Never Again Is Now (?)

With all due respect to virtue-signaling by leaders of opportunist politicians in the so-called West, allow us to raise the following question:

What is the meaning of "Never Again Is Now"? Why did Ten Seven bring about an international slogan - and unfortunately, hardly more than a slogan - relating it so directly and deeply to the Holocaust, the German vision of a "Final Solution"?

To keep it short and concise: Ten Seven put an end to decades of manifold theories about the exonym "Palestine".

Starting with the Romans attempt to erase Judea with their colonial province "Syria Palaestina", which led to the Western notion of the Holy Land as "Palestine"; via the League-of-Nations use of the term for mandating the British empire with "reconstituting the Jewish national home"; and up to the reincarnation of this Western colonial term in the so-called "Palestine Liberation Organization" - endless books, lectures and ideas about what this term could or should mean in theory actually became obsolete on Ten Seven.

For a day - and in some kibbutzim, up to five days - the "Palestinians" were truly free. Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Fatah as well as lesser known groups were, at last, free to fulfill their dream. Individuals, from the "deplorables" to the educated yet just-as-deplorable journalists, physicians, engineers, UNRWA officials etc., were turning their various and theoretically opposing visions into an undeniable reality. 

Theorizing on what "Palestine" could or should mean after Ten Seven is as fruitful as theorizing in hindsight on the potential meanings of National-Socialism (or, for that matter, communism). We now know, unfortunately all too well, what it means in practice. Ten Seven is Palestine in actuality.

So although there is no Roman/Latin "P" in Arabic, Ten Seven made it evident that "Palestine" has indeed become Arab, at least inasmuch as the "Final Solution" is - in any language - undeniably German. Hence "Never Again Is Now": Now that we have learned what "Free Palestine" means in practice, our politicians in Germany and elsewhere promise us Never Again.

If not for our own sake, then at least for our children's and grandchildren's - let us make sure this promise is fulfilled.