On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, JP ROOS wrote:
> Although the question goes to Baruch, I'd like to comment.
>
> That there ARE parallels between the Israeli policies against
> Palestinians and the German policies against Jews cannot escape
> anybody's eye, unfortunately. Even to the extent that some policies
> seem to have directly been "copied" from Germany (massive
> reprisals, forced ghettoisation, settlements). But it does not mean
> that Tom equates Nazi Germany and Israel!
The Israeli's behavior toward the Palestinians can't be equated to
Nazi's policy toward the Jews (extermination and genocide) but to the
Nazi policy toward the occupied territories (mainly on the "Eastern
front", Yugoslavia, Russia and in a measure Poland), where they
faced resistance. But there are many other examples associated with the
undeveloped sociological field of prolonged military occupation as a
social system.
> And I don't see how these parallels make the Israeli-Palestinian
> situation a global war. It does have some important global effects,
> but it is not a global war, fortunately, not yet at least, and hopefully
> never.
Correct.
bk.
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