Posted by Dan Ewert : 4/30/2002 12:20:00 AM (Archive Link)
Something else I’ve noticed, and I just saw it again in my local newspaper’s editorial page, is a tendency of anti-Israel pundits, columnists, and editorialists to compare the Israelis with Nazis. The Israelis are acting like Nazis or they’re thinking like Nazis or they’re oppressing like Nazis. They all think they’re being so cute and clever by showing “similarities” between the Jewish state and the murderers who killed six million Jews in assembly line death camps. To them I say, take your cuteness and cleverness elsewhere because you disgust me. I mean you really make me sick. You use half-truths, untruths, and speculation to make this sort of comparison? Six million people. Ponder that for a moment. Think of the city you live in. Mine has about a million people in it. Imagine all those people gone… all dead. Somebody killed them. Now imagine six times that. This is what happened to the Jews. They were all summarily slaughtered for no other reason than because they were Jewish. They didn’t fight, they didn’t kill, they didn’t terrorize. The Palestinians don’t have this excuse and they know nothing of the hell the Jews in those camps experienced. A week in Auschwitz would have a Palestinian begging to be let back into Jenin. The Nazis never negotiated with the Jews, the Nazis never offered and made concessions to the Jews. The Nazis rounded them up like so much cattle and executed them with the intent of utter annihilation. There is no comparison of the Israelis to the Nazis and it is abhorrent that these writers would make it… that they would say the democratic, freedom-defending Jewish people are the same as those who killed them, as those who set out to destroy their race, as those who imprisoned and tortured some who are still living. To those editorialists, you may be entitled to whatever opinion you may form but you should feel an ever abiding sense of shame for putting these victims on the same moral level as their real-life psychopathic killers.