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2012] HONORS 353 and that the real perpetrators were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who intended to target Jews, not Italians, with their explosives. Under the circumstances, the Italian government made no attempt to prosecute the perpetrators. If the Jews of Europe had a fundamental flaw during the Holocaust, it was that they had neither the numbers nor the weapons with which to defend themselves; put differently, they lacked effective sovereignty. This was, of course, nothing new, but the gravity of that deficiency had only become fully apparent when they were confronted with a unique foe determined on their extermination. Moreover, extermination invited repetition. From the end of the war to this day, there have been those who promised to complete Hitler’s work, and their voices have become louder and more numerous recently. Fortunately, bitter experience has taught a critical mass of Jews that an adversary who promises to destroy them and actively seeks the weapons with which to carry out the threat must be believed. That is at the heart of the crisis between Israel and Iran; it is also at the heart of the crisis between Israel and radical Islam. Ironically, Israel’s most potent weapons may be the Dolphin-class attack submarines produced by German firms and partly financed by the government of Angela Merkel. These submarines are said to be capable of launching cruise missiles with 200kg nuclear warheads at a range of 1,500 km or more. What this means is that the submarines and the Israeli Air Force provide that nation with devastating, second-strike, retaliatory capability. Unfortunately, however, even this awesome capacity will not defend adequately against an enemy prepared to sacrifice millions of its own people out of messianic, apocalyptic zeal. No one can predict the outcome of combat between Israel and its enemies, but how different is Israel’s situation from that of Europe’s Jews during the Second World War. Israel’s Jews have the one thing the Jews of Europe never possessed: the capacity, if necessary, to render catastrophic retaliatory damage to enemies that threaten them with annihilation. That capacity may be the ultimate significance of effective sovereignty, and it may also be the only thing that the Israelis can ultimately rely on. Certainly, they cannot rely on the United Nations, with its 56 Muslim member nations, or on the paper promises of the Israeli-Egyptian Treaty of 1979. Nor can they even rely on the friendship of the United States. As Charles De Gaulle and Lord Palmerston have observed, Nations have no friends, only interests. I would add, “as perceived, rightly or wrongly, by a nation’s leaders.” These are, I believe, some of the bitter lessons I have learned, having lived through the age of actual genocide and, now, the threat of future genocide. At the age of 88, I hope to continue my writing, teaching, and religious and inter-religious activities, as long as I am blessed with the strength
354 JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM [ VOL. 4:341 and mental clarity so to do. I thank the Scholars Conference for this honor and for the forum in which to share ideas and insights with colleagues over the years. I look forward to meeting with you again, hopefully at our next conference. *From the 42nd Annual Scholars Conference Holocaust and the Churches Recognition Award, Rochester, NY, May 14, 2012. Richard L. Rubenstein is president emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Religion at the University of Bridgeport. A Reform rabbi, he is author of several books, including Jihad and Genocide (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010). He is a JSA board member and contributing writer for the New English Review.
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