I'm sure this is one of those topics where we have to step lightly and there is probably no room to wiggle much.
However, there are some points to be made: If people are supposed to remember the Holocaust (let us hope they are), then they should also remember the Holocaust against all the groups that were the victims. If people are supposed to remember the Holocaust, let us hope that it is rather questionable putting a country based on lies in charge of remembering it. If the people of Israel want the world to remember the Holocaust, then perhaps they themselves might start remembering Palestine. Finally for my ballet here, if you want to relativize history, then you do not get to select what portion of it you want to relativize. Even Holocaust history has to be under re-examination and revision--just like the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, Stalinism, Mao's Cultural Revolution, the US's war against Vietnam, and now the US's war against Iraq. That is if you believe we can get closer and closer to the truth. CJ
