Palestine

“I have suffered fear, hunger and humiliation when I passed from the Warsaw Ghetto, through labor camps, to Buchenwald. Today, as a citizen of Israel, I cannot accept the systematic destruction of cities, towns and refugee camps. I cannot accept the technocratic cruelty of the bombing . . . I hear familiar sounds today . . . I hear ‘dirty Arabs’ and I remember ‘dirty Jews’. I hear about ‘closed areas’ and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear ‘two-legged beasts’ and I remember ‘Untermenschen’ [‘subhumans’] . . . Too many things in Israel remind me of too many things . . .”
-Dr. Schlomo Shmelzman, Holocaust Survivor