In a message dated 3/3/2004 9:34:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > How noble of you to represent all of Britain. I'm sure that your father's military > career must be a great comfort to > those who lost family in the Holocaust. > > Avital Avital, I'm sorry - I was being flippant in order to make a point. And probably didn't make it too well so my apolobies to you and the list. What I was trying to say were two things - the people who often accuse us of not doing anything were not personally affected by the event they are arguing about (the last time someone had a go at me about the holocaust, it turned out that the person in question was stationed on the same base in Burma as my Dad) and often, those who have a go were not alive either when the event happened so we could argue were as responsible as I am. I cannot defend my country's stand on anything that happened before I was born as I had no influence on it. Nor can I accept blame for actions taken by those during that time. What can I do? Well, I can understand what happened and be sympathetic and make sure that I learn from the mistakes of those before me and prevent it happening again. What I should have said is that the reason I get so annoyed by accusations over the holocaust is that I meet these people due to the work I do in promoting gentile / jewish relations, work which has been recognised at a very high level, however, in spite of all the work I do to remove prejudice and promote understanding I am often pinned in in the corner by someone and then the demands for answers start about the holocaust, progroms etc. Funny, but I never have these questions from Rabbis or their families. I'm a nice person (really) and spend an awful lot of my time promoting understanding of judaism yet I find myself on my back foot alot. As someone once said, all it takes for atrocities to happen is for good men to do nothing. I for one, never do nothing. My apologies for being flippant. I deserved the wrap on the knuckles. Regards Liz Beecher I'm <A HREF="http://journals.aol.com/thelacebee/thelacebee";>blogging</A> now - see what it's all about To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
