Which Holocaust?

My Math 101 teacher, many years ago, posed this question. How many whiskers does it take to make a beard? I don't remember where we went from there but that doesn't matter today. The question came to me when I was mentally comparing the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza with the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto during WW II. Jews were sneaking out of the ghetto and doing whatever they could to hurt the Nazi occupiers of Warsaw. The Nazi response was brutal and has been rightly condemned ever since.

Fast forward to Gaza. Most Palestinians see the Israelis as illegal occupiers of what was Palestinian land before the Brits took it over about a century ago and subsequently turned it over to the Zionists about 70 years ago. So we have some Palestinians attempting to harass Israel with home made rockets that don't do much damage. The Jews in Warsaw didn't really do much damage to the Nazis either. The point is that the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza is every bit as brutal as the Nazi assault on the Warsaw Jews. The Nazis stand accused and convicted of war crimes. The Israeli government today is committing war crimes daily in Gaza. Netanyahu should be arrested and tried just as the Nazis were at Nuremberg.

That is not to say that all of the Israelis should be condemned, nor even most of them. I note that there are several groups within Israel that are opposed to this ongoing slaughter. Jews and Arabs got along together quite peaceably for hundreds of years before 1946. (Although there was some justifiable unrest because the British government broke promises that they made to the Arabs during WW I) I believe that they could live together peaceably again if the warmongers on both sides could be taken out of the picture.

But peace cannot and will not be made until the various world powers stop supporting the violence and agitating for more.

But back to the whiskers and beard question. Let me reword it and ask this question. How many dead people does it take to make a Holocaust? And a follow up question. Is the violent death of one innocent Palestinian child in Gaza any less of a tragedy than the violent death of one innocent Jewish child in Warsaw? Do they not both feel the same pain and terror when the bullet or piece of shrapnel rips apart their tender flesh and bone?