Community | July 11, 2008 | 4 comments

Can Palestinians understand the Holocaust? Yes.

source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1821145,00.html

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Ever since I went to Yad Vashim in Jerusalem I have understood the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian territory as a direct product of fear on a pathological level that was created by not only the Jewish experience in the Holocaust but by the world's indifference. I toured the Holocaust museum with my then 8 year daughter and was moved to tears - not because of the crimes shown, but because many of the photographs I saw are available today - the Warsaw Ghetto, the children with Jewish stars facing Gestapo soldiers with guns pointed at them. All you have to do is replace Palestinians for the Jews.

Now don't go and get all Anti-Semitic on me. Of course it's not the same. The magnitud and extent quite simply arent there - and never will be I dare to say. However, the Occupation is a violation of international law, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (written in part by a French Jew working to prevent the Halocaus from repetlition) are violated by Israel over and over.

What the Israeli government does in the name of security should be renamed as what they do in the name of fear. I think this lawyer is on to something. I would like to see something similar taht would include pictures of the Occupation - not just the Nakbah.
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4 comments // Can Palestinians understand the Holocaust? Yes.

  • piecesofpeace
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      piecesofpeace  

    • one day maybe we can have a technology or a method that allows us to destroy terrorists without hurting the populations they embed themselves in
      save lives of gazans
      pakistanis
      afganis
      and iraqis

    • 2 years ago
  • datamined
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      datamined  
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    • GENOCIDE OF GAZA CHILDREN
      1) There are 1.5 million people in Gaza
      2) 56% of Gaza's population are children.
      3) Israel killed 68 gazan children last year.
      4) That's 1 : 12,353 odds of a gaza child dying by israel last year

      On doing further research, I've discovered that more children in gaza die from

      * slipping in a bathtub
      * falling from a ladder
      * car accidents
      * alcohol
      * suicide
      * firearms
      * drowning
      * smoking

      Clearly the Zionists are putting pork fat on the the bathtubs and ladders to make them slippery! I wouldn't put it past them to have a hand in all the other forms of death, such as suicide! Free Palestine!

    • 3 years ago
  • soberwood
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      soberwood  

    • This brave man, armed with a truth his people have never known, can do more for the interest of peace in that area than all the politicians and religious leaders combined.

    • 3 years ago
  • rabidlemur

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