The numbing inaction on Gaza’s death count: Why 250,000 casualties and 21,000 dead children still fail to shock the world into action When the Allies declared war on Germany in 1939, it was because of the invasion of Poland, a matter of borders and armies, not because of what would come to be known as the Holocaust. That horror had barely begun. It was only in 1941 and 1942, as mass shootings gave way to the machinery of the death camps, that credible reports of systematic extermination reached London and Washington. Even then, the response was rhetorical before it was…

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