Ms. Rosenthal, how can you write this?
Yes, the Holocaust was horrible, and, yes, Darfur is horrible, but they have nothing in common.
That is, unless you believe American and Israeli propaganda that Darfur is genocide.
Those two garrison states simply do not like the Muslim government of the country, so they toss around the term "genocide."
This is utterly dishonest. Especially when you consider that neither of them is prepared to risk anything over the situation. Israel has one of the world’s top half dozen armies, equipped as few others with American supplied equipment. Why hasn’t it acted on its own statements?
Darfur is a nasty civil war, and that is all. But that is enough. Can you name a civil war in which thousands upon thousands of innocents were not destroyed?
And how people in either the United States or Israel can make pompous statements on ethics about Darfur is beyond me.
Israel is at war with every neighbor and treats the people of Gaza and its own Bedouin citizens like unwanted trash. Its efforts in Southern Lebanon were a war crime by any standard. The United States has slaughtered the best part of a million and caused three million to leave their native land, a true human catastrophe, all for nothing. Just as it murdered three million souls in Vietnam for nothing.
It isn’t just dishonest to deliberately confuse civil war with genocide, it debases the coinage of words. “Genocide” has become one of the most hollow accusations of the last fifteen years, and some of the very people throwing it around refuse to even accept the reality of a genuine genocide like that of the Turks against the Armenians, a horror Hitler was well aware of and considered that if the world could forget that it would forget his bestiality too.
