This, the most solemn of memorials
attests to the raw nature of humanity at
its hollow depths. Few commemorations
of world events are as starkly bereft of
humanity and of hope for humanity. An
event of gravely consequential failure in
the commission of a state-planned and
-executed annihilation of millions of
children, women and men whose very
age-old existence drew contempt and hate
culminating in the meticulously organized
elimination of those whose existential
plight drew little interest from the global
community of nations, none of which
ventured to involve themselves in rescue
much less an alliance of defenders to put
a halt to the grinding mechanism of death.
Eager to condemn once conflict ceased and
the full volume of extermination fully on
display, eager to declare 'never again' would
such a blot on the world conscience be
ignored. And yet again that same world
readily alienates itself from that declaration
instead condemning Jews for defending
their existence from another source equally
determined as the former to annihilation.
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