ROME (ITALPRESS) – “In the dramatic situation in Gaza, neither of the two typical characters of the major genocides generally recognized as such – the Medz Yeghern of the Armenians, the Holodomor of the Ukrainian Kulaks, the Shoah of the Jews – recur, the Porrajmos of the Roma and Sinti, the massacre of the Cambodian bourgeoisie, the extermination of the Tutsis in Rwanda – while war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed both by Hamas and Jihad and by the Israeli army, are rather obvious.” Thus, in an op-ed published in Corriere della Sera, life senator Liliana Segre. “The typical characters of genocides are essentially two, one is the planning of the elimination, at least in complete intentions, of the ethnic or social group that is the object of the genocidal campaign, the other is the absence of a functional relationship with a war. Even the genocides committed during the two world wars (Armenians, Jews, Roma and Sinti) did not have war as either cause or purpose; on the contrary, they were carried out by diverting men and means from the war effort.”
Even in the face of “military operations intentionally aimed at producing civilian casualties and which caused innocent deaths in the order of tens of thousands (Dresden) or hundreds of thousands in a few days (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) or even a million (siege of Leningrad), there has never been any talk of genocide,” Segre continues. The misuse of the word genocide should be avoided with extreme care for more than one reason. First, it is only by covering one’s eyes and ears that one can avoid perceiving the complacency, the lechery with which too many seem to seize an opportunity to shove in Jews’ faces the accusation of doing to others what was done to them. A collective guilt complex produced by history dissolves into a rabidly liberating slur toward the Jewish state of Israel, not only equating it with the Nazis but refreshing all the most vicious stereotypes about vindictive, supremacist, bloodthirsty Jews of non-Jewish children. The surge in manifestations of anti-Semitism around the world, to levels not seen in decades, demonstrates the devastating effect of the toxins that have returned to the mainstream,” he concludes.
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