Emanuel Ringleblum -- Warsaw -- Chelmno -- Gaza

June 1:
On this day in history:

On this day in 1942, a Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, makes public the news of the gassing of tens of thousands of Jews at Chelmno, a death camp in Poland-almost seven months after extermination of prisoners began...

On June 1, 1942, the story of a young Jew, Emanuel Ringelblum, (who escaped from the Chelmno death camp after being forced to bury bodies as they were thrown out of the gas vans), was published in the underground Polish Socialist newspaper Liberty Brigade. The West now knew the "bloodcurdling news ... about the slaughter of Jews," and it had a name -- Chelmno.

Perhaps it's weak and it's only words and we're merely here in the ether, not there in Israel today, not there in the flesh and sweat and fear and courage and duty and history and reality, not there at the front all side-by-side and loving our friends and loving our family, loving Israeli Jew and, even, Israeli Arab, all breath-to-breath and all never again, and perhaps -- or obviously -- others do not, including Chicago punks and thugs who have assumed the role of the mighty, including idiots who send their sons to battle armed with paintball guns, but over here, in word and heart, we can see the line unbroken from Chelmno to Gaza today and yeah, we stand with Israel.

The president acts sometimes like he’s running the country from his dorm room, and it looks increasingly likely that he will not stop until something explodes

Update:
Also on this day in history:

1980 U.S.A. CNN Launched In Atlanta
1st June 1980 : The first 24-hour news television station – CNN is launched in Atlanta, Georgia

It's been hell in a Turner/psycho's handbasket ever since. Coincidence?