Will we continue to give moral credibility to the voices that say that the small nation of Israel is a villain to die?
Holocaust survives are marching in Auschwitz in the shadow of the October 7 attacks.
Fifty -five people who survived the Holocaust joined thousands of people in March annually to commemorate the victims of Nazi atrocities during World War II.
It was Auschwitz. 80 years ago. Monday His lies are still imprisoning us today.
It was a lie about the work abroad that the Nazis persuaded European Jews to board trains, and it was about the rain of lies that they were welcomed when the Jews were descending.
With these atrocities, the world lied to itself. That they were doing everything they could. Railway tracks were not bombed until Auschwitz.;;;;. As St. Louis Jewish refugee ships were turned back from Florida to Europe. As Britain frozen the immigration of European Jews. The British mandate for Palestine, preventing the escape of hundreds of thousands of people, could be saved.
And finally lied in decades to come because they were easy. “They were victims,” ​​President Ronald Reagan said in 1985 about the Veermacht soldiers Batberg CemeteryWhere he intended to visit, “just like victims in concentration camps.”
Eli Wesal faced Reagan on national TV.
It was too late to stop this last lie, but my father, EliosalIt was determined to try. The answer made headlines around the world.
He told Reagan on national TV, “The problem here is not politics, but good and evil. And we should never confuse them, because I have seen. Ss At work, and I have seen their victims.“
My father failed. Reagan, however, performed his honor in Buttberg, and the line between the perpetrators of evil and their victims continued to fade.
Today, only 40% of people are under 35 years. Make the Holocaust historically accurate.. That number is worse in the Middle East, where only 16 % of Israeli neighbors recognize the facts.
But the problem is worse than ignorance. Many people in the younger generation, while removing Reagan’s moral confusion, see today’s Hamas fighters as victims as they kidnapped Israelis on October 7, 2023. Hamas is the underdug hero.
My father spoke against apathy. Now what we face is something else. No one is indifferent. Everyone has the opinion of the Israeli Hamas conflict. Is this a massive misunderstanding? Good intentions went wrong? Of course, many Christians who slaughtered Jews in the Middle Ages believed that they were protecting their families, that the Jews had actually poisoned the wells. Did they not see the body of a child, which was presented as proof of blood humiliation?
It is difficult to look bad on the face. Seeing jihadists in Gaza to run rifles in the air 90 Palestinian prisoners Only three Israeli women changed.
One of the terrorists released by Israel is Abu Varda, who was. 45 are responsible for the killing of civilians. In 1996, bus bombings in Jerusalem. Does she occupy the moral universe like these women?
Hamas wants to end Israel.
It is easy to believe that this militant crowd wants its state, Really listenWhat are they screaming: their mission, as stated in the Hamas charter. The end of Israel. Since the ceasefire, Hamas has re -occupied the streets of Gaza – and we will see them causing more catastrophe on the people of Gaza.
My father cited the New York Times’ great executive editor Abe Rosenthl in his speech. He visited Poland and wrote a post in 1990 called “Don’t forgive them, Because they knew what they did.“
The Christian desire to forgive and move forward is a powerful in American psychology, especially when terrorism was being forgiven on others. But the Americans should not forgive Hamas. We must fight evil when and where we see it. It’s not time to lose.
Good intentions are not enough.
My grandfather Shlomo Wesal, who was killed in Buchan Wald a week after Auschwitz’s independence, was also Elizer’s son. My grandfather was killed as a physician in the First World War, which was drafted in the service of Caesar. And now I see that my father’s Reagan was offered in the service of Israeli haters, who say that fighting apathy is to close the eyes of the end of the democratic state.
Faced with a crowd is terrible, especially when it has our own – our friends, fellow workers, even our children, get caught up in the deep moral confusion that ruins the college campus. But on this anniversary of Auschwitz’s independence, we should ask ourselves these questions:
Will we continue to explain images of celebrating non -uniformed Palestinian citizens – and Hamas are actively helping. – In the October 7 attacks, as a previous generation tried to explain the SS, Warmacht and ordinary citizens who kept them in power?
Will we continue to confuse the concepts of criminal and hunting, terrorism and a fair war, Hamas, who are hiding behind the human shield, and losing the difference between the Israeli defense forces, who work more than any army. , While the loss of life has to be avoided. Bombing on tunnels built to facilitate the next Holocaust?
Will we continue to give moral credibility to the voices that say that the small nation of Israel is a villain to die?
To distinguish between good and evil, you must start choosing between truth and lies.
Forty years ago, President Reagan did not learn this lesson. 80 years after Auschwitz’s independence – do we have?
Elisha Wesal Marian is the son of Wesal and the Nobel Peace Prize winner Eli Wesal.
