It took 85 years, but it appears we’ve come full circle, back to the Warsaw Ghetto, where an occupying force rounds up an ethnic group, imprisons them in a sealed-off district, and then proceeds to exterminate or expel them in an attempt to cleanse the land of the disfavored. In 1940 it was Nazis imprisoning and exterminating Jews. This time it’s Israeli Zionists killing and starving Palestinians by the tens of thousands.
How quickly we forget and fail to recognize the same story playing out before our eyes with only the names being changed to protect the guilty. Yet Satan, the sin nature, and human nature remain the same, so history surely will repeat itself to the degree we forget and fail to guard against it.
I’ve often wondered how people could have failed to see what the Nazis were doing to Jews in the 1930s. It shouldn’t have taken piles of corpses in mass graves for the world to recognize the injustice and decry the evils being perpetrated.
But now it’s 1940 all over again. Israel confiscates the homes of Palestinians in the West Bank as the native inhabitants are subjected to military rule. Those who speak out against the occupation are imprisoned and tortured – even American journalists. Yet others have been herded into a ghetto called Gaza, where they are being exterminated with bombs, sniper bullets to the head, and now the systematic starvation of 2+ million men, women, and children.
Yet we in America seem oblivious to the 1940s-style ethnic cleansing and Nazi-like extermination playing out before our eyes. Instead of opposing the injustices and coming to the aid of the oppressed, we use our tax dollars to provide the bombs to kill whole families in their homes and bury children beneath the rubble.
We know how history treated the Nazis for their persecution of the Jews and the German people who chose to look the other way. I wonder how history will treat our generation and the Americans who look the other way while bombs that say “Made in the USA” rain down on the new disfavored people of Palestine?
