Israeli politician suggests taking “advantage of the Holocaust” to take over Gaza and displace Palestinians
By isabelle // 2024-01-05
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An Israeli politician said in a recent interview that he believes his country should use the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust as an excuse to bomb Gaza, build settlements there and displace Palestinians. In the interview, Feiglin stated in Hebrew: "We should overturn all the laws and take advantage of the Holocaust we went through and throw out all the laws so that we can achieve a crushing and painful victory, which means three things: occupation, displacement and settlement." In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on October 7 that killed more than a thousand Israelis and took hundreds of hostages, there were plenty of comparisons to the Holocaust. On a visit to Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken even mentioned the Holocaust during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he promised American support for Israel’s war. "I come before you, not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew," he said. "My grandfather, Maurice Blinken, fled pogroms in Russia. My stepfather, Samuel Pisar, survived concentration camps: Auschwitz, Dachau, Majdanek. So, Prime Minister, I understand, on a personal level, the harrowing echoes that Hamas's massacres carry for Israeli Jews, indeed, for Jews everywhere." Since then, however, Israel has embarked on a brutal campaign to eradicate the terrorist group and is not distinguishing terrorists from civilians, and they are now facing widespread international criticism over the horrific death toll arising from their military operations. So far, at least 10,000 children have been killed in the three-month operation as they continue to mercilessly bomb the enclave. According to journalist Keith Woods, Israel’s war against Hamas has been killing children at 100 times the rate that Russia’s war is killing Ukrainian children. Nearly 20,000 people are believed to have been killed in Gaza, with more than 80 percent of the strip’s population forced to flee their homes.

Multiple Israeli public figures have called for genocide

Feiglin isn’t the only public figure who has used the Holocaust to justify genocide. The head of Israel’s Metula Council, David Azoulai, said in an interview with 103FM that Israel should conduct ethnic cleansing in Gaza by sending all Palestinians to refugee camps in Lebanon, emptying the Gaza strip and leveling it. Then, he believes, “The entire Gaza Strip should be emptied and leveled flat, just like in Auschwitz. Let it become a museum, showcasing the capabilities of the State of Israel and dissuading anyone from living in the Gaza Strip. This is what must be done to give them a visual representation.” The Auschwitz Museum in Poland officially condemned his comments, posting on X that Azoulai "appears to wish to use the symbol of the largest cemetery in the world as some sort of a sick, hateful, pseudo-artistic, symbolic expression.” They added: "We do hope that Israeli authorities will react to such shameful abuse, as terrorism can never be a response to terrorism." A veteran analyst of the high-tech IDF spy branch Unit 8200, Eliyahu Yossian, said in an interview that Gazan babies and first graders are enemies of Israel. "The woman there is an enemy, the baby there is an enemy and the first grader is an enemy." The Institute for National Security Studies researcher has made frequent appearances on Israeli TV and radio and is known for his extremist statements. In another interview, he said: “You have to enter Gaza at the height of brutality, with the aim of revenge, zero morality, maximum corpses.” He has also suggested Israel should follow the examples of the U.S.’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the UK’s bombing of Dresden during World War II. Sources for this article include: InformationLiberation.com JPost.com NewArab.com
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