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Stalingrad

would be a paradox if the battle of Gaza finally be decided in a "street fighting, house to house, between the militias of Hamas and the Israeli Army. Much of the fate of the Second World War was defined in a similar contest.

Between June 1942 and February 1943 the German Army troops fought the Red Army to control the current Russian city Volgograd, at that time called Stalingrad ("Stalin City"). If the place fell, Soviet Russia is split in two, and Nazi Germany would have access to oil from the Caucasus. therefore the order of "Comrade Secretary General" was to resist at any cost. Modern historians estimate that the cost was high: between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 deaths in the siege and battles around the city fought in the German offensive and the Russian counteroffensive. Most of the dead were, of course, Russians, and many of them civilians, killed not only by bombs and bullets, but also by hunger, disease and cold.

The city, ruined by the bombing, provided the Russian command the development of a defensive strategy "house to house": each house, or whatever it was, became a small fortress, which was played day and night for more than a week, sometimes. The bloody resistance by Soviet troops at Stalingrad allowed the concentration of a formidable mass of soldiers and tanks attacked the 6th. Ejécito German, which was surrounded and weakened by the harsh winter. Of its 250,000 men, managed to give almost half. Russian treatment of prisoners was not, just, humane and benevolent, only 5,000 or 10,000 men returned to Germany.

The best known stories about the battle of Stalingrad the Vasily Grossman wrote . Brilliant journalist and writer, covered the entire campaign of the Red Army during the Second World War. In his novel "Life and Fate" performed, the critics say, a war story and a portrait of Communist Russia, the "age of terror" comparable to "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. His mother died in a German concentration camp, and had problems with Joseph Stalin - who denied the publication of novels that had been awarded the highest literary laurels official agencies, by their propensity to criticism, and her Jewishness. It is known Stalin's anti-Semitism, a typical "Great Russian", despite their ethnic Georgians.

Vasily Grossman was first described, through his newspaper articles for the newspaper "Red Star", the horror of the Nazi death camps in Eastern Europe, which saw the mass murder of millions of Jews.

The ironies of history are now the Vatican denounces Gaza as a big concentration camp, where the same institution maintained, at the time, a silence like the condescension regarding the genocide of the Jews, Roma, and extermination peoples of Eastern Europe, political dissidents and partisans of the resistance from the hosts Nazis. As ironic as the historical actions of Israel towards the Palestinian people through its armed forces, security services and intelligence: a complete compendium of the most varied human rights violations, the exact antithesis of the heroic Jewish resistance the Warsaw Ghetto .

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Freedom of expression (and information)

All the fuss that has been done on the restrictions on access to Gaza for the international press, the ruling of the Supreme Court of Israel, and empowerment dropper to the press that made the army of that country would move laughter if the sum of dead and wounded (overwhelmingly on the Palestinian side) the massacres in attacks on venues and transport of the UN, the humanitarian crisis to explode, and fall ridiculous that the United Nations takes forever on a resolution that will not be respected by the parties in conflict, not paint a tragic picture, with a real chance of becoming nightmarish.
That the Vatican has described Gaza as a big "Concentration Camp", paints the severity of symptoms, not just who says it, but also for what it says. From there it follows that the press coverage - the press still addicted, or more tolerant, can not be allowed by invading and occupying state. Particularly the images, photographic and television, are hardly manipulated, particularly if the telecast is live. The photo of a pile of dead children is an editorial in itself: "a picture is worth a thousand words."
free work of the press in Gaza produce evidence by the thousands, further alter public opinion worldwide, especially in the Western powers, whose governments have to take into account the views of ordinary men and women - when they can not manipulate -.
The shots of the photographers, cameramen sequences, the words of the reporters and the written records of journalists are, by their very nature, a good antidote to the cruelty and barbarism.