Comments on: Poetry of Genocide http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/ A Blog by Rabbi Brant Rosen Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:56:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Benny http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-10190 Sun, 15 May 2011 06:23:01 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-10190 Please try to know also about Sri Lankan genocide.

]]> By: Ana http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-10052 Sun, 01 May 2011 18:51:06 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-10052 We didn’t stop the wine from spilling,
Maybe we spilled it ourselves.
We watched the glass empty on the ground,
And then we closed our eyes.
We looked into the mirror and smiled.
We walked away from the stain,
But the blood is on our hands now.

]]> By: Chelsea http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-6238 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:37:08 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-6238 I am directing a play and doing some research. One of the actors in my play that is set in the Holocaust emailed me about Primo Levi and that is how I got to this site today.

So my question is this, and of course, education and by knowing about what is going on in the world, that is a way to change things, like talking about it, making it real to ourselves and others, but other than that- what can we do? We should do something clearly.

What is it that we should do? One person can originate thought, can speak to others, can do what else?

What is the concrete thing that needs to be done by the individual? If someone can say, then people can do.

The words that of Primo Levi were compelling.
They cannot be denied.

]]> By: chrispa http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-4726 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:33:36 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-4726 Have a look at the Stanford Prison experiment on youtube. It’s a bit like “Lord of the Flies”. People can assume roles of authority or submission very easily. It doesn’t take too much to do something a little mean at first… and keep moving them further along until one day, you have completely dehumanized someone, and their life doesn’t seem to matter. It’s important for people to do something earlier to stop that sort of thing.

]]> By: Andrew http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-3121 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:31:41 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-3121 Mercedes to answer your question, it is because some people are sick and able to treat other human beings like unwanted insects; unfortunately my own sister after my father’s death has turn out to be like this, and that it how the Nazi’s thought of the Jewish race and how the Indonesian Generals think of the Papuan race.

As for Darfur, I should cut out the rhetoric and put things simply for people.

What the victims of Darfur’s conflict need is action; either military or policing action. Wasting more time on more media does not help the people; either send the military if you think you have entitlement, or otherwise implement a massive Policing aid package. Australia sent Police to the Solomon’s and the US could send armed Police to help Darfur; stop the flow of weapons and organising of the militia.

The good people of the US have been crippled by Washington getting them to spend too much time repeating never ending stories about Darfur to the exclusion of other important issues. There are US corporations and military involvements in Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and elsewhere that the good people of the United States need to pay attention to.

]]> By: alex http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-3017 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:35:30 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-3017 this is all
true!

]]> By: Mercedes http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-2987 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:18:44 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-2987 i am doing a school project on the holocaust and i found that the way the Nazis treated Jews (seemed) unreal like – how could someone ever do somthing like that to someone.

]]> By: Andrew Johnson http://rabbibrant.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-879 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:34:01 +0000 http://shalomrav.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/the-poetry-of-genocide/#comment-879 In Iraq and Sudan there is civil war killing thousands, their plight and names seen across the world.

In Nazi Germany thousands had numbers instead of names, and no nation demanded Hitler close his camps.

In 1962 the United Nations and Netherlands sold the West Papuan people to Indonesia; in September 1963 Indonesia declared West Papua was a “quarantine territory”; from 1966 Indonesia began aerial bombing of Arfak Mountain, Ayamaru and Teminabuan homelands.

In 2004 the Yale University Law School published its report “Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua:
Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control”. Yet, no nation has called for Indonesia to stop its forty years of genocide, or close its Laskar Jihad and other Jihadist training camps.

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