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Guernica and the Warsaw Ghetto 21st Century atrocities Redux [1]

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Date: 2023-11-04

Guernica and the Warsaw Ghetto Redux

Leon Uris’ books: The Haj and Exodus, formed my positive opinion of Israel and its policies, travails and dreams. As the ship’s physician I had the experience of treating Uri’s father during an accident on a cruise ship. I learned early on of the word pogrom, the Holocaust, killer concentration camps, unbelievable sufferings of their people and ultimately settling in a new nation given to them while tearing it from the original inhabitants, subsequent wars, and more suffering.

Several years ago, during the December holidays, my daughter and I were in Israel and Palestine. We met citizens on both sides of what is called the apartheid wall. Neither voiced hatreds, both claimed their respective governments profited from continuance of the conflicts and political isolation. Jews and Palestinians alike were hospitable, friendly and freely discussed their opinions. It was a real lesson passing through the Israeli check point when we returned to Israel from Palestine. Machine guns pointed at us, our car thoroughly searched, treated like Palestinians.

As time passed, I learned about more of the changes in Israeli politics and policies. I discovered the original image no longer existed. Gaza was the source of my change in heart. I have no wish to see Israelis suffer, live in fear, die nor see their nation disappear. Jews, once victims of a genocidal and destructive policy of German Nazis, deserved and were rewarded with compassion and understanding. Less would be inhumane. I extend this wish equally to Palestinians and Palestine. They were once peaceful neighbors. Both are from the Semitic races. But now horrendous changes have since ensued.

In Gaza, learning from their WWII oppressors, Zionist Israel unfortunately presently retains what remains of Jewry's memories and horrendous WWII experiences, having now morphed the experiences of WWII into an evil repetition of the cruel and inhumane tactics of Nazi suppression, indiscriminate punishment, and oppression of their present choice of “Untermenchen,” calling them "animals," so well learned and applied following the lessons from the Nazi’s final solution.

Now it is Palestinians who are indiscriminately corralled into ghettos, individually and en mass shot at, bombed, denied food, medical care, respect and human treatment. Lumping babies, kids, adolescents, pregnant women, even well identified press and ambulance drivers and now hospitals are attacked, killing indiscriminately the innocent, the young, the non-involved, all of them labeled into one group, the ubiquitous Israeli accusation of “terrorist.”

Once an admired nation of admirable brave, democratic, idealistic and capable citizens, Israel has now descended into a successful student of their Nazi oppressors, copying tactics, offering exaggerations, lies and irrational defenses for their slaughter of all in the name of the evil of some, destroying an urban environment to counter a small number of belligerents. The WWII equivalence would be the Nazi annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto reenacted this year in Gaza only with a change in the identities of the oppressed and the oppressors.

Israel now descends to the barbarism of Hamas. Warsaw redux, the oppressed now assuming the role of the oppressors. Strange bedfellows. How the IDF and Israeli politicians differentiate themselves from the evilness of the SS, the ruthless Waffen SS and the killer concentration camps of the Nazis escapes me. How they can forget what happened to them, in doing onto others as was done onto them, is abominable and unforgivable.

And to add insult to atrocious injuries it’s my tax dollars which pay for their advanced weaponry. Added into the American’s annual over three-billion-dollar gift, every bomb, bullet and rocket is replaced, at US taxpayer expense, to continue the slaughter.

I now join millions of other decent citizens of the world in saying:

NOT IN MY NAME!

James Koss, M.D. FAAEM (retired)

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