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February 11, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25018284-16382,00.html

No Holocaust in Gaza

[The Australian] Editorial - Australian Muslim leader Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali says the Israeli incursion into Gaza last month was "another Holocaust." No it wasn't. The Holocaust was an act of German state policy, a systematic attempt to murder every Jew in Nazi-controlled Europe. It was an attempt to slaughter an entire people. When they were not murdering Jews, the Nazis and their allies were happy to kill as many gypsies and Slavs and homosexuals as they could. But the death camps existed primarily to kill Jews. In contrast, the Israelis went into Gaza to stop Hamas terrorists firing rockets into Israel. Given Israeli firepower, it is astonishing there were not more casualties. But civilians were not the targets.

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