Today's discussion questions

[sabotabby]

It's another one of those long days at school and I won't be around, so here are two discussion questions for you. Fight talk amongst yourselves.

1. What do we think of this news story? There's a lot in there, so let's pick it to pieces.

2. Speaking of genocide, the Toronto District School Board has a new history course dealing with the subject. It officially recognizes three genocides: Armenia, the Holocaust, and Rwanda. What's missing, and why do you think they chose to exclude the genocide that happened in the country where the course will be taught.

Have a happy Friday!

Comments

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Just like you mention, Bush uses the Holocaust in an utterly manipulative (and historically distorted) way to justify current U.S. foreign politics.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Israel uses to Holocaust to justify anything it does. A few months ago Benjamin "the effing Hawk" Netanyahu was saying that Iran is Nazi Germany and that the year was 1938, trying to be all metaphorical in order to be on the offensive about Iran.

It drives me bananas that the Holocaust is used to advance politics and policies, while the Israeli gov. is waiting for the survivors (in Israel) to die already so that they can really distort the fact without having any actual *witness* say otherwise.

Sorry for the rant, but the use of the Holocaust as a propaganda mechanism really touches a nerve.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Furthermore, the overuse of the Holocaust card brings about a decline in support for Israel among young American Jews. So it isn't just manipulative, but it is also stupid and bad for the Israeli Jews themselves (umm... ourselves).
What Bush says about Jews "standing strong for what they believed" is ahistorical. This isn't 1492 Spain where Jews were offered the option of converting to Christianity or leaving the country. They were exterminated on grounds having nothing to do with their religion.