What About Gaza?

I usually post only one story a day on Medium, but I find myself unable to refrain from saying something today about Gaza because the situation there seems to be going from bad to worse.

It occurs to me that while we can’t describe Istael’s military behavior in Gaza to be an act of genocide, it certainly is beginning to resemble what the Nazis did to the Jews living in Warsaw in 1943.

You may recall that the Second World War began on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland and quickly overran Polish defenses to establish a militarily occupied, client state.

Warsaw was a city of historic and cultural significance for Polish Jews and thus became one of the chief targets of Germany’s ‘Final Solution’ to eradicate all European Jews.

In November, 1942 the Nazis began making mass deportations from Warsaw to the Treblinka killing camp where an estimated 250,000 Jews lost their lives.

In April 1943, the surviving Jews in Warsaw mounted an armed response to the Nazi murderers which lasted about one month and ultimately resulted in the entire Ghetto being burned to the ground and the remaining Jews being sent off to death camps.

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was the largest response of any civilian population to the Nazi war machine during World War II. It remains an important, indeed sacred…