We, the civilized people
On Dec 3, 2014, at 9:04 AM, Frederick Nagel [email protected]
> [MECRresource] wrote:
>
>> Since World War II, America has been coming to terms with the Nazi
>> Holocaust. How did a “civilized” German people commit such
>> atrocities? Did they know of the extermination camps, or recognize
>> the criminal insanity of their leaders?
>>
>> How could they not have known? The decade before the war had been
>> filled with the most hateful expressions of racial persecution.
>> Millions of Germans participated in the beatings, the destruction of
>> businesses, and the looting of homes. So very few spoke out against
>> the impending genocide. Where they led astray by a blind, messianic
>> nationalism? Where they simply scared to raise their voice against
>> what had become a repressive military dictatorship?
>>
>> All the time we have been studying the Holocaust, reading about it,
>> watching movies about it, and building monuments and museums, we
>> have been silently involved in our very own. Perhaps we were more
>> inclined to look the other way, since our nation was built on the
>> ethnic cleansing of indigenous populations and the exploitation of
>> millions of black slaves.
>>
>> Whatever the reason, we have been blind to the ethnic cleansing and
>> impending genocide of the Palestinian people. We have allowed five
>> million Palestinians to suffer under apartheid while another six
>> million were forced from their homeland. We have defended Israel
>> against against worldwide condemnation, supplied it with high tech
>> weaponry, and given it billions in US aid. Moreover, our Congress
>> commends each new slaughter in Gaza, insuring that the “civilized”
>> American people will be forever linked with the fate of the
>> Palestinians.
>>
>> Fred Nagel
> [MECRresource] wrote:
>
>> Since World War II, America has been coming to terms with the Nazi
>> Holocaust. How did a “civilized” German people commit such
>> atrocities? Did they know of the extermination camps, or recognize
>> the criminal insanity of their leaders?
>>
>> How could they not have known? The decade before the war had been
>> filled with the most hateful expressions of racial persecution.
>> Millions of Germans participated in the beatings, the destruction of
>> businesses, and the looting of homes. So very few spoke out against
>> the impending genocide. Where they led astray by a blind, messianic
>> nationalism? Where they simply scared to raise their voice against
>> what had become a repressive military dictatorship?
>>
>> All the time we have been studying the Holocaust, reading about it,
>> watching movies about it, and building monuments and museums, we
>> have been silently involved in our very own. Perhaps we were more
>> inclined to look the other way, since our nation was built on the
>> ethnic cleansing of indigenous populations and the exploitation of
>> millions of black slaves.
>>
>> Whatever the reason, we have been blind to the ethnic cleansing and
>> impending genocide of the Palestinian people. We have allowed five
>> million Palestinians to suffer under apartheid while another six
>> million were forced from their homeland. We have defended Israel
>> against against worldwide condemnation, supplied it with high tech
>> weaponry, and given it billions in US aid. Moreover, our Congress
>> commends each new slaughter in Gaza, insuring that the “civilized”
>> American people will be forever linked with the fate of the
>> Palestinians.
>>
>> Fred Nagel