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THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS

A 'Personal Religionship' Tempered by Six Million

to succeed in destroying
the UN Partition Plan bor- sent comfortable lifestyle
important than Jewish be a witness?I know my role
Jewish faith where he failed
(Continued from Page 22)
ders of 1947 peace borders and my desire to live with
is
universal.
I
know
I
must
to destroy the Jewish
death.
Judaism by himself
these other children of the
then,
but
will
become
so
I was only nine-years-old fight evil and injustices
people.
cooperating in its destruc-
now? Why should I return Holocaust.
at
the
time
but
I
remember
perpetrated
on
all
people.
I
tion. In ancient times, the
his gun to the bandit as a
Yet I believe that as a
unthinkable sin was the crisis atmosphere that am to protest against Viet-
reward for having failed to child of the Holocaust living
idolatry. Today, it is to re- set into my home in May nams and black ghetto con-
kill me?
outside of Israel, I can still
spond to Hitler by doing his and June of 1967. Again the ditions just as I am to alarm
Jews fought alone. the world about the troubles
work.
I want peace peace peace follow the Commanding
of
Soviet
Jews.
Voice of Auschwitz. It de-
The
world
watched
as
As a child of the
peace, peace peace peace.
CUSTOM FURNITURE &
I am to continue in the
termines so much of my
Holocaust, I always have Hitler and Geobbels were
I
am
ready
to
give
every-
high
moral
tradition
of
my
identity, my beliefs and my
been looking for its mean- reborn in Cairo and
CARPET CLEANING
thing back in exchange for actions. I know that the first
ing. I have been searching Damascus. The call was people that gave to the
peace. And I shall give no- Holocaust makes a second
ON LOCATION
for some redemptive qual- heard to "drive the Jews world the Ten Command-
thing back without peace.
one more, not less, likely.
ity. Fackenheim claims that into the sea." The re- ments, the prophets, Chris-
tianity
and
Islam,
Moses,
I am ready to solve the ref- Therefore I must remain a
this is futile; all I can get sponse from the world
ugee problem. I am readi to strongly committed Jew
from the Holocaust is a was silence. Facing an- Marx and Einstein.
Yet I have trouble in
accept an independent and I must bear witness. For
commandment. It has be- other Holocaust, Israel
Palestinian state. I am ready to do less would allow Hitler
come our holy duty to tell responded with one of explaining the Holocaust
and the role of the Jewish
to sit and talk. About every-
the tale and keep the mem- history's greatest
thing all at the same time.
ory alive; to live as Jews and tary and spiritual people to my Christian
triumphs.
It
was
then
friends.
I
cannot
com-
Direct
talks, indirect talks,
maintain Jewish survival;
on a $100,000
all this is immaterial. But
to maintain hope and to not that the world spoke up municate to them Hitler's
(as
it
does
today)
and
step-by-step
rise
to
special purchase
peace.
despair; and, to continue to
wrestle with and try to condemned Israel as an power that led to the
Until you agree to have
by the hank
"aggressor"
even
as
it
German
machine
of
de-
understand God.
peace, I shall give back no-
If I am to believe Fac- fought for its own life. struction. They do not
thing. And if you force me to
The
memory
of
the
understand
that
every
at-
kenheim, then my role as
become a conqueror, I shall
a child of the Holocaust is Holocaust had long been tack against Israel is an
become a conqueror. And if
to bear witness, like the forgotten by the rest of attack against all Jews
you force me to become an
the
world.
Fackenheim
and
why
Israel
must
re-
historical role of the
oppressor,
I shall become an
spond to each attack.
Jews. I am to be a con- writes:
oppressor. And if you force
A friend of mine tells me
If in May 1967 the Chris-
We made a sensational special purchase through the coopera-
science for the world. I
me into the same camp with
tian community did not cry that Israel must negotiate
tion of the Japanese government, acquiring an exquisite collec-
am to point out its evil. I
all the forces of darkness in
tion of pearls by the hank. prior to the rise of the yen. We saved
out against a second Au- with the PLO while we sit
am to maintain hope and
the world, there I shall be.
and
watch
a
show
on
the
lot of money ... and so will you!
schwitz,
it
was
not
because
of
a
work for mankind's bet-
its indifference to the words Holocaust. I point to the
Another one of my friends
terment. And I do this all
television
set
and
tell
him
emanating from Cairo and
tells me that he cannot
with the knowledge of the
Damascus, but rather be- that you cannot talk with
morally support Israel be-
Holocaust.
cause it did not hear them. It someone who points a gun
cause he is apolitical and
Someday I am going to
at your head and wants to
failed
to
recognize
the
would in turn be siding
have to teach my own chil-
danger of a second destroy you. How many
politically against the Arab
dren of the Holocaust while
more Jewish dead must
Holocaust
because
it
has
yet
states. Though he will not
telling them not to despair
to recognize the fact of the there be? The Jewish people
admit his support for Israel
over all the evil in the
have
been
pacifists
long
now — even though he rec-
world. This is not an easy first.
Since
the
Yom
Kippur
enough
and
they
have
suf-
ognizes the plight of world
task and I do not claim to
War in 1973, most of the fered long enough. They
Jewry — he assures me that
understand it. I neither
world
has
shown
its
readi-
must
stand
up
to
terror
be-
he will hide me in his home
claim that I am capable of it
ness to sell Jews in order to cause the world does not.
if there is another
but I will not try to shrink
buy
Arab
oil.
I
see
signs
at
I
ask
him
if
he
has
ever
Holocaust. This assurance
from it. Why? For I will not
my
own
university
saying
read
the
PLO
Charter
or
if
is not enough for me.
allow Hitler posthumous
"Jewish people, Yes; he is familiar with its his-
victory.
I live a bourgeois Ameri-
Zionism,
No."
Still
I
have
to
tory
and
rhetoric.
Doesn't
Yet as a witness, how well
can lifestyle and all my
have I done? How long did it prove my right to live! he know that the PLO has
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all
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secu-
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de-
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