Then/Now: Nazi Germany and the Gaza Strip

Ramona
by Ramona
21-Jan-2009
 

These images were carefully compiled by a Catholic  to show the degree of malevolence in both eras. They were intended as a critique of the conduct of the state of Israel, not the Israeli people and not Jews.

Warning: some images include graphic results of violence.

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Also consider a few words from the King:

"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask--and rightly so--what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today--my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."

--Martin Luther King, Jr., "Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence" (April 4, 1967 speech)

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To AnonymousX and Javaneh

by Ramona on Sat Jan 24, 2009 05:32 PM PST

AnonymousX,

There's no shame in exposing the horrors of the Gaza killing fields or any other, for that matter. You, who cowardly go by the name of "anonymous", where do you hide your shame?

 

Dear Javaneh,

In all fairness to whom? The victim or the victimizer? It is not the quantity that matters (i.e. number of years of horror), but quality. See how much death and destruction is caused within five weeks from anti-civilian modern weaponry used by the IDF with American tax dollars? Then tell me what you compare this carnage with....

 


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Mehdi

Brilliant Montage

by Mehdi on Thu Jan 22, 2009 01:56 PM PST

Israel has proven that they are not really different than their Nazi counterpart. They use the same philosophy, they use violence under the same excuses, their propaganda is doing the same thing. If anything has changed, it is the times, the weapons, the general improvements in the world, the fact that certain Nazi procedures simply cannot be followed today, due to internet and other forms of fast communication. Otherwise Israel is Nazi - no difference. They are actually making it look like Hitler didn't do anything wrong at all, since Israel is doing almost the same exact thing. You don't have to take my wor for it, hear it from a very decent Jewish man:

//iranian.com/main/blog/sam-jade/british-...

 


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if palestinians

by A movie lover (not verified) on Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:15 PM PST

if palestinians were as smart as their jewish brothers, now they could come up with cool ideas for hollywood movies, and make some money for a change...
I have a few suggestions for the movie titles:
Saving brother Abdullah, 14 dirty brothers, Muhammad's list, etc, etc...


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Depressing photos of the Israeli/US war crimes in Palestine

by Jallal_Khaleg (not verified) on Wed Jan 21, 2009 06:55 PM PST

I don't think that photos from any other conflict could display the 'Concentration Camp' atmosphere of Gaza than these. Sad indeed.


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The same parallel images

by AnonymousX (not verified) on Wed Jan 21, 2009 05:19 PM PST

The same parallel images could be compiled from the Iran-Iraq, US-Taliban, Russia-Georgia, Turk-Kurd, Sudanese and many other world conflicts.

Here we have a typical Ommati type trying to take advantage of the blood of the innnocent Palestinians to further their anti-Israeli propaganda.

Shame on you for having no shame.


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javaneh29

These pics are horrendous

by javaneh29 on Wed Jan 21, 2009 03:37 PM PST

And deeply upsetting to see. I think however there are  many acts of genocide where such images could be compiled to resemble  some of the events that took place in nazi germany.

In all fairness and as appalling as it is, what happened in Gaza is not the same as what happened throughout the 4 year duration of ww11. Please do not diminish the 4 yrs of terror and systematic annihilation of jewish ppl, Jehovah's witnesses, ethnic poles, the disabled, mentally ill and the many other less than perfect humans. To denigrate what happened then marks the begining of a reduction of the awfull truth and we can never allow that to happen.

What happened in Gaza is terrible, appalling, shocking and I could use many other adjectives to describe it. But it is not comparable.

 Javaneh


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