Some naively believe that public denunciations and continued documentaries will awaken latent Nazi tendencies. Allow me to suggest the opposite. Those who truly wish to destroy the Jewish nation certainly do not need additional incentives.

The ramification of the war with Hamas is the same as the Holocaust. Many will seek all their lives for survivors, not knowing if they are dead or alive. Numerous families lost children to these barbarians and in some cases will have to remarry, just like in the Holocaust.

During that night, November 9, 1938, mobs burned synagogues; destroyed Jewish businesses; vandalized Jewish hospitals, orphanages and cemeteries; and dragged thousands of Jewish men, women and children into the streets, where they were beaten and humiliated. The Germans later called this night Kristallnacht—The Night of Broken Glass—because of the tons of shattered glass that scattered throughout German cities.

In response to Kristallnacht, The New York Times observed: “It is assumed that the Jews, who have now lost most of their possessions and livelihood, will either be thrown into the streets or put into ghettos and concentration camps or impressed into labor brigades and put to work for the Third Reich. As the children of Israel were once before the Pharaohs.” The London Times proclaimed: “It is not to be believed that the nations cannot find the means of assisting unwarranted citizens to leave Germany and of providing the territory in which those Jews can find a liberated community and recover the right to live and prosper. There is no difficulty which a common will and common action cannot overcome.”

Now we can openly admit, too little too late! Fear and appeasement provided the Nazi party with the subterfuge they eagerly sought. Isolationism blinded the eyes of our so-called leadership. Various pleas remained unheard and unanswered.

Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg
Edison