"I have no direct relationship to the Holocaust myself. I’m not Jewish, and my family is not from Europe, where almost all victims of the camps were located. My grandfather did fight in WW2 on behalf of the Allies, but he was in the Pacific (he was actually sent to Japan’s prison camps, which was a horrible experience, but he was not executed).
I did however have a friend in high school whose father was part of one of the American units that liberated a concentration camp (most were liberated by Russians).
He came to our class one day to speak in harrowing detail about what he saw there, and he came away with a moral lesson he imparted to all of us.
“No matter what someone has done to you, you cannot starve them,” he said.
I was not there. Nobody I know was there. But the convictions he imparted seem inarguable.
Starvation is one of humanity’s cruelest tools of conflict, and it has been deployed from Syria to Sudan. Israel is not the first government to behave like this and it probably won’t be the last.
But one unique feature of this depravity is that it is being underwritten by the United States taxpayer, who is forced to pay for all of this by a government that could use its leverage to stop it at any time.
And to add an ironic twist to all of it, the people defending this horrid status quo increasingly sound like the very Nazis who necessitated the slogan “Never Again.”
If we really believed those words applied to everyone — famed Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said it would mean “there would be no Cambodia, and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia” — then we have to understand that aping the very rhetoric of those who committed the Holocaust is the ultimate disservice to its victims."
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/israeli-denials-of-gazas-starvation
