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LanceThruster (not verified) says:
It is also worth noting that Elie Wiesel was forgiving to Jewish kapo as "victims" yet did not see those same extenuating circumstances applying to non-Jewish persons suffering a similar fate.
"Reviewing the moral crimes of the Jewish leadership under Nazi rule, Hannah Arendt faces squarely the hideous, sordid mess of it all, points the finger to those who look to blame others beyond the Nazis for an answer (Ukrainians, Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, and others who were --to use Elie Wiesel's phrase of pardon for Jewish Nazi collaborators -- also "chosen by their enemies"), and poses the gnawing rhetorical question to the European Jewish community itself: "Why did you cooperate in the destruction of your own people and, eventually, in your own ruin?" [ARENDT]"
Wiesel Stresses Forgiveness
By Suzanne Dean for The Deseret Morning News
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel
EPHRAIM - Asking for forgiveness is the responsibility of every sinner, and accepting it the obligation of each victim, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel told an overflow crowd at Snow College on Monday night.
"I don't believe in collective guilt," Wiesel said. "I don't believe in collective punishment, I believe in the responsibility of every individual."
It is also worth noting that Elie Wiesel was forgiving to Jewish kapo as "victims" yet did not see those same extenuating circumstances applying to non-Jewish persons suffering a similar fate.
from: http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/18holo1.htm
"Reviewing the moral crimes of the Jewish leadership under Nazi rule, Hannah Arendt faces squarely the hideous, sordid mess of it all, points the finger to those who look to blame others beyond the Nazis for an answer (Ukrainians, Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, and others who were --to use Elie Wiesel's phrase of pardon for Jewish Nazi collaborators -- also "chosen by their enemies"), and poses the gnawing rhetorical question to the European Jewish community itself: "Why did you cooperate in the destruction of your own people and, eventually, in your own ruin?" [ARENDT]"
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from: http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=3&Board=ethnic_judaism&Number=294644982&page=&view=expanded&sb=5&o=21
Wiesel Stresses Forgiveness
By Suzanne Dean for The Deseret Morning News
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel
EPHRAIM - Asking for forgiveness is the responsibility of every sinner, and accepting it the obligation of each victim, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel told an overflow crowd at Snow College on Monday night.
"I don't believe in collective guilt," Wiesel said. "I don't believe in collective punishment, I believe in the responsibility of every individual."