Remembering for the purpose of not repeating is a distinct discipline from remembering as an end onto itself (which given how learning typically uses examples, carries some risk of eventually helping returns).
stephen carter Question is whether or not remembrance commands to recognize -- as Tommy Lapid did in what I've been remembering as a late-2003 resignation-backing speech from the Ministry of Justice which most likely prompted Ariel Sharon to orchestrate the Gaza disengagement (a memory Wikipedia doesn't confirm, curious) -- Question is whether or not remembrance can command to admit comparability of the plight made by fascists to european ghetto Jews before WWII, to that made to Palestinian territories civilians by Israeli actions and unilateral rule.
What gives weight to the question is that it impinges on what kind of example to the Nations we mean the Righteous Among the Nations of the darkest times to provide.
Do we want the new generations of Gentiles to pick from the example of the Righteous, that the latter reacted in time -- that is, before the full horror of it became and known -- in time against the abominable persecution of Jews, because it was an abominable enough persecution already, or because the victims were Jews?
Remembering for the purpose of not repeating is a distinct discipline from remembering as an end onto itself (which given how learning typically uses examples, carries some risk of eventually helping returns).
ReplyDeleteAnyone who believes the history of "evil" began in NAZI Germany has already forgotten.
ReplyDeletestephen carter Question is whether or not remembrance commands to recognize -- as Tommy Lapid did in what I've been remembering as a late-2003 resignation-backing speech from the Ministry of Justice which most likely prompted Ariel Sharon to orchestrate the Gaza disengagement (a memory Wikipedia doesn't confirm, curious) -- Question is whether or not remembrance can command to admit comparability of the plight made by fascists to european ghetto Jews before WWII, to that made to Palestinian territories civilians by Israeli actions and unilateral rule.
ReplyDeleteWhat gives weight to the question is that it impinges on what kind of example to the Nations we mean the Righteous Among the Nations of the darkest times to provide.
Do we want the new generations of Gentiles to pick from the example of the Righteous, that the latter reacted in time -- that is, before the full horror of it became and known -- in time against the abominable persecution of Jews, because it was an abominable enough persecution already, or because the victims were Jews?