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SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland. He Said.
My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.


Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab): I was brought up as an orthodox Jew and a Zionist. On a shelf in our kitchen, there was a tin box for the Jewish National Fund, into which we put coins to help the pioneers building a Jewish presence in Palestine.

I first went to Israel in 1961 and I have been there since more times than I can count. I had family in Israel and have friends in Israel. One of them fought in the wars of 1956, 1967, and 1973 and was wounded in two of them. The tie clip that I am wearing is made from a campaign decoration awarded to him, which he presented to me.

I have known most of the Prime Ministers of Israel, starting with the founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Golda Meir was my friend, as was Yigal Allon, Deputy Prime Minister, who, as a general, won the Negev for Israel in the 1948 war of independence.

My parents came to Britain as refugees from Poland. Most of their families were subsequently murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town of Staszow. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed.

My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The current Israeli Government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt among Gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians. The implication is that Jewish lives are precious, but the lives of Palestinians do not count.

On Sky News a few days ago, the spokeswoman for the Israeli army, Major Leibovich, was asked about the Israeli killing of, at that time, 800 Palestinians -- the total is now 1,000. She replied instantly that 500 of them were militants.

That was the reply of a Nazi. I suppose that the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants.

The Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni asserts that her Government will have no dealings with Hamas, because they are terrorists. Tzipi Livnis father was Eitan Livni, chief operations officer of the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi, who organised the blowing-up of the King David hotel in Jerusalem, in which 91 victims were killed, including four Jews.

Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism. Jewish terrorists hanged two British sergeants and booby-trapped their corpses. Irgun, together with the terrorist Stern gang, massacred 254 Palestinians in 1948 in the village of

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Deir Yassin. Today, the current Israeli Government indicate that they would be willing, in circumstances acceptable to them, to negotiate with the Palestinian President Abbas of Fatah. It is too late for that. They could have negotiated with Fatahs previous leader, Yasser Arafat, who was a friend of mine. Instead, they besieged him in a bunker in Ramallah, where I visited him. Because of the failings of Fatah since Arafats death, Hamas won the Palestinian election in 2006. Hamas is a deeply nasty organisation, but it was democratically elected, and it is the only game in town. The boycotting of Hamas, including by our Government, has been a culpable error, from which dreadful consequences have followed.

The great Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, with whom I campaigned for peace on many platforms, said: You make peace by talking to your enemies.

However many Palestinians the Israelis murder in Gaza, they cannot solve this existential problem by military means. Whenever and however the fighting ends, there will still be 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza and 2.5 million more on the West Bank. They are treated like dirt by the Israelis, with hundreds of road blocks and with the ghastly denizens of the illegal Jewish settlements harassing them as well. The time will come, not so long from now, when they will outnumber the Jewish population in Israel.

It is time for our Government to make clear to the Israeli Government that their conduct and policies are unacceptable, and to impose a total arms ban on Israel. It is time for peace, but real peace, not the solution by conquest which is the Israelis real goal but which it is impossible for them to achieve. They are not simply war criminals; they are fools.

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[RMGAbeliever]

palestine will be free

Zionists approached the end

[JerusalemRocks]

IRELAND BELONGS TO THE IRISH.

IF THE PROTESTANT BRITISH SETTLERS CAN STAY IN NORTH IRELAND. THEN THE HOLY JEWISH PIONEERS CAN STAY IN JUDEA SAMARIA. 4 MILLIONS BRITISH PROTESTANT SETTLERS LIVE IN ULSTER BECAUSE THE BRITISH ARMY WON THE WAR. THE ISRAELI ARMY WON THE WAR THEN ACCORDING TO INTERNATIONAL LAW IT DOESN'T BELONG ANYMORE TO THE LITTLE KING OF JORDAN. THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T RESPECT THE BRITISH OR THE ISRAELI ARMY ARE PLAIN STUPID.

[darkzone1987]

Those of you on here who hates Arabs or Israelites your real racist and fucked up

[AmoreLeAngell]

@ben8199

We want freedom we don't wanna kill Jewish people we don't even hate them

we hate Israel they have killed innocent people take there land and every buddy they love children can't be children they see dead bodies and see there parent's die.

You lair they want fucking freedom they want their land back.

And you know I'm from Holland I'm a European and I say That this must stop you are lying the biggest terrorist is Israel you peanut

go find your heart asshol

[Ben8199]

The Problem is not the the Zionist israeli nor the Palestian people. the problem are in the Terrorists Organizations that keeps attacking Israel daily, the Jihad, hamas. that believes killing Jews is the greatest achievement that they can achieve.

Remember 9/11 when the great world center crushed people in the gaza strip went out on celebrations. this are the same people who are controling gaza and wants to end the westren world. in Israel, Europe & United states.

[MultiCharm85]

@Wolfje777 shut ur mouth offf...raskle

[Wolfje777]

beware for the multitudes of the beast. for they are the multitudes of a man and they wear a badge of servitude:

they wear "x bism allah" ( arab word wrongly translated with: 6 hundresd threescore and six.

)revelation 13:17,18.

[Wolfje777]

do you guys believe in Love?

is it Love to kill your neighbours, if it is by an Israeli shooting or by a Palestinian suicide-bomber?

to kill Palestinian children in the streets, or to kill soldiers for being Jews?

Why is this so difficult to understand for both parties?

both respect eachother and accepting the status quo is better.

not fighting over a dispute no one can win...respect however is to be given, not asked.

[aleksei4321]

ISRAEL

RULES

Zionism

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