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Do the lessons of the Holocaust apply to Palestinians?
Published: 26 January, 2010, 00:21
Edited: 10 July, 2010, 02:59
Khan Yunis: Palestinian supporters of Hamas parade in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis during a rally organised by the Islamic Resistance Movement on January 22, 2010 (AFP Photo / Said Khatib)
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Outside the US Memorial Holocaust Museum, a group of American activists urges visitors to include Palestinians in Gaza today when they think about injustices.
In Washington, DC, it’s not uncommon to see public signs of support for Israel – such as “We Support Israel” banners outside local synagogues. Although you may not see such banners outside the White House or the US Capitol building, experts say American lawmakers adhere to this motto, too.
However, outside the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, each week a small group of protesters march with signs that show sympathy and support for Palestinians and are critical of Israel’s policies in Gaza.
Visitors come to the Holocaust Museum to remember and learn from the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. And the museum urges patrons to “think about what they saw,” in an effort to stop hatred and injustice and other crimes against humanity throughout the world.
Outside the museum, Steve France and his fellow activists try to convince people that this message should apply to Palestinians in Gaza, too, who they believe are suffering at the hands of Israel. Last year more than 1,100 Palestinians were killed in the military conflict between Israel and Gaza. And Gaza’s borders are closed, limiting the food and supplies allowed in or out of the region.
“Their situation is that the children and their mothers are traumatized. They’re suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and the children are malnourished,” said France.
“The Israeli’s are blockading the place. It’s been going on for years, a terrible humanitarian crisis, and the United States just looks the other way,” said M.J. Rosenberg.
Israel’s supporters argue that although life is difficult in Gaza, Israel needed to take these measures to protect the country from Gaza’s leaders – members of Hamas.
“Israel went into Gaza to defend its citizens from the thousands of missiles that were being fired [into Israel] for years. It’s up to Hamas to stop the terrorism out of Gaza where there is no Israeli presence,” said Meagan Buren, research and training director at the non-profit organization The Israel Project. “I think closing its borders to prevent the smuggling of weapons and funds into the hands of terrorists is among the things [Israel] is going to need to do to protect its citizens.”
Outside the Holocaust Museum, protester Steve France encounters indifference, disgust, and support from people passing by. But for France, trying to get people to think about the struggles of Palestinians makes him feel like he’s doing something to help them since he believes his government will not.
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Yes, let the Palestinians build their own HOLOCAUST MUSEUM to display atrocities/horrors committed against their people. No one people, race,country or region has a monopoly on the word "HOLOCAUST". One of the greatest HOLOCAUSTS ever committed on earth was the extermination of the Indians in North and South America. Perhaps someday there will be a fitting HOLOCAUST MUSEUM.built for the tens of millions of American Indians who had their lands taken and were killed. One huge HOLOCAUST MUSEUM could be built to honor the ONE HUNDERD MILLION? {military and civilians} who died as a result of the misguided evil of WORLD WAR II. There has been so much genecide in this world that HOLOCAUST MUSEUMS could be built in many places. This would not take away from any other victims of genecide/war, but would simply complement them. It was all war and genocidel and was right out of HELL and PURE EVIL..
Now, for me the real question is not whether the term “Holocaust” applies to the Palestinians but whether this term is the prerogative of one specific group. In WWII, Hitler had clear and well delineated views of the Slavic people as subhuman and after the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union the Third Reich committed atrocities of an imaginable magnitude against Soviet People including Jews. 30M plus people were killed including 6m Soviet POW but there is no Holocaust memorial to mark Hitler’s war against the Slavic people of the Soviet Union and other Slavic countries. Also, there is no Holocaust memorial for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade or the mass slaughter of the native people after 1492 conquest of the Americas. In fact 1492 is very popular with Zionists. And, yes, there is no memorial for the 1948 Zionist dispossession of the Palestinians. Still, I think the usefulness of this video is in the background. It makes a profound point by showing the people coming to the Jewish Holocaust Museum refusing to take literature about the suffering of the Palestinians. How do we explain this contradiction? The Jewish Holocaust is a heinous crime against humanity which took place in Europe but it is not the only Holocaust. What is the moral lesson the Jewish Holocaust Museum is trying to teach? Once we answer that then we can grasp that there are many Holocausts and the Palestinian Holocaust will sooner or later have its Museums; people will come out and claim they did not know what was really happening in Gaza or other Zionist occupied territories! But we have been here before. The word never again rings hallow! It did happen again and again and it is happening to the Palestinians.
We shall never know which came first, the chicken or the egg, but we definitely know that anti-GENTILISM preceeded "antisemitism". Anti-GENTILISM is the cause of so-called "antisemitism". HUMANITY did not invent "antisemitism" and then wait thousands of years for Jews to appear, just so everybody could "hate" them for absolutely no reason. Judaism codified anti-GENTILISM, their hatred of ALL NON-jews, and the only SANE reaction of any NON-jew is self defense, which the "Tribe" calls antisemitism. Judaism consciously chose to separate itself from the Family Of Man, labeling ALL non-Jews GOYIM, GENTILE, SHISKA, and infusing Judaism's very soul with venom toward ALL NON-jews.