The Palestinian Kristallnacht Cometh : Is Gaza Strip a concentration camp?

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There has been a lot of debate over the years as to the accuracy of comparing what is happening to Palestinians in Gaza to what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany during the 1930’s. How legitimate is this comparison? The latest remarks made by Matan Vilnai, the Deputy Defence Minister of Israel, and Ehud Barak, the Defence Minister of Israel, should answer this question once and for all.

To be able to put the present situation into context, we must first go back to Germany during 9 November 1938. This day will forever mark the day the world realized “that the Nazis were serious about their task of dominating Germany and that they wouldn’t refrain from using violence”. The day is remembered as Kristallnacht, ‘Night of the Broken Glass’, a pogrom against Jews throughout Germany where “Jewish homes along with 8,000 Jewish shops were ransacked in numerous German cities, towns and villages, as civilians and both the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel) destroyed buildings with sledgehammers, leaving the streets covered in shards of glass from broken windows. Jews were beaten to death; 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps; and 1,668 synagogues ransacked, with 267 set on fire.”

The above is relevant to the present situation in the Middle East because Israel’s Deputy Defence Minister has threatened to unleash the ’holocaust’ on Palestinians in Gaza, while at the same time, the current Minister of Defense has “sent messages to world leaders giving warning of an impending conflagration in Gaza.” As we know the holocaust is genocide, and just in case we didn’t know, a conflagration is a firestorm “which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system.” In essence, both Vilnai and Barak are planning to do to the Palestinians, what the Nazis did to the Jews. But does this mean that Gaza can officially be called a concentration camp? It probably depends on your vantage point - if you are being killed, or if you are doing the killing.

One thing is for certain however; Israel is following in the same footsteps as those who orchestrated the events that gave birth to the Jewish State. So even though there is a debate on whether Gaza should be called a concentration camp or not, it is clear that it’s well on its way to becoming one.

Will the world watch as Israel unleashes the ’holocaust’ on Palestinians with a firestorm that will be reminiscent of Kristallnacht? Will Palestinians find a new home on a different contented as the Jews did after World War II? Will Israel give birth to a new country in the same way that the Nazis gave birth to an Israeli State in the Middle East? How many Palestinians will die in the initial onslaught and how many will die in the inevitable genocide that will follow the new ‘Night of the Broken Glass’?

Hard to say, but from all the news being released in the last few days and weeks, from governments urging their citizens to leave Lebanon to the official comments from the Israeli government discussed above, it would appear that, to put it gently, there will be much more blood.

To try and prevent what Israel is planning to do to the Palestinians, Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff has created the following image that he wants people to share.

Artist’s Comments: “I’d like to beg all viewers to spread this image anywhere, as a way to expose Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. Use it on t-shirts, posters, banners. Reproduce it in zines, papers, magazines, and make it visible everywhere. Here is the high-resolution version for printing purposes: [link] Thank you in the name of every suffering Palestinian.”

May God help those that decide to stand in the way of what is planned, and may this God be more merciful than that of the 1930s.

NOTE: There are many Jews who are desperately trying to help the Palestinian people because they, like no other, know what is coming - just like the many Germans during World War II who tried to warn us about the rise of the Third Reich. The conflict that we are witnessing is not about religion or race; it is about fascism and genocide.

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