Sublime

The Holocaust had long been a troubling dimension of Jewish history for the Yishuv and the early state. In large measure, that was because the new Jew of the Yishuv was seeking to create an image of Jews very different from the helpless, tortured victims in Europe. Now that new Jew had come to be. It was time to add nuance to the story that Israeli

But as the historian Andrew Roberts has also remembered, toward the end of his life George often reflected on the fact that in his view, “There are people who are worse anti-Semites than the Nazis.”

Thus, the Jewish people could restore the honor lost to the Nazis by warring against Arabs in the breach. But better than substitute Nazis, the

Nazi Germany didn’t choose the word ‘genocide’ either. The slant of history did. Israel may have the weapons and the power but they do not and will not get to name this tragedy.

The existence of Jews in any society is a reminder that freedom is possible, but only with responsibility—and that freedom without responsibility is no freedom at all.

Sur ce sujet aussi, la confusion est venue d’en haut. C’est François Hollande, et non un ignorant dans le domaine de l’histoire politique, qui a déclaré que Marine Le Pen « parle comme un tract du Parti communiste des années 19703 ». Depuis lors, le déni de la formule « extrême droite » pour caractériser ce qui nous arrive politiquement s’est génér