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In reply to the discussion: This is not a "war", it is a pogrom in a ghetto, the Gaza ghetto is like the Warsaw ghetto. [View all]onenote
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Warsaw Ghetto: An area of 1.3 square miles in which 400,000 men, women and children were confined
Gaza: An area of 140 square miles in which 1.8 million Gazans live. While the borders with Gaza currently are sealed, for much of the past several years there has been limited ability for people to get in and out of Gaza, particularly through the border with Egypt. There was never any ability for the Jews of Warsaw to go anywhere other than to death camps.
Gaza: site of a new luxury hotel that opened in 2011. While that turned out to be a spectacularly bad investment, you can rest assured no one was building hotels in the Warsaw Ghetto.
The response of the Israeli government to rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel has been a ground and air offensive that has resulted in the deaths of over 1500 Gazans, a number that is disproportionately made up of men. The Israeli offensive also has resulted in the destruction or damage to, according to the Palestinians, 30,000 residences. When the Germans responded to the Warsaw uprising, they killed or shipped to death camps every last man woman and child in the Ghetto and destroyed, by explosion or fire, every structure. Thousands of Jews were burned to death in their homes or on the streets by flamethrowers.
So how is that the the Israeli offensive can have destroyed so many homes without an even higher death toll? Because the Israelis have given warnings to the Gazans of impending attacks. Those warnings have not been successful in too many instances, but I can guarantee you that the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto were given no warnings or opportunity to save themselves before being put on trains to Treblinka or shot or burned to death.
One more way: the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto did not have rockets that they sent into Germany (or even Poland); they were not governed by people who wanted to "obliterate" the German state. They were exterminated not as the awful collateral damage of a military conflict. They were exterminated because they were Jewish -- nothing more, nothing less.