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My previous Gaza genocide blogsIt provided an additional dimension to my previous blog posts on the Gaza genocide:Israeli-American historian Professor Omer Bartov an expert on holocausts- Sponsor Promotion -Omer Bartov certainly knows about holocausts.
However, migrating German settlers from the late 19th century onwards increasingly encroached upon their grazing lands.
In response, on 12 January 1904, the Herero launched a series of attacks destroying many scattered German settler farms.
For the settlers this was confirmation that the Herero, who they described as “baboons”, needed to be eradicated.
Further, all that consequentially followed, including the current genocide and holocaust in Gaza and repression on the West Bank, would not have eventuated.