Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust
Zmag.org / Richard Falk
18-Sep-2009 (4 comments)

Against this background, it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as 'holocaust.'  The word is derived from the Greek holos (meaning 'completely') and kaustos (meaning 'burnt'), and was used in ancient Greece to refer to the complete burning of a sacrificial offering to a divinity. Because such a background implies a religious undertaking, there is some inclination in Jewish literature to prefer the Hebrew word 'Shoah' that can be translated roughly as 'calamity,' and was the name given to the 1985 epic nine-hour narration of the Nazi experience by the French filmmaker, Claude Lanzmann. The Germans themselves were more antiseptic in their designation, officially naming their undertaking as the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question.' The label is, of course, inaccurate as a variety of non-Jewish identities were also targets of this genocidal assault, including the Roma and Sinti ('gypsies'), Jehovah Witnesses, gays, disabled persons, political opponents.

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Shah Ghollam

Children of Holocaust and their own Holocaust

by Shah Ghollam on

Could a people who claim to have suffered horrific pains in WWII turn around and apply their own experience against an innocent population? Common sense would say NO. This may be another reason why many people around the world doubt Jewish holocaust and the numbers are increasing!!!!!!


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Shah Ghollam

Surprise!

by Shah Ghollam on

What ever happened to cheap shots by Fred, IranFirst and kashani? I suppose they all must be in agreement with the title and the content of this post! ;)

 

Boldly Expose Zionist, help humanity!


Shah Ghollam

Oh Really?

by Shah Ghollam on

Is that why we have Iranian.com to sell advertising time to the Zionists? May be you are voluntarily blind.

It must be hard to see the biggest financial supporter of MKO targeted here, NO?

Boldly Expose Zionists


پیام

In case you forgot, this is Iranian.com and not Felestinian.com

by پیام on

Or Israelian.com. Get a life and leave Iran (alone).