Historians: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Was Overreaction

by Nicholas Stix


The headline isn't mine, though I wish it were. Over at The People's Cube, Red Square has put together the most brilliant satire I've seen in a good long while, mocking the criticisms of Israel's "disproportionate" use of force against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. He imagined what the front page of the New York Times would have looked like on May 10, 1943, when the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was crushed, "If today's New York Times editors were in charge in 1943." Some representative headlines follow, but you have to see Red Square's mockup to truly savor it.

A picture from 1943 shows surrendering Jewish women and children with their hands up, guarded by German troops in the Warsaw Ghetto, just before they were executed, topped by the headline:

JEWISH RESISTANCE
SHATTERS HOPES FOR A
PEACEFUL FINAL SOLUTION
How could both sides have blundered so badly?

Caption:

SS peacekeepers protect German civilians from Jewish attacks

More headlines:

ZIONISTS HAVE NO EXIT STRATEGY IN EUROPE



GOEBBELS: ZIONISTS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WAR CRIMES


POLL: PUBLIC OPINION SHIFTS TOWARD GESTAPO


CULTURE SHOCK:
American knee-jerk support of Jewish rebels irritates cultured Europeans

(A tip 'o the hat to Rocco DiPippo, at The Autonomist.)