In a bitter twist of fate, nearly every nation that has suffered genocide has built its national identity around that trauma. Israel, too โ having not only established a state but, through the wheel of Zionism, brought much of the world under its influence โ now stands as a nation once subjected to genocide that is today inflicting genocide upon another people.
The late Jewish philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who died in 1994 and had courageously criticized Israelโs occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, warned: โIf oppression is justified by suffering endured in the past, this constitutes Hitlerโs posthumous moral victory.โ
For 75 years, the world largely failed to see this ongoing oppression.
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