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ize this state; they have earned that distinction because they do this exclusively
with Israel.
Katz’s humanism, his solidarity, and his concern for the weak only
occurs with the alleged victims of Israel. The result of this is the jump of
this conflict to other conflicts where there is infinitely greater killings.
Another collateral outcome, as mentioned above, is the exaggeration of Palestinian
suffering, his elevation to the rank of “universal victim,” the paradigm
of suffering (and all this “effort” is just a mere game of discursive
representations that deform the real dimension of the conflict).
An example as brutal as it is meaningless in this sense is the afirmation,
assumed today as a “truth revealed,” that Jews (Israel) would do to the
Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews. An example of this is the intellectuals’
urgent demand to “Stop the genocide of the State of Israel,” which
we refer to above.
When we contrast this empty rhetoric with historical facts comparing
them both (the Shoah and the situation of the Palestinians under Israeli
“occupation”), we found that during the six years of Nazi occupation the
Jewish population of Europe, according to the estimates of Karady, 15
declined from 9,480,000 people in 1939 to 3,780,000 afterward. This
implies that during this period 5,700,000 Jews perished—60.1% of pre-war
Jews. If we make an apportionment of the number of murders, we see that
the Jewish victims totaled 950,000 per year; 79,166 per month; 2,602.7 per
day; 108.5 per hour; 1.8 per minute. This represents a –10.5% negative
demographic rate, a relative loss of 10.1% of the Jewish population of
Europe during each year of war. In contrast, look at the status of the Palestinian
population of the “occupied territories” by Israel, which, according to
claims of some of these banalizing intellectuals, would represent a genocide
(at least) equivalent (if not worse) to that suffered by European Jews. We
find that the Palestinian population in the “occupied territories” (Gaza Strip
and West Bank—a.k.a. Judea and Samaria), according to Palestinian
sources, was 1,045,000 people around 2967, 16 while in the year 2007,
according to Palestinian sources, the population of the “occupied territories”
was estimated at 4,000,000. 17 These figures show a population growth
15. Victor Karady, The Jews in European Modernism. Madrid: Editors Spain
21st century. 2000, 294-295.
16. Source: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/
story559.html.
17. Source: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/
story559.html. #table 1; some estimates raise this figure up to 5,000,000 (data for
year 2001 of the Palestinian academic society for the study of international affairs,
which resulted in one greater number, cited in the article demographics of Palestine
in the Wikipedia Encyclopedia: http://www.es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demografia-de-