And again you totally ignore my points earlier regarding the OP which you still haven't addressed AT ALL. I'm not apologising for Hamas any more than I am Israel. We all know lots of people in the Mid-East hate Israel. It's not surprising. So what? It doesn't alter the wrongness of Israel's policies of assassination and their actions in the West Bank and elsewhere. I never said Hamas weren't racist, but I will say there are plenty of racist Israelis too. Again, so what?
As for the Nazi comparison, others have made it. UN Investigator Richard Faulk in 2008:
The next UN investigator into Israel's conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories is standing by his comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis during World War II.
Richard Falk says he believes that, up until now, Israel has been successful in avoiding the criticism that it is due.
He is scheduled to take up his post for the UN Human Rights Council later in the year.
But Israel wants his mandate changed to investigate Palestinian actions as well.
Professor Falk says he compared the treatment of Palestinians with the Nazis' actions because Israel is punishing the entire population of Gaza.
"If this kind of situation had existed, for instance, in the manner in which China was dealing with Tibet or the Sudanese government was dealing with Darfur I think there'd be no reluctance to make that comparison," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008 … 211548.htmAnd also Israeli cabinet minister Yiosef Lapid (dec.), himself from a family of holocaust survivors, in 2007:
The head of the council of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial on Saturday assailed Jewish settlers who harass Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron, saying the abuse recalled the anti-Semitism of pre-World War Two Europe.
A Yad Vashem spokeswoman told Haaretz that Yad Vashem Council Chairman Yosef (Tommy) Lapid's comments do not reflect the memorial center's position.
Lapid's unusually fierce and public attack was prompted by television footage showing a Hebron settler woman hissing "whore" at her Palestinian neighbor and settler children lobbing rocks at Arab homes.
Lapid, a Holocaust survivor who lost his father to the Nazi genocide, said in a weekly commentary on Israel Radio that the acts of some Hebron settlers reminded him of persecution endured by Jews in his native Yugoslavia on the eve of World War Two.
"It was not crematoria or pogroms that made our life in the diaspora bitter before they began to kill us, but persecution, harassment, stone-throwing, damage to livelihood, intimidation, spitting and scorn," Lapid said.
"I was afraid to go to school, because of the little anti-Semites who used to lay in ambush on the way and beat us up. How is that different from a Palestinian child in Hebron?"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/815603.htmlNot such an outrageous comparison after all is it?
