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Holocaust Remembrance Day: The View from Israel
Overlapping with Hitler’s birthday.
HERZLIYA, Israel — Yom HaShoa began on Hitler’s birthday. Two groups of people were mindful of this dark coincidence. All Israelis — or at least everyone I talked to — knew about the overlap. They thought it was both poetic justice and divine intervention. Hitler didn’t just want to destroy the Jewish people; he wanted the world to remember us. He envisioned creating a museum to house our corpses and conquered religious treasures — torahs, talmuds, menorahs, tallit (prayer shawls), etc. to make eternal mockery of a people who believed in a G-d and way of life in which the absolute worth of each individual was the eternal foundation of society, behavior and technological progress. And of course the opposite has happened. Hitler is now a re-run on the History Channel and the Jewish people thrive and remember and are a reminder of both the mindless hatred of our enemies as well as our determination to fight and thrive as a nation.
The other group of people was of course the clueless in the mainstream media. They were the audience the President of Iran played to by speaking — on Hitler’s birthday — at a UN-sponsored Geneva conference on racism rigged to engender more hate and promote the destruction of the Jewish state. As Ahmadinejad spoke European delegates to this conference on racism walked out in protest. Yet many of their own countries were party to canceling Holocaust Remembrance ceremonies in various cities to “protest” Israel’s military operation in Gaza in response to both rocket attacks from Hamas and its continuing project of establishing medium and long range missile capacity against major cities in Israel, courtesy of Iran. The irony of siding as a form of protest with those who want to eliminate the Jewish state was lost on these nation states. Similarly, the willingness to abet militant Islam in meaningless international conferences and expect to be congratulated for walking out on the speech of a monster…well, now that I think about it, that’s something the students at Columbia University didn’t do!
Once again history and the future of the Jewish people appear to be on a collision course. Throughout the world lip service is paid to our “right to exist,” as if this is some sort of special gift from the family of nations and not something Jews — mostly Israelis in the past 60 years — have had to defend with their lives almost yearly. The promise of “Never Again” is uttered but in Europe and in the halls of Congress and the mainstream media, attacks on the Jewish lobby are now part of the conversation.
Sometimes I fear the world is slouching from indifference back to eon-old habits. Modern day blood libel (the Gaza operation) is now the grist for playwrights who explore the Jewish soul and conclude it is dark, violent, and racist to the core. England has become a cesspool of anti-Semitism. Many in the American left are following suit. Some include the disgusting M.J. Rosenberg of TPMCafe who has become the agent of the anti-Israel crowd in Washington. And what to make of those illuminati such as Martin Peretz who shilled for Obama only to be horrified that the man who called Israel a stalwart ally appointed Charles Freeman, an outright anti-Zionist, to head up his National Intelligence Council? What will Peretz say now that Obama has found ways to avoid meeting Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but had no problem embracing Hugo Chavez whose own regime has harassed Jews and Jewish establishments to curry favor with Iran! Where is the outrage from the Jewish left? Apparently it is too busy lobbying the White House to press Israel into direct negotiations with Hamas and Syria.
Yet I believe Israel will prevail and the Jewish people will thrive precisely because of days such as this one. In Israel at 10 a.m. sirens wailed, traffic stopped, people stood still. For a minute the entire nation as one remembered, not just as a collective reminder of what preceded the establishment of Israel, but to show that one nation carved out of national tragedy will eternally bear witness to both the evil that nearly consumed the world and to our capacity not only rouse the conscience of others but to defend our existence the next time such evil rises again. We pause in silence. Not just to remember, but also to underscore our willingness to set aside “normal” life and do what is required to survive, thrive, and contribute to the world.
About the Author
Robert M. Goldberg is vice president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and founder of Hands Off My H ealth, a grass roots health care empowerment network. His is new book, Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet is Being Used To Hijack Medical Science For Fear and Profit, was published last month by Kaplan.
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Tim| 4.21.09 @ 12:11PM
To all of my Jewish Brothers and Sisters:
"Be strong and of Good Courage"
Peace and Strength to you!
Gill O'Teen| 4.21.09 @ 1:40PM
My father, a career soldier, rarely talked about his experience in World War II. One day about 30 years ago, he asked me who the skinheads were. I told him that they were a bunch of idiotic nazis who denied that the Holocaust ever happened. He looked at me sadly and said, “Son, I saw it with my own eyes.” He told me no more, but from bits and pieces he let slip to me and other family members over the years, I learned that he served with Patton in North Africa. Those troops marched through Italy and into Germany. So once there, he was possibly assigned to help liberate one of the concentration camps. I do know that 3 decades later, the horror he witnessed still scarred his soul more than any of his other war experiences, and his convoy was once strafed by “friendly” aircraft. Now we have an illegitimate acorn president who thinks that the skinhead president of iran is a better friend of the United States than is a nation that has stood side-by-side with us for longer than he has been alive. Never again, my friends!
Alan Brooks| 4.21.09 @ 1:50PM
but don't forget Stalin, without whom Hitler would have returned to Munich in the '30s.
37 Million Americans In Povert| 4.21.09 @ 2:13PM
Remember 37 Million Americans alive today living in POVERTY, you can't do nothing about the dead you can do something about the living.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaM6gUHEF5s
Another Tim| 4.21.09 @ 2:17PM
" Throughout the world lip service is paid to our "right to exist," as if this is some sort of special gift from the family of nations and not something Jews -- mostly Israelis in the past 60 years -- have had to defend with their lives almost yearly."
"As if" indeed. Israel may have no good, or at least easy choices left-her enemies have seen to that.
Pingback| 4.21.09 @ 2:18PM
Obama Seems To Have Missed Importance of Holocaust Remembrance Day: Scolds Israel In links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Help your counrties poor first| 4.21.09 @ 2:24PM
What affects the world today is the richest country in the world with the highest number of people living in poverty, and spend trillions on foreigners.
January 5, 2004
Understanding Poverty in America
by Robert E. Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
Backgrounder #1713
This key research from 2004 has been updated in Robert Rector’s new paper, How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America
Each year, the U.S. Census Bureau counts the number of "poor" persons in the U.S. In 2005, the Bureau found 37 million "poor" Americans. Presidential candidate John Edwards claims that these 37 million Americans currently "struggle with incredible poverty." Edwards asserts that America's poor, who number "one in eight of us…do not have enough money for the food, shelter, and clothing they need," and are forced to live in "terrible" circumstances.However, an examination of the living standards of the 37 million persons, whom the government defines as "poor," reveals that what Edwards calls "the plague"of American poverty might not be as "terrible" or "incredible" as candidate Edwards contends.
Remember the People of GAZA| 4.21.09 @ 2:29PM
The Holocaust has moved to GAZA & the West Bank.
The Genocide continues only with different lables this time the past victims inflict the same crimes of Genocide on the Children of Gaza & the West Bank, what a strange turn of events
We need Reality we are in 2009| 4.21.09 @ 2:40PM
What About the American Holocaust, what about the Sept 11th Mossad attacks on the American people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7obi7YYVXQs
Tim| 4.21.09 @ 2:44PM
One Holocaust thread and all the Krazies come out? God help us.
Denise-Mary| 4.21.09 @ 2:50PM
To those who left posts non-specific to the article, that was insensitive, to say the least. Although the causes you mentioned may, indeed, have merit and may deserve their own article - that's the point - give them their very own article, some other day, and allow today to remain focused on the Holocaust.
Denie-Mary| 4.21.09 @ 2:52PM
To Mr. Goldberg: thank you. To the Israelis: "May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk."
Harold Theisen| 4.21.09 @ 3:05PM
In 1949, I served with the United States Air Force at Neubiberg Air Force Base near Munich. One day I went to visit the concentratio camp at Dachau. I stood in front of one of the ovens used to cremate Jewish people after they had been killed. This memory is seared into my brain. I detest fools who deny the Holocaust because of an overwhelming hatred for the Jewish people. The Jewish people will survive and those absurd fools who deny the Holocaust will return to ashes having left nothing but dust for their memories.
Gill O'Teen| 4.21.09 @ 3:47PM
Harold Theisen, God bless and keep you, sir! You are no pinhead, but a Patriotic Great American (to mangle quotes from Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity).
W. Gardner| 4.21.09 @ 4:56PM
Robert, I am ashamed. It is not that you do not speak the truth, but that the Jewish people, like yourself, continually have to remind the masses of the truth. No matter what position the US takes toward Israel in the coming years (and I am very concerned with this Administration), I will always stand with you. I am a Christian, supporting Israel to me is a higher calling than patriotism. Please stay strong in your faith, and God Bless you.
W. Gardner
Old Texican| 4.21.09 @ 5:52PM
We old Texicans (Texans descended from the Republic of Texas) will always identify with Israelis as fellow defenders of the Alamo, and defenders of liberty. The 37 million STUPID LAZY Americans with color TV and an easy chair will never grasp the courage of your people.
PCP Smoker| 4.21.09 @ 8:19PM
I stand with conservative jews everywhere, but that appears to be a very small minority these day. The majority of jews here in the US and in Israel identify with liberalism first; even to the point of drawing the Islamic dagger closer to their necks.
Pingback| 4.22.09 @ 12:38AM
Holocaust Remembrance Day: The View from Israel links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Titus Etyang | 4.22.09 @ 8:08AM
The Jews right to existance shall not be over emphasised here,the holocaust is real whatever it takes to avoid similar tragedy must not be compromised.The cradle of Christian faith must never be left to go down,never and never again.God bless Israel.
David Ben-Ariel | 4.22.09 @ 11:10AM
Hitler’s Burnt Offering of Jews (Holocaust/Shoah), after they had been warned by secular and religious alike, by Hitler’s own words and the words of the Law and the Prophets, is only a type of the imminent nuclear holocaust that will strike the American, British and Jewish peoples…
Most Jews have miserably failed to learn the lessons of Hitler’s War against the Jews: there’s no lasting place for Jews in the Exile, that such a self-imposed exile will lead to self-destruction (in one way or another), that you must take your enemies at their word, not your wishful thinking (like the delusional “peace” process), and it’s necessary to return to the Torah of God and Land of Israel…
The Jews are permitting the pagan pope - a Babylonian envoy, a modern day Balaam - to pollute the Holy Land of Israel while the bloody Vatican holds the Temple treasures and Judaica hostage! The Israelis are inviting the German fox into the chicken coop!
The Vatican’s hateful stance against Jews and Israel is well known, and yet Jewish sheeple are downplaying or ignoring it to their own peril! Others, like the “indefatigable subversive” Shimon Peres, actively collaborate with the Antiochus Epiphanes of the European Union and will soon see all Israel suffer a brutal betrayal when the German-Jesuit jackboot stomps Jerusalem!
Beyond Babylon warns: Beware Roman wolves in sheep’s clothing! Europe’s New Crusade has its evil eye on Mount Zion and is after the Temple Mount. But they won’t listen any more than Joes (descendants of Joseph, the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples), especially the Christian reprobates, since we’re a nation of drunks and whores who have been warned to shape up or get shipped out!
Pingback| 4.22.09 @ 11:44AM
Holocaust Reality Check « Beyond Babylon links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Pingback| 4.22.09 @ 11:47AM
Lessons from the Holocaust? « Herbert W. Armstrong links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Alan Brooks| 4.22.09 @ 1:15PM
the offtopic poverty posts are from Daphne Kenward, who is enough to turn Susan Brownmiller into a misogynist.
Big Leo| 4.22.09 @ 3:01PM
We lived in a Jewish neighborhood in Philadelphia when I was young, and a good number of our neighbors had the tattoo on their arms and told of the relatives lost in the Holoucaust. Anyone who denies that reality should be hanged. Period.
IMKessel| 4.22.09 @ 4:02PM
For all my brothers, sisters and supporters of Judaism, thank you for your words of comfort.
May God keep you and may you know peace.
Michele San Pietro| 4.25.09 @ 1:00PM
There is no Holocaust going on in Gaza and in the West Bank, Israel is simply protecting itself from terrorists who want to destroy it.
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