Word: holocaust
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...criticism knocks the wind out of irresponsible criticism, especially those who liken Israeli soldiers shooting back at rock-throwing Palestinians to Nazis in extermination camps. Martin Peretz, editor in chief of the New Republic, suggests that those who wield corrupt analogies of Jews to Nazis seek to expel the Holocaust from memory by diminishing its significance. That alone would justify our straight talk...
Even today, scholars and students sit and ponder how the Holocaust could have happened in a supposedly civilized world...
That planned voyage, called el awda (the return), was supposed to recall the experience of Jewish Holocaust survivors who sought to enter the port of Haifa in British-controlled Palestine aboard the refugee ship Exodus in 1947. The P.L.O. effort, several weeks in the planning, was basically a theatrical gesture. But it promised to be an effective public relations ploy and infuriated the Israelis, who vowed to prevent the ship's arrival in Haifa. About 18 hours after the killing of the Fatah trio, a magnetic mine attached below the waterline of the Sol Phryne exploded, causing no injuries...
...missiles have flown, the earth's depopulated land masses are glowing like one big Chernobyl, and the 305 hands aboard the U.S.S. Nathan James, a destroyer that has survived the holocaust, find themselves alone in the vasty deep. But wait. Lurking beneath the waves is a Soviet nuclear submarine that has also escaped harm. Will the two vessels 1) blast each other with their remaining missiles, 2) join forces to begin civilization anew or 3) spend 600- odd pages stalking each other while they try to decide...
Dukakis can handle political heat when he has to. Last summer leaders of national Jewish organizations traveled to Boston to size up the Governor. It was an important meeting for Dukakis, whose wife is Jewish and used to serve as co-chair of the President's Commission on the Holocaust. Jewish support in a presidential election is a formidable resource, and Dukakis -- if he can show himself electable -- is a favorite candidate. The Jewish leaders questioned Dukakis on topics like arms sales to Arabs. Dukakis, though he didn't say much, told them what they wanted to hear. What...