The Holocaust, the Fiction of International Law, and the Necessity of a Self-Reliant Israel
“A moral code upheld by a narrow elite whose sense of self seems unaffected by half a million dead Syrians.”
November 29, 2018
The Holocaust, the Fiction of International Law, and the Necessity of a Self-Reliant Israel
“A moral code upheld by a narrow elite whose sense of self seems unaffected by half a million dead Syrians.”
A recent article about the Kindertransport—the rescue by Great Britain of some 10,000 Jewish children from Germany and Austria on the eve of World War II—noted that any celebration of British generosity must be tempered by the facts that London did not allow Jewish adults into the country and, at the same time, barred Jewish immigration to Palestine. In other words, writes Haviv Rettig Gur, Britain, despite this singular act of heroism, is also “responsible for the orphaning of the very children it saved, and in no small part for the trap European Jews were placed in as the Nazi grip tightened.” He draws some enduring lessons for the Jewish people and the state of Israel:
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