Bernard-Henri Lévy: Why We Remember »
Posted By david_nwpa 7 months, 3 weeks ago in ReligionHere I am, for the third time in thirty years, charged with the dreadful honor of speaking on this day that is, for Jews all over the world, a day of grieving and remembrance. And here I am, as before and perhaps now even more so, compelled to explain again why this commemoration is a sacred duty not only for Jews but for the world.
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david_nwpa7 months, 3 weeks ago
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The Shoah is one of the most tragic points in human history. I cannot say it is the most tragic, as plenty of other large scale massacres have occurred over the centuries. However, it is by far the worst example of inhumanity and destruction. The Nazis should never be allowed to rise again in any country!
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Spadecaller7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Amen. Thanks David
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antibrainwasher7 months, 2 weeks ago
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I might add, the Japanese slaughtered 40 million chinese at the same time 4 million Jews were slaughtered.
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The Crusades murdered many millions of muslims, and the muslims murdered countless millions of christians.
Turkey murdered millions of Armenians. More people starve to death each year than died in the holocost.
Why is it in america, we hear only the Jews and their lamenting? Because they completely own this country, and have turned it into a suburb of Israel.
500,000 americans died in the civil war, Millions in WWI and II and vietnam and Korea.
The daily slaughter in Africa dwarfs the loss of the Holocaust. Yet, all we hear all day every day is the lament of the Jews. Such is life here in the united states of Isreal.
4 milliion Jews in Israel, 14 million world wide, and the disproportionate control of power and propanda is stunning.-
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antibrainwasher7 months, 2 weeks ago
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And, let the propanda hue and cry of anti semitism from the AIPAC, RJC, and block of Israel firsters commence. After all, zionism is patriotism, and any criticism of Israel is anti-semitism, so sayeth the almighty AIPAC, RJC and christian zionists everywhere, who proclaim that Apartheid israel is necessary to bring the rapture,
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And remember, if your flying jets for the USA airforce, there's a 100% chance your a christian evangelical creationist yearning for the rapture. -
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Bkumm7 months, 2 weeks ago
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Your numbers are wrong, but you made your point.
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Rarely has there been a systematic attempt by a popularly elected government to wipe out a particular portion of a population. In fact, NAZI Germany may be the only example. It is what makes the Holocaust so incredibly difficult for people. How could it have happened? Why was it allowed to happen? These questions and others confuse and frighten us, and they should.
It isn't about Jews controlling things. That's blatantly false. What it is about is the guilt that we share for allowing the events to occur. And the fact that people (not just Jews either) use any opportunity to remind us of our guilt. This makes it extremely difficult to move past the past and look into the future.
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Bkumm7 months, 2 weeks ago
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This is a well written piece that follows a tortured chain of logic. There are numerous examples of massacres of people both before and after the horrible events of the Holocaust. Some are worse, most are not. It isn't true, however, that this was a world-wide phenomena. I know of no instance, for instance, in which the government of the United States turned over Jews to be killed by the NAZI's. It IS true, however, that the United States (and other Western countries) denied entry to the Jews after Hitler's rise to power, but this was a political decision, not a religious one. At that time there was a general backlash against immigrants of any kind, but there was a hierarchy of "undesirables" and Jews were certainly near the top of that list.
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The Holocaust was a tragedy of the first order. There is no question about that. There is no denying that it occurred. However, we must be able to put it in historical context if we are to ever be able to move past the agony of that event. We should remember the Holocaust, but we must not allow our collective guilt and pain over the event to cloud our judgment on the opportunities of the future. We must open our eyes to all evil, not just some.
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thoughtforsale7 months, 2 weeks ago
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This conference really was a farce. An anti-racism-meeting became a stage for a notoric denier of the Holocaust. I hope that there will soon be a possibility to bring those together, who are really willing to fight racism and discimination. The Iranian president has illustrated only one thing with his speech: Even the fight against racism can be abused!
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