pinging the pingers
But does the average "man in the street" in Tehran know this?
Dear Israel,
Will you please nuke Iran? We don't seem to have the stomach for it.
Shalom,
America
Thank you for your post. As I wrote in another post earlier, it is imperative that we never, ever forget what happened 60+ years ago... I shared my experience visiting Auschwitz last year at http://www.cdod.blogspot.com. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly we humans tend to dismiss the horrors we have witnessed. I had the privilege of meeting the "last Jew of Gora Kalwaria", a holy town near Warsaw, that lost all of its Jews to Treblinka...he has taken it upon himself to mind the lonely and once-desecrated Jewish cemetery.
For "never again" to have meaning, however, it must be applied both as a universal principle of human rights and as a command to rise up and prevent genocides that loom on the horizon.
The full meaning of the notion "Never Again" also encompasses individual responsibility for one's own safety and that of those around you. Yes, that means owning firearms for protection of one's self, family and liberties. All too sadly, most American Jews just don't understand this (let alone agree with it). However, this one does...I own, shall we say, more guns than I need, but less than I want, and I regularly carry concealed. It helps a lot that I live in Texas, part of the United States of America, rather than in the Peoples Republic of New Jersey as I previously did. I will also educate my kids in self-defense when they are old enough to understand and do anything about it.
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You mean by the way the US and Israel are fighting this so-called War On Terror?
Right now I'd give the islamists odds 60-40 at best.
God help us all.