This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.
The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.
Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.
All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.
And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.
Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.
So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.
But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.
The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.
A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.
That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.
They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.
And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.
We had a great time today at the 110th INDY 500, and enjoyed catching part of the race on the rooftop with the legendary Roger Penske. Team Penske driver David Malukas finished 2nd today, and just 0.0233 seconds behind winner Felix Rosenqvist—the closest finish in race history!
The best part was the moving experience of honoring our fallen heroes for Memorial Day with nearly 400,000 Americans.🇺🇸
If Galindo wins. I will force a vote to expel her, everyday, until we achieve that objective! I will hold the floor everyday until she is gone. My grandmother was part of the kindertransport out of Berlin. Her parents were killed in Auschwitz. My kids are never going to “the camps”
@OccupyLF Where was Bevo and why aren’t you demanding the Spurs bring him out? The Cowboys are a student organization and Cannon Crew are made up of seniors who just graduated. 🙄
@_delconte@chrisgb002000 Ugh! My 12 year old and I came all the way from Florida for our annual trip! Bummed - we were so looking forward to this @_delconte!! 🤘🤘
When we released the new version of "Superman for Alon and the Hostages" we all prayed that one day Alon would sit at a piano with me and together we'd perform Superman.
For all of you who fought for the hostages and their families. This video of that miracle is for you. 🇺🇸🇮🇱
@Eyalo365@IhabHassane Nearly 1.7 million people live in Manhattan, which is only 59 square kilometers. Most important point - those 1.7 million people didn’t start a war with Newark, NJ on October 7th.
@IhabHassane Nearly 1.7 million people live in Manhattan, which is only 59 square kilometers. Most important point - those 1.7 million people didn’t start a war with Newark, NJ on October 7th.