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...piece of the wall as a souvenir. It was very difficult, and while he was trying, I asked myself, what would drive the Israelis to do such a thing to us, build such a monstrosity as this wall?" He gathered his son and daughter and drove them to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum. "It was very moving. I couldn't breathe. Six million. It's like something off another planet," he recalls...
Accompanied by two other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee - Independent Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut (a possible McCain V.P. candidate), and Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina - McCain visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Tuesday where he wrote in the guestbook: "I am deeply moved. Never again...
...interested in peace, which would require ending Syrian support for all anti-Israel organizations and permit the Israeli flag to fly high from a potential Israeli embassy in downtown Damascus, Assad should visit the land of his mortal enemy. Only by addressing the Knesset, by visiting Yad Vashem, and by shaking hands in public with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, can he demonstrate that his talk is not mere lip service. The Israeli people no longer trust Arab leaders at their word; they must prove their credibility and desire for peace through their deeds. By taking the political and personal...
...Jewish Holocaust? Would such a statement be acceptable to Time magazine? The narrator of the dvd says (over images of the genocide monument in Yerevan ) that historical facts were falsified when they were transmitted to the young generation. Can you imagine a dvd presenting images from the Yad Vashem monument, together with an explanation that young Jews don't have to honor the memory of their people? Would such a statement be acceptable to Time magazine? The narrator and Samuel A. Weems (a retired judge from Arkansas, who died in 2003) suggested that Armenian people collaborated with the Nazis...
...than admitting church complicity and for defending the wartime Pope, Pius XII. That did not prevent them from shedding tears in 2000, when during a trip to the Holy Land, John Paul prayed at Jerusalem's Western Wall without making reference to Jesus and was reunited at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial with a Jewish concentration-camp survivor who remembered him as the young cleric who had saved her life as the war ended. Recalling "friends and neighbors" who perished, he said, "Men, women and children cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew...