Shahak suggested – more than 40 years ago – the only difference is that Israel hasn’t yet built ovens or gas chambers. Seeing conditions in Gaza, I think Israel has indeed done so.
Gaza has often been described as a massive concentration camp, but the conditions now are worse than the term implies. This densely populated patch of earth has become a cesspool of raw sewage, endless fields of rubble and pulverized asbestos, the toxic particulate matter of explosives and other military chemicals, water and air pollution, and inescapable filth.
It is poison upon poison, breathed in and out by young and old alike. Wounds cannot escape infection and do not heal.
Nothing can heal.
The trees are gone. Israel bulldozed them along with the majority of farmlands…..more
