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that in the name of security you
can do things that otherwise
would be unacceptable."
The program, however,
would not in any way equate
the Armenian and Gypsy geno-
cides with the Holocaust. It
would teach the matter of geno-
cide as a wholly separate sub-
ject from the Holocaust, Drs.
Gordon and Oron said in recent
interviews.
But after some Israeli news-
papers wrongly reported that
Holocaust studies in the high
schools were going to be opened
up to include the mass murders
of Armenians and Gypsies,
Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad
Vashem, blasted the idea.
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the world know the
Holocaust, I have to
also demand my
own people address
the genocide of the
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Shalev said "Sensitivity to Suf-
fering in the World" would "blur
the unique Jewish character of
the Holocaust," and even play
into the hands of Holocaust de-
niers by giving weight to their
claim that the Holocaust was
merely one of many "out-
break[s] of violence in the his-
tory of the 20th Century."
This is a doomsday scenario
which has nothing to do with
the intentions of the program.
But it seems that if a genocide
lesson plan is finally adopted in
the high schools, it will lead
many students to look at the
Holocaust in a different context,
to see that even if the Jews were
unique among genocide victims,
they were not alone. The pro-
gram is also bound to confront
the xenophobia felt by many of
Israel's youth.
"I agree that the Holocaust
was unique. I think it was an
extreme example of genocide,
and different from other ones,"
Dr. Oron said. But, he pointed
out, that doesn't mean it was
unique in every detail, that no
comparisons can be made be-
tween it and other genocides,
that it has no meaning beyond
a Jewish or Zionist one.
He asked: "How can we know
why and how the Holocaust
was unique if we don't know
what happened to other peo-
ple?" ❑
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