Stories Of Extermination: Silent = Complicit | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Aug. 3, 2014

“Your silence will not protect you.”

- Audre Lorde

Increasingly, words like “holocaust” and “concentration camps” are being used by animal rights activists to describe the treatment of non-human animals. I’ve changed my take on that but have already written about it.

Also, thanks to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, there’s no shortage of social media references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, extermination, etc. But I’ve also recently written about that ongoing conflict.

What I do wanna talk about here is silence.

I’ve been to a handful of NYC rallies in support of the Palestinians who endure life under U.S.-funded bombs. At each event -- whether verbally or via protest sign -- I am confronted with some form of this question: Why is the world silent on Gaza?

We could just as easily ask ourselves why we all remain so silent about so many forms of global war zones -- from drone targets to fracking sites to ocean floor trawling nets and beyond. The stories of extermination abound.

However, since the situation in Gaza often evokes Holocaust comparisons and discussions, I thought it’d be helpful to recall the silence (and complicity) that greeted the Final Solution…

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[Adam051188]

1. gaza is not the holocaust

not yet at least.

[oberliner]

2. And the "Israel is just like Nazi Germany" game rolls on

What a thoroughly vile and disgusting article.

[ellenrr]

6. I don't anything that is going on is game-like, including the conversation,

which I think is quite serious.
And when you consider young Israeli men shouting "Kill the Arabs". "Kill the leftists" it is a valid comparison.
Not exactly the same, but there are certainly points of comparison.

One wonders how the Israeli Jews are blind to these points.

[oberliner]

7. I think it is for some folks

It does seem like there are people that seem to make it a point to use Nazi Germany as an analogy in spite of how off-base it is. If it's not some kind of rhetorical game, it's gross ignorance or something else entirely.

As for Israeli Jews - it is really disgusting to see the degree of prejudice against Palestinians in particular and Arabs generally that one sometimes can observe.

[King_David]

4. Disgusting article ,

We could just as easily ask ourselves why we all remain so silent about so many forms of global war zones -- from drone targets to fracking sites to ocean floor trawling nets and beyond. The stories of extermination abound.

However, since the situation in Gaza often evokes Holocaust comparisons and discussions, I thought it’d be helpful to recall the silence (and complicity) that greeted the Final Solution…

The reason it evokes holocaust comparisons set aside from "many forms of global war zones" is that the Jewish State is involved .

[ellenrr]

5. thanks, this is really powerful. Henry Seigman, former head of American Jewish Congress,

when asked about Nazi Holocaust and Gaza comparisons said:
The most important lesson of the Nazi Holocaust is not that bad people did atrocious things,
but that "good" people let them do it.