An Open Wound
Amos Elon
1971
Six million perished not because of a cataclysm of nature, as is evoked by use of that inadequate term “holocaust”; they died not because they lacked courage, but because they lacked the minimum prerequisites for putting such courage to practice. It is possible to vanquish and exterminate a people even in its own sovereign state. But with the…
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