Comment from
Khalid Amayreh in East Jerusalem
In June, 1942, in reprisal for the assassination of
the Nazi commander Reinhard Heydrich, the Germans
carried out a murderous rampage of murder and terror
throughout Czechoslovakia. The small Czech village of
Lidice bore the brunt of the German revenge, with the
SS killing all the men, deported all women and children
and razed the village to the ground.
Similarly, in March 1944, thirty-three German soldiers
were killed when members of an Italian resistance
group set off a bomb close to a column of German troops
who were marching on via Rasella in Rome. Adolph
Hitler got furious and ordered that within 24 hours,
ten Italians were to be shot for each German soldier
that had been killed. Herbert Kappler, the local
German commander, quickly compiled a list of
320 civilians who were to be assassinated as vengeance.
On March 24, the victims were transported to the
Ardeatine caves where they were summarily
executed by the SS.
Numerous other 'pacification operations' were carried out
by the Nazi armies against civilians throughout Nazi-occupied
Europe, in which men, women and children were brutally killed
to avenge the death of German occupation soldiers by local
resistance fighters.
Now what is the difference between these Nazi atrocities
and what Israel, the "only democracy in the Middle East"
is doing in the Gaza Strip, where "the most moral army in the
world" is slaughtering babies as young as six-months' old?
I know that many Jews, especially Zionist Jews, have developed
almost instinctive knee- jerk defensive reactions to any
comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany. However,
the truth must be proclaimed aloud, irrespective of how many
Zionists will get angry.
Israel claims that it doesn't murder innocent civilians
deliberately. But this is a big, obscene lie, of which
even most Israelis are aware. Mistakes happen a
few times, but when the wanton slaughter of children
occurs each day and every day of the year,
it means it is policy.
In addition, when the number of victims,
especially innocent victims, as in Gaza, even intent itself
becomes irrelevant.
In the final analysis, murdering knowingly is murdering
deliberately, regardless of the prevarication and the verbal juggling.
Hence, Jews around the world, especially those who support Israel,
should be willing to bring themselves to recognizing that what
their wonderful state is doing to these helpless Palestinians is
a virtual holocaust or at least a holocaust in the making.
How else can any honest person relate to these
phantasmagoric images that keep coming from Gaza,
haunting the conscience of every human being?
True, Israel had not introduced gas chambers in Beit Hanun
and Khan Younis or Rafah. But we have F-16s raining down
bombs and death on sleeping children and women and
innocent civilians.
If Jews who support this satanic entity are not willing to call
the spade a spade and recognize a holocaust as a holocaust,
then they should be viewed as active accomplices in this
wanton rampage of murder and terror.
This is not a war. Calling the current Israeli onslaught on
Gaza a war is like fornicating with words.
Wars occur between armies and states.
What is happening in Gaza is actually a merciless and brutal
rampage of murder and terror waged by a Wehrmacht-like
army against a blockaded, beleaguered and starved people who
want to survive and be free, very much like Jews did under the
Nazi occupation of Europe.
Indeed, when Israel murders a hundred Palestinian,
mostly innocent civilians, for every Israeli killed, there is a
name for that, it is massacre.
It is conscionable that honest people around the world,
including many conscientious Jews who can't bear watching
the heinous crimes Israel is committing in their collective name,
must call the spade a spade. A holocaust, after all, doesn't
become lesser when perpetrated by Jews. There is no such a
thing as a kosher holocaust or kosher massacres.
Vilnai
Now, once again, human decency is being affronted
and insulted by this reptile terrorist Matan Vilnai, Israel's
deputy defense minister, who has gone as far as threatening
the thoroughly tormented Gazans with a holocaust.
Speaking to the Israeli army radio Friday morning, 29 February,
Vilnai said "the more Qassam rockets fire intensifies and the
rockets reach a longer range, the Palestinians will bring upon
themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all
our power to defend ourselves."
Well, if Israel thinks that carrying out a holocaust against its
victims in Gaza and Rafah and Khan Younis can be justified,
then why blame Hitler for effecting a holocaust against his own
respective enemies? Is Vilnai vindicating the holocaust?
I think Jews should realize that this criminal state, with its
manifestly intransigence and bellicosity, is forcing them to
make a moral judgment. In the face of evil, and Israel is a
clear embodiment of evil, one can't be neutral. It is either
one stands with evil or stands against it.
Today, people around the world, including millions of Jews,
are watching the pornographic slaughter in Gaza live on
their TV screens. And no amount of spin, lie, or hasbara
will make the images of mutilated babies look innocuous.
Finally, the people of the world will not be duped by the
propagandistic lies about so-called rocket attacks on Israeli
towns, which are meant first and foremost to create an artificial
equation between the wanton extermination of Gazans and the
mainly psychological discomfort experienced by some Israeli
citizens as a result of the fall of these nearly innocuous
fire-crackers, fired by some desperate Gazans in order
to deter Israel from killing more of their children.
This is because Israel knows very well how calm and peace
can be restored for both the people of Gaza and Israelis
across the border: Lift the criminal siege on Gaza, allow
Gazans to access food and to travel, allow them to
export and import, and stop these daily massacres.
And then not a single Qassam will be fired onto Israel.
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