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The US is turning a blind eye to death and devastation — it isn't the first time

JL;DR SUMMARY Terrence Petty draws parallels between the historical indifference of the United States during the Holocaust and its current stance on Israel's actions in Gaza. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Kamala HarrisBenjamin NetanyahuU.S. Foreign PolicyDonald TrumpJoe BidenGaza ConflictBernie SandersHolocaust ComparisonsFranklin D. RooseveltAmerican Indifference

Places mentioned

Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Palestinians hold out pans to receive food from a charity distribution point in Gaza City."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"A complex web of political, historical and psychological factors has been exploited by Netanyahu to justify the massacre of an estimated 59,000 Palestinians and likely many more in a war that began with claims of protecting Israel from terrorist attacks, but increasingly resembles an ethnic cleansing campaign to permanently depopulate the Gaza Strip."
Washington DC, United States
"Eight decades ago, a similar indifference to the plight of the persecuted pervaded in the halls of power in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. as European Jews were being sent to Nazi death camps, and as American officials resisted relaxing strict immigration quotas that were barring Jews from emigrating to the U.S."
Israel
"Americas mainstream politicians were quick to condemn Hamas massacre of 1,200 people in the cross-border attacks on Oct. 7, 2023 and reaffirmed their commitment to back Israel in its never-ending struggle to fend off forces that want the Jewish state wiped off the map."
Geneva, Switzerland
"In the summer of 1942 Eduard Schulte, a German industrialist with access to secrets of the SS leadership, passed word to the Geneva-based representative of the World Jewish Congress, Gerhart Riegner, about a plan to exterminate all Jews from Germany and German controlled areas in Europe."
United States
"The murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust has been indelibly etched into the worlds collective conscience."

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