What was it that needs to be told to Israel and the other children of man? i.e. Of Cain?
One male tour guide explained why no one was allowed to enter that train car at the end of those tracks which go nowhere.
The guide stated, “Jews are not called here to look back at the past and focus only on the past. We are called to learn from it and to do something about our future.”
He emphasized again, “We need to come to grips with what the events of the holocaust mean for us today and for our future?”
I wanted to reply, “Obviously, the less is clear. Stop building walls and barriers. Stop promoting killers—whether they are named Cain or Abel! Please juxtapose the cement of the Yad Vesham walls to the Walls being built around you in Israel in the name of security and peace!”
I thought, “For an Israeli today, the lessons from the holocaust should be NEVER AGAIN just as your ancestors promised 3 to 4 generations ago! That is, you all had promised never to equate a whole people or peoples to be the cause of all that troubles you. Do as you promised in the Museum Yad Vashem and elsewhere to do.”
“The Blaming of the Other for your own crimes in the name of security is how the Germans and there bystanders came to join the perpetrators so readily in the time of the Holocaust. If you haven’t learned this here at Yad Vashem, the Yad Vashem Museum governing committee must demand a better set of displays be set up immediately.”
NOTES
Israel's Wall on the West Bank, http://www.vtjp.org/background/Separation_Wall_Report.htm
Mosche Safde, The Holocaust Museum, http://www.arcspace.com/architects/Safdie/holocaust/yad_vashem.html
Other Memorials, C-Z, http://www.fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/resource/gallery/galleryo.htm
Yad Vashem, http://www.yadvashem.org/
Yad Vashem on Flicker, http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicasaurusrex/1387946227/
