Irreverent children, unappreciative youth... each generation has to learn its own lessons.
I wouldn’t want to visit any of the camps, but I would visit monuments in Poland and Israel.
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Teenagers have not learned a thing Indifferent teachers were also there, busy searching for a comfortable spot to lean on. We also had Education Ministry representatives with hands in their pockets who observed what was going on without doing a thing
Indifferent teachers, clueless administrators, and the kids didn't get it, learned nothing from what would should have been an experience remembered for life.
What's needed is early intervention, mandatory preschool from age 2, maybe the loser of Obama-Hillary can move to Israel and instituet something like that.
I don’t know. What better testament to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising than Israeli teenagers, full of life, behaving like teenagers. Despite the Nazi goal to exterminate Europe’s Jewry, those bored and slightly rude young men and women are their own monument and ceremony... The Nazis failed. Thank God, they failed.
I hope this isn’t representative of the universal reaction, but good for Poland for hosting it.
Mizrahim?
Sounds as though teenagers, with a few exceptions, are the same, the world over.
I was there on a hot summer day.There were two souvenir stands there selling kitschy trinkets, and an air-conditioned bus of tired and bored foreign tourists had just arrived. Some didn’t bother to get out. I walked a few blocks north to a modern indoor shopping mall where I had a cup of hot chocolate, and then a cone of ice cream the likes of which (hot chocolate and ice cream) you’d never taste stateside. I bought a T-shirt at a Carrefour store the likes of which... etc.