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How Long-History Views the Current Gazan Genocide
Stolen Property Stays Stolen
In case you’re think that ‘Well, the war will end in Israel and the Gazans will just start rebuilding,’ think again. You might not be a student of “long history” and aware of how after-Genocide works. If you take the short-view of history, the momentary news flash, or today’s headlines, then you’ve comment fever and haven’t judged the victor’s perspective. In the case of Gaza, or Palestine, the process has already been grindingly played out.
Take a look at Germany, the land most connected with the word Genocide. After the war, the country lay in rubble. West Germany did get rebuilt, but how much of it was returned to the Jews who owned the property before the war? I don’t know the answer to that, but I’m guessing the answer is a lot less imagined. Of the 566,000 or so native Germans living there in 1932, about 60 percent left before Kristallnacht in November 1938. It was then the majority the remaining 250,000 or so German Jews were rounded up and thrown into the concentration camps. How many made it out alive? How many stayed and didn’t move to Israel?
I don’t recall the exact numbers, and I could look them up at a glance in my notes or on the internet, but that isn’t the point. The point is the number is exceedingly low. In East Germany, occupied and rebuilt by Stalin’s Soviet…
