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   From: void@invalid.noy   
      
   I remember how our Israeli Prime Minster, Benjamin Netanyahu, told   
   Holocaust survivors at an elderly home, “The Holocaust happened   
   because there was no State of Israel. If there had been a Jewish state   
   before, there would have been no Holocaust.”   
      
   Later, he would tell the whole world while speaking from the Yad   
   Vashem Holocaust Museum that “the Jewish state has learned the lessons   
   of the Holocaust. Has the world learned the lessons of the Holocaust?”   
      
   What lesson has the Jewish state learned?   
      
   That we, ourselves, can commit a Holocaust in Gaza in 2024, and then   
   deny that it exists. Indeed, we have even decried sober UN appraisals   
   of our genocide as an “obscene inversion of reality.”   
      
   We haven’t even seen the worst of it. As Palestinian-American author   
   Susan Abulhawa reports from her visit to Gaza, “the reality on the   
   ground is infinitely worse than the worst videos and photos that we’re   
   seeing in the West.” Israelis generally avoid seeing any of it — what   
   do we care?   
      
   “People first resorted to eating horse and donkey feed, but that’s   
   gone. Now they’re eating the donkeys and horses,” Abulhawa writes.   
   “Some are eating stray cats and dogs, which are themselves starving   
   and sometimes feeding on human remains that litter streets where   
   Israeli snipers picked off people who dared to venture within the   
   sight of their scopes. The old and weak have already died of hunger   
   and thirst.”   
      
   “What I see is a holocaust.” she summarizes. “The incomprehensible   
   culmination of 75 years of Israeli impunity for persistent war   
   crimes.”   
      
   I second that.   
      
   But most Israelis are holocaust deniers. Oh, how we hate the Holocaust   
   deniers, so oblivious to the total destruction of European Jewry. How   
   could they be so utterly callous in questioning the numbers, saying   
   that it was “just a war?”   
      
   That’s what we do. We downplay it, call it a war of self-defense, and   
   erase history — it all started on October 7. Over 13,000 dead   
   children, some starved to death, do not seem to alter our perception.   
   It’s just collateral damage.   
      
   This is possible because the Palestinians are Nazis now. If you ask   
   about “civilians,” Israelis will, in the words of former Prime   
   Minister Naftali Bennet, say: “What is wrong with you?!” Or, like   
   Israeli President Isaac Herzog, they would assert that there are no   
   “uninvolved” in Gaza.   
      
   They’re all Nazis.   
      
   But you know what? We are the Judeo-Nazis now. It’s never been so   
   clear. Oh, yes, there are right-wing Judeo-Nazis, who have spoken of   
   “wiping out” Huwwara before October 7, but now there are the many   
   kibbutzniks who openly speak of wiping out Gaza. Two-thirds of us,   
   including nearly 40% of the “left wing,” literally want to deprive   
   Gazans of the most basic humanitarian aid (it’s 80% on the right wing,   
   by the way, and they constitute about two-thirds of Israeli voters).   
      
   In other words, most of us literally want to starve Palestinians.   
      
   Others opt for a more “proportionate” genocide, simply bombing them by   
   the hundreds, ostensibly for the purpose of killing one Hamas leader.   
      
   We have learned nothing. Our morality is dust.   
      
   Should I be more nuanced? Yes, perhaps there were some more sensible   
   Nazis. I hear Hitler was generally quite polite in his familiar   
   circles. But not to the human animals. They could be exterminated, and   
   the world would be a better place without such vermin.   
      
   Now the Palestinians are the “human animals,” in the words of our   
   Defense Minister, Yoav Galant. I haven’t heard many Israelis rebuff   
   his words. After all, he’s been critical of Netanyahu from inside the   
   government — he’s nuanced!   
      
   The depths to which we have sunk leave me wondering how there still   
   are countries on our side. What the hell is wrong with them? Don’t   
   they see that, by supporting Israel economically and militarily, they   
   are abetting a genocide?   
      
   Clearly, Israelis aren’t the only ones who haven’t learned the lessons   
   of the Holocaust.   
      
   https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/we-israelis-are-the-biggest-holocaust-deniers/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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