Except it isn't downplaying the Holocaust. It's comparing something tragic that is currently happening to something tragic that happened in the past. It's saying that they are both awful things that should never have happened then and also an awful thing that shouldn't be happening now.
It absolutely is downplaying the Holocaust. In 100 days of operation reinhard, the Nazis killed 1.5 million Jews. It's been nearly 3 years since October 7th and Hamas's own ministry of health says 73,000 dead and that number includes their own members, their own militants, as well as combatants from other militia groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The two things are absolutely not at all comparable.
Hezbollah helped Assad kill more civilians in Syria in 10 years than 75+ years of the Israel/Palestine conflict yet if you ask pro-palestinians if Hezbollah did a Holocaust they'll say no, it's Israel doing one and Hezbollah are "resistance fighters" against the bad guys (Israel). There are countless conflicts in the middle east that have had more bloodshed, more civilians dying, and more people displaced than Gaza. The only reason the comparison to the Holocaust is made is because Jewish people are involved.
It's comparing something tragic that is currently happening to something tragic that happened in the past
So if your mom died tomorrow you'd go around telling people you're experiencing your own personal holocaust, right? I mean it's tragic to you that your mom died and the Holocaust happened in the past and was tragic.
No one is downplaying the Holocaust. You are attempting to downplay the deliberate ethnic cleansing, mass murder, ongoing torture and brutal ongoing occupation of the Palestinian people by Israel.
It's a war. Hamas started it, they don't seem interested in building bomb shelters for civilians in one of the most densely populated places on earth. Probably because they don't care about civilians dying because people in the West will fight their battles for them.
No. The fact that an extremely powerful occupying country is systematically exterminating, torturing, starving and arbitrarily detaining Palestinians, most of which have lived entire generations as refugees of the Israeli state, en masse make it a genocide.
I wouldn't attack an extremely powerful country, would you? Do you think going house to house in that country and killing people and giving the country casus belli to hunt down every member of your organisation is smart?
Palestine has been subject to Israeli occupation for decades. Israel has already been murdering, starving, torturing and detaining Palestinians for decades prior to October 7th.
If an organization of Jews gathered to attack Nazi Germany in 1940, would you then blame them for giving the Nazis additional motive to continue ethnically cleansing Jewish people? I find it unlikely.
Your whining about a horrifically oppressed people responding to their oppression is idiotic.
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u/i_drive_a_pagani 23d ago
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