Why did Hamas just launch more rockets, and can Israel be blamed?

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77. Here's when it'd be acceptable to compare Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto...

If something like the following happened, I'd be right in there making the comparison myself, because it'd be spot on

1. The Israeli government incites hatred of Palestinians, discriminates against them (this bit would apply to Israeli-Arabs) by banning them from a whole lot of fields of work, and bans them from universities, and forces them to wear a label on their clothing when in public to identify to others that they're Palestinian.

2. Israel invades Jordan and starts to set up camps, the existence of some kept low-key because they're death camps.

3. Israel takes a neighbourhood of Amman that's heavily populated by Palestinians, builds a wall around it so no-one can get out and starts to herd the population of the West Bank, Gaza, and Israeli Arabs into it.

4. The new ghetto's used as a holding cell before the inhabitants are shipped off to the death camps.

Now can you see the difference? None of the above is happening. An accurate comparison to make when it comes to Gaza is that it's an open-air prison. But comparisons to the Warsaw Ghetto are insensitive at best, and at times when made deliberately, anti-Semitic. And here at DU, it distracts from the horrific things that are happening in Gaza and gives a very few DUers who haven't said a word about how horrible and wrong the killing of civilians in Gaza is the opportunity to jump in and try to paint all criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and to imply that those DUers who are critical of Israels actions of being supporters of Hamas.

So, please quit the Warsaw Ghetto comparisons.