Word: holocaustic
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Maus uses cartoons to tell the story of his father’s experiences as a German Jew during the Holocaust, including his survival at Auschwitz...
...Khmer, are weathered and determined, like the busts on the walls of Angkor Wat. The body language of a few, clearly the bosses, is menacing. No need to read the captions: the atmosphere in these pictures portends the forced evacuation of the city and the beginning of the Cambodian holocaust...
...dozens, just overpower them? Of the four hijacked planes, only one failed to reach its terror destination. Why just one? The question seems unfair, even disrespectful. But its answer illuminates the deepest problem in facing terrorism: failure of the imagination. The passengers' seeming passivity is reminiscent of the Holocaust. We ask, with trepidation: How could Jews have allowed themselves to be herded into gas chambers by just a few people carrying machine guns? Because it was inconceivable--six decades later it remains inconceivable--that the men carrying the weapons would do what they, in fact, did do. The victims were...
...even close. How, otherwise, could we speak so blithely of collateral damage, thereby dismissing the deaths of countless innocent Iraqis, Afghans, and Sudanese, and the pain of their families, as a direct result of our own military action? (How, while were at it, could we basically ignore the holocaust in Rwanda?) If we really want all the peoples of the world to respect our humanityand it is surely our realization that our humanity was catastrophically disrespected last week that is at the root of our national agonywe should lead by example...
...cannot be denied that the problems which had their origin in the historic Anti-Semitism of Europe and the resulting Holocaust have been solved at the expense of the Palestinian population. The total number of refugees is in the many millions. The refugee camps are places of hopeless squalor where deep resentments fester among a doomed people with no future. They have been left there for the last 50 years to stew in their fury by governments local and far away, large and small, with little cynical regard for their lot. The massacres in the regfugee camps...