THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

we raise our guests and force-feed them our exclusive Shoah values. I do not knowwho chose the name, which in Hebrew means literally “monument and memorial.”Whoever that person was, he did not know his Bible, and psychology apparently wasnot his forte. Had he known, how could that person ignore the immediate biblicalcontext of the words “monument and memorial”:Thus the alien who is committed to God will not say, God hasseparated me from his people, and the eunuch will not say, I am but adry tree. For God said, to the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths andchoose what I desire and keep my covenant, I will give them in myhouse and in my walls a monument and a memorial better than sonsand daughters, a memorial forever I will give him that will not be cutoff. 15The term yad vashem in its regular biblical meaning is a “tombstone,” a monumentfor an infertile man, as a substitute for the children that he will never have. Our YadVashem magnified the concept of impotence and infertility, ignoring all the other sonsof foreign lands. However, the museum in its future form will be the memorial of allhuman injustices. It will be a place that will radiate the potency of the struggle againstviolence, wherever violence is. It will have an Armenian wing; and a Serbian wing,exhibits from Rwanda and Namibia; a presentation honoring the Native Americansthat were exterminated by blond, blue-eyed generals. Children will come to YadVashem from all over the world to be educated on the principles of nonviolence.Race relations will be taught as a counterweight to race-based discrimination andextermination. Both the court and the museum will be recognized as internationalinstitutions; their land will be owned internationally and it will belong to the recognizedinstitutions of the family of nations. They will embody a new concept in worldstatesmanship: World Sovereignty.Israel’s cabinet will add another ministry, the Ministry of Historical Affairs. Thenew minister will be in charge of commemoration, remembrance, and the struggleagainst racism and violence against the persecuted everywhere. Israeli students willstudy according to new curricula that will place the unique events in our history in theperspective of the history of the world.It will be a world in which the holocausts which were not ours will become ours aswell. In order to start the journey to utopia, we have to look ourselves in the eye, to