There has been a bit of a ‘dust up’ lately about a book entitled “Angel at the Fence.”  The book is supposedly a true story of a man in a concentration camp who was given an apple a day by a local girl during his time in the camp.  The story has proved to be false for many reasons, but there is an interesting article on the ins and outs of the whole thing at the American Thinker.  The holcaust was not a sweet story of local people helping people in the camps–it was an ugly story of many people closing their eyes to what was happening to their fellow human beings.  There are exceptions to that rule–the people who hid Jewish people or smuggled them out of Nazi territory–but unfortunately, they were exceptions.

There are many people in the world who would like to spin the holocaust as ‘not really that bad’ because they don’t want to deal with the fact that anti-semitism is still a huge world-wide problem.  Look at the way the current war in Gaza is being reported.  I don’t remember seeing any protests reported when Hamas was lauching rockets into Israel every day.  Unless Israel completes its mission to end the reign of Hamas in Gaza, those rockets will not stop.  If the international community (including the UN) wants peace in the Middle East, they would do well to let Israel complete its mission without interference.