. Israelis and their lickspittles pitch a fit when the language of the Nazi Holocaust is applied to the genocide Israel is perpetrating upon the Palestinians. So here goes:

The northern part of the Gaza Ghetto is being “liquidated” (as remarked on October 31). Israel’s methodology there is that of the Nazi death squads, who were said to have “liquidated” the ghettos of Eastern Europe before transporting their involuntarily confined Jewish occupants to the extermination camps, in cattle cars.

Going up against ghettoized civilians were the soldiers of the Nazi Party, the SS, the toughest in the Wehrmacht. Like the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the SS presided over a Kafkaesque apparatus of propaganda, intelligence, police and military bureaucracies.

Plainly put, the purpose of liquidation was deportation to the death camps for extermination. Israel, of course, has further streamlined and industrialized mass eviction and murder by collapsing liquidation and extermination into one. Duly, the IDF is currently attempting to shoo about 400,000 broken and starving human beings in the Strip’s northern most section toward a “safe zone,” the narrow midsection that is the Netzarim Corridor.

Bar the shahīds themselves, no one is more familiar with Gaza’s martyrdom than Norman Finkelstein. And he, too, has marveled at the unique “degree of social solidarity in Israel.” Israel is a death cult, Finkelstein has observed. Its people enjoy the spectacle of the daily massacres.”

Another ecumenical affair for Israelis is that of busloads of exultant settlers and their loathsome larded offspring watching and cheering the liquidation of northern Gaza from the Israeli side, with a view to moving in once their neighbors are dead and gone.

“Thou shalt not covet your neighbor’s house” (Exodus 20:17) means nothing to these people. “Thou shalt not murder” even less.