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lobby.‖ (2/1/09). Norman Cleveland wrote in a letter in The Adelaide Advertiser (19/1/09)
―The similarity in between the Warsaw ghetto and the Gaza Strip are amazing. The Nazis
stopped food, medical supplies and power. They herded the Jews into a concentrated area
and completely humiliated them until they rebelled, were killed or deported.‖
* In The Australian, Issam Eid of Strathfield made direct comparisons between Israel and
Nazi Germany. (1/1/09).
* A letter signed Elizabeth Attard of North Fitzroy in The Herald Sun (2/1/09) included
―There is only one word for what is happening in Gaza and that is genocide. Israel is now
the new Hitler.‖
* In response to an article by Danny Lamm on ABC‘s ―Unleashed‖, published comments
included ―Not content with stealing other peoples land the jews demonise the pathetic
resistance, wrapt in their fantasy of paying back the Arabs for the sins of the Nazis‖ and
―Ironic. Israel now duplicates (in end result) the crime of the Holocaust. Not that I would try
to defend Hamas et al either. Such brave men, that both sides find it reasonable and
justifiable to attack innocent women and children… usually from a safe position. Cowards
and idiots.‖ (8/1/09).
* A letter comparing Israeli actions to those of the Nazis was published above the name W.
Book in The Canberra Times. (10/1/09). Adrian Sever of Hawker wrote in The Canberra
Times (13/1/09) ―Warsaw 1943. Gaza 2009. Compare and contrast‖. In the same paper
(9/2/09) Peter Funnell wrote ―Comparisons between the ―Warsaw Ghetto‖ and the situation
in Gaza today are apt. Everything in the Gaza is being progressively destroyed with a
vengeance with little prospect of renewal. This callous indifference to the residents of Gaza
simply drips of the ghastly slaughter in the Warsaw Ghetto.‖
* The Herald-Sun printed a letter signed Wayne Roberts which read ―The vicious and
bloodthirsty attitudes and actions of the Jewish state appears to know no bounds‖. (12/1/09)
* The ABC‘s blog ―Unleashed‖ published an article critical of Holocaust denial by Bishop
Williamson, but in comments printed ―The pope is not accountable to anyone, let alone the
Zionist moloch, for his official or personal decisions or beliefs. It is a central tenet of
christianity to show forgiveness, and I‘m sure that is the rationale behind the Pope‘s
decision. Not everyone dwells in the past the way the Zionist priests of guilt do.‖ (6/2/09).
* In The Byron Shire Echo, Gareth Smith alleged Israelis were engaged in ―barbarity‖ worse
than that for which ―The Nazis were famous‖. (24/3/09).
* After publication of an item defending supporters of Israel from claims they stifle debate
(on ABC‘s Unleashed 25/3/09), comments included ―When a group of people who think
they are the Chosen Ones deny others their ancient right to live in the land of their fathers,
refuse to let in the refugees they drove out, and still think they have the high moral ground to
build houses in areas the UN has designated out of bounds, it is with relief to hear someone
from that group stand up and be truthful.‖ and ―I now understand that the Jewish mindset is
different and Zionism is a manifestation of that, with the aim being to ethnically cleanse the
land of the Indigenous Arabs using the excuse of the laughable idiotic claim that the Old
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