To Yad Vashem: the Holocaust museum: What would Anne Frank say about Israel's genocide in Gaza?

To Yad Vashem: the Holocaust museum: What would 
Anne Frank say about Israel's genocide in Gaza?

I write this with upmost sincerity.

I am a Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran. My war

experiences fueled me with a passion for truth, justice

and against all oppression.

In the 1970s I protested against the Apartheid regime 

in South Africa, and many more causes. I was a part 

of the June 6, 1976 takeover of the Statue of Liberty by 

Vietnam Veterans Against The War.

For many years I had accepted the Israeli government's

assertions Israel was under attack by Palestinian terrorists, 

and that Israel wanted peace. I know that to be a false narrative; 

a lie just as were the lies of my government about Vietnam.

After the Vietnam War I studied the history of Vietnam. I have 

also studied how Palestine was colonized, and some history of   

the Jewish people in Poland, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands. 

I am studying the history of the Arab people.

The very qualities that the Jewish people have always stood for in 

America and worldwide, standing up against oppression, injustice, and 

for civil and human rights, has been obliterated in Israel due to the 

philosophy known as Zionism.

Zionism is not Judaism. Like Nazism, Zionism is a warped right wing 

political movement and philosophy that is racist, supremacist, and 

xenophobic. Both philosophies destroyed the best qualities of their 

respective societies and cultures. Nazism and Zionism relied on war, 

terrorism, murder, and ethnic cleansing to steal land from the native 

inhabitants, as did the Boers in South Africa, and the Europeans in 

the Americas.

The American settlers and military in what is now the United States 

engaged in genocide of the Native Americans. The Nazi regime in 

World War II used genocide as a policy, and now the Jewish people 

of Israel, their political, and military leaders are in the process of 

exterminating the Palestinian people.

In 1948 David Ben-Gurion said "We must use terror, assassination, 

intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services 

to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."

Is this just? Is this not ethnic cleansing?

"All of the killed, with very few exceptions, were old men,

women or children. The dead we found were all unjust victims,

and none of them had died with a weapon in their hands."

--Eliyahu Arieli, Haganah member who arrived at Deir Yassin

shortly after the massacre, O Jerusalem, Collins and Lapierre, 1972.

Is this just? Is this not genocide?

The state now known as Israel came into existence by massacre 

upon massacre, atrocity after atrocity. The country was built on 

Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide.

Yah Vashem is dedicated to the remembrance of the Holocaust.

Yah Vashem is described as a ‘World Center for Holocaust

Research, Documentation, Education and Commemoration.’

Yet, the museum exists in an a land that has been largely ethnically

cleansed of the Palestinian people who had lived there in peace with

Jews and Christians for centuries, until the Zionist came.

Despite your best intentions, your museum exists in a city and country

in which the Zionist, Apartheid regime is waging a war of genocide 

upon the the Palestinian people. Collective punishment, nightly raids 

into houses, torture, and destruction of the Gaza population is public 

policy. This is the environment in which your museum exists.

I ask you, is it not entirely hypocritical to have a Holocaust museum 

open in a city and country that has been ethnically cleansed?

Is it not odd and shameful to have a Holocaust museum open while 

your leaders are in the business of exterminating the indigenous 

Palestinian people?

What the Zionist regime did and is doing to the Palestinian people, 

especially in Gaza is what the German Army once did to the Jews of

the Warsaw Ghetto. And, there were tunnels in the Warsaw Ghetto too.

As the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto resisted their oppression so do the 

Palestinians in Gaza. Both sides had and have the right to self-

determination just as native South Africans did under Apartheid.

It is my firm belief that the Holocaust Museum should be shut down

out of shame, and covered in black drapes right to the ground until

the Zionist government dismantles the Apartheid wall, demilitarizes

the country, concludes a just settlement with the Palestinian people,

including reparations, and acknowledges the Right of return as

guaranteed under international law.

Then, there will be peace as both sides had lived in peace for centuries,

and much good will come of it.

Finally, I ask What would Anne Frank say if she saw what was being

done to the Palestinian people?