HENRY SIEGMAN: I always thought that the important lesson of the - TopicsExpress



          

HENRY SIEGMAN: I always thought that the important lesson of the Holocaust is not that there is evil, that there are evil people in this world who could do the most unimaginable, unimaginably cruel things. ... The great lesson of the Holocaust is that decent, cultured people, people we would otherwise consider good people, can allow such evil to prevail, that [ for ] the German public ... it was OK with them that the Nazi machine did what it did. Now I draw no comparisons between the Nazi machine and Israeli policy. And what I resent most deeply is when people say, How dare you invoke the Nazi experience? ... the point is ... not the Hitlers and not the SS, but the public that allowed this to happen. And my deep disappointment is that the Israeli public, precisely because Israel is a democracy and cannot say, We’re not responsible what our leaders do, that the public puts these people back into office again and again. [ democracynow.org/2014/9/1/a_slaughter_of_innocents_henry_siegman ]
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:46:47 +0000

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