Sublime

We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Or, la violence est un risque. La direction palestinienne l’a ignoré, pensant sans doute qu’elle ferait une bouchée de pain d’un peuple qui venait d’être décimé par millions. À cet égard, peut-être que la Shoah a induit en erreur le leadership palestinien sur les capacités de résistance des Juifs de Palestine, mais on ne dispose guère à ce jour de

The First Zionist Congress in 1897 had closed with a sense of great promise; in 1939 there was dread. A week later, on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany. World War II had begun. Most of the European delegates to the Twenty-First Zionist Congress would be dead by the war’s end.

veteran members of the Yishuv essentially accused the survivors for what they had endured. “‘Why didn’t you fight back?’ they would ask. ‘Why did you go like sheep to the slaughter?’ They were First-Class Jews who took up arms and fought, while we were Second-Class Yids whom the Germans could annihilate without encountering resistance.”28

Adolf Eichmann had been a Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the architects of the Holocaust, a central figure at the Wannsee Conference that decided on the Final Solution, and, at the time of his capture, the highest-ranking Nazi official still alive. He had spent most of his time after the war living under a pseudonym in

On peut difficilement se débarrasser en quelques semaines de trente à quarante années de foi intime dans le monde. Ancrés dans notre vision du droit, nous croyions à l’existence d’une conscience morale allemande, européenne, universelle, et nous étions convaincus qu’il y avait un certain degré d’inhumanité qui s’éliminait une fois pour toutes devan

The antagonism sparked by Netanyahu, I gradually noticed, resembled that traditionally triggered by the Jews.