Labour councillor Ray Davies condemned Israel's "apartheid regime" and likened it to Hitler's occupation of Europe. The councillor, from Caerphilly, said: "Hitler's Nazi regime occupied Europe for four years only. Palestine and the West Bank have been occupied" for many years." Speaking on BBC Radio Wales, according to Internet sources, Mr. Davies, added: "I do draw that comparison because (this is) one group of people who should understand what oppression is and what it is like living under occupation.
The Councillor accused the Israeli government of treating the Holocaust "like an industry" to justify its actions against Palestinians. The councillor has himself been on a fact-finding trip to the occupied territories: "When they go out there they will be treated like Lords and taken to the Holocaust museum to try to engineer as much sympathy as they can and shown the bright side and the pleasant side and the sort of life the Israelis are enjoying," he said. "The Israeli government are pretty concerned about the depth of resentment that is taking place against the apartheid regime of Israel. "Anybody who goes to Israel will be taken to the Holocaust museum and shown what has happened to the Israelis. "But that does not give the Israeli government any right to do what they are doing to the poor beleaguered Palestinians for over 40 years. "Life in Palestine and the occupied territories at the moment is nothing short of disgraceful." Concluded Mr. Davies.
With this very description in mind, it is suffice to mention what the Israeli occupation soldiers themselves said. According to Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) website, Israeli occupation soldiers tell Palestinian villagers “we will do to you what the Nazis did to us.”. The place is a very well known Palestinian town, Dura in the West Bank, and the date was on December 31st, 2002, an in a generous welcome by the Israeli soldiers celebrating the New Year! The population of Dura, approximately 25,000 people have been subjected to “nightmarish terror” at the hands of the notorious Israeli border police unit. For two consecutive days, hundreds of soldiers, backed by military vehicles, two military trucks, and several large bulldozers, rampaged through the town, opening fire and stun grenades in all directions. The soldiers held about 200 Palestinian youths inside the town’s only cultural Center for 10 hours during which the soldiers did, as one hostage put it, “what all Israeli soldiers do in the absence of television cameras.” “They beat each and every one of us without any reason, they started cursing our religion and making other blasphemous remarks. Afterwards they, using large hammers, smashed all the windows and doors of the building. Then they smashed all the 30 computers, which had been donated from a European country. In short they were Gestapo in real life,” said Musa Abu Salameh, one of the hostages.
Abu Salameh also testified that the soldiers also stole at gunpoint 28 cellular telephones, large amounts of money and other valuable things from the hostages. “They told us not to expect help from anybody, and when one of us told the officer that what they were doing was wrong, the officer said laughingly ‘what right, what wrong, what God…I’m God.” When Other Palestinians walked toward the building to know what was happening to their sons, the soldiers didn’t hesitate to open fire, injuring several people, including 11-year-old Jihad Abu Arqoub, from whose belly doctors at the Princess Alya hospital in Hebron extracted two bullets. As dark-fall neared, the soldiers began scouring through the town, blowing the sirens of their jeeps and shouting obscenities at the Palestinians. Earlier, the huge bulldozers sealed all entries to Dura by dumping huge piles of dirt across the streets. This draconian measure effectively meant that Dura became cut off from the rest of the West Bank and practically isolated from the rest of the world. In real terms, the sealing of the town also meant that nobody, not even an ambulance, could move either into or out of the town.
The source added: earlier this week, the Israeli army dynamited four HOMEs belonging to the families of Palestinian resistance activists, three of them already dead. Abed Elqiq, whose cousin’s HOME was among the HOMEs demolished narrated that one of the Israeli officers who oversaw the destruction of the HOMEs told the grieving women at the site that “we will do to you what the Nazis did to us” half a century ago. “Ok, if you want call us Nazi, we are Nazi, but we have the upper hand and we can kill you and destroy your HOMEs and nobody in this world can ask us ‘why’. And we are happy about it.” What makes a more painful reality is not only the said but the prevailing feeling worldwide that a new holocaust is taking place to the silence of world humans and so called super powers! It is a jungle village of today’s so called free and democratic world!

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Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim
Abdo88@ureach.com

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