THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

alarm. Auschwitz and its chimneys are lighthouses to guide us toward a better moraland humanistic life, not a point into which all our life’s ships sail and crash. I believewith all my heart that when Israel frees itself from its obsession with the Shoah and itsexclusivity, the world also will be much freer. Israel’s role will be to watch and soundthe alarm and to stand beside the persecuted where they are, without regard to friendor foe. The Jewish people will recognize the persecuted and will mobilize worldopinion and the political powers to prevent any atrocity before it happens. AnInternational Court of Crimes against Humanity will be established in Jerusalem, theCity of Peace, and its judges will be of all nations. It will be accessible to all, and onits gates Isaiah’s prophecy will be carved:In the end of days, the mount of the house of God will be establishedat the top of the mountains high above the hills, and all the nations willflow into it. Many peoples will go, saying, let us go and ascend themountain of God, the house of the god of Jacob, and he will teach ushis ways, and we will follow his path, as from Zion the law will comeand the word of God from Jerusalem. And he will judge the nationsand rule many peoples, and they will beat their swords into ploughsand their spears into pruning shears; a nation will not lift sword againstanother, and they will learn no more war. 14This will be the Third Temple. King Solomon of the Judea tribe built the First Temple.A generation later, in the days of Rehoboam, David’s grandson, it was dedicated toJudeans only. The Second Temple was built in the same place and became the templefor all the citizens of the restored Kingdom of Israel. The Third Temple will be built inJerusalem as the moral temple for the whole world. It will be a temple withoutsacrifices; it will have no room for fundamentalists, zealots, and blood-shedders. Itwill be the place to which human victims will turn to for help, and where they willreceive it. The place for the new Israeli-Jewish Temple will be elsewhere, away fromthe Quarrel Mount in the Old City, to the Peace Mount in the western city.I dream that in the future the International Court of Crimes Against Humanity willbe built on the campus of the national Yad Vashem, changing its character from oneend to the other. Yad Vashem today is the greatest monument of national impotence;of the moral dumbness and deafness toward others that have resided in our collectivesoul in recent decades. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, is the stake on which