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In reply to the discussion: I'm so sick of Israel [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,533 posts)99. I was responding to someone who suggested nukes are worse than the holocaust. No one has dropped nukes in Gaza.
The ONLY nukes dropped on humans were by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The largest estimates I can find for the death toll of those two bombs - including those who died later from the after-effects of radiation exposure - is around 250,000 total. 1/24th of the death toll of Jews at the hand of Nazis.
Objectively, the holocaust was worse.
But don't kid yourself. The world knew what was going on in the Holocaust - for the most part, people just turned a blind eye as long as they were not the targets. People turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, just as many in the US are turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed by and on behalf of Trump.
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This country is serving the interest of a foreign country at our peril.
Bread and Circuses
Monday
#2
The difference to me is the world didn't know what was happening in the death camps
questionseverything
Monday
#92
I was responding to someone who suggested nukes are worse than the holocaust. No one has dropped nukes in Gaza.
Ms. Toad
Monday
#99
Netanyahu, like Trump has done more to hurt his people than any intentional campaign could do.
hlthe2b
Monday
#12
Both our countries have lost whatever good will and favored brand status and will suffer for it.
dutch777
Monday
#46
Understandable, but how is anything done by this current Republican administration
Akakoji
Monday
#16
Which shows the error of when people refer to "the Jews" as if they are a bloc. They aren't.
Scrivener7
Monday
#40
After the last few years of Netanyahu leadership most of the goodwill the world
walkingman
Monday
#83