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[erudito]

The UN will be teaching Gazan school children about the Holocaust.

The wars on women in Afghanistan and Congo:
Democratizing Afghanistan would require something else, something far deeper and, frankly, more dangerous and more threatening: a revolution in intimate relations

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[tcpip]

The UN will be treating Gazan school children about the Holocaust.

I'm sure you mean "teaching", although the UN is probably treating children in Gaza for their own almost-holocaust...

Teaching indeed

[erudito]

(1) Yes, I did mean teaching, ta.

(2) Comparisons with Nazi policy are disgusting: so vilely inappropriate as to be anti-Semitic since the Jewish state is being tarred with a unique level of sin utterly at odds with what is and has actually happened.

Re: Teaching indeed

[tcpip]

2) a) I'm not comparing the policy, I'm comparing the bodies.
2) b) Yet again, anti-semitism was the policy of hatred against Semites.

Re: Teaching indeed

[erudito]

(2a) Specious evasion. Six million deliberately and sytematically rounded up and killed for simply being Jewish (plus those killed for being gay, Gypsy etc) is not remotely the same as fighting a war with an enemy who deliberately hides behind civilians. Simple decency should preclude using the Holocaust as a weapon against Jews, even by implication.

(2b) Specious evasion. The term 'anti-Semitism' has a clear specific meaning of Jew-hatred. Hamas is an anti-Semitic organisation.