I ask all countries to stop casting votes in favor of the U.N.’s constant and shameful fixation on Israel.
Exactly 3 years, 3 months, and 3 weeks after the liberation of Auschwitz the Jewish people realized their 2,000-year-old dream and founded the Jewish state of Israel. If for no other reason then the fact that not a single country on earth would take in Jewish refugees when they begged for their lives that is why the Jewish people need Israel.
The Jewish people left Auschwitz they fled Europe they were forced out of every country in the middle east and instead of living in refugee camps and turning to terror… they built a vibrant democracy in a place where democracy does not exist. They have created miracle after miracle while having to defend their existence every single day. No other country on earth has had to do this. And for this the UN journalists and even some world leaders constantly condemn them. But it’s even worse. Israel has been singled out over and over with the same lies that we heard about the Jewish people for centuries.
Over the last 7 years alone, the United Nations general assembly has adopted 202 resolutions condemning countries around the world. Of those 202 resolutions Israel was condemned 163 times and the rest of the world only 39. 163 against Israel, 39 for the rest of the world. We all know these votes are absurd. The U.N. ignores truly evil dictatorships that kill millions of their own people. And its clear as day, that this kind of obsessive anti-zionism, is nothing but antisemitism. And with every absurd vote … every vote that targets only Israel and ignores the rest of the world … this demeans the entire U.N. and makes it a less serious institution. That is such a shame. Because the U.N. was built on the ashes that we stand over right now. It had so much promise. It could be so much more.
I realize that here at Auschwitz you are surrounded by numbers: 75 years, 1933, 1938, 6-million. But there is one number that still shocks us. While breaking our hearts at the same time. One million five hundred thousand. That’s the number of Jewish children – one-and-a-half million. Who died in the Holocaust. It is so painful that we try not to think about it. It just hurts too much.
Had these 1-and-a-half million children been allowed to live their lives like all other children around the world. They would now be in their 70s and 80s. They would have been educated. They would have married. They would have had children of their own. Such a loss. But something else was lost as well. What could these one-and-a-half million have created for us all? What symphonies ? What great literature ?
What technology? What medical breakthroughs did we lose? From these lost souls? If you have had a loved one who has suffered from cancer or Alzheimer’s or Parkinsons. Perhaps the cures for those diseases were lost right here at Auschwitz. This was not just a Jewish loss. It was a loss for the entire world. There is one more part of the Auschwitz story that no one ever talks about. When the survivors were liberated from this Nazi nightmare. They never sought revenge. They lost their mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers.In too many cases. They lost their wives and their children. And in spite of this … not one German was killed in retribution by a Jew.
Not one !!!
Think about that for a moment. After everything that happened to them these Jewish survivors just walked out of these gates and went on to build new lives, raise new families work hard and create. Some have grandchildren here today. And it is shameful that 75 years later they now see their grandchildren face this same hatred again. This is a shame and it must never be tolerated. In the end, I’m afraid that all of these numbers – one and a half million children. Six million Jews. These numbers are just too hard for us to comprehend. So let me leave you today with one last story.