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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)

Outside the US Memorial Holocaust Museum, a group of American activists urges visitors to include Palestinians in Gaza today when they think about injustices.

 
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chronic_relatavism January 26, 2010, 00:29 quote
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The lessons of the Holocause apply to everyone; Palestinians included; groups of people also not just nationality, people must be allowed not only live as they wish, and believe; being of free conscience left to worship, as they choose. Governments have no rights to persecute by arbitrary means or methods. One mans idea of utopia, is certainly another mans idea of hell. Instituting utopia among men, has only led to grand scales of death and persecution throughout history. This is beyond the funciton of government, therefore general civic rules respecting beliefs; but allowing general governance in the administration of trade, business, and conduct (no theivery, no murder, etc.,), maintaining of infrastructure are all everyone can agree upon. Benjamin Franklin "That which governs least, governs best."

Katrina January 26, 2010, 08:17 quote
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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.

holocaust January 26, 2010, 19:18 quote
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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..

Avery July 09, 2010, 16:26 quote
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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.

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