The difference between wrong and right

There's atleast one wrong way to learn from history, and that is to use the mistakes of one empire to justify the deeds of the next. Aaron David Fruh wrote on the blog of The Times of Israel last February:

"Relocating Palestinians from the Gaza Strip is both an act of justice for their perpetration of the barbaric cruelty of Hamas that has turned their social structure into a culture of death and an act of mercy because Palestinians have proven that living close to Israel is, for them, an impossibility. The nearness only serves to stir their rabid, base desires for Jewish blood, which they cannot control. In regards to the Palestinian penchant for shedding Jewish blood, Kipling was right when he said:

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man.
There are only four things certain since social progress began.
The dog returns to his vomit, and the sow returns to her mire,
And the burnt fool’s bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire.
…As surely as water will wet, and as surely as fire will burn,
The Gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return!"

In Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The Gods of the Copybook Headings," the "Gods" represent fundamental, unchanging truths and moral principles often found for example in proverbs and maxims. In the poem, Kipling's narrator counterposes these "Gods", who embody so-called eternal truths, against "the Gods of the Market-Place", who represent an optimistic self-deception into which it supposes society has fallen in the early 20th century. I must say that the logic for the actual relocation of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip fits neatly into that self-deception.

Contrary to the above interpretation of the poem by Aaron David Fruh, it actually suggests that ignoring lessons learned from history and experience, represented by the "Gods of the Copybook Headings," will lead to repeating past mistakes. It reminds me of something Noam Chomsky once wrote: “Education is not memorizing that Hitler killed 6 million Jews. Education is understanding how millions of ordinary Germans were convinced that it was required. Education is learning how to spot the signs of history repeating itself.”