crucial job of administering Cyclone-B gas cannisters at each gas chamber, thereby minimizing the contact between the killed victims and the killers.
For the Nazis early on realized that they needed to keep themselves “a healthy distance” from their victims lest they all developed suicidal tendencies after they lost their humanity irreversibly, something that is reportedly happening within the Israeli society of Judeo-Nazi killers.
Now back to resistance against colonial oppression, repression and administration.
So, I got excited to have stumbled upon a modest public square – named “The Arab Great Uprisings” – in Madaba, the ancient Romanic city, now in Jordan, about 20 and 30-minute-drive away from Mount Nebo where Prophet Moses was believed to have lived and Jesus was baptized
When I joined the two delegations of international Free Palestine supporters in 2024 and 2025, Madaba was the rendezvous from where we would set off overland to Israel-controlled border crossing into the occupied Palestine.
In places like the late 19th Burma of my native land, or the late 18th century Australia, the Pacification Campaigns and the creation of the new colonial order of things went hand in gloves.
I personally find it stomach-turning and utterly unacceptable that in the year 2026, the same old colonial ideologies and systems of Race- and Faith-Supremacy remain the mainstay of the West.
The iconic entrance at the original Auschwitz or Auschwitz I, October, 2023. photo by Zarni
That is, after the closure of that most terrifyingly iconic dark depository of the Western Civilization that prides itself as the fountain of Progress, Rationality and Law in January 1945.
Just this week at the toothless United Nations General Assembly, USA, Israel and Argentina, the 3 settler colonial states led by Jewish and Christian Zionists, voted against even the symbolic resolution that declared (the White Man’s) “slavery” history’s gravest crime.
And much of the UN member states, clustered as the West, couldn’t bring themselves to endorsing such an elemental acknowledgement of their collective crime: they abstained.
But the Western Civilization and its collective crime aren’t about simply about what the White Man did 500 years ago.
The Crime against Humanity as Western Civilization, since 7 October 2023, “Judeo-Christian Civilization”, is tormenting the rest of the humanity.
Palestine has proven to be a most horrific living example of what it costs to resist History’s most enduring organized crime syndicate, the so-called Western Civilization.
This criminal entity is the embodiment of the White Power that began with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship which set sail in European waters in the15th century.
It destroys peoples whose God, scriptures, states, cultures, customs, philosophies, and so on are deemed unworthy of respect, protection by the White Man’s law.
When the two ruling Germans in Berlin, Chancellor Merz (and his Federal Foreign Minister), spew out moronic and morally abhorrent utterances to the effect that Iran is not entitled to international law, they are simply acting in keeping with the White Man’s “legal tradition.”
When Law, as such, lacks universal applicability, it isn’t law as it should be: the tool to deliver justice, adjudicate on the question of fairness. It is an Orwellian tool for domination and control in the arsenal the West, that wishes to be known as “the Civilization”.
Disturbingly, Merz and his Foreign Minister are not the exception amongst the Western or European political class, but they are the norm, Whether a medical doctor-cum-politician Dr Ursula von der Leyen or Sir Keir Starmer, “a human rights lawyer” or Kaja Kallas, the first woman prime minister of Estonia, now serving as the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Europe’s top politicians are cut from the 500-years-old white colonial cloth.
As with the German Chancellor his denial of Iran’s sovereign right to enjoy the effect of the UN Charter and the protection of international law as a UN member state was preceded by his Naziesque vile public statement last year.
Read the statement by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security, reminding the German Chancellor that his justificatory language for Israel’s un-provoked attack on Iran which started the 12-day US-Israel war in June 2025, is rooted in the Nazi SS narrative of the 1930’s. The Institute’s statement reads, “SS Chief Storm Leader August Häfner used the term when he was on trial for his role in the massacre of Babi Yar, where Nazi shooting squads and their collaborators murdered 33,771 Jews in less than two days.”
In his 10-March commentary in Politics Today, Kemal Inat, Professor at the Department of International Relations at Sakarya University in Turkey, wrote, “Germans and other Europeans take great pleasure in portraying themselves as the new protectors of the rule of law, They enjoy making statements along the lines of, “America betrayed the rules-based order, but we will continue to defend it and uphold the rule of law.” They particularly favour Ukraine as an example, explaining how a significant portion of Germany and other Europeans heroically supported Ukraine’s “struggle for rights and freedoms” against the Russian occupation.
However, when it comes to the Middle East, Germany appears to be pursuing a policy that completely disregards the rules of international law. A country that champions a rules-based international order and criticizes others for violating it would be expected to oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its attacks on Lebanon and Syria, and its unjust war of aggression against Iran.”
They all think law is what they say it is. When law is applied selectively it is not law as such, but rather an instrument of unscrupulous and brutish power.
In the colonial eyes of these European (and Western) politicians and political class, neither Palestinians nor Iranians are entitled to international law, if their words and deeds are anything to go by.
Meanwhile, the state of Israel is crying “international law” when it is being pummelled by Iran which it attacked unprovoked, in breach of the UN Charter and international law.
Yes, this is the same Israel that has slaughtered over 15,000 Palestinian children in Gaza in two years.
Like a Zombie-entity, the Israel that has been jailing Palestinian children under its own occupier’s military law, depriving of food and water as a form of torture, complain of how its own Israeli Jewish children are traumatized by the loud explosions from Iran’s hypersonic missiles which it can no longer intercept.
Indeed, we do live in the white man’s world where political leaders and political classes display Zombie-attributes: soulless ssssand self-un-aware.
They are incapable of seeing the ridiculousness of law which Charles Dickens’ character in Oliver Twist knew in the mid-19th century.
“Law is a ass …, a idiot”.
In Victorian England of the 19th century, law did not protect children. Children from impoverished families had to work in horrendous working conditions for long hours in industrial and manufacturing Britain. Dickens himself was a child labourer in Covent Garden, London.
Two hundred years since Dickens’ child-labour days of London, and five hundred years after the start of the white man’s institution of slavery, law remains an ass, protecting only a select circle of human populations while the White Man – and Woman – of the 21st century continues to tout peace, law and order, as they deem fit.
Maung Zarni
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