On Saturday, Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben Ami were seen for the first time after 491 days in Hamas captivity. They were shells of their former selves, not much more than skin and bones. Their hollow eyes and emaciated frames were instantly compared to what survivors of the Holocaust looked like when the concentration camps were finally liberated. All one needed to do was put a black and white filter over the pictures and it conjures the pictures we have all seen in textbooks and old videos from 80 years ago, after the fall of the Nazi regime in Germany.
The images were so shocking that immediately people with watermelons and Palestinian flags in the bios began looking to draw a comparison to the treatment of Palestinian terrorists who were held in Israeli jails and released as part of the ceasefire deals. All they found were terrorists celebrating by firing guns in the air, some so plump that one wondered if they were given more than their portion of food while in prison.
They instead had to fabricate a similarity and found a picture of a cancer patient allegedly named Ibrahim Mohammad Khaleel al-Shaweesh, whose name was nowhere on the list of released terrorists.
Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails receive medical and dental services, as well as nutritious meals. Israel famously removed a brain tumor from Yahya Sinwar, the former head of Hamas and architect of the Oct 7 massacre. They saved his life from cancer. Palestinian prisoners receive regular visits from the Red Cross.
Conversely, Israeli hostages were beaten, starved and deprived of medical care for more than a year, including many who were shot when they were taken by Palestinian terrorists. Some were held in apartments of “innocent Palestinian civilians” whose children beat and abused the hostages like disobedient pets. Eli Sharabi was forced by terrorists to read a message during his release that he was loking forward to seeing his wife and daughters, even though Hamas knew they had been murdered on Oct 7. Sharabi's wife's body was found huddled together with her daughters, all killed by terrorists.
The Red Cross has not even attempted to visit the Israeli hostages. Instead, they show up as glorified Uber drivers for hostage releases and take part in propaganda ceremonies with Hamas terrorists.
In 1996, The International Committee of the Red Cross revealed that it knew about the persecution of Jews in Nazi concentration camps but never spoke out about it, and conversely, helped to conceal it. 25,000 microfilmed pages turned over to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum reveal this to be true. Radu Ioanid, the museum's specialist on Holocaust survivors, told The New York Times, "There is no doubt that the Red Cross let itself be used by the Nazis." He discussed the "positive reports" Red Cross inspectors wrote about the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, noting that the organization had been "clearly manipulated."
Miles Lerman, chairman of the museum, told the outlet that lives could have been saved if the Red Cross had spoken out during World War II, stating, "There is no question about it. People, good people, decided to look the other way, including people in the Red Cross and in Britain and the United States. Always when people speak out, lives are saved. I wouldn't describe them as villains but as part of the world that found it more convenient to remain silent."
In his book Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust, historian Gerald Steinacher chronicled Switzerland’s Carl Jacob Burckhardt, who made the decisions regarding interactions with Adolf Hitler’s government. According to Steinacher, Burckhardt was an antisemite who regarded Nazism as a bulwark of civilization and a necessary evil. As early as April 1933, the ICRC was receiving desperate letters from the inmates of the concentration camps, including from the infamous Dachau, but when Burckhardt was given an inspection tour he "officially lauded the commandant of Dachau for his discipline and decency."
The ICRC has pages on its website admitting to “failure” due to the organization’s complicity in covering up the Nazi atrocities writing, the ICRC “has publicly expressed its regret regarding its impotence and the mistakes it made in dealing with Nazi persecution and genocide.” Obviously, the Red Cross has not learned its lesson, as it is repeating the same mistakes it made 80 years ago. Medications have not been delivered, no visits have been made and no international pressure was brought to bear. Instead, a page on their website claims to be “Debunking harmful narratives about our work in Israel,” which makes excuses for the organization’s negligence in fulfilling the mission it claims to hold so dear.
The United Nations, established after the atrocities of the Holocaust were revealed, claims that its charter was “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person." Yet, employees with the UN actually participated in the Oct. 7 massacre. Rather than working towards peace, hostages were held in UNRWA facilities, which include hospitals and schools which were also used as launching pads for Hamas rockets and weapons storage.
College students and far-left activists who claim to fight for “human rights,” and against “fascism,” march while wearing the colors of terrorist organizations that are, as we speak, replicating the Nazi atrocities. The world lied when it said, “Never again.”
