Sorry, I was wrong. Yom HaShoah is eight days before Isreali Independance Day. They were going to hold YomHaShoah on the 15th of Nisan (Warsaw Ghetto uprising) but that is the first day of Pesach.
The only way to promote peace and end war is to approach each person as a person, free of all other demarkations. If we understand that we are all indeed equals then peace can be attained. An important way to do that is to learn about what atrocities happened before - not to fear them, because that is also damaging, but to come to terms with and go beyond that darkness.
On the other hand, I think human nature is such that we will never be free of war. But we should still reach for this ideal.
I think saying things like "Germany can never be trusted" is a dangerous generalization, and puts too much emphasis on the assumption that countries act like some sort of hive mind, all in unison. I'm pretty sure that Egypt isn't attacking Isreal because right now that would be incredibly stupid - you know, like the U.S. attacking Iran or Syria with our military already stretched so thin. :/
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The only way to promote peace and end war is to approach each person as a person, free of all other demarkations. If we understand that we are all indeed equals then peace can be attained. An important way to do that is to learn about what atrocities happened before - not to fear them, because that is also damaging, but to come to terms with and go beyond that darkness.
On the other hand, I think human nature is such that we will never be free of war. But we should still reach for this ideal.
I think saying things like "Germany can never be trusted" is a dangerous generalization, and puts too much emphasis on the assumption that countries act like some sort of hive mind, all in unison. I'm pretty sure that Egypt isn't attacking Isreal because right now that would be incredibly stupid - you know, like the U.S. attacking Iran or Syria with our military already stretched so thin. :/