Echos of WWII willful denial of Holocaust in US response to Israeli border massacres

Seventy-three years after Nazi concentration camps were liberated, historians still debate how much the US knew of the Holocaust and how much America willfully ignored it to the peril of millions. Regardless of the truth involved, one lesson is clear: man should never turn his back on outright dehumanization and slaughter of his fellow man. Yet, that is precisely what America and its allies are doing in their heartless denial of the weekly shooting down of Palestinians protesting at Israel's border to the open air prison of Gaza set up to strip Palestinians of their humanity, if not their life. This is not Club Med the Israelis have created in Gaza; it's Club Death, with a blockade of food and supplies that produces slow motion death as opposed to instant death from an Israeli sharpshooter's bullet. At the fifth Friday protest three were shot dead and hundreds wounded, bringing the 5 Friday protests to 41 dead and over 5,000 injured. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein called the loss of life deplorable, saying a “staggering number” of injuries had been caused by live ammunition. Israel refuses to authorize an independent investigation, relying on US vetoes in the UN Security Council to keep their weekly massacres unchallenged. Israel blames Hamas for the violence in the same vein that southern US racists blamed communists and outside agitators for the despicable racial violence they inflicted on blacks demanding first class citizenship in the South. It's no more valid to blame Palestinians from trying to break out of their dehumanizing prison than it would be to blame Nazi concentration camp victims for trying to escape the death camps. With stunning hypocrisy the US uses the slightest human rights abuses to sanction, even threaten regime change of countries it doesn't like. With allies like Israel we use every resource to ignore and enable the grotesque treatment of those with no voice and no power. At some point the staggering death and injury count will stir the conscious our our leaders and our people. Maybe.