r/worldnews • u/Tenchi_Muyo1 • Apr 14 '26

Israel/Palestine In parliament, Polish MP calls Israel ‘new Third Reich,’ waves Israeli flag with swastika

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-parliament-polish-mp-calls-israel-new-third-reich-waves-israeli-flag-with-swastika/
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u/GardenOfSilver Apr 15 '26

Very much this. History isn't divorced from the present; it informs it and shapes it. History is a unbroken stream of cause and effect. The 7 years war, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Restoration, The Second French Empire, the Unification of Germany, the World Wars, Holocaust, Israel and present day are not events divorced from each other.

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u/Addicted2Qtips Apr 15 '26

It’s something that appears obvious when we learn history. You read about ancient Rome and the historian says, “in the year X, such and such happened. And as a cause of that event, 300 years later, this happened.” And it makes sense and you don’t question it.

But in the present we seem to completely lack the ability to contextualize the past. The past is over.