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Nazi echoes in the Gaza disengagement? | Poem

August 1, 2005 / 25 Tammuz, 5765

Nazi echoes in the Gaza ‘disengagement’?

By Jeff Jacoby

"...evacuation of every Jewish resident in Gaza and parts of the West Bank...more than 9,000 Jews from communities where some of them have lived for decades would trigger angry — and anguished — comparisons to Nazism."

The difference is -  the Jews that suffered under nazism were innocent victims.

"an order the likes of which were last signed in German."

And the world was aghast and ashamed that they stood by and did nothing to stop it. And they tried to make amends by evacuating Palestinians from 23% of their land, and with occupation, raised the anti to 77% of their land. This truth cannot be ignored. Nor can it be ignored that born again Christians are actively supporting (including financial) the protest because of their interpretation of Biblical prophesy - and their belief to help it along so that Jesus will return to earth. (note to them: He came and left already - in disgust)

"...the first modern, Western nation in more than 60 years to forcibly uproot a whole population — men, women, children, babies — solely because they are Jews."

And forcibly uprooting Palestinians is not to be remembered because they were not modern or western?

"When five Arab armies invaded the newborn Israel in 1948, the secretary-general of the Arab League vowed to wage "a war of extermination and a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."

The entire history of this human race is war, and the demonizing of the enemy, including from the Old Testament, Kings I and II.

""The Jews are a virus resembling AIDS, from which the entire world suffers," he preached...."...And in the long term Israel will disappear from the face of the Earth."

And yes - extremists on both side are demonizing the enemy - one need only watch God's Learning Channel and watch their snickering faces as they speak of the 'low-life' Arabs.

"The abandonment of Gaza and northern Samaria plays directly into the hands of the haters. The sight of Jewish troops expelling Jewish families from their homes and schools will do nothing to promote Arab-Israeli peace."

And Jeff Jacoby has no solution to offer, for justice, without which, there can be no peace.

How many innocent lives does G_d permit to be sacrificed in order to build a third temple?