The Jews have always borne the trauma of the Holocaust. The rest of the laymen world defines Judaism in terms of the systematic cleansing of Jews by the Nazis. Visitors to Israel are more interested in stopping over the Holocaust Memorial museum before any place else in the country. The Jews have also been living on the psyche of a psychological stigma. If they didn’t blindly march into those gas chambers and had they fought the systematic purging of their race, they wouldn’t be as oppressed to this day as they are. Their destiny should not be defined within the parameters and confines of one sick man’s sick mind.

Israel has been living far too much on the past. What it needs is forward thinking if it were to shake off the collective stigma that besets it. Of course, close association with a hegemonic power that wants considerable control in the Middle East doesn’t help the country any. Judaism as a moral doctrine, more than being one of the three biggest religions on earth, has a higher purpose that just wastes its worth in the mire of the intricacies of human politics.

Israel should always remember that genocide should never happen again. This doesn’t mean that genocide should never happen again to the Jews, but that genocide should never occur again at all. The Jews, more than any people on earth, should not forget the legacy of their bitter past. They should instead use it to be humanity’s reminder of how it is to survive evil on earth. Avrum Burg’s new book entitled “The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from Its Ashes” says it all.

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