Radio Smart Talk for Friday, April 29:
Yom HaShoah is an annual Jewish holiday recognizing the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust. Six million Jews perished at the hands of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
The Holocaust – and the world's reaction to it - has had a profound and lasting impact, for decades, on the course of human events.
On Friday's Radio Smart Talk, we'll examine the Holocaust from the point of view of American Jewry, from what was known about the Holocaust here in the States as it was occurring, to its impact on America's Jewish population in the decades since, to Zionism and the establishment of Israel – and that establishment's impact on U.S. foreign policy today.
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In addition to your guests' comments - the American inaction in preventing genocide against the Jews in the Second World War has motivated our nation to intervene at times on behalf of other victims of genoicide.
Also, it is critical to note that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is as much about an intra-Arab struggle as it is between Arabs and Jews. Will the Palestinians choose democracy, freedom and human rights which will lead them to peaceful relations with Israel or will they choose the way of Hamas - terrorism of its own people, Israelis and other Westerners? This week's "unity pact" between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority does not auger well.
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