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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 226 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"The whole Gaza Strip needs to be empty. Flattened. Just like in Auschwitz," Metula Mayor David Azoulai said in a radio interview on Sunday, according toThe Times of Israel. "Let it be a museum for all the world to see what Israel can do. Let no one reside in the Gaza Strip for all the world to see, because October 7 was in a way a second Holocaust."

How blinkered do you have to be to see the Hamas attacks on October 7 as akin to the Holocaust, but not see that your own determination to wipe out the entire people of Gaza resembles the genocidal intent behind the Holocaust?

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 75 points 9 months ago

I had family die in the work camps, die in the chambers, and die in the ghettos. If Gaza needs to become Auschwitz because you're trying to shoehorn the Holocaust into the conversation, then October 7th was the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, you sick fuck. This mayor either needs a history lesson, a reminder to respect his family who died senselessly for their heritage, or would even do best to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up. These blood-thirsty assholes need to figure out how to goddamn listen when others are crying before they repeat history's worst atrocities.

Here's a word I used to hear in Hebrew school and history lessons all the time: scapegoat. Look around you and try to identify who the scapegoat is. It ain't us this time... Also, read the fucking room. If many of your most ardent supporters are Nazis, you're probably doing a Nazi thing.

[-] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Dude. I could be wrong, but I think the guy you're replying to is on your side. Are you raging at him or the mayor? Because it seems like the first

[-] RustnRuin@lemm.ee 41 points 9 months ago

To me, it clearly seemed to be directed at the mayor.

[-] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Okay. I'm clearly in the minority. I'm not sure why it was a reply and not a top level comment, but I'm willing to go with it

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

That really is my bad. I wanted to reply to this quote which really stabbed at the heart of the problem and, for a moment, considered that I might confuse people by "speaking" directly to mayor for literary effect, but then decided I was being overly-anal. Sorry that I confused you, but yes, I was passionately angry at the mayor's mischaracterization of the situation in order to play the helpless victim. The only offense committed by !floofloof@lemmy.ca is perhaps one of underfloofiness.

[-] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Most of us here share your outrage. Peace, bro.

[-] stringere@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

I may never recover from my outrage over the unfloofiness of this situation.

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