There are signs that the start of ground operations in Gaza has unhinged certain commentators. Writing in Pagina/12 of Buenos Aires, philosopher León Rozitchner says that

… our historic persecutors were never the Palestinians. Our persecutors were and continue to be the European nations of culture who expelled us, massacred us and continue to set our destiny, particularly that of Israeli Jews. Would that be why there are attempts to forget about those who were really responsible for the Shoah? Israelis have stopped asking about their two thousand year old Jewish past. Jews, apart from some exceptions, have never pointed the finger at the Christian religion and capitalist economy - which inevitably produced the Shoah - as the conclusion of a syllogism which had been developing in Christian Europe since its very beginning, as if Nazism had just been an accident in European history and it had all begun with Hitler. Would it not be that after the Shoah you [ Israeli Jews ], the descendents of European assimilated Jews, allied yourselves with the exterminators in a dark pact dictated by terror and have all become, in a manner of speaking, Judeo-Christians? Because let’s be honest, the Third Reich has prolonged itself in the form of the Fourth Reich of the American Empire.  It’s obvious that they’d prefer to ignore it because the state of Israel serves - as we Latin-American Jews know - the Christian-Imperial power of the United States. Or are we supposed to believe that the United States and European fought the Nazis to save the Jews? [ … ] Aren’t they [Jewish Israelis] at all affected by acting as the merciless armed wing of powerful Christian capitalists, against a besieged and murdered (sic) people which has dared to defend itself against the limitless expropriation of territory that should be shared?

Detailed analysis of the arguments presented would obviously be superfluous but it’s interesting to note how Rozitchner ascribes particular moral and political insight to Latin American Jews when he just happens to be one himself. It might also be worth pointing out that Pagina/12 is not a marginal publication; it’s a national newspaper which receives a significant subsidy from the government in the form of official publicity.