Victims remember, perpetrators forget

Thanks to Roland for drawing attention to this excellent Ha'aretz article by Amira Hass.

One of the infuriating absurdities in every injustice, especially one of inconceivable proportions like the German murder industry (with extensive European aid), is that the victims and their offspring remember and live it day in and day out. The perpetrators, however, repress and forget it, and it is easy for their offspring to ignore it.

So let the entire diplomatic throng, which is seeking Sharon's audience today, go and talk of the European responsibility for the Holocaust in its own territory, not in Israel.

Do the zionists really believe that Amira Hass is some unique specimen who alone can see the cynicism with which Israel deploys holocaust "memory"? Israel's use of the holocaust is pure manipulation, nothing more. The fellow travellers from various governments are not taken in by this. They are making an informed choice to side with racist war criminals using the holocaust as cover.