Essay

Never Again

A ghettoized Gaza bears striking similarities to the Warsaw ghetto.

On October 1, 1939 the German Wehrmacht’s advance reached the city of Warsaw, Poland. Over the following months, the Jewish population of Warsaw and the surrounding areas would be forced into a small section of the city dubbed the “Jüdischer wohnbezirk” or “the Jewish quarter,” the Warsaw ghetto. The situation within the ghetto was unbearable: 30 percent of the population was forced to live in 2.4 percent of the city’s area. The Nazi occupiers of the city strictly controlled the movement of goods, basic utilities and even food. Each person in the ghetto was allotted about 250 calories per day. This meant that the population would slowly starve.

Acts of rebellion within the ghetto were brutally suppressed and German retaliation was often strikingly disproportionate. In December 1939, for example, two German soldiers were killed in a local restaurant and 106 men in the ghetto were shot in reprisal. Sweeping mass arrests and random executions were also commonplace. In April 1940 the ghetto was walled off on all sides, effectively separating it from the outside world. The population was allowed limited control through an essentially powerless governing committee and a similarly ineffective Jewish police force.

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German troops set fire to housing blocks in order to suppress the Warsaw ghetto uprising by smoking members of the Jewish resistance out of hiding.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish flames at a medical warehouse after an Israeli air strike targeted a fuel tank nearby in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008. Israel widened its deadliest-ever air offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers Sunday, pounding Hamas targets, smugglers’ tunnels and a central prison.
AP Photo/Xinhua

Jews living anywhere in the greater occupied German territories were forced to wear armbands with the Star of David, which signified their position within the Nazi social strata (read subhuman). These armbands effectively determined people’s ability to travel, live and work, as well as the manner in which they would be treated by non-Jewish persons.

Leaving the Warsaw ghetto meant risking death or deportation to a concentration camp. Services such as hospitals and schools were often derelict, relying on an ever-decreasing stream of supplies allotted by the Nazis. The low supplies were often supplemented by goods smuggled in through tunnels, but such services were eventually forced to close.

The citizens of Warsaw organized a resistance movement during the Soviet advance. Their valiant attempt to fight the occupation, however, was brutally defeated and the Warsaw ghetto was razed to the ground. The ghetto’s remaining residents, those who had managed to evade deportation to concentration camps, were killed.

On September 12, 2005 the final Israeli settlement blocs in the Gaza Strip were dismantled and Israeli troops withdrew from the area after 38 years of military occupation. For Israel, the removal of troops signified an end to their occupation of Gaza. For the citizens of the Gaza Strip, however, the occupation had simply progressed into a new phase: the ghetto. The year 2005 marked the establishment of Gaza as an open-air prison for Palestinians.

Palestinian rescue workers carry a wounded prisoner past a fire, as another lies under the rubble in the central security headquarters and prison, known as the Saraya, after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008.
AP Photo/Majed Hamdan

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The bodies of Jewish resisters lie in front of the ruins of a building where they were shot by the SS during the supression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
[Photograph #26547]
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Palestinians hold white flags as a signal for Israeli troops after leaving their house near the area where Israeli soldiers and Palestinean militants exchange fire outside Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.
AP Photo/Hatem Moussa

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Members of the Jewish resistance captured by SS troops during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum

The Israeli government controls the movement of all goods, including food, in and out of the Gaza Strip. A study done by Johns Hopkins University in 2002 showed that 17.5 percent of Gaza’s children aged 6–59 months suffer from chronic malnutrition and almost half of women and children suffer from anemia. These statistics have no doubt gone up in the wake of recent Israeli embargoes. Israel also controls basic necessities like power and plumbing. And of course it controls Gaza’s borders and airspace. The long ocean border, once an extremely viable source of income for Gazans through trade and fishing, is now strictly controlled by Israel.

For the most part, the movement of Palestinians into Israel is strictly forbidden. Until 2005 and the open revolt of Hamas in Gaza, Palestinians living in the territory were issued identification cards by the Palestinian Authority, with ID numbers given by Israel. These identification cards and their color casings determined what rights people had, where they were allowed to travel and, unofficially, how they were treated. Although they are no longer used in Hamas-controlled Gaza, these identification cards are used extensively in the West Bank, where Israeli checkpoints dot the region and prevent Palestinians from traveling freely within their territory. The situation of Palestinians in Gaza is unique: they have no official state and are thus treated as nonentities.

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The bodies of Jewish policemen executed by the SS during the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Bodies lie outside the Hamas police headquarters following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on Dec. 27, 2008.
AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed

Hospitals and schools in Gaza are rarely, if ever, able to keep up with the demands of the population. Supplies to these institutions are controlled by Israel and during times of war are often cut off. Most recently, the Israeli embargo of Gaza struck a blow to the health care system: many essential drugs are unavailable and ambulances have been grounded due to a lack of spare parts. Israeli responses to provocation are wildly disproportionate. In the recent resumption of fighting between Hamas and Israel, the Israeli response to the murder of three civilians by Palestinian rockets was the wide-scale destruction of Gaza, which has thus far reportedly claimed the lives of 670 civilians.

Comparing any event with the actions of Nazi Germany during World War II should never be done lightly. When events lend themselves to such comparisons, however, it can almost certainly be said that something is very wrong. Though the stated goal of Israel has never been the complete destruction of the Palestinian people, the tactics and policies supported by the state of Israel paint an extremely grim picture.

Saeed David Mohammad is a first-generation American born to a Pakistani father and German mother. He is majoring in Middle Eastern Studies at New York University.

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Adbusters # MAY/JUNE 2009

A New Aesthetic

June
15, 2009
07:30 pm
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Calling what Hamas "lobs" into the air "rockets" is deceptive. Besides having no guidance systems, they have no payload, no bomb. They are nothing more than long-range spears. Also, the number of people killed by these so-called "rockets" in the last 20 years is less than a dozen, whereas the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles are in the thousands just from the last year. Who is exterminating who? And would you say the Jew, Communists, Poles, etc. fighting back against German occupation were trying to "exterminate" the Germans? — Calvin

June
16, 2009
03:12 pm
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"Long range spears"!!?? Right, the kind that kill people and terrorize whole towns. The kind of spears that would provoke any country's military to respond militarily. Tell it to the people whose lives and rights you don't value (you know, the ones on the other side of the fence). The false logic of Gazan Kassam missles being in self-defense is profoundly flawed, when held up to the truth that militant groups responded to Israel's full Gaza withdrawal in '05 by shooting 8,000 missles between that time and the present. The well-documented chronology is that borders were opened after Israeli withdrawal - and they were closed following an unprecedented barrage on Israeli towns. Insisting that shooting indiscriminately at Jewish towns is "freedom fighting" only demonstrates an intellectual bias, and perhaps more significantly is not helping to get the borders opened nor helping the innocents in Gaza. It is not helpful to anyone except people who would like to see ongoing conflict and hate. Palestinian deaths in Israeli military action are not celebrated by Israel. That is not just lip-service - that is a cultural norm. But the reverse cannot be said about your "freedom fighters" who celebrate every Jewish or Israeli death and the fighting goes on for that reason. Leadership on the Palestinian side would be to stop teaching children to hope most of all to be martyr's for death. What I find most interesting is the unwillingness of many of the Israel-haters to recognize that Israel is fully aware that it is neither morally or practically of any value to create civilian casualties. Israel is not trying to overrun Gaza. It is trying to stop people who are doing violence to its own citizens. You can debate the efficacy of using military tactics to stop terrorists - but it is dishonest to paint Israel as thirsty for Palestinian blood, or conveniently, of genocidal goals. If Gaza wants peace, Israel couldn't be more thrilled to see it blossom. If it wants war, more civilians will get caught in the crossfire. — Abdullah

June
14, 2009
07:23 pm
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Right and that's what the Nazis said to the Jews of Poland who were lobbing bombs at them. Odd that the exact same argument would be used by Zionist fools like you 60 years later. Have you learned nothing. Take a look in the the mirror. You are the monster now. Palestine will resist foreign occupation and genocide with whatever is at their disposal. Don't like? Tough. Leave. Yeah. Go back to your fourth and fifth houses in New York and London and Kieve. Get the fuck out of someone else's country. — Anonymous

June
12, 2009
04:09 pm
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Murder is murder, it doesn't matter how it happens or the circumstances. What the Nazis did was HORRENDOUS but the suffering of Jews in no shape or form justifies the horrible genocide of the Palestinian people. Shame on Israel. — Ramón

June
14, 2009
07:27 pm
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The Israelis are guilty of the most heinous crimes against humanity and genocide. Try to couch it all sorts of Zionist speak, lie, buy up all mainstream media but the fact remains. Israelis are the new Nazis. Read Chomsky's Fateful Triangle. Watch "Peace Propaganda and the Promiseland" on youtube right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4 Or watch Occupation 101 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SbjAanvUqs&feature=PlayList&p=0248019CAE261C1D&index=0 — Un242

June
12, 2009
09:55 pm
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genocide of the Palestinian people? Do you even know what the word genocide means? do you know that nearly ALL of the civilian deaths in Gaza occur because of Hamas' documented policy of using women and children as human shields? do you know that in contravention to the most basic tenets of human decency they place missiles and missile launchers inside schools, that they hide among families and in hospitals in order specifically to generate the kinds of images and world "sympathy" that you, Ramon, are responding to? You are talking about a culture of martyrdom that literally believes the value of small children dying as martyrs is preferable to living? this doesn't just occur in Gaza-- it happens routinely in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan where the militants ask mothers to walk into marketplaces holding the hands of small children who are outfitted with bomb belts. Please... do a LITTLE research instead of spouting the ridiculous rhetoric you pick up from people holding posters at rallies. — Anonymous

June
16, 2009
07:02 am
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typo: "AND IN NO WAY IS THERE A PARENT THAT LETS THEIR CHILDREN DIE LIKE THAT!!! MAYBE THERE ARE A LOT OF CRAZY PARENTS, BUT TO SAY THAT IT IS EXCLUSIVELY IRAQI" should be: AND IN NO WAY IS THERE A PARENT THAT LETS THEIR CHILDREN DIE LIKE THAT!!! MAYBE THERE ARE A LOT OF CRAZY PARENTS, BUT TO SAY THAT IT IS EXCLUSIVELY IRAQI, OR AFGHANI, OR PALESTINIAN, OR ANY OTHER NATION IS DOWNRIGHT RACIST... JOSEPH FRITZL WAS A DERANGED PARENT AND FROM AUSTRIA... ARE YOU NOW GOING TO SAY THAT ALL AUSTRIANS LIKE TO RAPE THEIR DAUGHTERS AND HOLE THEM IN THEIR BASEMENTS????? **Fight the Propaganda** — gilad

June
16, 2009
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1. "do you know that nearly ALL of the civilian deaths in Gaza occur because of Hamas’ documented policy of using women and children as human shields?" I suggest you try the b'tselem website, an israeli human rights organization that documents with explicit proof the use of PALESTINIANS as human shields BY THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES and the DOCUMENTATION of DEATHS by HAMAS/ PLO versus the DEATHS, INJURIES, CHILD BIRTH DEFECTS, CHILDREN MALNUTRITION, INFANT DEATHS CAUSED BY TREATABLE DISEASES, ETC BY THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES... The difference in comparison is STAGGERING! The use of Human Shields by HAMAS???? Wanna know? ZEROOOO... There is NO DOCUMENTED PROOF by a CREDIBLE SOURCE (and i mean human rights organizations and independent bodies, such as human rights watch, amnesty international, and b'tselem) 2. "in contravention to the most basic tenets of human decency they place missiles and missile launchers inside schools, that they hide among families and in hospitals in order specifically to generate the kinds of images and world “sympathy”" And where did the ANC and the fighters in the warsaw ghettos hide themselves and their weapons? In a munitions storage located 'far far away'???? Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the WORLD and SMALL. Hence you'd be hard pressed to find an ACTUAL open area that is NOT 10 meters within a civilian structure... And one that isnt bombed by the IDF. Oh BTW about those 'missiles inside schools and such'... LIES will get you nowhere... Even the UN has been reprimanding ISRAEL about THOSE LIES... Thanks for shelling the UN schools Israel, TOUGHLUCK there wasn't ANYTHING in THOSE SCHOOLS but CHILDREN, WOMEN, AND OLD PEOPLE!!! 3. "You are talking about a culture of martyrdom that literally believes the value of small children dying as martyrs is preferable to living? this doesn’t just occur in Gaza— it happens routinely in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan where the militants ask mothers to walk into marketplaces holding the hands of small children who are outfitted with bomb belts." WHERE??? WHEN???? SOURCE??? PROOF??? Nowhere in the credible internet sources (again HRW, AMNESTY, B'TSELEM, etc.) will you find such things! NOWHERE! THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY INCIDENT WHERE A CHILD HAS BEEN USED AS A HUMAN BOMB! AND IN NO WAY IS THERE A PARENT THAT LETS THEIR CHILDREN DIE LIKE THAT!!! MAYBE THERE ARE A LOT OF CRAZY PARENTS, BUT TO SAY THAT IT IS EXCLUSIVELY IRAQI>> ITS CALLED ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION!!! LOOK IT UP!!!! here's something from b'tselem ... an ISRAELI information centre on human rights in the occupied territories... thats right, there are ISRAELIS who aren't obscured by the propaganda! and also HRW. http://www.btselem.org/English/index.asp http://www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/israel-and-occupied-territories — gilad

June
15, 2009
07:34 pm
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all this information you are getting comes from IDF press releases and PR. The only group that makes these claims is the IDF, they don't have any independent confirmation. "do you know that nearly ALL of the civilian deaths in Gaza occur because of Hamas’ documented policy of using women and children as human shields?" This statement is glaringly false to anyone familiar with the events of the past year. 2000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were *bombed* by the IDF. None were held hostage. Some of those children killed were getting out of school after a day of classes. — Calvin

June
12, 2009
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To whom that want to argue about this article, shame on you! You support a cement wall around Gaza? Are you okay with indigenous people being forced to leave their homeland cause some super power wants that land for a certain people? Ya the Nazi did much harsher things to the Jewish people, but that doesn't make it right for these Zionist to imprison Palestinians. Wake up ! Israel has only been a state for 60 years, and all the citizens are immigrants to the land? — anyomius

June
12, 2009
10:08 pm
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The only purpose of the security fence is to protect against attacks by Palestinian terrorists. According to Wikipedia: "it has been one major factor behind the significantly reduced number of incidents of suicide bombings." If Palestinian terrorists were to stop bombing civilians inside Israel, the wall would be dismantled. In fact, but for terrorism, it never would have been erected. This notion that it was constructed as apartheid is ludicrous but it is a lie that Islamic extremists are repeating often enough that people will believe it. Unless they do a little research and learn the truth themselves. Are YOU willing to do a little research and learn the truth yourself? Or would you rather live in ignorance? — Anonymous

June
16, 2009
06:38 am
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BTW... here's an article from an ISRAELI NEWSPAPER: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=664916 TITLE: "Shin Bet: Palestinian truce main cause for reduced terror" (Shin Bet: Israeli Secret Police) **Fight the Propaganda** — gilad

June
16, 2009
06:33 am
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Again false... the WALL is not a security barrier, and is penetrable by PALESTINIANS, it just takes them SO MUCH LONGER and is NOT ACCESSIBLE for the OLD, SICKLY, and YOUNG. If you are in your 20's and can walk for 2 hours then you can get into ISRAEL... as reported by Ynet, Ha'aretz, and Jerusalem Post... Here are a collection of photos and articles from the AFP and Associated Press that have documented people circumventing the WALL: http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2007/09/one-thousand-tw.html And here is what some parts of the wall look like: http://www.annainthemiddleeast.com/photos/wall/mas_ha/191/ whole swathes of PALESTINIAN land in the occupied territories taken away so that VIOLENT EXTREMIST SETTLERS can SAFELY COME AND GO WITH THEIR AK47 and M 16 dedicated to making sure that if the WALL and IDF dont make life hell for PALESTINIANS, THEY WILL... **Don't Fall For the Propaganda** — gilad

June
15, 2009
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So you are justifying a cement wall because of terrorism? Well if Zionist didn't *forcefully* kick out all the indigenous people on their own land. There wouldn't be a need for terrorism. Let's remember Native Americans we're considered terrorist and look at that outcome. _Example_ So Imagine If China took over Louisiana to build a Tibetan State for strictly Tibetan people. You don't think some red-necks in Mississippi would be shooting bombs over the border? Even 60 years later? Desperate times call for desperate measures. — anyomius

June
12, 2009
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The author must have mixed info on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Warsaw Uprising: the latter was triggered by the advance of Red Army as a part of operation Tempest (the desperate attempt to show the world that Poles should have their country and not be left as a part of USSR). Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an action of the remaining few (~60 thousand) Jews left after the rest were send to death camps. They had absolutely no hope of winning, Russians were really far away, but they preferred to die fighting. A few of them survived, hiding in sewers or getting out of Ghetto being helped by Polish resistance. — Anonymous

June
12, 2009
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"Oh. Yeah. Warsaw and Gaza are identical. Obviously. Idiot. “Warsaw” — i.e., the Nazis — involved forced segregation, imprisonment and genocide of a peaceful civilian population based on their race; the situation in Gaza involves civilian casualties resulting from the intentional use of civilian shields by Hamas — a war-mongering, governing administration bent on the destruction of the so-called “occupying force.” So let’s see…" Yes the behavior of the Jews in killing those peaceful along with those involved is acceptable, because some of those people are violent. The Israeli government and people are puching me toward bcoming and antisemite. The world would be a better place if we killed of both cultures, sad as it may be. You are wrong Israel and you shouldn't exist. No worse land theivery has happened since White's came to America. I guess I should just be happy the evil Jews there didn't wind up in America. — American Dream White Boy

June
12, 2009
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I see... so the white's man's "theivery" of America (you're nearly illiterate as well as being a complete moron) is "worse" than Israel establishing a home in so-called "Palestine." So, why don't you focus your attentions on America. And I doubt Israel is "puching" you you to become an anti-semite. I have a feeling you are already there my friend. By the way, where is the old line about, "I don't hate Jews, I just hate Zionists." Most of your kind take refuge behind that canard. — Anonymous

June
12, 2009
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When thugs are needed to carry out a mission, thugs will be found - they enjoy their thuggery. There are such thugs in every society. Witness Americans in Iraq or some of the police in any country. Israel has nurtured its underdog image of itself since the founding of the state in the shadows of the holocaust - this self-pitying image is in the fabric of the national culture, it is the basic motivator, pushing Israelis to be stronger, aggressive, successful. Israelis are brought up to believe they are the victims. This self-image of being the victim becomes more and more artificial as time goes by and Israel becomes stronger and stronger. It is then used to justify the age-old tactics of conquest in a modern world where history has largely already been written (most of the countries of the world are no longer fighting for territory). Israel and the Palestinians are small actors on a small stage, playing out their version of Risk in view of the larger nations, who keep paying the price of the ticket. Most Israelis do not want to destroy the Palestinians. Most Palestinians do not want to destroy the Israelis. But we follow our leaders, because we mistake their more extreme vision for wisdom. And because we are too busy trying to get through the day, we don't question that vision. — Keshet

June
12, 2009
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Whatever the grievances are at Israel, their military is much more powerful. It is just not fare to be so strong and engage in a full-scale assault on an opponent with lesser means to defend themselves. It is no longer "an eye for an eye" but 223 eyes taken to avenge one. This is slow-motion genocide. But Hamas is a religion driven power-seeking organization. If only they were not religious and militant. Peaceful protests might have already brought this bogus israel down because of the scale of the atrocities involved. But because of this rocket launches that are paraded on every occasion the big guy has (as morally weak as it is)some pretext to terrorise its brave little opponent. — An Earthling

June
16, 2009
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"But because of this rocket launches that are paraded on every occasion the big guy has (as morally weak as it is)some pretext to terrorise its brave little opponent." That's where the wrong assumption is made... The Israeli Palestinian Conflict didn't JUST start 10 years ago upon the establishment of HAMAS... It has been there for 60 YEARS... NOR did it JUST start with the rockets (home made munitions)... SO ISRAEL IS ALLOWED TO EVICT, MURDER, TORTURE, IMPRISON, AND PULVERISE PALESTINIANS BECAUSE THEY HAD THE AUDACITY TO FIGHT BACK??? Remember, the ones lobbing those rockets used to live where those 'citizens' lived and still remember HOW THEY CAME to GAZA... http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2009/01/a-land-without-a-people.html title: 'Those People in Gaza: Where do they come from and why are they so mad???' **Fight the Propaganda** — gilad

June
12, 2009
12:44 am
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Oh. Yeah. Warsaw and Gaza are identical. Obviously. Idiot. "Warsaw" -- i.e., the Nazis -- involved forced segregation, imprisonment and genocide of a peaceful civilian population based on their race; the situation in Gaza involves civilian casualties resulting from the intentional use of civilian shields by Hamas -- a war-mongering, governing administration bent on the destruction of the so-called "occupying force." So let's see... Israel did not pull out of Gaza in order to establish a ghetto -- it pulled out of Gaza to offer the people there an opportunity to govern themselves peacefully. Why the hell else would Israel pull out of Gaza? If Israel wants to destroy Gaza, why not do so as a full occupying force when they had the opportunity to do so? The response to Israel's withdrawal from Gaza is the stockpiling by Hamas of missiles, launching them indiscriminately into civilian population areas inside Israel, launching them, incidentally, from inside schools, mosques, hospitals, and ambulances -- anything to elicit a self-defensive response with a high-probability of injuring innocent Gazan civilians. This, my friends, is how Hamas rolls. Perplexing is why Adbusters is the vehicle for publishing this anti-semitic nonsense. And yes... it's pure, libelous anti-semitic drivel. I "get" the Palestinian view and plight -- but this sort of crap really does nothing to move a solution forward. — Anonymous

June
12, 2009
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to be anti-Israel is not to be anti-semitic. You have no choice about your genetic make-up but you do have a choice whether to side with the agressor with so much blood on their hands. How can they even think about firing into school?! And you of course must understand that to destroy the Gaza outright would elicit a major international response and will shame the USAnian donors of this strange and brutal entity. The slow-motion destruction and constant provocation is much better in establishing the constant flow of military dollars. They need constant real terror to be able to take your human rights from you in USA and elsewhere. — An Earthling

June
26, 2009
11:26 pm
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Please let's not lose sight of our junior high school science class. Jews are not a race. Sadly. For them. Because they wish so badly they were. But they are not. So all this silly talk about Semites and Jews can be dismissed from all conversations. There is zero genetic link between Jews and Israel. Any link between Palestine and Jews from Europe is completely fabricated. Jews are not Semites. Hebrew is a Semitic language as is Arabic but in terms of "genetics" as you stated above there is no link between people who practice Judaism and the colonization of Palestine. — Anonymous

June
12, 2009
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Israel pulled out because it wanted to starve the Palestinians to submission. It is hard to enforce a siege while Israelis are also living in the area. Jews in the camp were peaceful BEFORE Nazi decided to attack them. The Palestinians were also peaceful BEFORE the Zionist atrocities. The big difference between Nazi's and the Zionist is that the Nazi's only lasted 5 years, Zionist have been doing it for 60+ years. — Anonymous

June
11, 2009
11:50 pm
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it's not about being able to rule themselves, it's about human dignity. being denied basic human necessities as well as respect is what breeds hate in the region. and what the israelis have given the gazans? what have they given them? a sliver of their own land which is segregated and still controlled in-directly by israelis. they've not only taken away their land, but their dignity. the comparisons are valid, and these are only a handful of pictures available that prove the point. — Anonymous

June
11, 2009
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Yeah, just like Warsaw, only the Jews didn't fling Missles at Germany on a regular basis. I'm sorry the Palestinian people keep choosing such bad leadership that results in this. I'm sorry Israel can't just use robot snipers to pick off only the bad guys. I'm sorry that Hamas are such cowards, they hide in civilian areas and fire from there. I'm sorry Saeed is practicing the disservice of comparing the plight of the Palestinians to the Jews in Warsaw. Big difference between the two. This is nothing but spin, right down to finding similar pictures to try to draw similar conclusions. Good article as a sample of propaganda, bad article for trying to make everyday people believe your spin. Fail. — Anonymous

June
11, 2009
11:45 pm
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You have got to be one of the least educated and most ignorant people I have ever come across. Please stay away from the internet. — Anonymous

June
11, 2009
09:59 pm
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Ye gods! Hmmmm... difference between Gaza and Warsaw Ghetto? How about extermination? Happened in Warsaw, did not happen in Gaza. How about how Gaza borders the so-called friends of the Palestinians, yet the friendly countries keep them locked-in there. How about how Israel gives Gaza a chance to rule itself, yet attack after attack from Gaza is the result of loosening security. If the Germans had given to the Jews what the Israelis have given to the Gazans, there would have been no genocide. Ahhhh... But these are minor details to those who want to see Israeli jews pushed into the ocean to drown. — Anonymous

June
16, 2009
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1. extermination: the Palestinians living in GAZA are the result of extermination by Israel in '48 then '67, and is still continuing to this day... they are refugees of Israeli wars and extermination policies against the indigenous peoples of Palestine. 2. Friends of Palestine: Who? If you mean Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia... The only people that think they are the 'friends' of Palestine are ill educated westerners... Palestinians do not think of them as such... And they know why these governments act like that... US Dollars... Kcing! 3. Israel gave GAZA a chance to rule themselves: WHEN??? WHERE??? HOW??? How did they give them a chance? By denying them medicine, food, supplies, and basic human needs, because they voted the wrong way? or was it by killing their fishermen who dared go into the 'supposedly liberated' gaza sea to fish and feed their families??? Gunned down by ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES... SPEEDBOATS AND M 16's AGAINST A ROWBOAT AND A COUPLE OF THIN STARVING REFUGEES!!! OR WAS IT BY BLOCKING ALL EXITS WHEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE RUNNING FROM AMERICAN MADE AND PAID BOMBS AND WHITE PHOSPHOROUS (illegal) LAUNCHED FROM THE SAFETY OF ISRAELI PLANES AND ARMCHAIR TECHNICIANS??? They were even denied the right to become refugess again... penned into a small and dense area... bombed... shot at... all in the name of 'defense'.. BTW theres a nice statistic with regard to GAZA: more than 50% of GAZANS are children under the age of 17... makes sense that the victims of ISRAELI ATROCITIES were mostly children ... doesn't it? **Fight the Propaganda** — gilad

June
11, 2009
05:14 pm
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The images may be harsh, but it is an interesting point of view. — Anonymous

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