[Marxism] ISRAELI MINISTER THREATENS "HOLOCAUST"

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ISRAELI MINISTER THREATENS "HOLOCAUST" AS PUBLIC DEMAND CEASEFIRE  TALKS

By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 29 February  2008

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Israeli officials began damage  limitation efforts after
the country's deputy defense minister Matan  Vilnai
threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with  a
"holocaust."

The comments came a day after Israeli occupation  forces
killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a
six-month-old  baby, in a series of air raids across the
Gaza Strip. Israel claimed that the  attacks were in
retaliation for a barrage of rockets fired by  resistance
fighters in the Gaza Strip which killed one Israeli in the
town  of Sderot on Wednesday, 27 February. Palestinian
resistance groups, including  Hamas, said the rockets were
in retaliation for the extrajudicial execution  of five
Hamas members carried out by Israel on Wednesday morning.
Israeli  occupation forces have killed more than 200
Palestinians since the  US-sponsored Annapolis peace summit
last November. In the same period, five  Israelis have been
killed by Palestinians.

Speaking to Israeli army  radio today, Vilnai said, "the
more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the  rockets
reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring  upon
themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our
might to defend  ourselves."

A report on the BBC News website headlined "Israel  warns
of Gaza 'holocaust'" noted that in Israel the word
"holocaust" --  shoah in Hebrew -- is "a term rarely used
in Israel outside discussions of  the Nazi genocide during
World War II."
 
full -  _http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9354.shtml_ 
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