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Notes by Barry Rubin    

Number of Jews in Continental Europe, 1939: 6 million

Number of Palestinians in Gaza 2009: 1.2 million

 Number of Jews still alive in Continental Europe at end of the Holocaust: 1 million 

Number of Palestinians left alive in Gaza after the 2009 war: 1,199,000

 Percentage of  Jews Killed by Germans and their allies: 86 percent

Percentage of Gazan Palestinians Killed by Israelis: .01 percent

 Number of Jewish Civilians deliberately killed by Nazis and their Allies: 6,000,000

Number of Palestinian Civilians deliberately killed by Israel: 0  

Number of Jews armed during most of the Holocaust: 0

Number of Hamas soldiers in Gaza: About 20,000

Number of rockets fired at Israel by Hamas: 4000

Number of rockets fired by Jews at Germany: 0

Number of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians by Hamas: thousands 

Number of terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians by the Nazis: thousandsNumber of armed attacks of any kind by Jews on German civilians: 0

Nazi "humanitarian supplies " for Jews: starvation diet coupled with slave laborIsraeli humanitarian supplies for Gaza: regular shipments even when Hamas attacking Israel, no one actually in Gaza even claims to be hungry; treatment of Palestinians in Israeli hospitals

Nazi treatment of Jews: According to a Gestapo official in Warsaw: "It is permissible to take from a Jew everything….Whoever wishes may kill a Jew, and our law will not punish him for it." (Jan Karski report, 1942) 

Hamas treatment of Jews: It is permissible to take from a Jew everything. Whoever wishes may kill a Jew, and our law will not punish him for it.Israeli treatment of Palestinians: Soldiers subject to strict discipline and code of behavior for whose violation soldiers are court-martialed and sent to prison.

Nazi soldiers hide among German civilians to incur civilian casualties?: No

Hamas soldiers hide among Palestinian civilians to incur civilian casualties?: Yes

Ideology of Nazis Toward Jews: All Jews in the World Should be ExterminatedIdeology of Israel toward Palestinians: Have your own state and just leave us alone

Ideology of Hamas toward Israelis and Jews: Starting with all Jews in Israel should be exterminated, Hamas is increasingly extending that to all Jews in the world.

Nazi goal: World Conquest

Israel's goal: A small democratic state

Hamas and Islamist goal: World conquest

A common Western attitude toward Nazi Germany prior to 1939: The Germans have suffered a lot and have legitimate grievances. If we appease them they will leave us alone. They are only after the Jews and what do we care about them?

A common Western attitude toward Hamas in 2009: The Palestinians have suffered a lot and have legitimate grievances. If we appease them they will leave us alone. Hamas, Iran, and other radical Islamists are only after the Jews and what do we care about them?

Syrian, Iranian, and Hamas view of the Holocaust: It didn't happen.

Syrian, Iranian, and Hamas view of the Gaza war: It was another Holocaust.

Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), with Walter Laqueur (Viking-Penguin); the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan); A Chronological History of Terrorism, with Judy Colp Rubin, (Sharpe); and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley). To read and subscribe to MERIA and other <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />GLORIA Center publications or to order books, visit http://www.gloriacenter.org.