Why Are We Accepting Evil Genocidal Atrocities In Gaza?

By Wim Laven\PeaceVoice Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons Many survivors of Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust wrote memoirs to permanently record what had happened with a belief that such atrocity should never happen again. Indeed, many of these are recommended and required texts. Each story is similar, and each story is different, they all capture humanity and showcase it being stripped away. For several years I felt compelled to read the stories from as many survivors as possible; it felt like an obligation to remember, acknowledge, and to faithfully preserve history. It was only when I visited Powell’s Books, the largest used/new independent bookstore in the world, that I realized I could not read them all in one lifetime. Many authors credited their survival to the desire to make sure they lived to tell the story. If it was so important to them that the world know what happened, then reading seemed the least I could do. The banality of evil was a term coined by Hannah Arendt to capture the ordinary and mundane daily lives people lead while atrocities were being committed. For example, you read about the stench of death and the impossibility of ignoring the smell; how...