Israel’s savaging of Gaza has now inflicted over 61,000 dead. This is close to the generally accepted death toll from the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in Sept 1945.Nagasaki was hit with the second atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. Its hilly topography prevented even greater casualties. But no one really knows how many Japanese died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from explosions, seas of fire, radiation or lack of food and medicines.According to the post-war US strategic bombing survey a third to a half of all buildings in Japan were destroyed by waves of US heavy bombers showering firebombs on Japanese cities. Germany’s cities fared even worse from US and British carpet bombing. As intense as the bombing of Japan and Germany was, the photos of the aftermath do not appear as cataclysmic as what we see today in Gaza. The obliteration of the Gaza enclave by US-supplied Israeli aircraft and US-made heavy bombs was even more destructive than what the US 8th Air Force did to German cities. Not an ounce of mercy was shown to the humans and wretched animals trapped in Gaza.
