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In reply to the discussion: The real problem with Netanyahu's mufti speech [View all]R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)25. And again, you run from the pertinent parts of the article that I addressed.
Historian Ilan Pappe has called it incremental genocide:
Israels present assault on Gaza, alas, indicates that this policy continues unabated. The term is important since it appropriately locates Israels barbaric actionthen and nowwithin a wider historical context.
A top Brazilian diplomat agrees:
For the love of God, what we have here is genocide, a massacre, to the point where top UN officials are starting to talk about war crimes against Palestinians, Brazils Special Adviser for International Relations Marco Aurelio García told reporters.
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Naomi Wolf states:
I mourn genocide in Gaza because I am the granddaughter of a family half wiped out in a holocaust and I know genocide when I see it
And again, you omit the very pertinent facts of the article...cherry pick...to create your false narrative-tin god.
Bad form that.
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Yet, sadly, we see both such comparisons being made way too frequently, even here at DU.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#2
Why not post the pertinent parts of the article instead of hyperventilating over falsehoods?
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#24
And again, you run from the pertinent parts of the article that I addressed.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#25
Once again, since you don't want to play fair, but play the victim. I was paraphrasing Naomi Wolf.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#29
She did write holocaust: which was the final solution, dear. As I said I was paraphrasing.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#31
What I wrote is for everybody to read. But please stop with the dubious claims.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
#33
actually if you follow the thread it was not the poster you call out here that threw that example in
azurnoir
Oct 2015
#12
Where did Netanyahu call Palestinians Nazis? The Mufti sure, but Palestinians in general? n/t
shira
Oct 2015
#5
and that IMO was Bibi'shis true purpose in making the comment - incitement against Palestinians
azurnoir
Oct 2015
#13