Author and veteran CNN correspondent, Frida Ghitis, writing in yesterday's Jewish World Review uses irony, pathos and a hard-edged honesty about the growing anti-Semitic forces in the world to describe the inattention to last weekend's International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It is a well-written piece with a serious challenge for all of us to bravely embrace those convictions represented by the post-Holocaust slogans: "Remember," "Remember the Children," and "Never Again."
However, there is one brief passage of Ms. Ghitis' that has a powerful double meaning to those who mourn the overwhelming loss of life in those nations that, after ridding the world of the Nazi horrors, instituted their own by legalizing abortion.
That passage?
Remembering the Holocaust is not about honoring Jews. It's about preventing the slaughter of human beings of any description.
In the light of all that's holy, we should pledge ourselves to honoring the promises of the Holocaust survivors to "Remember" ALL victims of unjust violence and to pray and work to make such brutality truly be "Never Again.
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