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Chris Hedges emphasizes the CRUX of the Israeli genocide in this section of his powerful, concise book "A Genocide Foretold," in the text below. I urge EVERYONE to read this 152 page book to understand the historical context of Israel's multi-decade extermination campaign against Palestine!

A Genocide Foretold by Chris Hedges ©2025 Seven Stories Press (p. 123) “The argument for Jewish state as compensation for the Holocaust was a powerful argument, so powerful that nobody listened to the outright rejection of the UN solution by the overwhelming majority of the people of Palestine,” Pappe writes. “What comes out clearly is a European wish to atone. The basic and natural rights of the Palestinians should be sidelined, dwarfed and forgotten altogether for the sake of the forgiveness that Europe was seeking from the newly formed Jewish state. It was much easier to rectify the Nazi evil vis-a-vis a Zionist movement than facing the Jews of the world in general. It was less complex and, more importantly, it did not involve facing the victims of the Holocaust themselves, but rather a state that claimed to represent them. The price for this more convenient atonement was robbing the Palestinians of every basic and natural right they had and allowing the Zionist movement to ethnically cleanse them without fear of any rebuke or condemnation.” The Holocaust was weaponized the moment Israel was founded. It was bastardized to serve the apartheid state.

aug 31, 2025, 5:09 am • 4 1

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