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shanshee_allures Mar 3, 2009 18:08:01
Replying to handofdave

See I don't disagree with you and Grufty but what I mean is the usual reaction to even visiting Auswitch is one of 'disbelief' and a yearning that humanity never goes down that route again. Yeah yeah pie in the sky stuff maybe.

A mate of mine went recently (no real connections or nowt) and she said she was floored by what she saw. She didn't expect to be, but she had a lump in her throat for days afterwards, and she was truly disturbed by what she saw.

I just get the feeling that the Israeli psyche isn't driven by any of that part of it in the least, and they'd bulldoze anyone who suggested they should maybe try to. That's all.
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handofdave Mar 3, 2009 18:17:48
Replying to shanshee_allures

Well, I'm in agreement with Jim on this. I think the Holocaust looms hugely in the mind of Israelis. How can it not?

What is different about them and your friend is that they are the survivors and the children and grandchildren of the survivors. They are INTIMATELY connected to the Holocaust. They KNEW people who died. And they see that unbelievable horror not as an abstract historical case of mankind's brutality, but a very personal, living memory.

And so their reaction, their 'reflection' to all of this is to protect themselves. Often too vigorously. But it's understandable to me why they refuse to sit around and pull their hair and weep about it. They don't have that luxury. And they intend to live despite their many enemies goals of destroying them.