Word: holocaust
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...facts often turn out to be wrong. Lately, according to Lou Cannon of the Washington Post, two sets of Jewish leaders have described a story told them by the President: he had been a member of an Army unit that photographed Nazi camps and therefore would never forget the Holocaust. Cannon, who as a Reagan biographer knows him well, says the President "spent the war with the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps, making training films in Hollywood and living at home." When asked, Reagan said he had never left the country and was talking about...
Jackson did not help his cause in an interview with Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline. "I've listened to many Jews say, looking at the Holocaust, that they went to the gas chambers much too silently," Jackson said.* He was trying to draw a parallel with the persecution and deaths of blacks since slavery days; like Jews, he said, blacks were vowing "never again...
...Perlmutter, director of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to publish the now infamous 19-page critique of Jackson's politics, distributed widely to Jewish opinion-makers. Perlmutter and others have harped on remarks, attributed to Jackson, that he is tired of hearing about the Holocaust and equating the PLO and Israel, Jackson now denies the former, and calls the latter out of context...
...backdrop to the Israel Arah conflict within Israel's borders has to be seen in the context of what is going on now within the dominant camp the Jewish society in Israel. And the back ground to the Jewish camp, Holocaust survivor Ben Don believes, is the army...
WHILE THE division of Israeli society were becoming more intense after the Lebanese invasion, the world was focusing on Israel's supposed break with its moral soul. Founded largely because of the Holocaust, Israel had until recent years been looked upon as the threatened underdog. The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza changed some minds, but it was the Lebanese invasion--according to some, an offensive not defensive action--that became the symbol of Israel's eroding morality...