Gaza today is the Warsaw Ghetto of yesterday
In January 1943 Jewish inmates of the Warsaw Ghetto mounted one of the most heroic and courageous acts of resistance ever recorded. In the face of overwhelming odds, against an advanced and brutal military power, they rose up with nothing more than small arms and an unquenchable human spirit burning in their hearts, choosing to die on their feet rather than go quietly to their doom. They perished and thereby wrote a chapter in human history that has ensured they will forever remain immortal, rightly revered as an example of that which is most noble and good about the human condition.
Conversely, those responsible for leveling the ghetto by aerial bombardment, tanks, and fire wrote their own chapter. Theirs was that of a brutal oppressor driven by racism and inhumanity to slaughter men, women, and children in the name of a poisonous ideology — one that justified cruelty in service to a distorted worldview of racial purity and supremacy as the cornerstone of human progress.
The parallels that exist between the fighters of the Jewish Underground back then and their Palestinian counterparts in Gaza today are clear. Indeed, those heroic Jewish men and women of the Warsaw Ghetto…
