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(8k) Kristallnacht. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Situation today.

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Kristallnacht , in English known as Night of the Broken Glass On 9 November 2023, the world, or at least the West, remembered that 85 years ago Kristallnacht happened. It was on the night of 9 to 10 November 1938 that Hitler ordered thugs that included SA and SS officers, and some Hitler youth and German citizens to attack synagogues and other Jewish property, while police and fire officers were ordered not to intervene unless non-Jew property was under threat to burn down. About 90 Jews died, 30,000 were imprisoned in concentration camps where more Jews died, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed.  Why did this happen? Hitler used a specific incident to allow the terrible night to happen. The pretext for this event happened in Paris, France. Here a young in Germany born Polish Jewish man Herschel Grynszpan murdered the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath because he was angry about Germany's anti-Jewish laws and the resulting bad treatment of Jews (although some people think

(8j) Three weeks of war in Israel. Not something that was not expectable

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The war by Israel against the people in Gaza after the terrible attack by Hamas against Israelis who were partying next the Gaza Strip whereby 1400 Israelis were killed and hundreds were taken hostages.  Of course, Israel had to respond, but not overrespond. As nearly 10.000 people in Gaza died, including about 4000 Palestinian children, it is likely many will become more hateful towards Israel. One extreme right Israeli minister proposed to use nuclear weapons against Palestinians, such is his hate against people who lost their properties when Jewish people moved to Israel after WWII.  They should have tried to live together in peace as many tried (such as Daniel Barenboim) because they are closer related than they accept. Indeed, even their religion of not showing images of God and worship of humans is different from Christians who show the builder of monuments for their religion, and even God and Jesus. However, a section of Israelis don't want peace but instead continue to remo