ISRAEL REPEATS HOLOCAUST
By Haitham Sabbah • Jan 20th, 2009 at 18:18 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video, War, Zionism
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This is where you lose me. I don't see the parallels between The Holocaust as tendered by Adolf Hitler as The Final Solution and what's going on in Gaza. I've been reading – Finkelstein's book: Beyond Chutzpah, and waiting on David Aaron Miller's book: The Much Too-Promised Land.
Comparing Israel's 60 year, ongoing crime against the Levant's indigenous Arab population cannot be dismissed as a mean spirited, gratuitous smear after this most recent atrocity.
Because the ideologies of Zionism and Nazism are disturbingly similar, it's no surprise that subsequent crimes should be significantly different in purpose.
Both embrace ultra nationalist, superior race doctrines with militant mythical Homeland for one exclusive and privileged race.
Nazis were more concerned with a single race Germany while Zionists insisted that all German Jews go to Palestine or nowhere. (See "Transfer Agreement") Hence, this popular Zionist quote:
"A single cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe."
Zionism is not the same as "the Jews" or Judaism just as Jewish humanitarian groups spearhead courageous efforts to confront Israel's barbaric criminal element.
This is not a simple "Jew vs non Jew" issue as no single ethnic group is exclusively good or evil.
Thanks, Gray
Coming from Denmark from a family that used to be Jewish. (1948 ended that.) This video really proved an important point. We are all supposed to learn from the holocaust, and the Zionists learned how to continue it to the Palestinians.
The word Holocaust has many meanings and these include:
State sponsored mass murder, a sacrifice burnt by fire, mass destruction and loss of life and an unprecedented phenomenon of human destruction.
If you look to what is happeneing in Gaza the use of white phosphorus is a sacrifice burnt by fire, the likening of Gaza to an open air concentration camp in one of the most densely populated regions on earth is essentially mass destruction and loss of life, the ethnic cleansing regime and mass murdering of Palestinians is sponsored by the terrorist state of Israel and the fact that this has been happening for 61 years leaves it beyond any shadow of doubt – an unprecedented phenomenon of human destruction.
The pictures only signify the resemblance visually to the two holocausts but the ideologies of both nazis and zionists are the same and the desired outcome the same – they differ in their "reasoning" behind the need to exterminate a people and in their adopted methodologies and techniques.
This is a calling for all jews to support their Palestinian holocaustal brothers and sisters and ensure that what happened to them does not happen to any other people ever again.
@Wordsmith – What happened in Gaza is not a holocaust. When 63,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed out of a population of 1.9 million Bosnian Muslims, it was not labeled a holocaust, and it is a much, much bigger death toll than what Palestinians have had to deal with.
I am not sure more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since 1948. Israel is engaging in ethnic cleansing, and you might say there may be a case for some level of genocide, but not every ethnic cleansing is labeled as a holocaust because people didn't label what happened to the Bosnians as a holocaust, which was much larger in scale. I know it's popular for some Palestinians to say that what is happening is a holocaust. I don't agree, and I am Palestinian, though I hate what Israel is doing.
When 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the Ottoman Empire out of 2.5 million, that was a holocaust.
Even Winston Churchill called it a holocaust. In 1847, when 2 million Irishmen died due to Britain, it was labeled by some as a holocaust. There hasn't been the same scale of killing by Israel as what the British did to the Irish, the Turks to the Armenians or the Germans to 5-6 million Jews. Also, a total of 11 million minimum died in the holocaust including 5-7 million Ukrainians, 500,000 gypsies, 2-3 million Polish Catholics. I hope you will approve my comment, though it might not be popular. I call what happened to the Armenians, Irish, Jews, and Ukrainians and gypsies holocausts. Anyway, the Jews who died during World War II had nothing to do with Israelis and how they think as a people today. Anyway, Hitler offered to sell many Jews for money, trucks, and the Zionist leadership generally refused to do that to save them.