The War on Gaza – 3.12.24
By Joe Sacco
Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco, author of "Palestine" and "Footnotes in Gaza," called "The War on Gaza." With the permission of Fantagrapahics and Joe Sacco, we are reprinting them on my Substack.
Norman Finkelstein writes about his Holocaust survivor parents, and their political views especially his mothers as well. They both survived the Warsaw Ghetto and brutal treatment in Work Camps. She hated Germans the rest of her life! ALL GERMANS! Remembering her stories and teaching not to believe the government War Monger lies. After Oct 7, and the Racist Hate spewed for revenge by Israeli leaders. He came to the conclusion she would have been horrified and call out Zionists for doing the same crimes against humanity as Germany. To be sure he didn't come to the wrong conclusions. He called his sibling brothers and asked "what do you think mom would call the IDF and Zionist Israel". Without a pause he immediately blurted out NAZI'S! Zionist supporting Jews within Israel and the Diaspora have been kept in a bubble of "Protective Stupidity" ! Believing they are the ONLY self righteous victims bathed in distortions of the Holocaust Industry! Post WW2 Holocaust surviving Jews were the minority, Diaspora Jews didn't claim to be Holocaust survivors, until Israel Hasbara went to work claiming ALL Jews were Holocaust survivor's. Einstein's 1948 NY Times letter points out Zionist's in Pre Holocaust Israel did very little fighting against German Fascism. They even looked down on Jewish refugees coming to Israel, some even use derogatory speech calling them "SOAP"! The Genocide taking place before us is another Crime Against Humanity! The Palestinian's will Never Forget. The Arab World will NEVER FORGET. The World will Never Forget. The Nazi Swastika was banned in Post Holocaust Germany. Will the the Zionist Israeli Star of David Flag meet the same fate in Post Holocaust Israel?
Hell, Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, had some choice words about Israel and how Israel sees the Nazis, not as an example to avoided, but a model to be emulated.