Israel’s efforts to erase Palestinian history reflect ‘incremental genocide,’ Ehrenreich says

February 10th, 2017

Awake Goy

As to “holocaust” and the misuse of language. See also “genocide”.

We should not let these bozos get away with pretending that the use of “holocaust” is patented, copyrighted, etc.

Well, it may be said that there was only one “TheHolocaust”(tm) in which six million European Jews were killed by Germans etc. (And no one else s/b mentioned as “killed”, only Jews.).

But there have been many “holocausts” including that by Pol Pot in Cambodia against his own people, Rwanda, Boznia, maybe China if you count the killing of the pre-communist propertied class.

Each is different, even as every “murder” is different. And yet we have only one word, “murder” to cover many different kinds of acts. And “manslaughter” to cover somewhat similar but somewhat different acts (w.r.t. intention to kill).

And we have only one word “terrorist” although we have many words for types of armed groups: armies, paramilitaries, militias, gangs, mercenaries, “private military company” (Blackwater, Xe Services), thugs, terrorists, security forces, and probably others. But every act of “terrorism” is different. Israel has called killing soldiers “terrorism”. Others, I believe (am I wrong?) use “terrorism” to mean killing civilians — and then only when the killing is done by non-army folks. (Under some definitions, and there are many, even within the USA’s statutes, terrorism is usually (but I believe not always) said to be an act of a non-army (or non-state).

So with a few words and so many meanings (holocaust, genocide, murder, terrorist), we should not let these bozos get away with pretending that the use of “holocaust” is patented, trademarked, copyrighted, and may be used only to refer to “TheHolocaust” ™.

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