Daily Post (Liverpool), UK
January 9, 2009 Friday
North Wales Edition

It’s just WRONG; Show our disgust at murderous Israeli leaders

BY Ian PARRI

HOLOCAUST is a word used far too often, but just how do you put human
suffering on a scale? Are 500 lives lost any more tragic to their
families than 6m deaths to their respective kin?

I’ve been to desperately sad places throughout Europe where human
misery on a massive scale still casts clouds of despair over whole
countries.

I’ve stood by the moving memorial in Yerevan to Armenia’s own
holocaust, 1m of its people brutally disposed of – many even crucified
– by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The birds still don’t sing
in the Nazis’ death camps following their atrocities in the 1930s and
1940s.

Neither do they in Terezin in the Czech Republic, a former Nazi
show-town where Jews were put on display for the outside world in an
attempt to pull the wool over our eyes that they were living normal
lives.

The rows upon rows of graves on the edge of town, scores of adjacent
ones often showing the same date of death, tell a very different tale.

So it’s not that I don’t sympathise with those ordinary Israelis
targeted, maimed and killed by Hamas’ rockets fired over the border
from Gaza. It’s their government’s way-over-the-top response I
despise.

It’s a bit rich of them to denigrate the democratically-elected Hamas
as being a terrorist group, when their own state was established out
of an organised and brutal campaign of terror in the 1940s.

If the Jewish people deserved their own state in the aftermath of
their tragic holocaust, then how can Israeli politicians today deny
the Palestinians the right to their own bit of land, dignity, and
escape from serfdom? Two wrongs most certainly don’t make a right.

If Hamas is no more than a terrorist group, what sort of government
descends to the level of their enemies, only a hundred-fold worse, by
callously massacring innocents without any means of defending
themselves? What sort of monsters would knowingly shell a school, for
crying out loud?

This is mass murder by a state which proclaims itself to be a
democratic entity.

Boycotting Israeli products will hardly help the innocents dying by
Israel’s bloodied hands, egged on by a gloating George W Bush in the
dying days of his disastrous presidency, but it’s a token of how
disgusted I feel.

It’s the least I can do. I urge you to join me.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress