Nobody's brought up a sensitive political issue in a while so I thought I'd throw this out and wait for the arguments to start. Do you guys think Sharon is right or wrong here?

I'll weight in after the first few posts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6870869/

Sharon: ‘No one cared’ about Holocaust

Israeli leader says lesson is Jews can only rely on themselves

JERUSALEM - In a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that the world “didn’t lift a finger” to stop the Holocaust.

Sharon said Jews learned a lesson from the genocide that they can only rely on themselves.

In unusually harsh remarks to parliament, Sharon noted that when the Nazis began deporting Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz in large numbers in 1944, Allied forces did not bomb the railroad tracks leading to the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Sharon said that over a period of several weeks, more than 600,000 Jews from Hungary were killed in Auschwitz.

“The sad and terrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being killed,” Sharon said.

“At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger,” he said. “This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.”

“The state of Israel has learned this lesson, and since its founding, it has defended itself and its residents, and provides safety to Jews everywhere. We know that we can only rely on ourselves,” he said.

For this reason, Israel as the Jewish state must always remain strong, Sharon said.

“We must always remember that this is the only place in the world in which we, the Jews, have the right and the power to defend ourselves with our own strength,” Sharon said. “This we will never surrender.”

Even 60 years after Auschwitz was liberated, anti-Semitism still exists throughout the world, Sharon said.

Nobody's brought up a sensitive political issue in a while so I thought I'd throw this out and wait for the arguments to start. Do you guys think Sharon is right or wrong here?

I'll weight in after the first few posts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6870869/

Sharon: ‘No one cared’ about Holocaust

Israeli leader says lesson is Jews can only rely on themselves

JERUSALEM - In a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that the world “didn’t lift a finger” to stop the Holocaust.

Sharon said Jews learned a lesson from the genocide that they can only rely on themselves.

In unusually harsh remarks to parliament, Sharon noted that when the Nazis began deporting Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz in large numbers in 1944, Allied forces did not bomb the railroad tracks leading to the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Sharon said that over a period of several weeks, more than 600,000 Jews from Hungary were killed in Auschwitz.

“The sad and terrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being killed,” Sharon said.

“At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger,” he said. “This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.”

“The state of Israel has learned this lesson, and since its founding, it has defended itself and its residents, and provides safety to Jews everywhere. We know that we can only rely on ourselves,” he said.

For this reason, Israel as the Jewish state must always remain strong, Sharon said.

“We must always remember that this is the only place in the world in which we, the Jews, have the right and the power to defend ourselves with our own strength,” Sharon said. “This we will never surrender.”

Even 60 years after Auschwitz was liberated, anti-Semitism still exists throughout the world, Sharon said.


...He is just preparing the world for his planned pre-emptive strike on Iran.

...He is just preparing the world for his planned pre-emptive strike on Iran.

i agree. we should let him do it too. that way we can save our men for n.korea.

Nobody's brought up a sensitive political issue in a while so I thought I'd throw this out and wait for the arguments to start. Do you guys think Sharon is right or wrong here?

I'll weight in after the first few posts.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6870869/

Sharon: ‘No one cared’ about Holocaust

Israeli leader says lesson is Jews can only rely on themselves

JERUSALEM - In a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that the world “didn’t lift a finger” to stop the Holocaust.

Sharon said Jews learned a lesson from the genocide that they can only rely on themselves.

In unusually harsh remarks to parliament, Sharon noted that when the Nazis began deporting Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz in large numbers in 1944, Allied forces did not bomb the railroad tracks leading to the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Sharon said that over a period of several weeks, more than 600,000 Jews from Hungary were killed in Auschwitz.

“The sad and terrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being killed,” Sharon said.

“At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger,” he said. “This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.”

“The state of Israel has learned this lesson, and since its founding, it has defended itself and its residents, and provides safety to Jews everywhere. We know that we can only rely on ourselves,” he said.

For this reason, Israel as the Jewish state must always remain strong, Sharon said.

“We must always remember that this is the only place in the world in which we, the Jews, have the right and the power to defend ourselves with our own strength,” Sharon said. “This we will never surrender.”

Even 60 years after Auschwitz was liberated, anti-Semitism still exists throughout the world, Sharon said.

He's partially right. The world didn't care enough to act when word started leaking out about what was happening to Jews in Poland and Hungary. The irony is that the state of Israel was created because of the holocaust, and without weapons and money from the US it would not exist today.

I think if we told Sharon that we wouldn't stand in his way with Iran or any of the other ones we could pull out of Iraq and he would take care of it all. We could sit back and watch. I think it would be a good idea.

I think if we told Sharon that we wouldn't stand in his way with Iran or any of the other ones we could pull out of Iraq and he would take care of it all. We could sit back and watch. I think it would be a good idea.


......Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing Israel load up some missiles with Nuke capabliities and send a little mushroom message to Iran and the rest of the Muslim world.

I think he has a point. I dont think the main concern by the allied forces was so much to save the Jews as it was to stop the Nazi's.

Sharon is a tool...all hope died when Rabin was killed

Sharon is a ***. Thats all they do. Complain. Always moaning and scheming about money or world domination or something. They practically run capitol hill. Own the media.

The Holocaust is just an excuse they use. An eternal shield they use to protect themselves from criticism. Oh you cant touch us coz of the Holocaust. What a load of ****e.

It happened over half a century ago. Get over it.