Israel says Gaza war is like WWII

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Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tzipi Hotovely, has compared Israel’s campaign with the devastating Allied bombing of Dresden, conducted in 1945, Al Jazeera reports.

The Allied campaign against Nazi Germany and Japan during World War II has become something of an historical precedent for an Israeli state seeking to justify the large-scale killings of the people of Gaza as it ostensibly pursues Hamas fighters, according to Al Jazeera.

Netanyahu, who had earlier evoked the 9/11 attacks on New York’s Twin Towers and the Pentagon in 2001 to describe the Hamas assault on southern Israel on October 7, looked to the second world war for validation once again.

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