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I don't think its repeating as such, although I'd seen that story a few days ago. I'm sorry for all the flak he's taking, he didn't equate Israel with the Nazi's, just said that a Palestinian woman reminded him of his mother in the Ghetto.
This tells us two things about the current situation.
1) The criticism by the Israeli government of his comments shows their reluctance to value a palestinian life in the same way they would a jewish one.
2) A ghetto is of course what most of the Palestinian people now live in. Palestinians territory has been sliced into pieces by Israeli roads and checkpoints, the result being that they live in small cantons, easily controlled by the Israeli army. Some Palestinians are living under a week long curfew, allowed out only for a few hours a week to get food and bare living essentials whilst Jewish settlers walk around with impugnity.
So no, history isn't repeating itself....yet. The number of Palestinian deaths hasn't been on the scale of the holocaust, but I dare say we could give it another ten or twenty years.
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