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Posted By Spadecaller 1 year, 8 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentRecent quotations from 8th graders accompany this video about Oskar Schindler, the holocaust, and current issues regarding Iraq, Darfur, and well known exiles. The music of John Williams from Steven Spielberg's movie "Schindlers List" provides the classical soundscape for this Spadecaller Video.
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Francisca1 year, 8 months ago
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Never forget...A lot of sadness, a lot of meditation, all is said Spadecaller! Thank you. The music is terrific and so appropriate with what you want to explain...Thanks you also to have added Charley Chaplin in this powerful video (whom I personally think was not only a great artist, but also a great devineresse....)
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Silverghost1 year, 8 months ago
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How much that is needed, Rinty! Mercy is taught to man by a merciful God.
Corrie Ten Boom's family hid many Jewish people during the war. She & her sister were finally caught & put in a concentration camp together, where her sister ultimately died from the poor treatment.
Years later, Corrie was to meet a German guard from that camp. She new that she should forgive him as the Lord was urging her, but greatly wrestled with the thought of doing so. Finally, she gave in & through it gained understanding of the love of God to forgive her of her sins. The bitterness, which she had harbored, was removed from her heart. -Rev. S
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david_nwpa1 year, 8 months ago
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We must never forget. We must always bear witness to the atrocities of that time so that they never happen again. Save one person, and you save the world.
Look, I teach all of these concepts for a grading period (6 weeks) to my German students. The Holocaust amazingly is not part of my curriculum. I teach both the curriculum and go above and beyond so future generations are made aware of the atrocities. We need more teachers to lead as Spadecaller has shown.
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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Well Spade, we are beginning to see more and more Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Schindler types amongst jews now. Long overdue - you should include this in your "anti-social" studies.
The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now
Religion â;; The irony is that, contrary to helping build the safe harbor they have sought for so long, the Israeli government is only sowing the seeds of more hatred and rage.
http://religion.propeller.com/story/2008/04/13/...
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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Healing Israel's Birth Scar
Do No Evil â;; With the 60th anniversary of Israel's birth and the Palestinian Nakbah (catastrophe), I was reminded this week April 9 was also the 60th anniversary of the connection between the creation of an ethnic-majority Jewish state and the man-made catastrophe suffered by the Palestinian Arabs. That would be the massacre at Deir Yassein.
http://donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/04/13/...
Deir Yassin Remembered
Do No Evil â;; On April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation.
http://donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/04/11/...
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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Here are jews that devote themselves to being sure we do not forget and whom one can admire!
Welcome to Righteous Jews
RighteousJews.org was begun in 2003 as a way to commemorate the memory of those Palestinians who have been, and continue to be depopulated, dispossessed, humiliated, tortured, and murdered in the name of political Zionism and its quest to create a Jewish state in the lands between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. From its founding in 1897 the Zionist endeavors to "pump in" Jews and "pump out" Palestinians from this land have been the root cause of bloodshed and conflict. These racist endeavors have also been deeply problematic for those who believe in the basic tenets of Judaism of the prophets, namely justice and a duty to heal the world. RighteousJews.org was created to honor those who consider themselves to be Jewish and who have worked for the human rights of non-Jewish Palestinians.
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
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RighteousJews.org was inspired by the website of the most famous Holocaust museum at Yad Vashem, located on Mt. Herzl on the lands of the Palestinian village of Ein Karem 1,400 meters south of the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. Yad Vashem lists the names of over 19,000 non-Jews who risked their "lives, freedom, and safety in order to rescue one or several Jews from the threat of death or deportation to death camps without exacting in advance monetary compensation." For many years this list was referred to as the list of "Righteous Gentiles."
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 8 months ago
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Spadecaller:
Very moving and heart wrenching.
It brought to mind pictures I had buried from a distant war.
Families being ripped apart for the insanity of profit and land.
How very easy it is to sit in comfort and bury the past with no regard for those who are still trapped in the insanity waged by men.
Thanks Spadecaller
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RNR521 year, 8 months ago
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Wonderful. I lived in Rwanda before the genocide. No one seemed to care while it was happening. I wrote letters, I spoke about it but no one seemed to care about this tiny poor African country, not until it was too late and then everyone seemed to speak of the horror so many of us knew was happening. Thank you for including Rwanda. Ahsante sana na salama.
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icono11 year, 8 months ago
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Very well done and thought provoking.
Man's cruelty to man for whatever reason; religion, land, differences of skin color, social structure, politics & etc etc, has always and will always be with us as a part of the human condition.
Although we live in a society where such things are viewed as basically amoral and anti-social there are parts of the world were persecution and vilification of certain groups of people is seen as normal and often desirable.
We as a society and a Nation must always be vigilant that we as a people do not fall into or back into that type of behavior and or find it easy to condone such behavior no matter who commits it.
Nuff said from me.
Great post spade.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 8 months ago
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'never again' is a nice sentiment, but it's already gone by the boards how many times now? How many cases of ethnic cleansing has the world seen since the Holocaust?
I'd replace 'never again' with 'why?' or maybe 'not this time'
And after the US stayed out of Rwanda and refused to call it 'ethnic cleansing'-or whatever the phrase was that would have called for US intercession-in the wake of Blackhawk Down and the Somalia disaster, I don't think the US can ever use the slogan 'never again'. because the fear of political backlash and Somalia being fresh in the US public's mind made those in charge say, instead of 'never again', something like, 'well, maybe just one more time'
I don't know much about the current crisis in Dafur, but it's been going on how long now?
I wonder if the US wasn't spread out and overextended with its war on terror if it would do anymore than it did for Rwanda in the mid-90's.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 8 months ago
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I saw a good documentary on Somalia and whatever good intentions we had there turned sour when US forces killed the wrong folks.
Meddling in other people's business internationally seems to be a recipe for disaster, even when you are going there to bring aid like in Somalia. An invader is an invader, no matter what the intentions, and locals seem to resent even the outstretched hand[especially if the other one's holding a gun]
so this doesn't seem like a completely self-indulgent and pointless rant, which of course it is, I'd like to say that tho pictures like those from the Holocaust and those from Iraq of the victims of strife and war appall and are mighty hard to look at, they are the true face of War, and SHOULD be looked at, should be faced.
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canadianrancher571 year, 8 months ago
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I'm having problems with getting the video to download completly but I would like to comment. When I watch videos of such things I have to wonder about mankind even though most of us are shocked at what has happened and still is happpening today in the world in regards to the treatment of religious groups, or ethnic groups or what ever you wish to fill in we continue to read comments or see events that show there is no change. WE continue to draw lines by using religion, politics, race, etc. to divide us so it becomes an issue of us and them, this is not only done on a world scale it is done right down to a local scale, until the people of the world forget about all the divisions between us we will never be the thing I feel is the most important thing and that is a community.
My avatar is that of the world as viewed from space where no divisions can be seen, this is our home our community, any person who travels into space relizes this, why can't the rest of us see it as well.
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