{"id":973,"date":"2017-04-26T13:48:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/?p=973"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:48:24","slug":"good-trumps-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/2017\/04\/good-trumps-evil.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Trumps Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump yesterday spoke at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and one suspects his words have real meaning behind them and will be backed up with action; the President promised that anti-Semitism will be confronted. Among his remarks:<\/p>\n

Sadly, this year marks the first Day of Remembrance since the passing of Elie Wiesel, a great person, a great man. His absence leaves an empty space in our hearts, but his spirit fills this room. It is the kind of gentle spirit of an angel who lived through hell, and whose courage still lights the path from darkness. Though Elie\u2019s story is well known by so many people, it\u2019s always worth repeating. He suffered the unthinkable horrors of the Holocaust. His mother and sister perished in Auschwitz. He watched his father slowly dying before his own young eyes in Buchenwald. He lived through an endless nightmare of murder and death, and he inscribed on our collective conscience the duty we have to remember that long, dark night so as never to again repeat it. <\/p>\n

The survivors in this hall, through their testimony, fulfill the righteous duty to never forget, and engrave into the world\u2019s memory the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people. You witnessed evil, and what you saw is beyond description, beyond any description. Many of you lost your entire family, everything and everyone you loved, gone. You saw mothers and children led to mass slaughter. You saw the starvation and the torture. You saw the organized attempt at the extermination of an entire people — and great people, I must add. You survived the ghettos, the concentration camps and the death camps. And you persevered to tell your stories. You tell of these living nightmares because, despite your great pain, you believe in Elie\u2019s famous plea, that \u201cFor the dead and the living, we must bear witness.\u201d<\/em>
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Israeli jets over Auschwitz (Israel Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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