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Originally posted by biggie smalls
And yes cjakforest I have done my homework. I was raised Catholic. I am fairly familiar with the text you call the bible. And many other ridiculous things that I don't need to mention. I have taken religious history classes as well. I am well versed in biblical history. That does not mean I believe all of it.
Originally posted by Kr0n0s
from Websters Dictionary-
Main Entry: ho·lo·caust
Pronunciation: 'hO-l&-"kost, 'hä- also -"käst or 'ho-l&-kost
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin holocaustum, from Greek holokauston, from neuter of holokaustos burnt whole, from hol- + kaustos burnt, from kaiein to burn -- more at CAUSTIC
1 : a sacrifice consumed by fire
2 : a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire
3 a often capitalized : the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II -- usually used with the b : a mass slaughter of people; especially : GENOCIDE
Is it used to describe the mass killing of jews by hitler? Yes.
Is that the only use for it? No. Is anyone familiar with the words, "Nuclear Holocaust?"
And the Native Americans weren't really destroyed in a systematic way like that, it was much more decentralized.
ISRAELI right-wingers are furious at the acknowledgement in a new schoolbook that Palestinians were forcibly expelled when Israel was established in 1948.
They claim it undermines Israel's legitimacy as a Jewish nation state.
Zevulun Orlev, the leader of the National Religious Party, called on the education minister, Yuli Tamir, to step down after she gave the go-ahead for the new textbook, which is much more honest about the 1948 war than many Israelis are.
"Some of the Arab residents were forced to leave their houses and some were expelled and became refugees in the neighbouring Arab countries," the book says.
The book says that what for Jews was a fight for Israeli independence was for Arabs "a catastrophe, a war of disaster and loss".
The departure from the official Israeli version that all Palestinians ran away during the 1948 fighting rather than being evicted, as many were, comes in a book called Living Together in Israel that is being introduced into schools among Israel's Arab minority this September.
Originally posted by wadefrazier3
About 90% of the Western Hemisphere’s population vanished during that period. There is no comparable event in world history.
Originally posted by wadefrazier3
Columbus was only the first in a long line of European/American genocidists
www.ahealedplanet.net...
Originally posted by wadefrazier3
and the U.S. has a national holiday in his name. When the English set up their first permanent military foothold in the New World, at Jamestown:
www.ahealedplanet.net...
Originally posted by mlmijyd
I think that we should include China where conservative est. say approx. 30-70 Million perished as a direct result of Mao and his backers i.e. UK and other European countries that had vested interests, US and USSR. See the Book……. The Unknown Story by Jung Chang,Jon Halliday. The WW2 holocaust terrible as it was, does pale somewhat at these figures!
Originally posted by Kr0n0s
Why is the word Holocaust seem to be exclusive to what the jews went through in WW2 when any other mass killing of a race or religion is just called a "Revolution", Purges or Genocide?
Holocaust denier to be released
David Irving in court on 20 December 2006
David Irving says he has changed his views on the Holocaust
An Austrian appeals court has ruled that UK historian David Irving - jailed for denying the Holocaust - should be released on probation.
Irving is now being held in police detention and will be deported to the UK on Thursday, officials said.
Irving was convicted in February in a case that sparked international debate about the limits of freedom of speech.
In 1989 he spoke in Austria denying the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, though he later said he was "mistaken".
The appeals court in Vienna had heard calls for both a reduction and increase in his sentence.
Irving on Wednesday welcomed his release and said he was "fit and well".
The 68-year-old said he would urge an academic boycott of historians from Germany and Austria until the nations stopped jailing historians.
"I was put in prison for three years for expressing an opinion 17 years ago," he said.
Originally posted by Direwolf
You missed one of the largest genocides here. The Japanese invasion of China. Millions of Chinese civilians were murdered, beheaded, and used as slave labour before and during WW2.
This is another example of a genocide that occured, but is ignored by the world.