Posted on 01/26/2015 2:01:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
Award-winning veteran actor and storyteller Sir Ben Kingsley was among the dignitaries at the first day of the Let My People Live Forum in Prague, and used the opportunity to explain why in his view Europe has failed to fully come to terms with the crimes of the holocaust. […]
One of the greatest tragedies, he insisted, was the fact that in his view, “Europe did not grieve in 1945. It moved on. It found another enemy; it found other issues. The first step in healing is for us to collectively grieve—we have missed that crucial step.” As a result, he warned, “we are in terrible danger, because of missing the step of grieving, of sliding back.” […]
… (H)e lamented that some in Europe were determined to forget—ironically, as a pretext to perpetuate anti-Semitism—relating a particular experience he had at the set of one of his films in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. An old man approached the movie’s cast to ask what they were filming. Upon hearing the production would be about the holocaust, he retorted, “It never happened, and if you don’t shut up, it will happen again!”
“How about that? Isn't that totally screwy?” asked an incredulous Kingsley. …
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they do not understand the genesis of modern Israel, and they miss the connection between Islam and Nazism.
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And also because they dropped Christianity they lost their historical memory and any idea of who they are.
much the same is happening to the USA now.
The Jews weren’t the only ones who lost greatly in WWII
Nobody said they were the only ones. They were the chief focus of Adolf, however.
They and the state of Israel are also the chief focus of these newer-generation “Europeans”.
bfl
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