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Sharon: World didn't lift a finger to stop the Holocaust
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Original here: http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4051497
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Sharon: World Didn't Lift A Finger to Stop the Holocaust
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The world “didn’t lift a finger” to stop the Holocaust, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon charged today in a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.
He called critics of Israeli measures in its struggle against Palestinian militants new anti-Semites.
Sharon said Jews learned a lesson from the genocide that they can only rely on themselves.
Even six decades after Auschwitz was liberated, anti-Semitism still exists throughout the world, Sharon said.
Addressing his parliament in Jerusalem, Sharon said that the image of a Jewish people that defends itself is “anathema” to the ”new anti-Semites.”
“Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.”
Though decades have passed, the Holocaust is still a prominent part of Israeli culture. About 250,000 survivors of the Holocaust live in Israel, and measures are taken to guard them from traumas.
Works by Richard Wagner, Hitler’s favourite composer and a symbol of anti-Semitism, are banned from the state radio and are not performed in public. Often there is pressure to ban movies and plays that might trouble the survivors, and Holocaust images are still a powerful part of political debates.
Recently Gaza settlers, facing evacuation under a government plan, wore orange stars patterned after the emblems Nazis forced Jews to pin to their clothes as a protest against their removal. The campaign set off a major outcry, including complaints from Holocaust survivors, and the settlers relented.
Sharon said that in an age when it is not acceptable to express anti-Jewish ideas directly, those who hate the Jews divert their attacks toward Israel instead.
Sharon said, “Many of the manifestations of anti-Semitism in the past years are no longer aimed only at Jews as individuals. Rather, they are aimed at the embodiment of all Jews, the state of Israel, the Jewish state.”
In unusually harsh remarks, Sharon noted that when the Nazis began deporting Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz in large numbers in 1944, Allied forces did not bomb the rail tracks leading to the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Sharon said that over a period of several weeks, more than 600,000 Jews from Hungary were killed in Auschwitz.
“The sad and terrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being killed,” Sharon said.
“At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger,” he said. “This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.”
“The state of Israel has learned this lesson, and since its founding, it has defended itself and its residents, and provides safety to Jews everywhere. We know that we can only rely on ourselves,” he said.
For this reason, Israel as the Jewish state must always remain strong, Sharon said.
“We must always remember that this is the only place in the world in which we, the Jews, have the right and the power to defend ourselves with our own strength,” Sharon said. “This we will never surrender.”
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