Word: hitlered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crime of such particularity creates particular moral obligations. One (to borrow from philosopher Emil Fackenheim) above all: Hitler must be allowed no posthumous victories. Hitler's singular project -- the destruction of the Jewish people -- must not be permitted its final success...
...must be admitted that the project's success was considerable. The Jewish people had survived 2,000 years of persecution not just by faith and courage but also by geographic dispersion. Decimated here, they would survive there. Until Hitler. Hitler managed to destroy most everything from the Pyrenees to the gates of Stalingrad, the heart of the Jewish world. Amid the ruins, the Jews made a collective decision that their future lay in self-defense and territoriality, in the ingathering of the exiles to their ancient homeland where they could finally acquire the means to defend themselves...
...hinge of Jewish history, the guardian of Jewish destiny, is Israel. After Europe, there was no other choice. It is a terrible irony, however, that the relocation of the heart of Jewish life to a tiny patch of land hard by the Mediterranean makes possible the final realization of Hitler's project. Now it will take but a few nuclear missiles or a battery of poison-gas Scuds to complete the final solution...
...Denying Hitler posthumous victories means denying his successors. It means sustaining the new center of Jewish civilization, where many survivors found refuge and on whose success Jewish survival now depends. Anti-Zionists, however -- particularly those of the left -- discovered that while physically or morally arming those bent on the annihilation of Israel, they could pose as philo-Semites with a show of anti-Nazism and a nod to the Holocaust...
...were spared in the death camps -- listened as survivor Elie Wiesel dedicated a Holocaust Memorial Museum. In Poland Vice President Al Gore honored the memory of resistance fighters killed in the Warsaw Uprising 50 years ago last week. Jerusalem received a most unexpected visitor: Martin Bormann, son of the Hitler aide of the same name, came to pay tribute at that city's Holocaust memorial. There were discordant notes as well. In Washington Wiesel and others were outraged at the presence of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who had claimed in a 1988 book that the number of Holocaust deaths...