Schwarzenegger Honors Holocaust Victims

Washington Times ^ | 5/2/04 | MICHAEL R. BLOOD

[wagglebee]

JERUSALEM (AP) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger paid tribute Sunday to the millions of Jews killed in the Holocaust and helped dedicate a planned museum of tolerance during a whirlwind visit to Jerusalem.

In an emotional speech at the museum site, Schwarzenegger said that in a world of violence and suicide attacks, the museum would stand as a "candle to guide us."

"The world should know we are not building a bunker. We're building something that breathes with life, just as God breathed life into us," Schwarzenegger said. "We look past the suicide bombers, the terrorists, past the blood. ... We look ahead to the time people can live side by side."

Schwarzenegger's speech came just minutes after Palestinian gunmen ambushed and killed a pregnant Jewish settler and her four young daughters. Israel retaliated with an airstrike on a Gaza radio station affiliated with the militant Hamas group, lightly injuring seven Palestinians, and with another strike on a car full of militants in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Schwarzenegger later laid a wreath at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial during a ceremony at which he also rekindled the memorial's symbolic eternal flame. Wearing a yarmulke, he bowed his head and stood in silence for several minutes.

[wagglebee]

Maybe this will put the anti-semitism thing to rest, but I doubt it.

[StACase]

So when is the President or a Governor going to honor the 110 million people killed by the communists last century?

[upcountryhorseman]

What's he doing in Israel?: He needs to get back to California where he can do some good.