Jews around the world have worked hard to give life to the slogan \”never again,\” but there are painfully abundant signs the world isn\’t listening. And, worse, a number of our own organizations have been reluctant to speak out on some of the moral rationalizations that contribute to the genocidal mindset.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says the IDF remains the most moral army he knows, but critics suggest that the relentless terrorist war has brutalized young soldiers who frequently vent their frustrations on Palestinian civilians.
These are interesting times for those of us who supported President Bush\’s decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
An emaciated death camp survivor stares blankly alongside a gaunt steer.
Madonna doesn\’t like to explain her music videos, but in her newest one, \”Die Another Day\” (the title track for the soon-to-be-released James Bond movie), while wearing a dirty, white tank top she sneeringly sings to the camera, \”Analyze this, Analyze this.\” So we will.
Alexander Deutsch secretly painted watercolors in an Argentinian political prison after he was kidnapped, tortured and incarcerated by the paramilitary regime in the late 1970s.
Charges that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority are running a corrupt, brutal police state are no longer being voiced only by the Israeli right wing; they are now coming from Palestinian nationalists who, before the Oslo Accord, fought the Israeli occupation.<
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