Yad Vashem

Did the German reporter accompany the tour? Does he know whether Bush and his entourage were led to the St. Louis corner and this topic was raised?
i am aware of course to the irony that a German reporter today insists on sharing the blame of the Nazi industrial extermination with the U.S. and i'm not going to take an apologetic stance on behalf of the Americans (although there are many technical excuses that explaine why Auschwits wasn't demolished). Bush didn't pay this visit to deepen in this subject, it was merely diplomatic (and i think no one mentioned to him that Jesse Owens was racing horses back in the U.S.)
i think that only Shanghai opened the gates to jewish refugees then while the rest of the world, including GB in then Palestine, let a very small number op poeple in.
i'm more concerned with today's Darphur's refugees. i wonder how many of them found their way to Israel, Germany and the U.S. and from what exactly do they live.

Two p.s.s:

- in relation with "Solved" (this blog, three days ago), Auschwitz was invented because the earlier stage of running men, first still dressed, and later naked (they were less human naked...) on the edge of huge pits, shooting them, was too much for the poor performers. They soldiers needed alcohol to make it through the day. Auschwitz was more elegant, you needed not watching them through the process. i didn't read Evan Wright, does it mean that with today's soldiers there was no need in an Auschwitz?

- i recommned Philip Roth's "The Plot Against America" again. (and RH CdG, i don't explain why, you can do the search yourself. i personally don't feel faceless if i don't write a tiring explenation for everything i do. i feel quite ok being dumb, it sounds more as if you could have been shot for being intellectually imperfect, right on the rand of a pit. Did your parents need to drink or did they resemble 'Generation Killing' while terrorising you?)

Poignant questions indeed

How can that border-question be more poignant? Didn’t they murder 6 million in those death camps, 2 million of them in Auschwitz? Strange, Arnon, you following those German papers in what seems to be nothing but a diversion…

Talking of which: that letter of mine placed in the NRC the other day has finally resulted in some very positive news: Member of Parliament Khadjia Arib (Labour) has asked 7 poignant question to the Minister of Justice with and that article and an answer from that very same department I have lying here on the taboo subject I have written about: child porn.

In that NRC I was clever enough to mention my novel Donkerland ( Eng: Darkland). Some people will call this a publicity stunt, but I prefer the term involvement. Somehow I understand the distrust would-be readers could feel: I call this the Klinkhamer effect. Some guy killed his wife first, to then write a novel about it. Anyway: not bad for a self-published author, getting quoted and named in our Dutch Parliament.

@Arnon

Thought your VN-review about the movie "Gone baby gone" was outstanding. Had to read it trice & careful to get to whole picture, so to speak. Liked the way you analyse the art of detective-writing. And the way you portrayed “white trash” was right on the nose.

It is rather interesting you believe murdering a child to be the apex in killing. In your opinion must lie an universal truth, if there are any! Home is where they are prepared to kill for you, liked that too.

Greetings from Holland

@Victor

Arnon nor the newspaper stated that this question is more poignant than everything you recall about Auschwitz. It is poignant because of the remark about bombing the camp. Claro que si. It is poignant in this context of course.

They do not kill for me

Maybe that's why Holanda doesn't feel like my homeland anymore.

@Dens,
I understand your comment on the storie by Anne Enright but i was thinking you underestimate 15-years old girls and i was negatively surprised about your words on parties and emotional exposure.
Btw. what happened to your weblog?

@Hanny

Why do I underestimate 15-year old girls? Because I think they wouldn't use 'transpartent skin'? Maybe they do, but only if they've read a lot, and this one could have (she wants to be a writer (or is one), but it isn't showed in the rest of the text, I think. Anyway, I don't think you'd write that and be naive about the superficiality of the rest (if she is).

Why were you negatively surprised about my view at parties?

My blog (which one?) has stopped. The first one because I didn't get enough readers/commenters. The one from Turkey because I'm not in Turkey anymore, and that was the purpose of the blog. A blog, by all means, has to be consistent, and I felt I couldn't keep the consistency up anymore. Maybe I'll make another one, someday.

Neria

I would say there is a distinction between mass executions and killing in combat. The good thing about your lack of empathy is that you are shameless about it.

Dens

I apologize for never posting comments on your site. Also I apologize for never visiting your site. No irony is involved here.

Arnon

i need to find out exactly if the shooters were forced to do it or whether they volunteerd. If they were forced then they do win my empathy.

i have hard time feeling shame in all areas of life (although i thought i felt some yesterday, but it didn't last long).

Mr. Arnon,
No apology is need for I didn't spread the first site around, and the second one was fairly successul. But apology accepted.