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Politics : Middle East Politics

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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5019)11/17/2003 4:19:53 PM
From: Machaon  Read Replies (1) of 6945
 
You wrote:<font color=blue>"As the marketing campaign reminds us."<font color=black>

The Jewish Holocaust, engineered by the Nazis was historical fact, and the Christian Armenian genocide, engineered by Turkish Muslims was historical fact.

You obviously can't help acting like as a disgusting person, when you call other people's misery and loss, "marketing". Instead of concentrating on the great evils done, how about focusing on the unbelievable courage of a small number of starving Jews who fought back against the Nazis?

holocaustchronicle.org

1943: Death and Resistance

From the article: "Zivia Lubetkin helped to found the Jewish Fighting Organization, and participated in the Warsaw Ghetto's January uprising. "We fought with grenades, guns, iron rods and light bulbs filled with sulphuric acid," she recalled in her book, In the Days of Destruction and Revolt. "For a few minutes we were intoxicated by the thrill of the battle. We had actually witnessed the German conquerors of the world retreat in fright from a handful of young Jews equipped only with a few pistols and hand grenades."

Lubetkin knew the Germans would return. The only question was when. For the 50,000 Jews who remained in the ghetto, the decisive answer came on April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover. This time, General Jürgen Stroop's well-equipped German troops expected armed resistance upon entering the ghetto, and they got it. Outgunned by the Germans, the poorly armed Jewish fighters--about 700 to 750 strong--had no illusions about defeating Stroop. But Lubetkin saw the Germans fall back at first as the limited store of Jewish guns, grenades, and "Molotov cocktails" brought fear and death to the German invaders.

Again, the reprieve was temporary. "The enemy set fire to the ghetto," Lubetkin testified. "How can one describe the enormous suffering and terror of the Jews trapped in the flames?" Still, the ghetto fighters resisted. Not until May 16 could Stroop report that "the Jewish Quarter of Warsaw no longer exists." By then Lubetkin had escaped through the sewer system to Warsaw's "Aryan" side, where her resistance continued ...
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