The mandatory VIP visit to Yad Vashem: A vital history lesson or emotional blackmail? |... - 2 views
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“One should allow oneself the question: what would have happened if there hadn’t been a Shoah? Wouldn’t we have been left without a real justification for the creation of the state of Israel? This is a conclusion I really dread because as a good Zionist I believe that we don’t need the Shoah in order to justify the existence of the state of Israel.”
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“I want visitors to come and say, ‘Wow, it’s possible to have a Middle East that is the cradle of monotheistic civilizations and where Judaism, Christianity and Islam are living together.’ I hope that one day people who come here are taken to places in which the shared existence of faith and believers is possible. That should be the message that they take home.”
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“Even if nobody can claim that Holocaust memory will prevent future genocides, how do we know that we wouldn’t have far worse than what we’ve already seen, if it were not that there is a degree of attention paid to Holocaust memory?”
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What is the relationship between Israel and the holocaust? Is it important to continue to view ourselves as victims?
