{"id":2847,"date":"2009-01-21T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2009-01-21T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T16:45:17","slug":"2009-1-21-alternative-history-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"Alternative history"},"content":{"rendered":"
I missed this Uri Avnery when it came out – and I don’t like any comparison of the Israel-Palestine issue to WW2, or the use of the word genocide about Palestinians (the correct terms are ethnic cleansing and politicide), or even less comparison to the Nazi Holocaust – but this stuff is good:<\/p>\n

NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called “the Red Army” held the millions of the town’s inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. The Germans had no alternative but to bomb and shell the population and to impose a total blockade, which caused the death of hundreds of thousands.
Some time before that, a similar crime was committed in England. The Churchill gang hid among the population of London, misusing the millions of citizens as a human shield. The Germans were compelled to send their Luftwaffe and reluctantly reduce the city to ruins. They called it the Blitz.
This is the description that would now appear in the history books – if the Germans had won the war.
Absurd? No more than the daily descriptions in our media, which are being repeated ad nauseam: the Hamas terrorists use the inhabitants of Gaza as “hostages” and exploit the women and children as “human shields”, they leave us no alternative but to carry out massive bombardments, in which, to our deep sorrow, thousands of women, children and unarmed men are killed and injured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[From How Many Divisions? – Gush Shalom – Israeli Peace Bloc<\/cite><\/a>]<\/p>\n

[PS Remember, unfortunately these views of Gush Shalom represent about 2% of the Israeli Jewish view, unfortunately.]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed this Uri Avnery when it came out – and I don’t like any comparison of the Israel-Palestine issue to WW2, or the use of the word genocide about Palestinians (the correct terms are ethnic cleansing and politicide), or even less comparison to the Nazi Holocaust – but this stuff is good:<\/p>\n

NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called “the Red Army” held the millions of the town’s inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. The Germans had no alternative but to bomb and shell the population and to impose a total blockade, which caused the death of hundreds of thousands.
\nSome time before that, a similar crime was committed in England. The Churchill gang hid among the population of London, misusing the millions of citizens as a human shield. The Germans were compelled to send their Luftwaffe and reluctantly reduce the city to ruins. They called it the Blitz.
\nThis is the description that would now appear in the history books – if the Germans had won the war.
\nAbsurd? No more than the daily descriptions in our media, which are being repeated ad nauseam: the Hamas terrorists use the inhabitants of Gaza as “hostages” and exploit the women and children as “human shields”, they leave us no alternative but to carry out massive bombardments, in which, to our deep sorrow, thousands of women, children and unarmed men are killed and injured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[From How Many Divisions? – Gush Shalom – Israeli Peace Bloc<\/cite><\/a>]
\n[PS Remember, unfortunately these views of Gush Shalom represent about 2% of the Israeli Jewish view, unfortunately.]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}