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southern Israel. Gaza is now being called the Gaza Ghetto, reminiscent of the Warsaw Ghetto which had been walled by the Germans in 1940 and held about half a million Jews, many of whom lived a dozen or more to a room. No contact was permitted with the outside, and little food was allowed in. The similarities are striking. The Jewish insurrectionists held out between October 1942 and May 1943 until the Germans had bombed, shelled and burned the ghetto to rubble. Just about 70 Jewish fighters escaped through the sewers to join the Polish partisans but over 50,000 went to Treblinka or to labour camps.
Germany hasn't even yet got over the shame of the atrocities committed in its name. However, if any of the Nazi proponents of racial purity is still living and can see, from television screens, what's happening in the Gaza Ghetto he must be filled with admiration for the Zionists who've learned the Nazi lesson not wisely but certainly well.
