During the German annexation of Poland, hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees resettled in and around Warsaw. As the Nazis came to the capital, they began exerting more and more control over the Jewish population through rationing, bans on communal prayer, bans on banking, and so on. As their grip began more certain, they forced the construction of a walled ghetto around the Jewish district and expelled virtually all Jewish people from the rest of the city, confiscating their land, homes, and possessions.
Conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto were dire and extremely overcrowded with more than 400,000 people forced into a 3.3 square kilometer area, 9 people to a room, and rations kept at or below the survival level. Virtually no medical supplies or cultural materials were allowed into the ghetto. The means of survival let alone full human life were non-existent.
In 1942, one quarter of the ghetto's population were sent to their deaths in Treblinka under the guise of "resettlement". This lie was uncovered, and the head of the Nazi-supported Jewish leadership, Adam Czerniakow, committed suicide. At this point, resistance factions realized anything short of all-out mobilization was tacitly accepting their genocide. They would not do this.
Sparsely armed, on 18 January 1943 resistance fighters engaged the nazis in direct armed struggle. They were able to prevent or delay the deportation of 3,000 people and condemn the silence of the world stage. Battles continued off-and-on until late April when the resistance fighters compelled the Germans to announce their genocidal intent to the world and burn them out, block-by-block.
Now the Zionist Fascists invoke this memory and bomb hospitals. Now the Zionist Fascists invoke this memory and call Palestinians "subhuman animals". Now the Zionist Fascists invoke this memory and order over a million people to move into a smaller section of their walled ghetto. It is an abomination. It is every Jew's responsibility (mine included!), to condemn this anti-Semitic invocation of our past as the Zionist Fascists do everything in their power to play out the role of the Nazis.
Aspects of the actions of October 7th are horrible but the reaction of the Zionist entity has proven to the world who the true 'terrorist', the true fascist, the true victim is. As PFLP Leader George Habash stated to western hostages taken as a reprisal for refugee camp bombings in June 1970, "Our Code of Morals is Our Revolution." He went on:
I feel that it is my duty to explain to you why we did what we did. Of course, from a liberal point of view of thinking, I feel sorry for what happened, and I am sorry that we caused you some trouble during the last 2 or 3 days. But leaving this aside, I hope that you will understand, or at least try to understand, why we did what we did.
Decades of political negotiations and peaceful protests did nothing to gain the world's attention or support. Only armed struggle against imperialism can win liberation. Thank God the Palestinians have more than the few handguns and makeshift explosives available to my people 80 years ago.
The Spirit of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is alive in the Al-Aqsa Flood!
Long live Palestine!
possibly an all-time best post.
didn't think so! c:<