Bubblehammerblog

The parallels between the Warsaw Ghetto and what's happening now in Gaza can't be easily be pushed aside as irrelevant. The Jews of Warsaw were ethnically cleansed, to use a vile expression not invented then, and herded inside a densely populated military cordon, where they were deprived of food and clean water, medical supplies, and the light and heat needed to make life tolerable. Their only friends beyond the walls and barbed wire were a few Communists and some Polish people of conscience. The Red Cross and other humanitarian organisations were denied access. When the Nazis assured the World that all was well there were plenty willing to believe them.

Present day Israelis honor the brave men and women of the Warsaw Ghetto who were able and willing to resist Nazi barbarism; rightly so, they were an inspiration to the human spirit. Armed with a few inadequate weapons stolen from the enemy, passed to them by sympathisers, or made from whatever materials they could lay hands on, they faced the most technologically advanced army in the World, knowing that acts of resistance would bring massively disproportionate retaliation.

When the Zionists say, 'No country in the World would allow its citizens to face daily rocket attacks without a response', they should recall the Warsaw Ghetto. No people in the World would allow themselves to be forcibly driven from their land, herded into ghettos and refugee camps, slowly starved by an encircling military cordon, then bombed from the air and shelled by tanks and warships, and be expected not to resist in any way they can.

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