faith, 206–9, 211, 213, 240Finkielkraut, Alain, 87, 160, 195–7first Intifada, 63First Lebanon War (1982), 49, 52, 57, 197Fischer, Eugen, 163, 165Fischer, Joschka, 123–5The Forty Days of Mussa Dagh, 149–50France, xv, 7–8, 50, 52–4, 59, 87, 99, 161, 167, 172, 195–7, 216, 227–9freedom of speech, xvii, 51, 219Gandhi, Mahatma, 105Garb, Jonathan, 181Gauly, Thomas, 58, 65Gaza, xiv, 7, 23, 51genocide, 15, 64, 86, 101, 123, 129, 149–62, 165, 167, 171–2, 174gentiles, 184–5, 189, 191–2, 196, 208, 233, 236Georgian Jews, 30–1German Jews, 3–6, 29, 31, 35–6, 39, 42, 52–5, 116, 121, 205, 226–7, 240; SeeAshkenazi Jews; YekkesGermany, 3–6, 9, 13–14, 29, 35, 37–41, 48, 52–6, 62–7, 71–4, 78–81, 83, 99–101, 108–9, 117, 121–30, 135, 137, 145, 149–50, 52–5, 154–5, 158, 161–7,192–3, 204–5, 214, 228, 232–40; colonialism, 161–3; national character, 55–6;obedience, 127; reparations, 4, 13, 41, 73–4, 80, 83; Second Reich, 52–5Gilad, Shai, 97Ginzburg, Yitzhak, 179, 181–2Glick, Hirsh, 76globalization, 216–17God, 203–8, 211–14, 219–22, 237–8God is Back, 5, 195Goebbels, Joseph, 30, 55, 58, 196Göring, Heinrich, 165
Göring, Heinrich, 165Great Britain, 41, 50, 71, 99–100, 106, 116, 123–5, 132, 161, 167, 205, 240–1Green Line (1949), 67Grossman, Davide, 60Grunwald, Malkiel, 131–3, 135guilt, 40, 133–4, 152, 172Haaretz, 5, 13, 74, 162–3, 165, 196–7Halevi, Binyamin, 132Halevi, Yehuda, 188–90, 234HaMaharal, 188–9Haman, 128–9, 239Hamas, 56, 193Hanukkah, 37–8Hausner, Gideon, 120–1, 126, 128, 135, 139Hebrew language, 6, 14, 44, 59, 81, 102–4, 107, 121, 173, 197–8, 205, 227, 230–1Hebrew University, 4, 160, 205Hebron massacre (1929), 4, 7Heine, Heinrich, 3, 4, 35, 121, 218, 228Herero Holocaust, 161–6Herman, Judith Loyis, 76, 133–4heroism, xiii, 7, 37, 94–104, 107–9, 116, 135, 137, 227–8, 232–3Herzl, Theodor, 74, 108Herzog, Haim, 158, 240Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 178, 218Hitler, Adolph, xiv, xv, 5, 8, 23, 31, 35, 42–4, 48, 55–7, 62–3, 66, 72, 85–7, 89,95, 106–7, 117, 119, 124, 128–9, 135, 149–51, 160–1, 192, 196, 199, 203, 209,211, 222, 232–3, 236, 239; personality, 150–1Holocaust, xiii, 4–9, 13–17, 21–3, 31–5, 38–44, 47–8, 55–6, 72, 77–81, 83–9, 94–104, 107–9, 114, 118–36, 139, 142–5, 150, 152–6, 159–62, 165–6, 170–3,
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none of this could have happened.An
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Fanon is an expert witness worth li
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prevention.” How targeted could i
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“nationhood,” including its int
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in anger over the Dreyfus Affair, b
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1943, upon hearing of the Warsaw gh
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than a million Jews who had walked
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we will not respond. We will sacrif
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against Us.” It is self-evident,
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discussion about garbage technology
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independent Jewish Commonwealth, th
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Eichmann harmony at the right pitch
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the victors at Nuremberg presented,
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War II, an estimated half a million
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lecture, a professor stood up.“I
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and not in Le Monde, in French? His
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