A proposal was put before the Chicago City Council for a resolution calling for the end of the slaughter in Gaza (going on now for months). It was defeated in a way that defies reason; that "holocaust remembrance day" is coming soon. This call to stop the resolution was presented by the only Jewish member of the council.
Does this make any sense to you? How does one thing have anything to do with the other in a way that one should stop action on the other?
This says that to pass the resolution would in some way be disrespectful of the remembrance day. How could this be? A commemoration of an event long gone in which millions died denies calling for the cessation of a current mass killing? To the contrary, the former cries out for the latter.
What this asks is that people think of the Jews who died long ago in a different category to the Palestinians being killed by Jews who are Israelis right now. The key is the attack on Oct. 7 which has by Israeli PM Netanyahu been equated with the holocaust. In other words, think of Oct. 7 and pause on the resolution because Oct 7 is unjustifiable while the slaughter in Gaza is something less.
The terrible truth is that Zionists have claimed sole ownership of the holocaust and, blinded by self-righteousness, completely miss the true lesson of that horror - that human beings can too easily disregard the humanity of other human beings and destroy them without hesitation or limit.
The holocaust is not the possession of one people, but of all of us. It is testimony that too many Israelis quite honestly see nothing wrong with what they are doing or have done to the Palestinians so immersed are they in victimhood. This rat in the skull was present from the beginning in Israel and thanks to the United States has been nourished to the point where it is now in full bloom.
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