Word: holocaust
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...views on political issues seem distant to most. It's easy to forget that only 40 years ago, one of the most civilized nations on the globe carried out the systematic slaughter of six million people out of pure anti-Semitism. The frequent and sometimes offhand mention of the Holocaust obscures how real, timely, and savage hatred for Jews can be. Hitler's genocide has become just another landmark event, and when someone mentions it, instead of gasping "The Horror!" we chronicle it with the Norman Conquest, the Reformation, and other distant historical happenings...
MOST IMPORTANT, media treatment of disarmament focuses on the issue of nuclear holocaust and excludes the accompanying issue of imperialism and intervention in Third World countries with U.S. conventional weapons and the economic foundations that make preparation for war so profitable to a few corporations. Such concerns inevitably get lumped together under the title of "unilateral disarmament "Press legitimacy goes only to liberals such as Senators Kennedy and Hatfield, whose freeze proposal actually calls for a continued escalation of the conventional arms race...
...among the many sickened by the massacre in Beirut. I also believe Ariel Sharon was guilty of criminal negligence in allowing revenge-filled Christian forces into the Palestinian camps. But how about a sense of proportion in dealing with the tragedy? Let us not use the word Holocaust lightly. There has been nothing comparable in Lebanon or elsewhere to Hitler's deliberate campaign to murder all European Jews, which resulted in the death of 6 million...
...October 23, 1978, a small brushfire was sighted near the Ventura Freeway in southern California on the inland side of the Santa Monica Mountains. Huge brushfires scorch this region regularly, but the five that swept through Agoura and Malibu that day and the next was a holocaust that defied previous measures. Fed by chapparal and whipped by high winds, a small fire lit by a teenage arsonist kindled into a firestorm whose heat set grasses and animals' fur ablaze a hundred yards before the flames. At 2:27 p.m.--precisely two hours and 16 minutes after the first alarm...
...World Zionist Congress, the past president of the World Jewish Congress and a leading spokesperson for Jewish-Arab cooperation, joined other Jewish leaders in a moving call for Israeli and Palestinian reconciliation. There men knew well that when the Jewish people said "Never again" after the genocide of the Holocaust they meant not only that "Never again" would six million Jews (and, let us never forget, also six million Poles. Catholic priests, Russians, Ukranians, gypsies, and homosexuals) he systematically exterminated; but also that the Jewish people would never tolerate the oppression of any people simply because of their race, creed...