Israel is establishing a concentration camp in Gaza. The state of Israel, the state of the Jewish people, is establishing a concentration camp in Gaza. The state of Israel, the state of the Jewish people, is establishing in Gaza a camp in which Palestinians will be concentrated and will not be allowed to exit. A concentration camp.
“According to the plan, which is under the command of the Director General of the Ministry of Defence Amir Bar’am, the new city that will be built will fit 600 thousand Palestinians who will be searched and examined before entry to the compound, and those who will enter will not be allowed out. In the future, according to the plan, all the population of the strip will be moved to the new city.” So said a short article in the “Kan” news site.
I am not astonished at the fact that the state of Israel wants to concentrate a Palestinian population in an open-air prison – because what is an open air prison compared to a genocide. I am astonished at the blatancy. I can understand the reservation from the comparison so far – the Nazis did not exterminate Jews indiscriminately by bombing them, and we did not build gas chambers. But concentration camps? The Nazis built concentration camps.
There is not much to say about the subject, the reality speaks for itself. But I do want to say something to all the soldiers who will be sent to guard the fences, and also to those who only sit at a desk: Do you remember all the “little cogs in the machine” we were taught about? Today is your time to decide if you will also be remembered as such. Israel has already killed tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people, but from now on you will not get to say that “it’s complicated”, you will not get to say that you didn’t know and you will not get to claim self defense. You could have maybe said all these things in response to the fact that Israel is committing a genocide, but a concentration camp? You all know very very well what is a concentration camp.
With concentration camps, such as with a genocide, there is no gray zone, and there is no in between. You either participate or you resist. You feel uncomfortable with concentration camps? Then don’t participate, resist.