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...gesture to Egypt's large Coptic minority, he stopped at the nearby Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which in Christian tradition sanctifies the spot where Jesus rose from the dead. With his hosts, he visited Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the 6 million victims of Hitler's Holocaust and also laid a wreath at Israel's Unknown Soldier memorial outside the Knesset building. There was a working lunch with Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Sadat and his host apparently got along well personally. "We like each other," said
...plot is not revealed until the end of the play, it is rather easy to guess, which is not so much a flaw in the writing as an indication of the weakness inherent in the subject matter. How the issue of guilt-the moral culpability for the holocaust-is applicable to America in 1977 is not explained. Is Erdelyi trying to pass the guilt for the "failing" onto Stephen, his young assistant, or is he simply a lonely old man reaching out for companionship? The answer seems to involve a bit of both, but the ambiguity chafes the nerves...
...uprooted from their European cultures and, as Jews, haunted by the idea of being exiled from the homeland, or belonging to a pariah class. Via intellectual cosmopolitanism, and either political left-liberalism or socialism, they compensated by making the world their home. But in the past 50 years, the holocaust and the subsequent creation of the Israeli state played on the consciences of many American Jews and seduced them into political parochialism...
...words Holocaust mentality give the impression of delusional thinking on the part of Jews and that these feelings of suspicion, betrayal, etc., are not based on any reality. Jews do not have the problems; they exist with people throughout the world who try to deny that the Holocaust ever happened...
Last year the world's population passed 4 billion. Barring a holocaust brought on by man or nature, the world's population right now is the smallest it will ever be again. How did it reach 4 billion? For the first 99% of man's existence, surprisingly slowly. For the last 1% of history, in a great rush. By 1750, the total had reached only about 800 million. Then, as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, population growth began rapidly to accelerate. By 1900, it had doubled to 1.6 billion; by 1964, it had doubled again...