interesting...
I thought it was fascinating how I was completely in awe of this woman initially, but found myself asking why and realized it was purely because she had suffered, not because of anything she had done. This became apparent to me when she seemed irked, apathetic and angry to listen to the Palestinian suffering. She said something about having to be tough after talking about the Palestinians later on which troubled me because it reminded me of something I read in the diary of a Nazi general at one of the concentration camps - he spoke of how it wasn't easy for him to kill but how he had to be tough and remind himself of the harm the Jewish people did to German society.
Would it be a massive presumption to say that she saw the Palestinians as the 'other'? And this is the problem, the beginning of the dehumanization?
She established a museum to tell thousands of people about her suffering and the holocaust but couldn't bring herself to sit and hear the stories of suffering of innocent people who found themselves caught up in a conflict which had nothing to do with them?
It also made me wonder, I've seen so many holocaust movies and documentaries. But there are so many other genocides, atrocities and injustices throughout the world and history... its just depressing I don't even know what my point is anymore.