Irish Holocaust Memorial Day

by Bea Dewing Sun Jan 18, 2004 03:39 dewingbm at tjsl dot edu

Genocide is going on today in Palestine, especially in Gaza where around 30-40% of children are suffering malnutrition. Israel exports food to Europe, and blocks the Palestinians from harvesting and carrying the food they produce themselves to their own towns, cities and markets. Fish rot in the sun at checkpoints, vegetables turn to mush, cargo terminals are endlessly shut down for "security concerns." All this while valuable agricultural lands and ancient orchards are bulldozed throughout Palestine for a network of massive ugly walls and fences that is turning the once-Fertile Crescent into a desert, and bringing state-induced famine to a people who only want their own land and the right to live on it and work it.

The current Israeli government shamelessly absorbs the cruelest tactics of the Nazis, Stalinists, Brits, Romans and any other imperialist role-model for their brutal repression of the Palestinian people. A few hundreds (mainly occupation forces) lost to a few desperate suicide-bombers is no excuse for wiping out an entire population of innocents. Justice must come first, then peace, and only then will security be within reach.

by pat c Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:16

the incidents you mention were terrible. but they pale in comparison to 800 years of oppression. yes, the famine was deliberate genoicide. food was exported while people starved. the brits applied the same policies throughout the empire, particularly in india where tens of millions died of famine in the 19th century while food was exported and moved around the sub-continent for the gain of speculators.

by Barry Fri Jan 16, 2004 09:23

'deliberate genocide' / 'filthy murdering brits' ?? think the green flag is wrapped a bit too tightly around you. remember Omagh, Birmingham, Warrington, Gilford...

by David Wright Mon Jan 12, 2004 13:06

When we remember the Holocaust we remember all the millions of innocents that died at the hands of the Nazi.

But In remembering the Holocaust we do not forget any group any nationality any religion, it is a focus for all of us to remember what is close to us what is important to us and to say we must not let this happen any where to anyone ever again.

by mr. politically incorrect Wed Dec 31, 2003 02:45

Will ye also be commemorating all the Palestinians slaughtered and driven from their homeland because they didn't fit the Zionist ideal ?

Or will ye just play it safe and tow the politically correct line dictated to ye by the "holocaust industry" ?

by - Sun Dec 28, 2003 21:42

a link to as of yet officially unpublished European Report on Anti-Semitism.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasite/images/iht_daily/D281103/eu_anti_semitism_report.rtf

by A Chetnik Sun Dec 28, 2003 16:06

It is disgusting that one of the groups most persecuted during World War Two, the Orthodox Christians who lived under the Utasha. At least 200,000 and anything up to 1,000,000 people, in the most case Serbian Orthodox Christians and also Muslims from Bosnia, were murdered in what should be considered part of the holocaust. to ignore the memory of these people, especially when representatives of the other 'communities' who did not suffer to any great or deliberate extent in World War Two are included.

This is part of a peculiar form of revisionism which continually seeks to understimate or often times ignore the suffferings of the Serbs under the German installed Croatian NDh government during World War Two. If more people had a knowledge of the Serb sufferings in WWII they could have sevre doubts about the wisdom of the EU giving recognotion to an independent Croatia heavily backed by Germany

by james Fri Dec 26, 2003 00:47

I thought you meant the real Irish holocost of 1845 when the filthy mudering brits allowed 1.5million I rish people to starve to death, also more sweetly known as the "famine" a cosy word for deliberate genocide. Strange that the Irish wont comemorate this though.