At Yad Vashem, a visibly moved Obama says 'never again'

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“The State of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust, but with the survival of the State of Israel there will never be a Holocaust again,” U.S. President Barack Obama said in brief remarks to the press this morning following his visit to the Yad Vashem memorial to the 1.5 million children murdered during the Holocaust.

Visibly moved during his hour-long visit to Israel’s official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, the president made his remarks after signing the Yad Vashem guest book. “Here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarism that unfolds when we get to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and of life,” he said. “We see how evil can for a moment in time triumph when good people do nothing.

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Following Obama’s remarks to the press, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev presented him with a unique manuscript – the sheet music to an original melody of traditional Passover song “Had Gadya,” written by the chief cantor of Amsterdam who was murdered with most of his family in the Sobibor death camp.

“A wonderful gift,” said Obama upon receiving it. “I’ll cherish this always.”

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"Everything in this trip is rife with significance and symbolism not necessarily understandable to people around the world but poignantly meaningful to people in the Middle East,” Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, told Haaretz just before the president arrived at Yad Vashem. “By laying a wreath at Herzl's grave just now – an act that other foreign leaders have refused to do – President Obama was reaffirming Zionism and the idea of a Jewish state."

http://www.haaretz.com/news/obama-visits-israel/at-yad-vashem-a-visibly-moved-obama-says-never-again.premium-1.511346

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/22/5-powerful-pictures-from-president-obama-s-visit-to-yad-vashem.html

Edited March 22, 2013 by ^_^

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“Here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarism that unfolds when we get to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and of life,” he said. “We see how evil can for a moment in time triumph when good people do nothing.

my god the irony.

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my god the irony.

About as much irony as when he as the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES *and* as a BLACK AMERICAN talked about Israel's "demographic threat" from non-Jewish babies.

“Given the demographics west of the Jordan River, the only way for Israel to endure and thrive as a Jewish and democratic state...”

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Nice choices in the poll questions.

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13 posts removed for off topic or personal attacks. you know who you are.

continue and get the hammer.

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Nice choices in the poll questions.

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None of the above?