UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza SIR Gerald Kaufman

UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza SIR Gerald Kaufman

Sir Gerald, who was brought up as an orthodox Jew and Zionist, said: "My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town a German soldier shot her dead in her bed.

"My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians."

He said the claim that many of the Palestinian victims were militants "was the reply of the Nazi" and added: "I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants."

He accused the Israeli government of seeking "conquest" and added: "



Israeli peace activist Professor Nurit Peled whose own 13-year-old daughter was killed by a suicide bomber in 1997.

Bertrand Russell had opened the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam; a subsequent Tribunal was set up on Latin America. On 4 March 2009, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine was launched at a press conference in
Brussels and one of the most moving addresses was given by Israeli peace activist Professor Nurit Peled whose own 13-year-old daughter was killed by a suicide bomber in 1997.
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