Reference :- After this post , I have made the Sky Reply team promise to change the topic of our fireside chats .
Last night's conversation went like this , almost verbatim .
" I see that the Palestinians are now being herded into a concentration camp . " , Gabbo said .
" Don't call it that . It is called a " humanitarian city " . Calling it a concentration camp has Nazi connotations , which is antisemitic . " , I said .
" Senior Israeli officials in the IDF and the Knesset call it a concentration camp . ", Monte said .
" That is just loose language , gentiles can't say that . " , I said .
" Israel's oldest newspaper , Haaretz which is printed in Hebrew, ran an editorial yesterday under the deliberately ironic heading " The Most Moral Concentration Camp in the World " , Ken junior said .
" Well if one of our newspaper editors did that , they would face being arrested for violating antisemitism laws . They would have to say " The Most Moral Humanitarian City in the World. " , I said .
" They like to call the IDF the most moral army in the world , yet over the past two weeks four soldiers have committed suicide because of what they saw or did in Gaza . IDF soldiers are killing themselves in record numbers and thousands have been hospitalised suffering from PTSD . " , Gabbo said .
" Just goes to show how hard it is maintaining the standards of the world's most moral army . " , I said .
" So will a couple of soldiers kill themselves each week due to the stress of maintaining the most moral concentration camp in the world ? " , Ken junior said .
" Humanitarian city you mean ? " , I said .
" Whatever . " , Ken junior said .
" A mob called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF , will run the camp ... I mean city , so IDF soldiers will be less involved . " , I said .
" So maybe GHF soldiers might start committing suicide ? " , Gabbo said .
" Nah , those guys are all hard men and mercenaries , not like those 18 year old kids in the IDF . ", I said .
" Sort of like Nazis you mean ? I guess that explains why they have already been gassing refugees to death at food distribution sites . " , Gabbo said .
" There you go again with the antisemitism . You will find yourself in big trouble if you don't watch yourself . " , I said .
Anyway , I have told the lads that Gaza is now a verboten topic . It's time we ran a human interest story based in Kooralya , so I am sending all three of the lads to interview a chap who has just opened a wood turning workshop in the main street . I told the lads to concentrate on his occupation , which should drive all thoughts of Gaza from their minds .
Your comrade ,
Ken
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