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Hamilton, who spent the summer working on resettlement efforts in southern Sudan, said she thought future generations would look at the Darfur situation in much the same way that students today view the Holocaust. “I know our grandchildren are going to look at us and ask, ‘what were you doing when that was happening...
Late in the night at Avigail, Yehoshafat runs through a list of erev rav that ranges from Jewish kapos, who aided the Nazis during the Holocaust, to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence group. "Esau always wants to hurt Jacob," he says, referring to the biblical enmity between the wicked son of Isaac and his good brother, whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away...
...because the Janjaweed believe they could be future enemies. How dare my country ignore this grim situation! Why is genocide allowed in this day and age? Is it because it is happening on a continent that is mostly black? How can we turn a blind eye to this African Holocaust? You reported that Secretary of State Colin Powell, in congressional testimony, stated his conclusion "that genocide has been committed in Darfur, and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility, and that genocide may still be occurring." But in this election year, neither presidential candidate advocates immediately sending...
...Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim that one ethnic group is systematically wiping out another--the violence in Darfur is a civil war and a separatist insurgency, not genocide. The relevant comparison is Chechnya’s decade-long separatist conflict, not the Holocaust. The comparison to the Holocaust is irresponsible and misleading...
...Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim that one ethnic group is systematically wiping out another--the violence in Darfur is a civil war and a separatist insurgency, not genocide. The relevant comparison is Chechnya’s decade-long separatist conflict, not the Holocaust. The comparison to the Holocaust is irresponsible and misleading...