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January 6, 2009 at 12:41:46

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 2009-style: Another little girl in a red coat....

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Being sick at heart over the slaughter in Gaza, I went to the United States Holocaust Museum's website to see if there was any similarities between the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943 and what is happening in Gaza right now. This is what I found:

"Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe," stated the website, "tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled and homemade weapons. Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements formed in about 100 Jewish groups. The most famous attempt by Jews to resist the Germans in armed fighting occurred in the Warsaw ghetto."

Does that or does that not sound like what has been happening in Palestine for the last 60 years -- as Palestinians have been continuously and systematically killed, deported and rounded up into camps? I mean seriously. Isn't Gaza today the largest concentration camp in the world?

People are starving in Gaza. They are trapped there. They have no way out. And now they are being exterminated wholesale -- like fish in a barrel. The similarities between Warsaw and Gaza are getting clearer and clearer.

"In January 1943," continued the museum's narrative, "Warsaw ghetto fighters fired upon German troops as they tried to round up another group of ghetto inhabitants for deportation. Fighters used a small supply of weapons that had been smuggled into the ghetto. After a few days, the troops retreated. This small victory inspired the ghetto fighters to prepare for future resistance. On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans. The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended."

Resistance fighters in Gaza, slaughter in Gaza. Deportation in Gaza. Blitzkrieg in Gaza. It all sounds too familiar.

Never again? Yeah right.

Too many little girls in red coats are being killed in Gaza right now.

What Gaza desperately needs right now is a new Schindler's List.

 

Stillwater is a freelance writer who hates injustice and corruption in any form but especially injustice and corruption paid for by American taxpayers. She has recently published a book entitled, "Bring Your Own Flak Jacket: Helpful Tips For Touring (more...)
 

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Re: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 2009-style: by Munich on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:33:18 PM
Biased a little? by CJ on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:58:28 PM
Exactly how is it "biased" by David Hastings on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:26:17 PM
Oh, come on! by Mikhail Lyubansky on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:48:59 PM
You come one by David Hastings on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:37:08 PM
back to the content of this argument, please by Mikhail Lyubansky on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:14:43 PM
content v context by William Whitten on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:28:09 PM
sure, let's go by William Whitten on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:31:32 PM
Oh by William Whitten on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:37:10 PM
60 years of resistance..... by Jane Stillwater on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:21:15 PM
What do you expect by David Hastings on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:40:31 PM
This is the best evidence you can muster? by Mikhail Lyubansky on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:57:14 PM
best evidence by William Whitten on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:40:17 PM
I am aware by Mikhail Lyubansky on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:43:19 PM
Are you also aware by William Whitten on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:15:27 AM
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Peter Wedlund on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:18:04 PM
You make some good points by Mikhail Lyubansky on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:29:18 PM
The context of Terrorism by William Whitten on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:47:06 PM
Read by William Whitten on Tuesday, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:54:52 PM
And let us not forget: by William Whitten on Wednesday, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:44:21 AM
Hezbollah? by CJ on Thursday, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:35:22 PM

 
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