The writer Amos Oz said that "price tag operations are neo-Nazis." Well, indeed, it's been a long time since we heard an opinionated person make perverse use of the words neo-Nazi, Nazi, etc. Sometimes it seems that anyone interested in receiving some light from the media spotlight is obliged to use these expressions once in a while.
I don't know what the reasons were that led the successful writer to use this word. I do know that by saying the words, it brought disdain and devalued the importance of the concept of "Nazis" or "neo-Nazis.".
Let there be no misunderstanding: the perpetrators of the Price Tag operations are an illegal, anti-Israel, anti-settlement group that belongs in prison and would have been better off one hour earlier. The various defense attorneys who explain that their graffiti on mosques and puncturing the tires of military jeeps are "just irresponsible actions by groups of children," are, in effect, encouraging the continuation of these actions, thereby also helping to further harm the settlement and the settlers.
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Even the name "Price Tag" given by those criminals to their actions, as if it were a group of comic book heroes of the 'Justice League' acting eye for eye against hostile Arab actions, is nothing but a lie and a great deception. These acts are the result of deliberate, calculated and planned actions whose sole purpose is to harm Arabs, whose only sin is being Arabs.
Let them go, they will disappear.
At the same time, the Price Tag activists are not "neo-Nazis." They are not even that dangerous. For they are destined to disappear like all the other underground organizations that arose over the years from within the Jewish population with great noise and evaporated as if they were nothing. Suffice it to recall the Jewish underground in the 1980s or the Alliance of Zealots and the Alliance of Bullies in the 1950s. There is no trace of these groups except for their periodic contribution to increasing blasphemy against the nations that exploit their actions and criticize us morally.
From this I have difficulty understanding what led the writer Amos Oz to use such a difficult word, and how a person who knows the Hebrew language inside out, was unable to find a more precise and correct word.
It is possible that the man believes with all his heart that this is indeed a group whose actions are equivalent in severity to the neo-Nazi movement, and then he is mistaken and demonstrates a lack of knowledge, and it is also possible that he simply wanted to rekindle the public debate about the perpetrators of price tag operations. However, his choice of inappropriate words, beyond the fact that they are incorrect, causes much greater harm than any possible benefit - even if there is one in his opinion - in his words.
His choice of these words belittles the severity and actions of the Nazis. The Nazis were an extremist group that worked to destroy all the Jews of the world, and they did, and even succeeded in putting parts of their plans into practice. The "Final Solution" they sought to promote has taken shape, and the neo-Nazi movement and its supporters operate in the name of the same ideology, the Nazi racial theory. Giving the name "Nazis" or "neo-Nazis" to other groups diminishes the madness and catastrophic danger of the Nazi doctrine and its believers, and turns it into another organization of criminals headed by a guy named Hitler.
Amos Oz, you are a man of many talents and a vast source of knowledge, and it seems that it is not for nothing that you are repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize. Please think. I am convinced that you can find a more appropriate and correct word for the lawbreakers from the fringes of the right, and without harming our obligations to remember and know that the Nazi phenomenon and the evil that accompanied it had no equal in human history.
