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...history of the Jews in the Diaspora (in Exile) is a chronicle of suffering, a horror story which reached its climax in the holocaust of World War II. The slaughter of the six million deeply scarred Jewish sensibilities turned all Jews into "survivors", and to a great extent whatever guilt or bad feeling exists in Israel stems from the fact that they, a nation of victims and refugees, have caused suffering to another people, the Arabs, and out of their national hopes engendered hundreds of thousands of Arab refugees. In light of the familiar Nazi refrain, "We were only following...
...Holocaust is a double-edged sword in shaping Israeli attitudes and more than any other factor has brought out the toughness so characteristic of this country. It is an often repeated adage that Israel is the most anti-Semitic nation in the world, and the statement is actually quite accurate insofar as Israel was created consciously as a revolt against the traditional image of the Diaspora Jew, the Ghetto Jew, born with a burden of guilt into a hostile world which he was unable to challenge and from which he therefore retreated, into the stagnant world of the Eastern European...
...this and was doing what it could to help. At the same time, Davies warned against exaggeration. "Claims that Soviet Jews as a community are living in a state of terror seem to be overdrawn," he said. "There can be no comparison with the terrible era of the Nazi holocaust or Stalin's blood purge of Jewish intellectuals...
...enough in the laboratory, is even more complex in the real world. Why not solve society's problems by using the much simpler physical and biological technologies we already have? Because, Skinner says, that will not work. "Better contraceptives will control population only if people use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior...
...later, the American was buried by a bicycle dealer. Last year, after the dealer died, his widow talked about the incident to a local newspaperman. Before long, many survivors of the bomb came forward with similar stories. Their testimony firmly establishes that among the 200,000 victims of the holocaust, which struck 26 years ago this week, as many as 23 may have been Americans...