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- 191: Australia's Future
- ... camps during the last world war. Using the dreadful example of the Nazis as an excuse to enact radical legislation will not stop us repeating the crimes of the Third Reich. The lesson of the Holocaust is not that people have got to be restrained from hating Jews, but that nations go mad. The murder factories were not the work of a few evil men, but the inevitable result of a ...
- 192: Israel - The Presidential Brief
- ... For Jews, the establishment of the state of Israel represented a return to their biblical homeland after 2,000 years of exile and persecution, and the near extinction of the Jewish people in the Nazi Holocaust of WWII. For Palestinians, who had lived in the area they had called Palestine for 1,000 years, the land was also a spiritual home for their Islamic religion. Since 1979, there has been a ...
- 193: Jerusalem
- ... was rebuilt by Crusaders in 1099 CE, but it was originally built in the fourth century. The St. James Cathedral is the center of attention in the Armenian part. Many families who escaped the Armenian Holocaust in 1915 settled in the Old City. Many of the residents of this part of the Armenian Quarter practice the Greek Orthodox religion. The last section of the city is the Muslim Section. Atop the ...
- 194: Israel
- ... has been in the news more often or has gotten more international attention than Israel. First, Israel got attention because it was to be a refuge for the poor unfortunate Jewish people who survived the Holocaust. They would, once and for all, have a Jewish homeland, where the key to citizenship was simply being Jewish. The majority of the world had sympathy for the Jewish people, at that time. Along with ...
- 195: Comparison Between Gandhi and Hitler
- ... would sacrifice thousands of them to get what he wanted. He had power, and he abused it as much as he could. Thus began Hitler's biggest attempt at abusing his power. Thus began the Holocaust. Gandhi had a diametrically opposite approach to attaining his goals. First, he did not believe in using violence to get what he wanted. He felt that "Suffering in ones own person is
the essence ...
- 196: Voltaire's Candide: One Man's Search For True Happiness and Acceptance of Life's Disappointments
- ... teacher. Throughout Voltaire's Candide we see how accepting a situation and not trying to change or overcome obstacles is damaging. What comes to mind, for me, is the attitude of many Jews during the Holocaust. While there was mass murder and torture of innocent people the world's countries did nothing. Even the victims themselves rarely fought against the tyranny. If only people accepted that they have the power, in ...
- 197: On The Left Side
- ... that is one of the reasons why many politicians are afraid that several people could be lead to believe in the neo-Nazi falsifications of history. In Germany Irving has been fined for calling the Holocaust "a downright lie", and besides a number of countries have refused him entry permit.
- 198: Portrait of a Dancer
- ... years. He had been touched when he saw Suki and I dance together. He had been impressed with Suki's work on "Sh'ma": the story in dance of our family's plight during the holocaust. But he still couldn't quite accept dance as a worthy profession. Perhaps I would be able to change his mind. After dinner, we sat around in the living room. The whole family was laughing ...
- 199: Freedom of Speech & Censorship on the Internet
- ... be applied to digitized material because the question that is asked is whether or not it is published. What may be legal in one country is illegal in another: German law prohibits claims that the Holocaust did not happen, but this does not stop white supremacists from the US or another country from transmitting this claim to their sympathizers in Germany. This is a complicated issue because usually there is a ...
- 200: Save The Internet
- ... people express their hatred and anger toward other people. Kershaw says, "
newsgroups on the Internet contain messages which could incite violence against members of various racial, ethnic or religious groups or messages which deny the Holocaust." This sort of information advocates racism and other types of sensitive discrimination. In many countries, the problem of racism is almost unheard of today, but the problem will surface up if we let the racists ...
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