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Both Kohl and his host, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, behaved with great delicacy. Like an earlier West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, who visited Israel in 1973, Kohl went first to the Yad Vashem memorial, Israel's monument to the victims of the Holocaust. As a girls' choir sang - and a cantor offered a prayer "for the dead, Kohl laid a wreath beside the eternal flame. At a dinner that evening, Shamir told his guest, "We are not prisoners of the past. We remember it out of belief in a better future...
...which this "argument" floats, it is equally bothersome. Timerman devotes a great deal of space to lucubrations on the relationship of Israel to the Holocaust, which he feels is inextricably tied up in Israel's militarism. Apparently, he spends a lot of time lying on a hill near Yad Vashem and comes eventually to some monumental understanding which appears either unfathomable or meaningless to lesser minds trying to get a peep...
International controversy tends to imbue not just flowers but everything about Jerusalem with a nervous symbolism. Particularly state visitors. Thus French President Francois Mitterrand ceremonially carried a beribboned sheaf of flowers to the eternal flame at the Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem last month, but he politely refused to go anywhere in the Arab districts of East Jerusalem. When Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak balked at extending his state visit to Jerusalem out of fear of appearing to condone Israeli control, there was talk for a time of his dashing through the Israeli capital without spending the night...
...Jews. Explained the program: "Though we may not be accountable personally for the historic victimization of the Jews or the resultant dilemma in the Jewish perception of Christianity, we must still bear the guilt for atrocities committed against God's Chosen People." The high point occurred at Yad Vashem, the memorial for victims of the Nazi Holocaust. There, British Baptist Minister David Pawson preached fervently on Christian identification with Jews...
...search for friends and relatives from whom they were torn away in places like Belsen, Auschwitz and the other stains on history's map. That was some 40 years ago, but to look at the survivors now, wandering and embracing in the open space of the memorial Yad vaShem, the Holocaust could have happened yesterday. Thus inadvertently the point is made: Israel has already witnessed the end of the world. When it attacks an incubative Holocaust, it does so because it has seen a future that has worked too well. Now its clarity forces clarity on everyone else: Shall...