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Confessions of an anti-German racist
By Bradley Burston

As a person who finds it difficult to sit still, I like nothing better than to travel. The road is in my very blood. My father taught me to drive when I was 12. By the time I was 23, I had driven through all 48 of the contiguous United States and, by boat, had toured Hawaii as well.

I can think of very few places that I would not love to visit before I die.

Unfair as I know it is, Germany is the only one which immediately comes to mind.

I have a generous list of places I yearn to tour, sites of rapture, repositories of culture, fine art and architecture, treasure troves of natural splendor, countries where a great time is guaranteed, nations justly renowned for food, music and hospitality.

Germany is, without question, all of these. By any measure, it deserves to be right there on the agenda. But I can't do it. I can't seem to add Germany to the list.

The reason, I have come to believe, is racism.

My racism.

My heart goes out to the people of Germany. The vast majority were born well after Adolf Hitler killed himself 62 years ago next week. Yet they still must contend with, seek to make sense of, or strive to ignore, the crimes that the Nazi regime committed in the name of the German people. Part of this is only natural, in view of the enormity of the crimes. But another part of this is because of people like me.

There is no rational reason for me to want to avoid Germany.

I have had the true pleasure of getting to know many Germans who have visited and worked here in Israel. I found them to be lovely people, people of humor and intellect and sensitivity, of ethics and good-heartedness. They're no different from anyone else.

Yet, somewhere very deep inside, I still blame their country for what happened to my people. And if I blame their country, I blame them too.

The perceptive will note that in trying not to forget, I have managed not to forgive. Moreover, I don't believe that I am alone in this.

All those years ago, when I was learning to drive, there were adults who insisted that they would never buy a German car, never use a German camera, never fly Lufthansa. "The Volkswagen was Hitler's baby," they would tell me. "Mercedes? The fuhrer rode them in parades. Porsche? Ferdinand Porsche designed the Beetle."

Some of them were Holocaust survivors. Others were American Jews who felt a certain guilt over Roosevelt's failure to stop the Nazi extermination machine in time. I understood their boycotts.

But I don't really understand mine.

In the years since the war, Germany has been of tremendous aid to Israel. It has been an ally diplomatically, and Germany has also tried its best to ease the financial burdens of survivors.

I know all this, and yet my suspicion of Germany, my inability to reconcile, remain. They surfaced this week, when I went to see Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), the Oscar-winning German film, which suggested to me that in some respects the East German regime, formally the antithesis of Nazism, was in fact its direct heir.

Is there something cultural about Germany that allowed Nazism to construct a genocide apparatus of unrivaled efficacy? Perhaps. But that is a question for Germans to address.

As for me, I have to learn that Never Again does not mean never forgive. It does not mean that the war against the Nazis is still going on. I have to learn that my anger, let's call it what it is, my anti-German racism, is energy selfishly wasted, energy that could be mobilized to fight the actual evils of this day; unchecked genocide in Africa, runaway war in Iraq and runaway war right here.

My heart goes out to the German people. May I someday find a way to learn the lessons they have to teach.

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  1.   YOU`RE NOT A RACIST 09:44  |  indrajaya 27/04/07
  2.   IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF FORGIVING 09:54  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  3.   it is not up to YOU to forgive..... 10:05  |  gabriela 27/04/07
  4.   Simon Wiesenthal Taught Me How To Respond! 10:06  |  Yosemite 27/04/07
  5.   How could Germans of all nations... 1 10:06  |  Uri 27/04/07
  6.   Backwards Bradley 10:08  |  Klaudia 27/04/07
  7.   normalcy 10:08  |  Anna 27/04/07
  8.   Germany - gulp! 10:10  |  English Resident 27/04/07
  9.   Germany past and present 10:16  |  MarkC 27/04/07
  10.   anti-German racism 10:17  |  chris 27/04/07
  11.   Israel and Germany 10:17  |  Cord H. Kaldrack 27/04/07
  12.   weirdo... 10:24  |  Tara 27/04/07
  13.   How could Germans... 2 10:25  |  Uri 27/04/07
  14.   Innocence and Guilt 10:35  |  Joseph 27/04/07
  15.   How Come All Muslims Can`t Be Like Indrajaya? 10:42  |  Yosemite 27/04/07
  16.   How could Germans... 3 10:44  |  Uri 27/04/07
  17.   Germans are often heroes in the eyes of third world nations 10:45  |  Mark B. 27/04/07
  18.   No learning from history 10:46  |  Burkhardt 27/04/07
  19.   germany 10:48  |  sweis Melbourne 27/04/07
  20.   Bradley took me by surprise 10:55  |  Alicia 27/04/07
  21.   Bradley, Germans and Israelis 10:56  |  Clickfool 27/04/07
  22.   Mark #10, NOT the same Germans!!!! 11:02  |  Uri 27/04/07
  23.   Imagine... 11:04  |  Manu 27/04/07
  24.   israeli racism 11:10  |  cool 27/04/07
  25.   Bradley Excellent Thoughts 11:11  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  26.   Weirdo (Post No. 13) 11:12  |  Johnny Weintraub 27/04/07
  27.   your personal outpouring lately... 11:19  |  ulrike 27/04/07
  28.   Tara, china is the top exporter 11:22  |  Dror 27/04/07
  29.   Racism 12:19  |  cfs 27/04/07
  30.   When I see a German 12:29  |  Boris 27/04/07
  31.   #22, Dror - Correction 12:31  |  Burkhardt 27/04/07
  32.   I understand Bradley 12:38  |  S 27/04/07
  33.   Brad`s racism 12:38  |  MJ Eizen 27/04/07
  34.   Germany is but one example where Jews met a tragic fate 12:47  |  Joe 27/04/07
  35.   one common enemy 12:48  |  Michael 27/04/07
  36.   No 29 Burkhardt Covers Up For Germany`s Crimes 12:53  |  Ben Israel 27/04/07
  37.   The Nazi Death Machine...Part of the 20th Century Horror Story 12:56  |  Klaudia 27/04/07
  38.   Response from a German 12:58  |  Jonathan 27/04/07
  39.   Your heart need not go out to the Germans 13:00  |  Shalom Freedman 27/04/07
  40.   What Bradley misses in his Confessions. 13:03  |  Akram Zekaria 27/04/07
  41.   germany / austria 13:38  |  canadian observer 27/04/07
  42.   germany....constant problem 13:40  |  tiara 27/04/07
  43.   welcome to germany 13:41  |  fili 27/04/07
  44.   clickfool no. 22 13:47  |  saul a. readner 27/04/07
  45.   cool in germany, no. 24 13:50  |  saul a. readner 27/04/07
  46.   Response to Jonathan re #33 13:57  |  Hastaroth 27/04/07
  47.   Ambivalence 14:00  |  Daniel 27/04/07
  48.   Klaudia 14:01  |  christoph 27/04/07
  49.   Joe in Ramallah #29 14:08  |  Hastaroth 27/04/07
  50.   #31, Ben Israel 14:11  |  Burkhardt 27/04/07
  51.   I am Jewish and I like visiting Germany 14:15  |  John Taylor 27/04/07
  52.   Ambivalence to partly German owned Israeli Newspapers 14:20  |  Daniel 27/04/07
  53.   So sorry... 14:27  |  Citizen 27/04/07
  54.   #28 brush up on statistics .... 14:32  |  Tara 27/04/07
  55.   #12 14:32  |  j10 27/04/07
  56.   It`s Not Racism, It`s Valid Outrage 14:39  |  Dyinglikeflies 27/04/07
  57.   Bradley Burston`s article 14:46  |  Chrisa 27/04/07
  58.   little precision: "Jew" 14:48  |  christoph 27/04/07
  59.   Both sides will need centuries to reconcile 14:48  |  cc 27/04/07
  60.   Choose life! 14:50  |  Joseph 27/04/07
  61.   And What About the Nakba? 15:02  |  Randy 27/04/07
  62.   anti-german racist 15:05  |  Dan Fisher 27/04/07
  63.   Christoph and Klaudia: Machines 15:08  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  64.   The ambivalence is natural 15:09  |  Jonathan S 27/04/07
  65.   No Nazis? 15:09  |  Helen 27/04/07
  66.   44 Burkhardt 15:16  |  Amir 27/04/07
  67.   Burst on: "Add Germany to the list: The reason is racism." 15:17  |  Avraham 27/04/07
  68.   Are you the same person? 15:19  |  Philip 27/04/07
  69.   Ramallah Joe: Priorities 15:28  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  70.   Love it: Post war Germany 15:29  |  Joe 27/04/07
  71.   Bradley, Germans and moral outrage. 15:35  |  Star of David 27/04/07
  72.   #30 such nonsense 15:41  |  RT 27/04/07
  73.   burkhardt # 44 15:44  |  scallywag 27/04/07
  74.   I went to Germany at 20, and cried my eyes out 15:45  |  Jason 27/04/07
  75.   Funny you should say that Bradley 15:49  |  Danite 27/04/07
  76.   Again? 15:52  |  Omran 27/04/07
  77.   Tara #13 Lampshades 15:53  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  78.   how to explain this, then? 15:54  |  whodey 27/04/07
  79.   Emotions ulrike are actually a fine Jewish trait 15:55  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  80.   Germanophobia equals Anti-Semitism 16:03  |  Paul Henzen 27/04/07
  81.   maybe you don`t want to visit Germany because... 16:08  |  newageblues 27/04/07
  82.   To admit the ill, is first step to recovery. Bradley, you`re 16:18  |  Virginia 27/04/07
  83.   You are a RACIST, no doubt!!! 16:25  |  Brad 27/04/07
  84.   You can forgive, just never forget 16:26  |  Michael N 27/04/07
  85.   germans 16:30  |  Gus 27/04/07
  86.   germans cot`d 16:39  |  Gus 27/04/07
  87.   #4 Gabriela in Germany, matter of forgiveness... 16:46  |  THK 27/04/07
  88.   Come Off It, Bradley 16:49  |  C. Siegel 27/04/07
  89.   To #19,32,44 Burkhardt& Ben Israel 16:50  |  American in NY 27/04/07
  90.   #28 Dror 16:56  |  SP 27/04/07
  91.   Friendly Germany 16:58  |  Gus 27/04/07
  92.   Tara Stop Picking Your Nose 17:01  |  Yosemite 27/04/07
  93.   to Omran#48 17:01  |  tiara 27/04/07
  94.   coquetish Mr. Burston 17:13  |  17 27/04/07
  95.   Karl Korsch; Rosa Luxemborg etc Weimar 17:19  |  Paul 27/04/07
  96.   As a child of holocoust survivors, I totaly 17:22  |  TOMY 27/04/07
  97.   Bradley, Anyway 17:22  |  Yosemite 27/04/07
  98.   # 3 Cipora JK 17:23  |  Lynn 27/04/07
  99.   Get real! 17:24  |  Citizen 27/04/07
  100.   # 34 Jonathan 17:26  |  Lynn 27/04/07
  101.   Confession of a Christian American 17:27  |  Slim 27/04/07
  102.   #35 Austria 17:28  |  Michael T 27/04/07
  103.   Reverse anti-semitism 17:31  |  TimothyL 27/04/07
  104.   important to talk about attitudes 17:33  |  svensp 27/04/07
  105.   Your not a racist! ME TOO! 17:34  |  Neil Golan 27/04/07
  106.   Forgive is a must 17:35  |  Fortuna Benmayor 27/04/07
  107.   The banality of evil 17:35  |  Tosefta 27/04/07
  108.   Danite, maybe it`s the past, maybe our general culture 17:43  |  christoph 27/04/07
  109.   #64 | Dear TimothyL 17:44  |  Citizen 27/04/07
  110.   # 22 To my half brother 17:46  |  Abu Clickfool 27/04/07
  111.   Tosefta You will Get Several Negative Responses to your Post 17:52  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  112.   #63 forgiveness 17:54  |  Chuck 27/04/07
  113.   #86 | Dear TimothyL 17:55  |  Citizen 27/04/07
  114.   Bradley Burston 17:57  |  Axel 27/04/07
  115.   slim, american christian, no. 84 17:59  |  saul a. readner 27/04/07
  116.   something in the german culture? 18:03  |  anat 27/04/07
  117.   3 million murdered after VE day 18:08  |  Marilyn 27/04/07
  118.   another response from germany 18:09  |  mark 27/04/07
  119.   Michael T: Scalpels and Roses 18:09  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  120.   # 90 TOSEFTA: impressive reading! 18:11  |  Alicia 27/04/07
  121.   Tosefta #75 18:13  |  plebian 27/04/07
  122.   Mark B 18:17  |  ODP 27/04/07
  123.   christoph 18:18  |  Danite 27/04/07
  124.   # 43 Hastaroth - can`t deal with the truth, eh? 18:19  |  Joe 27/04/07
  125.   Marilyn their is something very wrong with you 18:20  |  Danite 27/04/07
  126.   whodey 18:22  |  ODP 27/04/07
  127.   # 87 Svensp in Germany; Vielen Dank! 18:24  |  Alicia 27/04/07
  128.   Marilyn 18:27  |  anat 27/04/07
  129.   christof you need not 18:32  |  bev 27/04/07
  130.   to #87 18:42  |  tiara 27/04/07
  131.   I am German-born during WW2 18:49  |  heinz 27/04/07
  132.   #100 Thanks very much Chuck 18:53  |  THK 27/04/07
  133.   Confessions 19:03  |  Tascha 27/04/07
  134.   Clickfool number 22. 19:08  |  David Nigel Braham 27/04/07
  135.   I am German-born during WW2 19:09  |  Heinz 27/04/07
  136.   Tosefta 19:12  |  17 27/04/07
  137.   The Third Reich 19:12  |  Marilyn 27/04/07
  138.   @Danite, the freaky kid: Shame on you, hating clown! 19:12  |  Joe 27/04/07
  139.   #95, evil is never banal 19:21  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  140.   ##111Ronnie Wolman 19:23  |  Michael T 27/04/07
  141.   Confessions #2 19:24  |  Tascha 27/04/07
  142.   Marilyn is not crazy, she´s just a Moslem (F?) 19:31  |  Alicia 27/04/07
  143.   #90, Lynn 19:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  144.   Danite 19:48  |  christoph 27/04/07
  145.   marilyn are you demented??? 19:56  |  danite 27/04/07
  146.   Cipora shalom 19:58  |  danite 27/04/07
  147.   #118, Danite: the value of slogans 19:59  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  148.   to heinz, born in germany 20:00  |  mark 27/04/07
  149.   Joe the dummy dumb dummy 20:00  |  Danite 27/04/07
  150.   Modern Germany vs Turkey - the repentant sinners 20:03  |  dana 27/04/07
  151.   Christoph 20:06  |  Danite 27/04/07
  152.   Michael T: Too Few 20:08  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  153.   Cipora#149 20:10  |  Danite 27/04/07
  154.   Bradley`s un-finished journey ! 20:13  |  Akram Zekaria 27/04/07
  155.   Tosefta`s folly 20:13  |  peter 27/04/07
  156.   stop living in the past...the present needs you. 20:16  |  Adam 27/04/07
  157.   Germany vs. Turkey and c ollective guilt - Part II 20:17  |  dana 27/04/07
  158.   #141 Cipora, I agree. The evil we see in the Holocaust was 20:25  |  Virginia 27/04/07
  159.   People can learn alot from Marilyn`s posts 20:31  |  Joe 27/04/07
  160.   Danite 20:34  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  161.   #68, Amir 20:39  |  Burkhardt 27/04/07
  162.   Cipora #118 20:43  |  S 27/04/07
  163.   #152,159, dana: some more myth making 20:46  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  164.   I used to feel the same way 20:47  |  Encinoman 27/04/07
  165.   future history 20:50  |  nevermind 27/04/07
  166.   Cipora shalom 20:50  |  Danite 27/04/07
  167.   So far, not so bad (Ronnie Wolman #114) 20:51  |  Tosefta 27/04/07
  168.   An additional thought to my #161 post and Tosefta`s 20:52  |  Virginia 27/04/07
  169.   and yet another 20:52  |  NR 27/04/07
  170.   German Here! 20:53  |  Das Heimler 27/04/07
  171.   true 20:56  |  nana 27/04/07
  172.   Silent Majorities Remain Silent 21:01  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  173.   It should have been Cipora # 150, not 118. 21:01  |  S 27/04/07
  174.   i forgot 21:07  |  nana 27/04/07
  175.   to TARA 21:08  |  TAZ 27/04/07
  176.   #114, Ronnie Wolman 21:25  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  177.   Just the Germans? 21:30  |  J DAlessandro 27/04/07
  178.   #165, S 21:33  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  179.   to Clickfool 21:37  |  TAZ 27/04/07
  180.   Cipora JK #166 - on historical accuracies and real contrition 21:40  |  dana 27/04/07
  181.   joe #162 - I beg to differ on one point 21:58  |  dana 27/04/07
  182.   GERMANY And DISLIKE 22:08  |  JOJO 27/04/07
  183.   In one thousand years... 22:11  |  Schtarker Yid 27/04/07
  184.   Golda Meir Quote - "There was no such thing as Palestinians" 22:20  |  Randy 27/04/07
  185.   To Cickfool re "decent folk" of Israel 22:37  |  Lee 27/04/07
  186.   #172, dana 22:39  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 27/04/07
  187.   To Paul Henzen 22:42  |  Lee 27/04/07
  188.   Thanks; Alicia, Plebian 22:57  |  Tosefta 27/04/07
  189.   So far, not so bad (Ronnie Wolman #114) 22:58  |  Tosefta 27/04/07
  190.   Christian ethos for Bradley 22:58  |  abd 27/04/07
  191.   Myths about the Holocaust (Cipora JK #142) 23:00  |  Tosefta 27/04/07
  192.   # 142 Cipora Julianna Kohn. WELL SAID. 23:05  |  Kath` 27/04/07
  193.   germans saved a lot of jews... 23:06  |  maria 27/04/07
  194.   palestinians and jordanians are the same people... 23:13  |  maria 27/04/07
  195.   164 Burkhardt 23:18  |  Amir 27/04/07
  196.   Just to be inflammatory. 23:26  |  Colin Wright 27/04/07
  197.   Understanding the Holocaust 23:33  |  Danite 27/04/07
  198.   loudmouths continue to bluster 23:34  |  peter 27/04/07
  199.   Tosefta and Cipora:The Idiotic and The Symbiotic 23:35  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  200.   I felt the same: Wasted Energy 23:36  |  semsem 27/04/07
  201.   maria - Arabs and Jew are the same people 23:48  |  Semite 27/04/07
  202.   Cipora: As the nazis now Know there is No Perfection 23:48  |  Ronnie Wolman 27/04/07
  203.   Randy - Yes, first stage of racism is not even achk. 23:50  |  ME 27/04/07
  204.   Tosefta: Biologists Mistake 00:03  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  205.   #194, Tosefta: the UN has dedicated an entire day to the Shoa 00:05  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/04/07
  206.   #195, Kath* 00:24  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/04/07
  207.   Don`t blame children for sins of their fathers and Hitler 00:30  |  The Equalizer 28/04/07
  208.   #202, Ronnie Wolman 00:32  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/04/07
  209.   Germany and clickfool(part 1) 00:38  |  Connie 28/04/07
  210.   Anti-Danite + anti-Burston + anti-stupidity = pro-Israel! 00:38  |  Just Another Citizen 28/04/07
  211.   winds of jewish freedom blowin` from the egdes of the East , 00:39  |  Joseph E . 28/04/07
  212.   Ronnie Wolman 00:44  |  Danite 28/04/07
  213.   # 175 Ronnie - So true, and lots to think about. 00:44  |  Virginia 28/04/07
  214.   Germans are just fine! 00:46  |  Esther 28/04/07
  215.   Christian ethos??? 00:47  |  sweis Melbourne 28/04/07
  216.   maria 00:49  |  sweis Melbourne 28/04/07
  217.   Nazi-law: Germans were not allowed to marry Jews... 00:56  |  Anti-racist 28/04/07
  218.   #186 Schtarker Yid 00:57  |  17 28/04/07
  219.   Just another citizen 00:59  |  Danite 28/04/07
  220.   Shabbat Shalom - time to get ready for services. See ya 01:05  |  Virginia 28/04/07
  221.   Virginia there is too much of jumping to Conclusions here 01:12  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  222.   # 208 C-J Kohn 01:15  |  17 28/04/07
  223.   antigerman rasism 01:37  |  vladimir 28/04/07
  224.   Danite Arschloch 01:54  |  Just Another Citizen 28/04/07
  225.   Why don`t you not forgive God 01:58  |  Chunfla 28/04/07
  226.   Burston got it all wrong 01:58  |  Dr. Daniel Pipes 28/04/07
  227.   To: Connie, # 212, You have suffered much. 02:01  |  Harry 28/04/07
  228.   VIRGINIA 02:01  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/04/07
  229.   224 "Its a lot about perspective" Amen, the problem with 02:03  |  Virginia 28/04/07
  230.   #219 Canard 02:05  |  Axel 28/04/07
  231.   to abd posting 193 Wondering if you... 02:12  |  Karl 28/04/07
  232.   To "Danite" in no. 222 02:16  |  Halleluya 28/04/07
  233.   Mein Kampf 02:16  |  Michael 28/04/07
  234.   # 209 Cipora J.K. HOW CAN I FORGET ... 02:20  |  Kath` 28/04/07
  235.   # 146 Cipora JK 02:22  |  Lynn 28/04/07
  236.   Adressing DANITE 02:35  |  Avraham 28/04/07
  237.   Ronnie Wollman #202 Re Tosefta #194 and Cipora JK 02:45  |  dana 28/04/07
  238.   Hitler was all about dividing Germans and Jews 02:46  |  Rob 28/04/07
  239.   Harry 02:49  |  Connie 28/04/07
  240.   @Rob in no. 241: Bravo! Well said! 02:59  |  Humanist 28/04/07
  241.   To the Germans here, in view of Burston and posters 03:07  |  dana 28/04/07
  242.   Rosenstrasse 03:18  |  sweis Melbourne 28/04/07
  243.   Roberto 03:29  |  sweis Melbourne 28/04/07
  244.   Tosefta #110 - things that force revision of world view 03:33  |  dana 28/04/07
  245.   Biggest Lie of the Holocaust - it was only germany 03:41  |  topanga 28/04/07
  246.   The General Rabbinical Assembly of the UN (Cipora JK #208) 03:46  |  Tosefta 28/04/07
  247.   # 61 chistoph. A SMALL CORRECTION,,, 03:52  |  Kath` 28/04/07
  248.   Take it easy (Ronnie Wolman #202, 207) 03:57  |  Tosefta 28/04/07
  249.   Remember your own crimes 03:59  |  Robert Farrell 28/04/07
  250.   Tosefta: re#194 CJK 04:15  |  Star of David 28/04/07
  251.   Ronnie Wolman #175 04:28  |  Star of David 28/04/07
  252.   #252 Ethnic cleansing of Jews in Arab Lands 04:36  |  Laila 28/04/07
  253.   A similar experience (Dana #247) 04:57  |  Tosefta 28/04/07
  254.   No one nation is inherently able to commit atrocities 05:09  |  Smadar 28/04/07
  255.   Robert F. 05:33  |  sweis Melbourne 28/04/07
  256.   to Mark B. 05:38  |  Dodo 28/04/07
  257.   Jewish Racism 06:10  |  FriendofPalestine 28/04/07
  258.   260 Frindofpalestine - The Jewish state of Israel did not come 06:41  |  Ruti 28/04/07
  259.   Halleluya OY Vey already are you thick? 06:48  |  Danite 28/04/07
  260.   Avraham 06:49  |  Danite 28/04/07
  261.   dana 06:51  |  Danite 28/04/07
  262.   Tosefta: Epilogue 06:57  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  263.   No Animals 07:38  |  Fanny Korn 28/04/07
  264.   #184 Dana 07:55  |  Joe 28/04/07
  265.   thank you, Shalom Friedman "42" 08:08  |  Fanny Korn 28/04/07
  266.   Germans 08:38  |  Naim S. Mahlab 28/04/07
  267.   Smadar #257 - but if you were an israeli saying that... 08:44  |  dana 28/04/07
  268.   95# Cipora. A lesson for the Genliles. 09:03  |  Akram Zekaria 28/04/07
  269.   Ruti # 261 - Good point about the holocaust and 09:04  |  Beni 28/04/07
  270.   joe #267 - I should have made a distinction 09:26  |  dana 28/04/07
  271.   am racist too 09:58  |  bettina 28/04/07
  272.   Dr. Daniel Pipes 10:23  |  Yosemite 28/04/07
  273.   265# Ronnie Wolman. An option for a better World 10:24  |  Akram Zekaria 28/04/07
  274.   Bettina 10:33  |  Connie 28/04/07
  275.   Dear Bradley, please tell me... 10:53  |  Gabi 28/04/07
  276.   #273 dana 11:00  |  Joe 28/04/07
  277.   Toss to Dana #256 11:11  |  S 28/04/07
  278.   nazi-israel anology 11:17  |  mehmet 28/04/07
  279.   there is no one more awful on this site then dana 11:23  |  barbaraplettstears 28/04/07
  280.   Now Let`s Really Grow Up! Unprintable! 11:27  |  Yosemite 28/04/07
  281.   #273 dana 11:50  |  Joe 28/04/07
  282.   #277Connie. Are you the Haaretz Censor? 12:01  |  Maureen Ann 28/04/07
  283.   #142 Cipora Julianna Kohn 12:20  |  Boycott 28/04/07
  284.   to Fanny Korn #266 12:23  |  tiara 28/04/07
  285.   great column. history casts a long shadow. 12:26  |  NB 28/04/07
  286.   # 190 Lee - forgiveness is personal 12:29  |  Paul Henzen 28/04/07
  287.   Holocaust anger 12:32  |  Dror 28/04/07
  288.   # 269 Naim S. Mahlab - only half the story! 12:47  |  Paul Henzen 28/04/07
  289.   # 281 Mehmet - recognize YOUR Armenian genocide ! 12:55  |  Paul Henzen 28/04/07
  290.   As much as one can try to rectify the horrors Germans have tried. 13:03  |  PETER SM 28/04/07
  291.   Boycott #286: Teutonic Morality 13:29  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  292.   global warming and the missionary position 13:30  |  endisnigh 28/04/07
  293.   Forgiveness and the power of Jesus blood in redemption applicable 13:30  |  Simon 28/04/07
  294.   the financial times and paul wolfowitz 13:31  |  harvey morris 28/04/07
  295.   #262 Danite; EVIL does NOT care about the nationality! 13:34  |  Alicia 28/04/07
  296.   why did the financial times run a campaign 13:36  |  shermilla devi 28/04/07
  297.   writing against paul wolfowitz is the way the wind blows at ft 13:39  |  krishna guha 28/04/07
  298.   #281 Mehmet 13:47  |  Amir 28/04/07
  299.   #284 Joe in Ramallah 13:48  |  Alicia 28/04/07
  300.   Bradley Burston: Catastrophes and Catalysts 13:48  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  301.   Akram: The 20 Per Cent Solution 14:01  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  302.   boris number 33 14:18  |  joseph theeboom 28/04/07
  303.   # 278 Gabi, Your Honorable GFather 14:23  |  17 28/04/07
  304.   open your eyes 14:38  |  Mel Prophet 28/04/07
  305.   # 281 nazi-israel anology 14:44  |  17 28/04/07
  306.   BOYCOTT .Now that we have establihed that you "understand" Nazi 15:13  |  PETER SM 28/04/07
  307.   Bradley, great article!.There is much guilt in other nations, too 15:35  |  Toronto`s Finest 28/04/07
  308.   # 252 Robert Farrell thinks it is ETHNIC CLEANSING? 15:45  |  The Equalizer 28/04/07
  309.   For Harvey Morris # 292 15:48  |  Clickfool 28/04/07
  310.   For shermilla devi # 293 15:53  |  Clickfool 28/04/07
  311.   Harry Rama and the Financial Times 16:09  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  312.   Germans have learnt nothing 16:30  |  Jonathan S 28/04/07
  313.   You are one-step behind Bradley 16:39  |  Bill 28/04/07
  314.   THE Germans have faced their actions & work hard to make ammends 16:41  |  PETER SM 28/04/07
  315.   To Paul re 289 16:51  |  Lee 28/04/07
  316.   Prologue (Ronnie Wolman #265) 17:07  |  Tosefta 28/04/07
  317.   The myth of a Jewish-German symbiosis 17:08  |  Jonathan S 28/04/07
  318.   Boycott,to Hitler the War was secondary 17:08  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  319.   #303 Mel Prophet 17:16  |  17 28/04/07
  320.   #282 - barbaraplett.....- quite a distinction you give me here 17:19  |  dana 28/04/07
  321.   Germans or just evil people? 17:19  |  Allan Avery 28/04/07
  322.   indrajaya 1-4, Did you really write that out 4 times? 17:38  |  Virginia 28/04/07
  323.   Jewish explanations of the Holocaust 17:42  |  Tosefta 28/04/07
  324.   clickfool 17:53  |  shermilla devi 28/04/07
  325.   the ft is in the business of money 17:54  |  harvey morris 28/04/07
  326.   #294 Simon. Thanks for pointing to the very best lesson in 17:56  |  Virginia 28/04/07
  327.   the animosity of the ft has to be witnessed to be believed 17:56  |  shermilla devi 28/04/07
  328.   the ft`s motto is "without fear or favour" 18:01  |  harvey morris 28/04/07
  329.   irrespective of the rights of the case 18:08  |  harvey morris 28/04/07
  330.   I WOULD FEEL SAFER IN GERMANY TODAY AS A JEW 18:19  |  alonitzafoni 28/04/07
  331.   I understand you 18:25  |  Iasius 28/04/07
  332.   mehmet from Istanbul 19:02  |  Bruce 28/04/07
  333.   visiting germany 19:18  |  Gus 28/04/07
  334.   Tara 19:29  |  Sarah 28/04/07
  335.   Lasius,we may blame but you dont have to accept it 19:35  |  Ronnie Wolman 28/04/07
  336.   #140 - the title of the book is not "The Third Reich" 19:55  |  Mimi 28/04/07
  337.   #270 Dana, yes it`s quite unfortunate that when some 20:14  |  Smadar 28/04/07
  338.   #325 Germans dabbling Jew-haters? 20:38  |  Frank 28/04/07
  339.   Yes, Tosefta - God can relate to their suffering 20:40  |  Virginia 28/04/07
  340.   #312 Dear TOSEFTA - Part 1 20:41  |  Alicia 28/04/07
  341.   why has the financial times kept quiet about 20:46  |  shamelessft 28/04/07
  342.   Messianic explanation of the Holocaust... 20:48  |  Virginia 28/04/07
  343.   something rather interesting 20:51  |  goldmansachs 28/04/07
  344.   #312 Dear TOSEFTA - Part 2 21:04  |  Alicia 28/04/07
  345.   #312 Dear TOSEFTA - Part 3 21:13  |  Alicia 28/04/07
  346.   Harvey Morris #292 21:15  |  Factual 28/04/07
  347.   #324 Frank 21:19  |  17 28/04/07
  348.   #268, Akram Zekaria 21:29  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/04/07
  349.   Alicia on Theology 21:37  |  Tosefta 28/04/07
  350.   Virginia #326 21:42  |  Tosefta 28/04/07
  351.   for Frank from Germany #325 21:47  |  Sam 28/04/07
  352.   #245, topanga, some truths for you 21:47  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/04/07
  353.   False Tosefta Alert 21:56  |  Tosefta 28/04/07
  354.   responding to frank 22:06  |  Gus 28/04/07
  355.   Germany Recognized Its Sins, Turkey and The Mufti did Not 22:07  |  Efox