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
re****ts 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
tem****ary prisons,
stealing valuables, destroying properties, demoli****ng 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 sup****t, 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 ****pload
of Jews stranded on the Danube River because they were old. He wanted
healthy young Jews,
instead, to enslave them in establi****ng 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 de****ted to US or to British colonies, and
the 1944 offer to
safely de****t 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
do***entary “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 sup****t to establish Israel.
(Original do***ent 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
sup****ted 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 cra****ng 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 ****trayed
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 pass****ts.
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 sup****t 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 cor****ations 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 Ex****t 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
sup****t 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 sup****t
to Israel.
Emboldened by the American sup****t 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, ****mon 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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