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Israel on the Brink

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The Importance of Rooting Israel in the Holocaust

There was great concern that would, would he like throw Israel into the bus and played into these fears that Obama was just kind of quite radical. So we were trying to call out Holocaust denial. Got a tremendously negative reaction from Israel. Why? Because rooting Israel in the Holocaust undermines the idea that this is the historical moment of the Jewish people. It was such an interesting moment, because it lifted the hood on the difference between like a secular American Jewish mindset. And so there was plenty in it, you know, for that audience,. But the interesting one was the Holocaust because part of that speech was supposed to be like hard truths, telling hard truths.

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