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man šķiet, ka ir tā - frāzes autors gribējis pateikt, ka tas, kas notiek Gazā var beigties ar holokaustu, ja to neapturēs, taču tas, kas tur notiek jau tagad, JAU ir holokausts, jo par holokaustu jau nesauc darbību, bet gan rezultātu vai mērķi. kad holokausta laikā tika nogalināti pirmie padsmit ebreji, neviens to vēl nesauca par holokaustu, lai arī nacistu rīcībā nekas būtiski nemainījās turpmāko nogalināto miljonu laikā.
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reku ir oriģinālais citāts. un tas nav rakstīts tagad. tas ir rakstīts 2007. gada vasarā...
it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as ‘holocaust.’ The word is derived from the Greek holos (meaning ‘completely’) and kaustos (meaning ‘burnt’), and was used in ancient Greece to refer to the complete burning of a sacrificial offering to a divinity. Because such a background implies a religious undertaking, there is some inclination in Jewish literature to prefer the Hebrew word ‘Shoah’ that can be translated roughly as ‘calamity,’ and was the name given to the 1985 epic nine-hour narration of the Nazi experience by the French filmmaker, Claude Lanzmann. The Germans themselves were more antiseptic in their designation, officially naming their undertaking as the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Qestion.’ The label is, of course, inaccurate as a variety of non-Jewish identities were also targets of this genocidal assault, including the Roma and Sinti(‘gypsies), Jehovah Witnesses, gays, disabled persons, political opponents.
Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not. The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty. The suggestion that this pattern of conduct is a holocaust-in-the-making represents a rather desperate appeal to the governments of the world and to international public opinion to act urgently to prevent these current genocidal tendencies from culminating in a collective tragedy.
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