Juan Cole: Are Israelis and Zionists Really Talking About a Final Solution of the Palestinian Problem? - Juan Cole - Truthdig
The Times of Israel published and then removed from its site an essay
by Yochanan Gordon that openly called for genocide against the
Palestinians of Gaza. A cached version is still on the internet as of Saturday morning.
Gordon’s logic, if one wants to dignify it with that term, is that
Hamas calls for the destruction of Israel, and therefore the only way to
deal with them is to obliterate them entirely. He used the words
“obliterate entirely.”
Hamas is a party-militia of the religious right. It does say it
wants to see the Israeli government overthrown. Its leaders don’t,
however, speak of committing genocide against Israelis. They say they
want to recover their country, which was stolen from them by the
Israelis in 1948. Colonial regimes always produce resistance movements.
Shoes belonging to those detained at the Auschwitz concentration
camp, “a major site of the Nazi ‘Final Solution to the Jewish
question.’” Paul Arps (CC BY 2.0)
