Israeli national singer Yafa Yarkoni has compared the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) with the Nazis. Commenting on the activities of the IOF, Yarkoni said on 14 April, in an interview with GALATZ, the military radio station: "It is like what was done [by the Nazis] to us during the Shoa [the Judeocide of World War II]."
Yarkoni, who won an Israeli prize for her life's work, is known also as "the wars singer", because she used to sing before the soldiers to raise their morale during past wars, starting with 1948.
Yarkoni expressed her support for the refusal to serve in the military, saying:
"What we are doing in the territories [occupied since 1967] has aroused them [the Palestinians]. I understand them. If somebody had done the same things to us, we would have reacted exactly like them."
Hundreds of angered citizens called GALATZ, but Yarkoni is not ready to change her statement.
| Listen to Yafa Yarkoni's interview in Hebrew |
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Meanwhile, on 12 April Israeli peace activists demonstrated before the US embassy in Tel-Aviv. Some of the demonstrators wore yellow stars of David. They were shown on Israeli TV, CNN and in the 14 April issue of the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.
In Zurich,Switzerland, several Palestinian, Israeli, Jewish and Swiss activists demonstrated against the Palestinocide under the slogan: "The Warsaw Ghetto lies in Palestine".
Some of the demonstrators wore different variations of yellow stars of David and symbolic concentration camp clothes.
* Shraga Elam is an Israeli investigative journalist based in Zurich and author of a highly-praised book in German on the collaboration of the Zionist leadership with the Nazis. The book, Hitlers Faelscher: wie juedische amerikanische und Schweizer Agenten der SS beim Falschgeldwaschen halfen [Hitler's Forgers: How Jewish, American and Swiss agents helped the SS with laundering faked money], is published by Uberreuter Verlag and can be purchased here.