Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Can we stop this meme NOW?


Some Auschwitz.

h/t Kathy

Update: Sure, Dawg:

Referring to the interview she gave to Noa Raz, I asked if she had compared Gaza to the Nazi concentration camps. “Yes I did,” answered Ms. Booth. And do you really think the situation in Gaza is comparable to that in Darfur, where 400,000 people have been killed over the past five years? “Well,” she said, “Do we want to wait until 400,000 Gazans are dead?” She added that she had visited a camp in Gaza where 16,000 families had malnourished children, and the rate of unemployment hovered around 90 percent. If accurate, these are shocking figures that should concern all Israelis. But does Ms. Booth really expect to arouse our sympathy by making the grossly inappropriate suggestion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza?

“Do you think that Gaza receives less media attention than Darfur?” I asked. “Absolutely!” the British activist answered vehemently. So I did a search on Google news for “Darfur,” where 400,000 people have been killed over the past five years, and received 13,912 results. A search for “Gaza,” where, according to B’tselem, 810 Palestinians were killed in 2006-2007, brought up 17,605 results.

4 comments:

Dr.Dawg said...

That photo was taken months ago.

JA Goneaux said...

And? The idea that Gaza is an "open air concentration camp" is at least a decade old.

Dr.Dawg said...

I have called it "the world's largest open-air prison." And so it is. It wasn't (until recently) a death camp.

JA Goneaux said...

I guess not, Dawg. Unless you count Palestinian on Palestinian deaths, eh? Tossing Fatah members from buildings and such...

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