Luckily, Nazi Germany lost the War. But almost sixty years after its defeat in the battlefield, Hitler’s concept of war — part and parcel of his overall Weltanschauung — celebrates a rising tide in the global ideological arena. Israel’s assassination of Hamas’ leader Sheik Ahmad Yassin is a milestone in this process of barbarisation of the human kind.

Ran HaCohen opens up a troubling arena of thought in a March 27 essay entitled, “Who Won World War II?” which he follows up with the postscript “Sheikh Yassin and the Levitating German Corpses.”
Ben-Dror Yemini responds in today’s Ma’ariv.