SYRIA Vs GERMANY

Article: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/feb2012/syri-f20.shtml

In the article “US sends drones over Syria as fighting spreads” the audience is socialists who are concerned about the conflict in Syria, and what the International community is doing to help solve this. The purpose of the article is to inform you of the current conflict in Syria, and about how the US sent in drones to: “intercept Syrian government and military communications in an effort to make the case for a widespread international response.” The claim of the article is that the US is sending in drones to Syria, even though it’s technically not their air space. The evidence for why they are sending in these drones is all of the killing of public figures, like the series of assassinations of Syrian officials, including the February 11 killing of Brigadier General Issa al-Khouli and gunmen in the city of Idlib killing a senior state prosecutor.

The conflict in Syria is quite similar to the holocaust that occurred in Europe during WW2. Syria is killing of Sunni Muslims off, because they attempted to rebel against the government. Germany killed off 6 million Jews, because they didn’t want them in Europe, like what Syria is doing now. The fact that the US has sent in drones to Syrian airspace is almost exactly the same as the US sending in planes to Germany. The US was trying to gather information on what Germany was doing to the Jews, much like their attempt at gathering information in Syria.

Dear Gerda letter

Dear Gerda,

            You are one of the bravest people I have ever seen. Your choice to stay with Ilse instead of going with Abek’s family was an extremely courageous decision, but I think you should have gone with them. At the camp, they had you working 4 looms, which is more than an expert would watch over. You still would have worked hard with Abek’s Family, but you’d be free from the Nazi camps, and would be treated with kindness instead of getting slapped. You could have stayed behind with Abek’s family and avoided all the hardships and pain that you had to suffer.

 I hope that you don’t face too much hardship during your time at the camp. If you keep your head down and work hard, I’m sure that you’ll make it through this. You are so kind hearted, like when you shared your food with the girl next to the fence back in Soswitz. That shows that you care for those around you, and I’m sure you made an impact on that girl’s life forever.

            Your friend,

                        Willis Whitestone

Genocide Stage representation

Up to this point of the reading in “All but My Life”, a major stage of genocide that has been shown is dehumanization. Dehumanization is making a certain group out to be worth less than that of a human. This could mean treating them like a vermin or a pest, and referring to them in derogatory term. Some examples of this are when the sign erected on the factory read, “No dogs and Jews allowed.” (Klein, 1995 p. 26) Not only are the segregating Jews away from a factory, but in the wording of the sign, they put dogs first, as to show that dogs are worth more than that of a Jew. Another example is that the Germans started to control rations for people, and gave Jews a miniscule amount of food, compared that of everyone else. This shows how directly that Jews don’t deserve the same amount of nourishment that the rest of a population. Dehumanization seems to become a more and more prevalent as the book progresses.