But Phil, isn't that exactly what Biden is trying to "model our best resources to center the individual human," to "stave off this gathering storm?" Our jobs as individual humans is to provide Biden a congress which can actually legislate more of those humane values which we used to call common decency!
But Phil, isn't that exactly what Biden is trying to "model our best resources to center the individual human," to "stave off this gathering storm?" Our jobs as individual humans is to provide Biden a congress which can actually legislate more of those humane values which we used to call common decency!
Trying hard but, like the penitent at one Good Friday procession in Corsica, carrying a heavy cross and walking barefoot while dragging behind him massive chains attached to one foot.
No need to identify the cross borne by all Americans, but the chains are represented by a trusted ally, subverted by that ally's leadership which, to remain in power and keep the leader from having to face justice, has made the worst of the dreadful challenge thrown at him.
Over 30 000 dead, mostly women and children, total destruction of cities -- compare the ghetto, then the total destruction of Warsaw by Hitler, compare Putin's razing Grozny, and later, with Al-Assad, Aleppo...
And the worst of it, this is what Israel's mortal enemies expected and intended this man and his poisonous coalition government to do -- hence the deliberately vile provocation of their assault.
How is it possible that today, almost 80 years after the downfall of Nazi Germany, the militarists' Japan and the Axis powers, we should find ourselves having to face behavior horribly similar to that of the Nazis among those who suffered the most from their crimes?
I know that no one wants to face the destruction of Gaza, the wholesale killing, maiming and starving of its inhabitants. But what choice have we?
It is because I saw bombing as a small child, it is because of the sermon I received from my mother in 1948 after she and my father had received documentation and photos of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from my father's cousin, the British medical officer who opened up the camp during a typhus outbreak, that I write as I do.
I am not repeating the terms my mother used to qualify the greatest crimes man can commit.
The West's plodding response to Ukraine gave the go-ahead for Putin's further world-destabilization plots in the Middle East, setting up Hamas vs. Netanyahu in a no-holds-barred slaughterfest. Today, it's reported that workers for World Central Kitchen were killed trying to assist the victims between the bullies. We probably should be figuring out where next -- Poland?
I shall add that it was intensely painful to perceive the continuum between the inconceivable and unprecedented crimes of the Nazis and the conditioning to which those crimes have, inevitably, given rise among their victims.
The foulest thing about the Shoah is how the evil done besmirched victims and their memory.
It hurts to think this, let alone to say it. For a long time I could not even say it to myself.
But we are ordinary human beings, not saints. We cannot avoid the stain on the entire human race.
But Phil, isn't that exactly what Biden is trying to "model our best resources to center the individual human," to "stave off this gathering storm?" Our jobs as individual humans is to provide Biden a congress which can actually legislate more of those humane values which we used to call common decency!
Trying hard but, like the penitent at one Good Friday procession in Corsica, carrying a heavy cross and walking barefoot while dragging behind him massive chains attached to one foot.
No need to identify the cross borne by all Americans, but the chains are represented by a trusted ally, subverted by that ally's leadership which, to remain in power and keep the leader from having to face justice, has made the worst of the dreadful challenge thrown at him.
Over 30 000 dead, mostly women and children, total destruction of cities -- compare the ghetto, then the total destruction of Warsaw by Hitler, compare Putin's razing Grozny, and later, with Al-Assad, Aleppo...
And the worst of it, this is what Israel's mortal enemies expected and intended this man and his poisonous coalition government to do -- hence the deliberately vile provocation of their assault.
How is it possible that today, almost 80 years after the downfall of Nazi Germany, the militarists' Japan and the Axis powers, we should find ourselves having to face behavior horribly similar to that of the Nazis among those who suffered the most from their crimes?
I know that no one wants to face the destruction of Gaza, the wholesale killing, maiming and starving of its inhabitants. But what choice have we?
It is because I saw bombing as a small child, it is because of the sermon I received from my mother in 1948 after she and my father had received documentation and photos of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from my father's cousin, the British medical officer who opened up the camp during a typhus outbreak, that I write as I do.
I am not repeating the terms my mother used to qualify the greatest crimes man can commit.
She was, and remains, my first spiritual teacher.
The West's plodding response to Ukraine gave the go-ahead for Putin's further world-destabilization plots in the Middle East, setting up Hamas vs. Netanyahu in a no-holds-barred slaughterfest. Today, it's reported that workers for World Central Kitchen were killed trying to assist the victims between the bullies. We probably should be figuring out where next -- Poland?
I hear you, Peter.
Thank you.
God bless your fine, fine mother.
I shall add that it was intensely painful to perceive the continuum between the inconceivable and unprecedented crimes of the Nazis and the conditioning to which those crimes have, inevitably, given rise among their victims.
The foulest thing about the Shoah is how the evil done besmirched victims and their memory.
It hurts to think this, let alone to say it. For a long time I could not even say it to myself.
But we are ordinary human beings, not saints. We cannot avoid the stain on the entire human race.