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By Uri Avnery
"PLEASE DON'T write about Ya'ir Golan!" a friend begged me, “Anything a
leftist like you writes will only harm him!"
So I abstained for some weeks. But I can't keep quiet any longer.
General Ya'ir Golan, the deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, made
a speech on Holocaust Memorial Day. Wearing his uniform, he read a
prepared, well-considered text that triggered an uproar which has not
yet died down.
Dozens of articles have been published in its wake, some condemning him,
some lauding him. Seems that nobody could stay indifferent.
The main sentence was: "If there is something that frightens me about
the memories of the Holocaust, it is the knowledge of the awful
processes which happened in Europe in general, and in Germany in
particular, 70, 80, 90 years ago, and finding traces of them here in our
midst, today, in 2016."
All hell broke loose. What!!! Traces of Nazism in Israel? A resemblance
between what the Nazis did to us with what we are doing to the Palestinians?
full: http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1463756720/
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