By Tom Segev, Haaretz Correspondent: Obama's Buchenwald visit seen as balance to Cairo speech
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Title:Buchenwald=Balance to Obama Speech
Name:Joe
City: State: USA
What do the Arabs( Christiand and Muslims) and Muslims have with the Holocaust??? The holocaust , a human tragedy that befell 13 million people including 6 million Jews in EUROPE and perpetrated by Europeans . Obama was addressing the WRONG crowd when he brought up the issue of the Holocaust in his speech. We understand the concept that Jews had been traumatized by the holocaust , but the world should not deny the Palestinians their experience with tragedy and blame it on the holocaust . I do not get the connection. If the Israelis want empathy for the holocaust from the Palestinians , ISRAEL must recognize the "Trauma " it inflicted on the Palestinians.The Palestinains had paid dearly for the atrocities of the West.....This recognition had never been fothcoming. Israel always stated publicly that it has no moral responsibility for the Palestinian Nakba.....