Israel Matzav: Lessons unlearned

Lessons unlearned

On the occasion of Holocaust Day, Jonathan Tobin suggests that all that money that American Jewish federations have spent commemorating the Holocaust is money that has gone to waste. American Jewry just doesn't get it.

The question is, what are American Jews — the vast majority of whom voted for Obama as loyal Democrats — prepared to do to convince their president to act before it is too late? There is no evidence to suggest that there is a pervasive sense of alarm or outrage about the administration’s feckless Iran policy or its perverse insistence on hostility toward the democratically elected government of Israel. Thus, for all of the attention devoted to observances of Yom Hashoah among American Jews, it appears as if the actual lesson of the Holocaust has no resonance for all too many. Though it was always true, this year the mere recital of expressions of sorrow for the Six Million are not enough. Acts of remembrance that do not lead us to draw conclusions about the present are of little use. For all the care and money that has gone into the proliferation of Holocaust memorials around the United States, it must be understood that the best and only true memorial to the Shoah is to be found in the creation and the survival of the State of Israel and of the Jewish people itself. Those who weep over fate of the Six Million but say nothing as Barack Obama lets Iran off the hook have learned nothing.

Why aren't there three million Jews marching on the capitol? Or is this generation also to be left to the Peter Bregson's and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's and those few others who recognize the danger?

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Israel Matzav: Lessons unlearned