One persons Holocaust is another persons war

The Duchess and I traveled to Washington DC last week and since W was in Texas we decided to visit some of the museums. The first one on our list was the Holocaust Museum.
“Never Again” was the clear message and purpose of the museum. Never Again will we as a world allow massive inhumanity to exist. I did not get the impression that “Never Again” only referred to Jews.
Never Again! Since then, we have had Mao, Pol Pot, Rwanda, Sudan, Bosnia and Palestine to name only some of humankind’s inhumanity to humans. Trying to say any particular inhumanity is worse than another is a slippery slope, but still there are writers to this newspaper prepared to claw their way around that slope.
Sue Gray, in her letter to the editor, points out that to the Palestinian who has had their land taken, or is living in a refugee camp, or lives on one side of the wall and has to work on the other side of the wall, or who has had their parents killed, or children bombed; this particular inhumanity is worse than any other.
Then there are other writers who want to excuse this particular inhumanity because there are worse. That kind of thinking will insure that “Never Again” will occur Again and Again.
It is time that we recognize that what is occurring in Palestine, in the context of “Never Again”, is happening again. Israel must be held accountable and the rest of the world needs stand by the rights of the Palestinian people in their quest for an independent nation.
Jerusalem does not belong to Israel and Israel must not be allowed to annex it. In fact given Jerusalem’s importance to the three major religions of the area; Jerusalem should probably be an international city, governed by the United Nations or some other suitable body.
. Someday, they will build a museum in Palestine to record their struggle for freedom. I do not want to see the message that the United States let this inhumanity occur as we are recorded in the Holocaust Museum.
Someday Iraq will build a museum as well.
We did visit some other museums but did not get to see W.