Among the many ways that Israel apologists use to justify the enduring evil being perpetrated decade after decade upon the far weaker Palestinians, is what happened to the Jewish population of Europe during WW2. The apologists keep screaming, "Never again!" when actually the connection of that population with the Israelis has, with constant use, gotten frayed away to almost nothing, and the crowning irony instead is that it is happening all over again, except with the Palestinians instead of the Jews being hammered, and with the hammerers this time being the Israelis instead of the .... Well -- on the pain of apologist killer bees descending on us from all sides with the most righteous, convoluted, and absurd rationalizations imaginable -- attempts are made to keep us from even as little as putting the words "Germans" and "Israelis" in the same sentence and from saying what is so plain to see.
Instead the apologists in effect keep suggesting, under the cover of all sorts of weasel words that are intended to sound so rational and temperate but are instead only so much transparent tomfoolery, that the Palestinians must go on being slaughtered en masse, noiselessly, invisibly, and without comment. It's all in the interest of "survival." But it is completely beyond me how any people with hundreds of modern attack planes, nuclear bombs, tanks, submarines, and the help of an overseas sponsor that has more military hardware than quite possibly the rest of the world combined, compared to almost nothing in the hands of those whom they victimize, can wail and whimper so constantly about their survival.
I think it can be said that, despite all the deserts and the absence of trees, the Middle East is not just any place. Instead (besides having lots of oil) it can be seen as being the Navel of the World, because of all those religions that through the ages have set up shop in those parts.. But in 1948, a dagger was thrust into it, and ever since there has been a lot of blood spilled, though the steel intruder is still intact and in place. In addition the dagger has expanded into being a full-fledged sword, and now -- and not for the first or the twentieth time -- that sword is being twisted in the world's belly yet again and bringing forth copious amounts of new blood and pain.
And it is the great tragedy of today's world that maybe for the first time in human history, there is no moral force in sight so far anywhere on the planet with the will, an ordinary sense of decency, and the strength to place a restraining hand on the wielders of such a sword. That is why major attention should be paid to what is happening these days in Gaza and in the West Bank.
After all, think about the supreme importance of the belly in the human organism. Maybe only eye troubles get our full attention quicker than things going wrong in our midsections. It seems to me that things are the same in the structure that humans have erected for themselves over the whole planet.