Zaka to display bombed bus at the Hague

[drdon326]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1076049818039&p=1008596981749

Israel's Zaka (Disaster Victims Identification) organization announced Friday that it would place a terrorist-bombed bus outside the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

The burned-out bus was the target of a suicide bombing, in which 11 people were murdered in Jerusalem last week.

The court will hold hearings on Israel's security fence on February 23rd, and the organization has received the approval of the Hague municipality to set up the installation.

Organization spokesmen told Ynet that the act is not meant to be political, since they are by nature an humanitarian organization; nevertheless, the statement continued, this would certainly be seen as a strong message against terrorism of any sort. "We feel that the world sees terror attacks as just another statistic, and not a human tragedy," they said.

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[Blitz]

1. ZAKA does great and difficult work

Here is a very, very telling radio interview with a young member of Zaka:

http://arutzsheva.com/metafiles/asx/eng-perm/zaka.asx

Warning: Not for the squeamish.

[Blitz]

2. It's important that ZAKA is doing this

It's not the first time for them:

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031002_1626.html

This, along with the release of the post-attack videos are important steps to making the world face this horror (which many desperately want to avoid ... see the Moscow bombing thread in LBN).

[Lefty48197]

3. Great idea

teach the world what is happening.

[GabysPoppy]

4. Don't Hide Jewish Suffering (letter to the Washington Post)

A Feb. 2 news story reported that Israel's decision to publicize graphic video footage of the aftermath of a recent bus bombing -- which included scenes of the charred remains of the bus and the bodies of some of the victims -- is drawing criticism from some quarters for being too graphic about Jewish suffering.

This is reminiscent of a dispute during the Holocaust about whether to publicize the extent to which Jews were being singled out by Hitler.

U.S. and British officials warned Jewish leaders to refrain from emphasizing that Jews were the victims, fearing the Allies would be accused of fighting World War II for the sake of the Jews. A meeting of the U.S., British and Soviet foreign ministers in Moscow in October 1943 issued a statement threatening postwar punishment for Nazi war crimes against conquered populations. It mentioned "French, Dutch, Belgian or Norwegian hostages . . . Cretan peasants . . . the people of Poland" -- but not Europe's Jews.

The Roosevelt administration's Office of War Information also instructed its staff to avoid mentioning that Jews were the main victims of Nazi atrocities. Coverage of the Nazi mass murders would be "confused and misleading if it appears to be simply affecting the Jewish people," the staff was told. Even the president's 1944 message commemorating the first anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt did not mention the Jews.

Whatever one's view of Israel's decision, one lesson from the Holocaust should be beyond dispute: The argument for playing down Jewish victimization is completely discredited.

RAFAEL MEDOFF

Director

edit to add link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20474-2004Feb6.html

The David S. Wyman Institute

For Holocaust Studies

[tinnypriv]

5. How about..

Just don't hide any suffering, Jewish or not, period?

Aren't we constantly reminded (by some reactionaries) that many victims of suicide bombings are foreign workers, American tourists, Arabs etc...

I'm guessing Mr Medoff isn't one of those people, or else he'd be a hypocrite.

[Gimel]

6. What's inherently Jewish about a bus?

All of the victims in this bombing were Jewish. however. Only a small percentage are non-Jewish, non-Israeli does not identify all as non-Jewish.
The Ethiopian worker was Jewish. As are many tourists.


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=57095