Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top foreign policy official, said Monday that the destruction in Gaza as a result of the Israeli bombing campaign could be “even greater” than the damage to German cities during World War II, AFP reported.
Borrell called the situation in Gaza “catastrophic, apocalyptic” and noted that the Israeli onslaught has resulted in “an incredible number of civilian casualties.” Discussing the destruction of buildings in Gaza, he said it is “more or less or even greater than the destruction suffered by the German cities during the Second World War.”
Borrell made similar comments on Friday, saying the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza was “one of the most intense in history” and said the destruction is “comparable, if not higher, to levels of destruction of German cities during World War II.”
A report from Financial Times found the damage to northern Gaza was comparable to the most heavily bombed cities of Germany in World War II. “Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne — some of the world’s heaviest-ever bombings are remembered by their place names,” Robert Pape, a US military historian who focuses on air power, told FT. “Gaza will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns.”
Israeli officials and their supporters in the US have invoked the allied strategic bombing campaigns of World War II to justify the mass slaughter in Gaza. “There were many, many civilians [that] got attacked from your attacks on German cities,” Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the UK, told a Sky News anchor in October, according to The Grayzone.
“Dresden was a symbol, but you attacked Hamburg, you attacked other cities, and altogether it was over 600,000 civilian Germans that got killed … Was it worth it in order to defeat Nazi Germany? And the answer was yes,” she added.
The Israeli bombing campaign has also been compared to the US bombing of Japanese cities during World War II, which includes the fire bombings of Tokyo that killed around 100,000 civilians in one night in 1945, as well as the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has said Gaza is “going to look like Tokyo and Berlin at the end of World War II when this is over. And if it doesn’t look that way, Israel made a mistake.” He made the comments in an interview where he said there was “no limit” to the number of civilians Israel kills in Gaza, which is the policy of the Biden administration as it continues to provide unconditional military aid despite the massive civilian death toll.
So, all that crap after ww2 about genocide conventions and stuff like that is out the window when our favorite ethnocracy is involved?
Well, in one way, they are right … after all, these rules did not apply to us in Vietnam, Iraq, etc. either so why should not Israel be similarly speciial?
Yes, according to the racists AIPAC has bribed into their service.
Zippi is telling a home truth; but, why would anyone want to be put in the same category with the horrors perpetrated in assomplishing the the manifest destiny of the USA. Zionist Israel is the natural issue of imperialist Washington. … would it had been aborted.
Not excusing the US for the atrocities it committed in Vietnam, Iraq, etc. However there is a striking difference. Germany was not an occupied country, had a navy, air force, army, control over its borders, air space, territorial waters, and economy. The Palestinians are an occupied people and since 2007, the Palestinians of Gaza have been caged by the Zionist state in a concentration camp. They have no army, no navy, no air force, no airports, no control over their borders, airspace, territorial waters, economy, and have been bombed with no recourse at least 7 times since 2007 and have been killed by Zionist snipers when participating in an unarmed peaceful protest at the borders of their cage.
Oh, there’s a huge difference between the justification of the wars … my point is in re to the execution of the wars, for which there are supposed to be rules as well.
But, yes, as you note very well, the kidnaper and jailer cannot claim self defense when the wrongfully occupied makes a break for freedom.
Ignore Graham. He is a large insect. A rather stupid one.
A large insect who wields much power in one of the most evil institutions in the history of this world, the US Federal Government. The founders were right to reject the all power federal institution and we should have heeded their warnings.
Agree with you. But at some point, credit where credit’s due. The more stupid he is, the more we listen and do exactly as he tells us. So, who is more stupid?
Not sure what this article is trying to achieve other than a subtle equation between Palestinians and Nazis.
The situation in Gaza is bad without equating it to Dresden or past wars.
When this war is over and the IDF leave Gaza and rearm, the Palestinians will have a destroyed land, controlled by a local gang and largely forgotten by the world.
The college student will find a new social justice hobby to tweet about and the UN will pet itself on its shoulder for restoring “peace”.
The Arab state will continue to keep the Palestinians down for their own political needs with the added bonus of increased oil revenues as wars tend to do.
Iran will have the bonus of testing its proxies in real war without the price of war and Israel will move its attention to Hizballah or maybe the Houthis.
The only real solution for the plight of the Gazans is an actual “occupation” Not an Israeli occupation. Their only goal is to see the Palestinians migrate to the Sinai. not the PA since they’ll be driven out same as in 2006.
Gaza need to be under the full and total control of the UN (maybe via UNRAW) for at least a decade in order to rebuild.
Obviously Gaza is just like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
It took the Russians three years of hard fighting and millions of losses to drive the Waffen Gaza out from the gates of Moscow.
Meanwhile the Imperial Gazan Navy has been sinking American shipping across the Atlantic for months.
And don’t forget the Blitz where the Luft-Gaza has been bombing England nightly for the past 60 months.
Confusing from Josep Borrell? If I were an Israeli, I would start to wonder. Is he upset with us for killing Palestinians, or is he upset that we’re not doing a good enough job killing them with the money and bombs he’s actually sending us?
They are messing up his perfect European garden and he’s upset …
LOL. Yeah, that was an unforgivable slip of the tongue that exposed him for the racist he is to the entire jungle.
Israel:
The time has come for you to knock it ALL OFF.
BE THE COUNTRY WE ALL WANT YOU TO BE.
Zippy surely know that those bombings of Dresden and Hamburg with all the civilian deaths, had NOTHING to do with the surrender of Germany.
So it goes. 🙁
“…to do with the surrender of Germany.”
I think many today are loathe to admit the Reich’s surrender had a LOT to do with a massive Red Army bearing down on Germany from the east…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has said Gaza is “going to look like Tokyo and Berlin at the end of World War II when this is over. And if it doesn’t look that way, Israel made a mistake.”
and i bet that he sleeps just fine at night.
If Nikki Haley is a Neocon Heartthrob, then Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (A.K.A: Senator Genocide) is a Neocon Orgasm.
I threw up in my mouth twice.
By the way, am I the only one who can see that the word “Palestinians” is almost identical to “Philistines” from the Bible? …You know. …The ones whose babies God ordered to kill?
I’m not a bible scholar. I tried reading years back and got bored.
I prefer Grimms for my fairy tales.
Are you getting notifications? I notice I get a few and others never show up.
Same here.
You have to read the Old Testament as a fantasy story … a relatively grim one …
I tried. Not out of religious purpose, just to read it. I don’t think of it as historically accurate, but accurate historically about the types of stories that might fearmonger or inspire groups into compliance contemporaneously (years after the so called events). Fables and parables attached to some historic figures but through the eyes of authors with their particular perspectives.
I actually do read it from time to time… It helps you to see, how very little things have changed over these many years….
LOL. I also inhaled it.
Israel MUST UTILIZE PEACE, for the survival of the Jewish People, indeed the world…. I have a ton of marijuana that I can utilize. Light up, inhale…….Hold it……………………………..
Exhale………….. Repeat…………………………………………………….
I worry you might be burning through your Personal Strategic Reserve of weapons-grade “Laser Lettuce” faster than the best Mary Jane refineries in all the Midwest can produce.
“Laser Lettuce”
Good one.