The 75-Year Issue

I am a German Jewish refugee who landed in N.Y.C. the day after WWII broke out in Europe. I still remember Kristallnacht and the arrest of my father by the Gestapo some time later. We lost several family members in the German death camps.

Anti-Semitism is at its greatest level in the USA since 1945, and it only gets worse. I have said for decades that this rise is strongly related to the way that Israel treats its Arab citizens, Arabs of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel has done some of the same things to the Palestinians that Hitler Germany did to Jews: collective punishment, stolen property, prison without trial, summary execution, and more.

The Gaza Strip is nothing more than a huge concentration camp. It is a hell of 140 square miles with over two million men, women, and children crammed in and little opportunity to function as free people. It is blockaded on all sides, including the right to leave and the right to fish and right to earn a living. How would you like your homes and civilian infrastructure bombed and shelled, and your family members killed. The Palestinians fight back anyway that they can. They have no military force of any consequence.