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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

What "Waltz With Bashir" can teach us about Gaza

The stunning new Israeli film reveals painful parallels between one of Israel's darkest moments and the current conflict.
By Gary Kamiya

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:25 AM

    @ JonathanInTelAviv: Warsaw Ghetto revisited

    >> How'd that work out in historically?

    > Sorry, I don't understand the question.

    Here is a reference (thanks to previous poster):

    > http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html

    >> Gaza situation's similarities to another famous historical

    >> event that you may have heard of: The Warsaw Ghetto

    > That's an obscene comparison. The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto

    > didn't make war on German civilians, and were entirely

    > innocent.

    The dead Palestinian civilians are (were?), by definition as civilians, equally innocent.

    BTW, I just noticed "obscene", I'd read as "obscure". Interesting.

    I'll grant what happened in Warsaw *was* obscene. But I see obscenities in Gaza now too. Guess I have the distance to be objective and disinterested (at least not uninterested!).

    Also, returning to your siege comparison on fenced-in vs walled-in, I think you missed something else.

    In your examples, the walls were *defensive*, Gaza is not "protected" by the fence.

    Forgive my clumsy quoting...

    Cheers,

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