Images of Gaza Devastation - a picture can destroy a thousand lies

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88. And a picture can be used to spread a lie.

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Such as the lie that what is happening in Gaza, as terrible as it is, compares in any way to what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto.

For starters, the Warsaw Ghetto was a walled area 1.3 square miles in area in which some 400,000 Jewish men, women and children were confined. Gaza has 1.8 million residents in an area that is 140 square miles. Even Gaza City, the most densely populated part of Gaza, is 17 square miles and has a population density that is 10X less that the Warsaw Ghetto.

The photo representing the Warsaw Ghetto depicts what it looked like after the Germans put down the uprising there. In the end, over 300,000 of the Jews of the Ghetto were exterminated, either in Nazi gas chambers or ovens, or shot or burned to death during the razing of the Ghetto by the Germans, who went building to building with flamethrowers.

The area depicted is the entire Ghetto. All 1.3 square miles of it. The pictures of Gaza (including the five year old one that the OP made to seem like a recent picture) show areas of a few blocks.

Is the death and property destruction in Gaza terrible. Yes.

Is it remotely comparable to the systematic extermination of the Jews of Poland in the Warsaw Ghetto? No.

I'll pose a question I've posed previously. According to Palestinian sources, some 5000 residences have been destroyed and 26,000 damaged. How does one do that, how is it possible that the death toll of women and children is around 500? Could it be that the Israelis tried to warn Gazans of impending attacks? They weren't successful in all cases, but since the comparison is to the Warsaw Ghetto, I can tell you with complete confidence that the Germans did not give anyone in the Ghetto an opportunity to get out of harms way before razing, with explosives and fire, the Ghetto.

Corrected: typo that converted Gaza's area from 140 to 340.