Word: holocaust
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...justly condemn those who could have prevented the Nazi Holocaust but looked the other way. Should we use a different standard when Israelis allow the Christian militiamen to perform terror...
Anti-Semitism has existed for centuries in Western civilization. Its culmination in the Holocaust occurred only 40 years ago. Has the Western world become so morally transformed since then that anti-Semitism is no longer a threat to the Jewish people? I doubt...
...powerlessness to resist an apocalyptic event may be exceeded by only one worse form of suffering: the inability to explain it. Elie Wiesel, sent to Auschwitz as a boy, has spent a lifetime examining and re-examining the Holocaust as historian, novelist and theologian. Three years ago, after revisiting Auschwitz, he confessed, "I understand it less and less...
...Holocaust, doomsday-the very words are beginning to slide glibly off our minds, Friedrich fears. From war-game scenarists on down, we are all in grave danger of becoming professional waiters-for-the-end. After being a text for religious and then philosophical consternation, "the idea of the end of the world has finally become an instrument of international propaganda," Friedrich writes...
...Judaeo-Christian ethic and study of the Bible were bonds between Jews and Christians that had always been part of my life. I also believed very deeply that the Jews who had survived the Holocaust deserved their own nation and that they had a right to live in peace among their neighbors. I considered this homeland for the Jews to be compatible with the teachings of the Bible, hence ordained by God. These beliefs made my commitment to the security of Israel unshakable...