The
British Guardian and the foreign news agency have
obvious difficulties to understand Hebrew and magnified
accordingly the statement of Matan Vilnai, Israel's deputy
war minister. The intentions of the Israeli
government are for sure bad, but still Vilnai is not that
honest to admit that Israel is bring an Holocaust upon the
Palestinian
The following translation is
correct, but its interpretation is wrong:
„The
more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach
a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger
shoah because we will use all our might to defend
ourselves," Matan Vilnai, Israel's deputy defence minister,
told army radio.“
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/29/israelandthepalestinians1
Other than the Guardain claims the
word „shoa“ designated not only the Nazi Judeocide but means
„catastrophe“ generally. E.g. „shoa
atomit“ means „atomic catastrophe“. Used with the definite
article "the", in Hebrew the prefix "ha" in this case (it
might change in other cases), "ha-shoa" (the catastrophe)
means usually the Nazi Judeocide.
Nevertheless it is obvious that the
Israeli government and army leaderships prepare something
very sinister for the Palestinians in Gaza.
Yesterday in the Israeli Channel 10
TV, Vilnai did not want to disclose the plan, but made it
clear that it is very bad and that there will be many
Palestinian casualties.
Actually it is very safe to assume
that the Israeli army plans to implement the same strategy
it used in Lebanon in 2006 and hope that this time it will
work.
This means that there will be a
massive bombardment of Gaza strip and hundreds of thousands
of civilians will flee to Egypt.
Afterwards it would be easier for
the Israeli army to apply the German Wehrmacht‘s strategy
against the Warsaw ghetto* of burning or destroying in a
different way the Palestinian strongholds.
Another Israeli expert talked about
the imprisoning of tens thousands. Of course he did not
mention the word concentration camps.
It is obvious that there are enough
Palestinians who succumbs the Israeli provocations and by
firing rockets e.g. on Sderot and Ashkelon give the Israeli
leadership the necessary pretext they were looking for.
This is a very old Israeli tactics
applied already successfully on the Syrian front before the
war of 1967. Then the Syrian, Egyptian and the Jordanian
government were foolish enough to comply.
The two Ehuds (Olmerts & Barak) are
now very content as hardly anybody is talking about the
Winograd report and in the polls their rival Benyamin
Nethanyhu becomes weaker and weaker.
Shraga Elam
Zurich/Switzerland
*
„In
order to prepare properly for the next campaign, one of the
Israeli officers in the territories said not long ago, it's
justified and in fact essential to learn from every possible
source.
If the mission will be to seize a densely populated refugee
camp, or take over the casbah in Nablus, and if the
commander's obligation is to try to execute the mission
without casualties on either side,
then he must first analyze and internalize the lessons of
earlier battles - even, however shocking it may sound,
even how the German army fought in the Warsaw ghetto.“
Ha’aretz,
25/01/2002,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=121553
