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Spanish MP Ione Bellare spoke up in Parliament against the genocide in Gaza, asking, 'What is the difference between what Israel is doing and the Nazi gas chambers?'

The leader of the left-wing party Podemos highlighted Israel's latest attack on al-Aqsa hospital's courtyard, where videos showed people burning alive, and the Spanish government's complicity in doing weapons deals with Israel.

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[-] Ephoron@lemmy.kde.social 21 points 1 day ago

The Nazis didn't have the support of the world's major economic powers, the media, and the majority of those on the so-called left.

In short, the world gave a fuck that the Nazis did it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

I don't know about that. Before the war began, there were plenty of nations happy to look the other way as the Nazis rounded people up in favor of trade. And a lot of the media sympathized with fascists in the 1930s. Some media even inspired the Nazis. Henry Ford serializing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in his newspapers ones one of the reasons that made him someone Hitler idolized. He saw Ford as someone who successfully controlled both industry and the media. Hitler actually kept a picture of Ford on his desk.

[-] Ephoron@lemmy.kde.social 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's all very true.

I said "...that the Nazis did it", not "...when the Nazis did it" for that very reason.

They say those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. I guess those that do are too. In a few years when Gaza has been wiped off the map, it's people killed or displaced, I expect everyone will suddenly find a mass agreement that it was terrible and should never happen again.

Trouble with most progressives is it's always that last war that was unjust, never the current one.

I wonder who Netanyahu has a picture of...

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