Morally perverse to compare Gaza to the Nazis’ systematic killing of the Jews

Ted O’Keeffe (Letters, 3rd October) says that the war in Gaza, in July and August this year, was a bigger world problem than ISIS or ebola.

This claim perfectly encapsulates the mentality of Israel-haters everywhere: complete divorce from reality, and morbid fixation on demonising the only Jewish country in the world.

Mr. O’Keeffe draws a clear analogy between the Holocaust and Israel’s actions in Gaza. It is morally perverse to equate the Nazis systematic murder of six million Jews with a brief military operation of self-defence against a terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip. Nor is Gaza a ghetto, as Mr. O’Keeffe says. Again, this is a sinister reference to the ghettos the Nazis created for the Jews, where many perished from disease and starvation, before survivors were sent to the death camps.