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Â鶹Éç Newsday has been speaking to Dr Gabor Maté, a renowned Hungarian-Canadian physician and author whose grandparents were killed in the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. On the Israel-Gaza war, he says: "Israeli scholars have called Gaza the largest concentration camp in the world. There's been a long issue of a conflict between two people in the same land. "It was the British Mandate in Palestine that allowed the basis of the Jewish state to be established. The Western powers favour these colonial entities in the heart of indigenous populations - it serves their interests. "My grandparents died in Auschwitz, so did I nearly... and when I discovered Zionism it was a real salvation for me... that's until I found out the history. "I have friends in Israel and friends in Palestine - everybody's in despair. But as long as this colonial project of Greater Israel continues... there's no solution." (Pic: Dr Gabor Maté; Credit: Dr Gabor Maté)