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Third of Israeli youth fears second Holocaust
Tzvi Singer
Published: 15.04.07, 08:18
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1. NO ! NOT this time,,,,NEVER AGAIN !
ben ,   singapore   (04.15.07)
2. input
the real rabbi   (04.15.07)
if this even becomes close to happening the jews of the world will stop it. there are plenty of zionists in the world, and jews in practically every powerful free country. I know that the jews of America will fight.
3. If Israel were attacked and defeated
Tracy W   (04.15.07)
the world would react with a lot of empty statements and do nothing. They would pass the buck on to the UN, and we know what that would lead to. Would the West go to war with the Arabs because of the Jews? No way. Think of the consequences: the price of oil, terrorism... The Left would blame the Jews. They'd say they didn't belong there, that they were occupiers. The Holocaust should have been the end of all genocides, just as WWI should have ended all wars. It did not happen that way. Experience teaches us nothing. Darfur has been going on for years and we still can't stop it. This poll should have indicated a 100% agreement that a new Holocaust can happen because there is nothing to stop it except the State of Israel, and too many are working to weaken it from within. Israelis and Jews in general should understand that Israel is ALONE. By allowing destructive forces to operate from within, the State of Israel is taking irresponsible chances. And by giving out Jewish land in an attempt to appease its enemies, Israel is reducing its own power to defend itself.
4. Many of our fellow Jews and israelis are NOT aware and
(04.15.07)
encourage anti-semitism with stupid idealistic and utopian concepts that have no bearing in reality!!!! Shame on them!!!!
5. #4 - What do you mean?
Otter ,   Canada   (04.15.07)
I didn't know that Jews encourage anti-Semitism. As far as I can tell, the anti-Jewish don't need any excuse to hate Jews. They do it even in countries where there are no Jews left. Rich or poor, Lefties or Right wing, they are all criticized and hated the same way, no matter what they do.
6. the holocaost the first
kami ,   jerusalem   (04.15.07)
i think the first holocaost may be not return .. but another form may be istablished .. the first /jews had no power to defened themselves // and they thought if they had the power they would prevent it .. israil now have the power still more than halfe of the youth fear of the second holocaost // /first it is not the power of germany put the rule of killing even the loosing power of the jews could not prevent it // but now if it will hapen the power of israil can not prevent it .. and the power of any nation may start it ... sure the problem is not in the power but in justice ... first there was no justice to the jews .... now israil do not put justice rule to its defence or war or struggle or to prevent the second holocaost which may be return in a different suit // when the power of israil may faint .. or the power of any enemy may increased /// so the justice of all the nation relate to israil existence may prevent such an awfull killing
7. American opinion polls
RedStarYeast ,   USA   (04.15.07)
If the respondents are good Americans, one-third of them believe that Elvis is alive and another third don't know the name of the current President.
8. Regrettably, a lot of anti-semitisim is caused by...
Ayelet Chen ,   Israel   (04.15.07)
ISRAELIS traveling around the world exhibiting the animalistic behavior this country so highly values. No need for politeness, pushing, passing, conning, scheming, taking advantage, no public manners, ignoring rules, leaving rubbish, and generally not giving a damn about anyone else but themselves.
9. Jews are ensuring it will happen again ...
Observer ,   Europe   (04.15.07)
The World's Jews are ensuring it will happen again. The need for foreign approval - necessary for survival in a Diaspora - is completely inappropriate for an independent sovereign state. Israel will not survive unless it starts doing as other countries do rather than as they say. A prevailing attitude in Europe is "those Jews were nice fellows - shame there's none of them left." The same will be heard in Jerusalem sixty years from now.
10. Possible If We Let It Happen.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (04.15.07)
Sixty years ago, we were powerless to save ourselves. Many could not even believe it was happening. Today, we are hopefully not so naive. Today, there is no shortage of threats. Iran, our Arab neighbors, the Palestinians, Arabs within Israel, & leftist Eurabian appeasement make a pretty deadly combination. But the biggest threat we have is poor leadership that is unable to deal effectively with our enemies. Our political elite's failures will sap our will to resist & create apathy - and this will be our downfall. Another Holocaust is possible.
11. #8 - And how does that compare with
Jeff   (04.15.07)
machete wielding Africans chopping off limbs, and Islamists chopping off heads .... How does lack of social graces you blame Israelis with, compare with atrocities committed by other nations? And how would that lack of social graces warrant another Holocaust???? You people don't seem to think before you post.
12. Troubling parralels
Gary Selikow   (04.15.07)
There are troubling parallels between the systematic vilification of Jews before the Holocaust and the current vilification of the Jewish people and Israel. Suffice it to note the annual flood of anti-Israel resolutions at the UN; or the anti-Israel culture that has taken such fast route in universties across the world ; the anti-Israel demonology of the world's media or the divestment campaigns being waged against Israel; or the attempts to delegitimize Israel's very existence. If remembering Auschwitz should teach us anything, it is that we must all support Israel and her people against the vilification and the complicity we are witnessing, knowing where it inevitably leads. As with the holocaust, the same kind of Jew-haters will again attempt to appease Arab rage with Jewish blood and land. We must stand up against it. Jews are still dying for only one reason; being a Jew. Just as the Nazis could not have carried out the Shaoh without having poisoned the minds of the people of Germany and much of the rest of Europe against the Jews, anti-Israel propaganda is undertaken with the aim of paving the way for the genocide of the Jews of Israel, As the Nazis used KAPOS and the Judenrat to help carry out the Shoah , so many of the key anti-Israel propagandists today are born Jewish. The fact of their Jewish birth should not excuse their contribution to the vile propaganda against the Israeli people. Recently I re-watched Schindler's List on video - one of the images that stands out in my mind from that movie is that of as beautiful Jewish girl child, of about four years of age, in a bright red jacket, which is the only colour plate in the black and white movie. Schindler observes this angelic child making her way through the crowds of Jews who are being herded out the ghetto by the Nazis. We see the little girl hiding under a bed, terrified, and that is the last time we see her, before we see later in the movie, her mangled little body, being wheeled to the crematorium on a trolley, identified by her red jacket. The story of the little girl in red made me think of another child. A beautiful and vivacious child, who was murdered 60 years later by Arafatian terrorists at Adura in Judea, as she hid terrified under her parent's bed-Danielle Shefi. In recent years Thousands of Israeli Jewish men, women and children have died from bombs, bullets or knife attacks, and thousands of others have been maimed, blinded, orphaned, widowed and terrorized. G-D bless the lovely souls of the angels - the little girl in red who died at Auschwitz, and of Danielle Shefi, who died at Adura. . G-D bless the souls of all Jewish children murdered by the enemies of the Jews and of Israel.
13. Surely Islam is against the Holocaust.
(04.15.07)
The true Muslims will never involve themselves with such inhuman attrocities. Islam forbids that. According to Islamic teachings however, there is a prophecy which says that: "The rapture will not come until the Jews fight you, and you fight them until stones and trees say Oh muslim Oh Abdullah, a Jew is behind me come and fight him". This has been interpreted as being related to the Fake Massiah which Islam warns from. For muslims, the Messiah was Jesus son of Mary. The prophecy tells that Jews will follow somebody whom they call Massiah, and Muslims will fight him and Jesus son of Mary will descend and fight with him. Jesus son of Mary will be victorious and Muslims will gather to Jerusalem to meet with Jesus even that no one will remain in Medina in Arabia that will come and see him. This is the prophecy! You may check it from other independent sources. But this is the Appocalypse, an Islamic perspective!
14. HOLOCAUST--A HISTORY LESSON!!!
al mann ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.15.07)
The treatment of the holocaust as just another event in which millions of people were is the way it is taught. There are artifacts, lists of people led to the gas chambers, experiments on twins, labor camps, women used for satisfying the sexual appetites of Nazis,etc. Dates are learned and memorized during which these atrocities took place. Other than these and other facts, no one has really learned or inquired what and why this took place. No one has learned from the past in which the people were saved from the potential of these atrocities reoccurring. G-d is questioned and people leave the faith because it must have been G-d's fault if he allowed this to occur. Man can not take even partial responsibility for this event in Jewish history. That's why many might say that it will come again. If we just learned the story of our stay in Egypt, and our stay in ancient Persia one might find the key to the rescue. Many of those who experienced the holocaust, at seeing families separated and killed have tossed away their skullcaps and phylacteries, and the holidays and the Sabbath because it was all G-d's fault. It's easier to blame than to take responsibility. The nations of the world have been trying to eradicate the Children of Israel for centuries just because we are the Children of Israel. Many of us have purposely lost our identity and assimilated among the nations of the world trying to hide the fact that we are a part of this great people. We haven't learned that the nations don't want us and they find out who everyone is in spite of the attempts to hide and disguise our membership to our nation. We throw away the Torah, its laws and its holiness. We want to blend in so that no one will find out anything about us. History has proven that throughout the millenia we have been found out, and tortured and killed when we tried to hide who we are. Our redemption from Egypt and our escape from the first holocaust in ancient Persia was because "WE CRIED OUT!!!" Do all of you get the point? To whom did we cry out? To the ADL? To th JNF? To the Keren Kayemet? To the U.N.? We returned to the source of life and recognized the mistakes made. People took responsibility instead of blaming. We returned to our Torah and its teachings. We reeducated ourselves in being a united people instead of all the sects. Everyone cried out-as a people. It was a non-sectoral cry. What will it take for us to awaken and see our mistakes? What will the next Holocaust contain if the Hitlerian one failed to reawaken the Children of Israel to their responsibility?
15. Take courage!!!
enzo ,   london,uk   (04.15.07)
It won't happen again until people like me (millions worldwide) and ADL are alive and kicking!!!
16. #9 Ensuring Holocaust
Peter ,   canada   (04.15.07)
Observer , you live in dream 60 years ago the Jews were murdered because they were weak and couldn't protect themselves , today with G-ds help we have Israel and weapons of Last option , even if this happen many of goim will go down with us and probably big part of European evil. Europeans are brave to kill unarmed people who can't protect themselves . But they are cowards against people who fight.
17. to #9 observer-you truly make me laugh.NOT SO FAST!
susan ,   israel   (04.15.07)
first you are forgeting that we are the people of god, and if i remember correctly god made a promise in the bible that the seed of israel is eternal. second we sit on 400 nukes so if israel go down it can take the whole world with it especially europe. i hope i did manage to put your mind at rest.
18. gary selikow yor post is truly genius but dont forget our
susan ,   israel   (04.15.07)
americans friends who died in world trade centre and in iraq and afganistan. may god bless their souls.
19. # 16
Gary Selikow   (04.15.07)
You wrote: "Europeans are brave to kill unarmed people who can't protect themselves . But they are cowards against people who fight. " The same go's for the Arabs/Iranians and their allies in the Nonaligned Movement.
20. The Holocaust: Jihad and G8
D ,   Belgium   (04.15.07)
Today, Jews face 2 threats and we need to survive and preserve our identities. The first is Jihad and Israel is on the front line fighting for our survival. The second is the G8 and Globalization or "sameness" and I believe that Jews in the Diaspora are battling this issue on our behalf. More Jews in the diaspora are stepping back from the "glitz" of wealth and educating their children with more Jewish Values and Education . Just like our ancestors we faced cultural enemies and assimilation. We are fighting this time and we will survive!.
21. Barack Hussein Obama in the USA
Rick Shepherd ,   Miami Beach, Fl   (04.15.07)
Do you think that with madrassa educated Obama as president the US will intervene to save Israel from the Muslim hordes? Israel is in HUGE danger from within and from outside. Our fellow Jews in Hollywood have given millions of dollars to the Obama presidential campaign. Obama is a Muslim enemy of Israel.
22. Fools, It Has Already Re-Occured! Though Not To Jews
David ,   Marietta USA   (04.15.07)
Has anyone ever heard of the killing fields of Cambodia? Has anyone heard of Bosnia? Has anyone heard of Rwanda? Has anyone heard of the cultural revolution in China? Mass slaughter of humans for the purpose of extermination is as common as fallafel, although polite socialist instigators never quite phrase it like that. The only ground army Israel had to fear that could have caused Holocaust, the Sequel as our Hollywood friends would call it, was the Iraqi army. Much to the consternation of America's radical left, we wiped that threat off the face of the earth. So you got a respite, and Iraq threatens no one but itself. So to improve the odds against Israel for the next round, you now have Iran. How many nukes does it take to make a holocaust? Lets see, I count 4, low yield ones at that. One for Tel Aviv, one for Jerusalem, one for Haifa, and one, well, just about anywhere else. (How about Tiberias, not for the city so much but for contaminating the water supply?) Your leaders are letting it happen. And our left wing lead by Barbra Streisand and Nancy Pelosi and her ilk are urging it on. So your kids really do have a legitimate fear. Got to run, American Idol is on TV. Now that is important stuff to watch on TV!
23. Hope Christians learned as Well!
Roch ,   Albuqueruqe NM, USA   (04.15.07)
Due to the lack of Christians as a whole not condeming the holocaust, that we would be aware of an impending holocaust and do everything to stop and protect. It should be every Christians duty to make sure this does not happen, and stand up and protect! It is because of a growing group of Christians like myself that we will probably be included in this persecution as the recent bombings suggest and the world wide killings that Christians are now already experiencing.
24. Israeli Childrens fear
Roger Bensen ,   Narragansett RI   (04.15.07)
Sent them some hard USA taxpayer currency to dry their tears!
25. Revisionist History
Some Guy in Calif. ,   USA   (04.15.07)
The key to ensuring that it never happens again is to educate. Revisionist history in the comming decades will attempt to remove what the Nazis did from the history books. Then history will be free to (attempt) repeat its self. I myself would not want to be apart of any army that attacked the Jewish state.
26. Iran is preparing another Holocaust
SANJOSEMIKE ,   San Jose, USA   (04.15.07)
Before 1938, Jews might have been "excused" for not assessing the Germans "correctly." After all, it was the land of Goethe and Beethoven. We now have no such pretensions. Everyone now knows that Iran is fully intending to perpetrate another Holocaust. The fact that Iran will be destroyed also makes no difference to Muslims. Rafsanjani has often stated that the "Arab world can tolerate a nuclear exchange with Israel." We learned from 2,000 years of experience. The only solution is for either Israel or the U.S. to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. There is no other choice. The sooner the better. NEVER AGAIN sanjosemike
27. Ayalet chen #v8 Bravo excellent
Nina ,   Bristol UK   (04.15.07)
Exactly my thoughts , (what you wrote)
28. replace the israeli left NOW
shmu ,   calgary   (04.15.07)
or it will be the doom of israel
29. 2/3 of Americans Do Not Believe
Craig ,   Walpole,MA,USA   (04.15.07)
2/3's of Americans do not believe that the jihadists are a threat and that they have not declared war on the US. Do you think that the same Americans believe that Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map?
30. Third of Israel youth
Randolph Phillips ,   Shiloh, USA   (04.15.07)
When I read that so many young people in Isael fear a new holocaust, I felt a sense of grief for each of these young people I have never met. It brought up an old memory. There was a small room in my high school library where old periodicals were stored. One day I went in there and began looking trhough old Life magazines. I opened one, and there were the first photographs the world ever saw of the horrors from the "liberated" concentration camps of WWII. I can't express my feelings as a teenager when I saw what the human race is capable of doing to ourselves. At that moment, I said "never again" could this be allowed to happen. If the children of a fortress Israel do not feel safe, it indicates the policies of the past few decades are not working. A solution must be found so Arabs and Israelis can co-exist without fear from each other in the middle east. And the solutions need to be found soon, even if my country, the United States, has to underwrite most of the monetary cost of that solution. For the solutions are political and economic. They cannot be military, since military victories are all ultimatley temporary, and themselves sometimes raise the ghosts of "final solutions".
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