Gaza?s Holocaust

Gaza’s Holocaust

By Dr. Elias Akleh

04 March, 2008

Holocaust is the genocidal crime against people based on their ethnicity. This genocide
could
be perpetrated through different means such as poison gas, guns, tanks, air raids,
biological
warfare, economical siege, starvation, destruction of vital natural resources, eviction
into
desert, and deprivation of basic vital materials among others, to produce the same result;
mass
deaths. For the last sixty years Palestinians have been suffering from all these methods
in a
deliberate programmed holocaust. The perpetrators are not Nazis, but those who claim to be
survivors, and their descendents, of Nazi-caused holocaust; Zionist Jewish Israelis.

The threat of Israeli Deputy Defense Minister, Metan Vinai, to inflict “bigger Shoah”
(Holocaust) [British Telegraph 2/29] on Gaza’s Palestinians reflect the adopted policy of
the
Israeli government towards Palestinians. Encircled by 8 foot high cement wall on three
sides
and a sea filled with hostile Israeli gun boats on the fourth, Gaza, with a dense
population of
1.5 million people, has become the largest concentration camp ever on this globe. Israeli
army
is the prison guards of this concentration camp. Controlling all borders, sea and air
Israeli
army controls and restricts all vital materials going into Gaza. Life in Gaza is dependent
on
the whims of the Israeli army guarding all crossings into Gaza. They close these crossing
whenever they want for a long periods of time to starve Palestinians. UN reports had
warned
that the majority of Gazans live under the poverty line. To make things worse Israel had
turned
Gaza into a military exercise theatre for its snipers shooting children in the streets,
for
their special forces conducting offensive operations within civilian areas, for long range
artillery practice, for tanks offensive exercises, for navy gun boats shooting exercises,
and
for air raid targeting. Starting Wednesday February 27th Israeli terrorist army had
started
their “bigger Shoah” against Gaza.

This holocaust did not target only Gaza, although Gaza is now suffering its main assault,
but
also targeted every Palestinian community in the West Bank. There has been a sharp
escalation
of Israeli military operations averaging at least five operations a day within these
communities. Between February 21st and 27th the Israeli terrorist army had conducted 36
military operations according to Palestinian Human Rights Center. With tanks and armored
personnel carriers randomly shooting at everything, the Israeli army had attacked
Palestinian
cities such as Bethlehem, Hebron (Al-Khalil), Nablus, Yatta, Beit Ummar, Dura, Taffuh and
others turning civilian homes into military headquarters and schools into temporary
prisons,
stealing valuables, destroying properties, demolishing homes, raiding Islamic charity
institutions and Young Men Islamic Associations and confiscating their contents; money and
records, and sealing them shut. During those seven days the Israeli army had kidnapped 67
Palestinians making a total of 499 hostages since the beginning of this year.

Fearing the angry reactions of huge Arab and Islamic populations and indignation of
international community Israel is perpetrating a graduated Palestinian holocaust, where
murdering Palestinians had become a daily occurrence in an attempt to desensitize world
opinion. Yet this Palestinian holocaust has all the ugly features of European Jewish
holocaust.
Where European Jews had suffered from a social racial superiority ideology of the pure
Aryan
race the Palestinians are suffering from a more extreme religious superiority ideology of
God’s
chosen people. Where Nazis had confiscated Jewish properties Zionist Israel had
confiscated
Palestinian properties; homes, farm land and valuables. Where Nazis used to murder Jews;
including women and children, for no reason except for being a Jew, Israelis are now
murdering
Palestinians; especially women and children, for no reason except for being a Palestinian.
Israel had massacred hundreds of whole Palestinian communities and wiped their towns off
the
map. Where Nazis had imprisoned Jews in concentration camps, Israel is imprisoning all
Palestinians in larger concentration camps enclosed within 8 feet high by 1300 miles long
concrete wall that divides Palestinian territories into separate small concentrations
camps
with Gaza Strip being the largest concentration camp ever in the whole world. Where Nazis
had
transferred thousands of European Jews making them refugees in foreign countries, Israel
had
transferred thousands of Palestinians out of their own country making them refugees in
desert
refugee camps. Where the, then, unorganized international community had blamed Nazi
Germany for
the Jewish holocaust and allowed Jewish massacres to go on for a long time, the present
more
organized and supposedly more civilized international community is blaming the Palestinian
victims for their own massacres by denying them the basic human right of self defense
against
Israeli military occupation, and is allowing the murdering Israeli occupation forces to
continue the Palestinian holocaust under the guise of self defense. Where the Nazis had
starved
their Jewish prisoners Israel is now starving all Palestinian populations through cutting
off
food stuff, economic and financial siege, and cutting off all energy supplies.

The sad and unfortunate fact about these holocausts is that the political figures and
humanitarian organizations who appointed themselves to defend the victims are the same
people
who implicitly approved, encouraged and allowed these holocausts to continue either
through
cooperation with the enemy or through overlooking the genocides. Zionist Jewish leaders
and
Jewish organizations had openly withheld support, financial and otherwise, to save
European
Jews from death. In 1938 the Jewish Agency headed by Golda Meir ignored German offer to
transfer German Jews to other countries for the price of $250 a head (1). In February 1940
Henry Montor, executive vice-president of the United Jewish Appeal refused to rescue a
shipload
of Jews stranded on the Danube River because they were old. He wanted healthy young Jews,
instead, to enslave them in establishing the Israeli terror state in the heart of the Arab
World (2). Zionist Jewish leaders rejected German offers of 1941 and 1942 of transferring
European Jews to Spain to be deported to US or to British colonies, and the 1944 offer to
safely deport Hungarian Jews to any country except Palestine, knowing very well that such
rejection would cause the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Yitzhak Greenbaum,
chairman
of the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency expressed such rejection policy in his famous
statement “One cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Europe” (3). The Jewish
Agency and Zionist leaders had sabotaged the efforts of Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl, who
pleaded for the help of World Jewish Congress and the Jewish Agency to pay the sum of
$50,000
to save the lives of 40,000 Slovakian Jews in 1943. (Rabbi Weissmandl’s “Min Hametzar”
(Cry
from the Depths) published in New York in 1961 in Hebrew, also see TV documentary “Among
Blind
Fools” trilogy by Verafilm (4).

Despite the imprisonment and death of thousands of their German Jewish brothers, the
terrorist
military organization “Fighters for Freedom of Israel” better known as the Lehi or Stern,
headed then by Avraham Stern, had offered Hitler a proposal in January 1941 to join
Germany in
its war against Britain in return for German support to establish Israel. (Original
document in
German Auswertiges Amt Archiv, Bestand 47-59, E224152 & 234155-58. Complete original
text
published in David Yisraeli, “The Palestine Problem in German Politics 1889-1945” (Israel,
1947) pp. 315-317). All these Zionist Jewish agencies and organizations had betrayed their
Jewish brothers.

On the Arab side the first and most prominent traitor to the Palestinian is their
President
Mahmoud Abbas and his gang, who hijacked and abused Fatah movement and for their own
political
and financial gains. Since his appointment as Palestinian Prime Minister in March 2003 had
been
enforced on Arafat, Abbas had shown inclinations towards American and Israeli policies
even
when they were harmful to his people. He exhibited opposition to Palestinian resistance
groups,
which became more prominent after being elected as President through the help of Israel
and the
US. He routinely described Palestinian resistance, especially that of Hamas, as harmful
and
silly, and had clamped down on them. Through his chief of security, Mohammad Dahlan, Abbas
tried to cripple the democratically elected Hamas government and to sabotage its work,
which
led to Hamas’ purging of Gaza Strip. Abbas dissolved Hamas government and appointed a new
one
severing Gaza Strip from the West Bank. He refused to negotiate with Hamas government and
negotiated instead with Israel hoping for the downfall if Hamas. When Hamas survived and
gained
more popularity Abbas recently accused Hamas of harboring Al-Qaeda elements thus giving
Israel
an open invitation and a justification to attack Gaza to get rid of Hamas.

Other Arab leaders, notably from Gulf States, Jordan and Egypt, had openly supported Abbas
and
overlooked the Israeli genocidal crimes against Gaza. Many Arab leaders are ready to feed
Palestine to Israeli government in the hope to stop its expansionist ambitions. They are
either
politically naive or stupid to ignore the Zionist grand plan of Greater Israel. The bitter
fact
is that Palestinian resistance, they are conspiring against, had blocked Israeli expansion
into
more Arab land. Through their silence and ignoring the Palestinian plight Arab leaders
have
become partners to Israel in its economic siege against Gaza hoping for Gazans to revolt
against Hamas government. This policy had backfired, and despite the Egyptian forces to
stop
them, starving Gazans blew down the border walls separating them from their Egyptian
brothers
and in crashing waves rushed in to stock on food for their families. Ignoring the fact
that
Palestinians are their brothers, official Jordanian and Egyptian media and officials
portrayed
this spontaneous move as threat to their national security. Instead of threatening his
enemies
(the Israelis) the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul Gheit threatened to break the
legs of
every Palestinian, who crosses the border. It seems that he forgot that those Gazans he is
threatening had been once Egyptian citizens, and many of them still carry Egyptian
passports.
The pro American/Israeli policies of many Arab leaders regarding the Palestinian cause are
totally opposite to the sentiments of their people, who are becoming increasingly critical
to
these leaders.

Successive American administrations, specifically the present Bush neoconservative
administration, bear a direct responsibility for the Palestinian holocaust due to their
unconditional financial, political, and military support to Israel. The American military
aid
to Israel includes fighter jets Boeing f-15 and Lockheed F-16, attack Boeing Apaches and
Cobra
Bells, and missiles manufactured by American corporations such as Hughes/Raytheon, General
Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin. All these weapons are paid by American tax payers.

This military aid to Israel is illegal and immoral. Its illegality stems from the fact
that
Israel uses these weapons in violation of the American Arms Export Control Act and the
Foreign
Assistance Act to bolster its occupation of Palestine and to commit genocidal crimes
against
resisting Palestinians. It is also immoral because in violation of international laws
Israel
uses these weapons to enforce its inhumane collective punishments and economical siege
against
Palestinians that are causing humanitarian crises, thus making every single American tax
payer
an accessory to Israel’s crimes. The unconditional American political support to Israel is
also
immoral and criminal. The Bush administration has hijacked the UN institution, and using
its
“War against global terror” and its claimed economic assistance as tools in its stick and
carrot policy to twist the arms of other countries to adopt the American protection and
support
to Israel.

Emboldened by the American support and by Arabs adoption of the peace option, Israel
defiantly
continues its genocidal and expansion policies. Israel arrogantly rejects any mediation by
the
international community into what Ehud Olmert called Israel’s right to defend itself,
ignoring
the fact that Israel is THE Occupational Power, and denying Palestinians every basic human
right including the right to defend themselves and to resist occupation.

Israeli expansion policy is a twin sister of Nazi “Lebenraum” policy of creating what they
called more living space for God’s chosen people. Using Hitler’s own words this policy was
expressed by the Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stating: “We need more room to breathe”,
of
course on the expense of Palestinians. Zionism is Nazism incarnate.

The Zionist leaders’ justification for allowing the Jewish holocaust to continue was that
“The
European Jews must accede to suffering and death greater in measure than the other nations
in
order that the victorious allies agree to a Jewish state at the end of the war” (5). I
wonder
what is the Arab leaders’ justification for allowing the Palestinian holocaust to
continue.

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Sid9 (06.03.2008 21:31)