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On the occasion of Israel’s 60th birthday, George W. Bush decided to turn the celebration into a sideshow over U.S. domestic politics. His equating of diplomacy with “appeasement” is ludicrous on its face. And his claim, through his press secretary, that the comment was not aimed at Senator Obama, is equally incredible. Beyond that, the invoking of the Holocaust is an insult to all Holocaust survivors, as well as the slaughtered, which trivializes one of history’s worst atrocities. To do so in Israel, of all places, pours salt into their wounds.
The point of taking a stand against the appeasement of Hitler, is to take a moral stand against the murderous Nazi regime. As the head of an administration that called the Geneva Convention “quaint,” who tried to find ways to justify and disguise the practice of torture, and who led our country to its first “preventive” war, George W. Bush has no standing to cry “appeasement.”
As the family member of Holocaust victims and survivors, I resent our president exploiting their pain in the service of a cheap political stunt.
