Lynne and I just finished watching a tv version of the story last night. Three years ago we visisted the building (now a museum) where Anne and her family hid.
It's shocking and unimaginable, the that an entire ethnic group would be so viciously targeted for extinction. I'm too young to have experienced that time and can't believe that the world didn't know extermination camps existed, didn't see that entire communities of Jews were being rounded up and marched off.. didn't think to ask what was becoming of them.
People say, Never again. Scholars and behavioural scientists study entire lifetimes, trying to understand the mechanisms by which these acts were rationalized. But has the world as a collective come up with any real ways to prevent this kind of aggression? It doesn't look that way.
Lynne mentioned Zimbabwe. I though of Gaza. Darfur. The world pays no attention. We look away. We ask ourselves, what can one small little me do to make a difference? I don't know.
But certainly, the very first step is knowledge.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=14028
Criticism of Israeli War Crimes Mounts
by Jonathan Cook
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