I wonder if this posting will piss some people off. It won't bother me because it's not my intention to anger anyone.
It's nearly eighty-five years since Poland was invaded and occupied by the German Nazis and turned into a combination of terror state, prison camp, ghetto, slave state murder factory and worse. I am at a loss for words to describe what I mean in full, and if you know me, that's a rare thing. The words will come later. The amount of time since is enough that people sympathizing with, when comparing it to 1939-1945 in Nazi occupied Europe severely over-inflate the destruction of Gaza and completely denigrate the experience of the Jews, the Romany, the other classes of people the Nazis scheduled for extermination such as the disabled, homosexuals of every type, and even most of the occupied populations of those places. This terror in Gaza will pass in weeks or perhaps months. The invaders and occupiers plan to provide succor to their foes when the fighting is done. For the victims of the Nazis and their allies the only end to the terror and agony was death. Liberation wasn't even a fleeting dream unless it was in the prayer for Messiah to come.
I believe terrorist anti-Israel groups, and even some non-terrorists are hones but no less despicable for their honesty when they call for the eradication of all Jews in Israel and even beyond. Any and all crimes committed agains individuals, against Jewish communities and organizations are justified in their drive to murder all Jews
That extremist Jews now take up the same call but apply it to Palestinians is just as despicable. The multiplying of wrongs only leads to more wrongs and never to a right.
States and individuals will defend themselves when attacked, this is their right yet I do feel the disproportionate slaughter of civilians in Gaza is uncalled for. And while it may be a war crime, that is for others to try and judge, it is not genocide.
Sadly, things won't change. Not only are there no honest brokers for a long term peace in the region, there are, it seems, no honest players in power now. Netanyahu believed he'd killed the two-state solution. He finds himself surprised, shocked and dismayed by its sudden resurrection as a proposal for peace. The sooner he is out, the better. The same goes for Hamas, their allies and their leaders and the doddering, corrupt Abbas as well. A search for peace must include a search for new leaders on all sides.
What's the alternative?
Perhaps, since the children can't learn to play together and share the land, none of them should have it. Perhaps the solution would be to schedule a total evacuation, have everyone from all of Palestine and Israel given a deadline to leave and visa to live wherever they decide to go. Set a deadline for their departure and when it passes, seed the land with enough radioactivity to make it uninhabitable for millennia. Then the Israelis, secular, religious, Zionist, et al. and the Palestinians, Sunnis, Shiite, Jihadist, secular, et al. can share their exile and mourn the land they couldn't share, lost to them forever except in prayers.
Am I kidding? You decide.
I am the child of Holocaust survivors. Here are a few pictures I took several years ago, and never posted to the web - possibly they were posted on Facebook. They are at a cemetery on Long Island where all the inhabitants were either Holocaust survivors or their relatives and children.
We meet there once a year to remember and to say Yizkor and Kaddish for those who have no grave.
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