Posted on 01/22/2020 2:55:19 PM PST by Eleutheria5
The President's Residence hosted an official reception Wednesday evening with heads of state and delegates from around the world who have responded to President Reuben Rivlin's invitation to the International Holocaust Forum.
The event is also attended by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz and others.
Speaking at the reception, Rivlin said: "This is a historic gathering, not only for the State of Israel and the Jewish people, but for all of humanity. Tonight as we remember the victims of the Holocaust, and World War II, we also commemorate the triumph of freedom and human dignity."
"I hope and pray that out of this room has come a uniform message for every country in the world that world leaders stand united in the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and extremism, in defending democracy and democratic values. This is the order of the day. This is our challenge," he added.
King Felipe VI called the gathering “a remarkable assembly of world leaders committed to memory, to a just cause and to a moral obligation."
"Seventy-five years later, the world does not forget. The world still remembers.
Quoting Maimonides, a medieval Jewish sage who was born in Spain, King Felipe said that "all great evils which men cause each other originate in ignorance."
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"what happened?!"
"We are also here ─ perhaps primarily ─ to show our unyielding commitment in bringing all the necessary efforts of our respective countries in order to fight the ignorant intolerance, hatred and the total lack of human empathy that permitted and gave birth to the Holocaust. Because preventing those civilizational sicknesses, is a collective but also an individual responsibility. There is no room for indifference in the presence of racism, xenophobia, hate speech and antisemitism.
Sure thing, your Majesty. Whatever.
"Disturbingly, we are currently witnessing a surge of hideous attacks on Jews in several parts of the world. So many times in history, animosity against Jews has shamefully proven to be a symptom and a crude example of intolerance and aversion towards the different others.
So go light on the Muslims when they bash a Jew in the street, or you'll be called an Islamophobe. Those people are used to being bashed in the street anyway.
"Having a precious, rich and complex Jewish past and a vibrant Jewish community, Spain decided to create a solid framework of rules and initiatives to fight relentlessly against antisemitism and every form of xenophobia and racism. There are, of course, many more Nations ─ both present here and others ─ that are making similar efforts and progress; but, while I remain optimistic, I know ─ we all know ─ that we will always need to persevere together so that those words we have repeated so many times, “Never again,” remain our guiding and unwithering principle," King Felipe concluded.
Like I said. It's all white supremacists doing this, you racist./s
OK. Now go home and stop blocking traffic. I've had my teenage son home for a week because he couldn't get to school on account of this brouhaha. You want to put up with him for me?
He was brilliant in some respects but is so wrong here.
The issue is not an intellectual failing, but a moral one.
Man's moral character is not built on his knowledge base.
A knowledgeable man can be deliberately immoral. But an ignorant man doesn’t know that he’s supposed to be moral, or how to go about it. His emotions are crude and elemental, and his temper mercurial.
Unfortunately it didn't help the Chinese, the Cambodians, the Tibetans, the Rwandans, the Timorese, etc.
The only thing it's being used for now is to stifle climate debate.
How does remembering the Holocaust stifle climate debate?
Further, the climate debate has been settled. Global warming and climate change is a complete fraud, as presented for control.
Yes, the weather changes. Who knew? And the idea we’re having the hottest days in history is preposterous.
We had one of the coldest years in decades here in Los Angeles last year. The Sun is exhibiting less activity that changes our climate, and it’s simply cooler because of it.
We have got to quit buying into the propaganda that has been spewed for the last 25 years, and has not come true at all.
“Remembering the Holocaust was supposed to help prevent future cases of genocide.”
That said, MERELY learning about something (or teaching about it to others) BY ITSELF, does absolutely nothing. Oh, some (or many) are informed - but if they just sit around the next time a similar event occurs and talk about it, then all of that learning is pretty much for nought. In the case of the Shoah (Holocaust), the people who perpetrated it were very sure that violence used by them against others would solve what they viewed as a problem. They did NOT subscribe to the (fatally flawed, in my view) belief that “violence never solved anything.” So, in view of the willingness of clearly evil people to use violence against innocents, for innocents to do nothing but sit around and talk about things is not merely useless, but it almost serves as an invitation to commit exactly that kind of violence. I, personally, subscribe to the ideal of doing no harm to others, but also not allowing others to do harm to you - which necessarily means that sometimes you have to do what the Israelis did in 1967, which is to hit the other guy first, before he can fatally strike you. Also, as a Jew, I am keenly aware that there are only about 15 million of us left on this ball of dust - so we don’t have the luxury of sitting around and having a nice academic discussion about how wrong it is for someone else to do violence against us; we simply cannot absorb large numbers of casualties and then (righteously) strike back later. I don’t want my epitaph to be, “Well, at least he acted morally and wasn’t the aggressor.” Screw that - survival is far more important.
For that matter, remembering the Armenians didn’t help the Jews and the Gypsies much, either.
Interesting developments under Trump and this administration.
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What cave have you been living in?
Oh I see. Well that makes as much sense as anything they front for.
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