I want to offer to you two juxtaposed documents without additional explanations.
The first document is dated in the year 2000 and comes out of Stockholm, Sweden. The second document is postdated for the year 2005 and comes to you out of Berlin, Germany.
The first is written by a fossilized, tyrannical oligarchy of mind control - on its way out. The second is brought to you by young, strong, awakening minds - taking charge.
Stockholm - in the Year 2000:
Declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust
We, High Representatives of Governments at the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, declare that:
1. The Holocaust (Shoah) fundamentally challenged the foundations of civilization. The unprecendented character of the Holocaust will always hold universal meaning. After half a century, it remains an event close enough in time that survivors can still bear witness to the horrors that engulfed the Jewish people. The terrible suffering of the many millions of other victims of the Nazis has left an indelible scar across Europe as well.
2. The magnitude of the Holocaust, planned and carried out by the Nazis, must be forever seared into our collective memory. The selfless sacrifices of those who defied the Nazis, and sometimes gave their own lives to protect or rescue the Holocaust victims, must also be inscribed in our hearts. The depths of that horror, and the heights of their heroism, can be touchstones in our understanding of the human capability for evil and for good.
3. With humanity still scarred by genocide, ethnic cleansing, racism, anti-semitism and xenophobia, the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils. Together we must uphold the terrible truth of the Holocaust against those who deny it. We must strengthen the moral commitment of our peoples, and the political commitments of our governments, to ensure that future generations can understand the causes of the Holocaust and reflect upon its consequences.
4. We pledge to strengthen our efforts to promote education, remembrance and research about the Holocaust, both in those of our countries that have already done much and those that choose to join the effort.
5. We share a commitment to encourage the study of the Holocaust in all its dimensions. We will promote education about the Holocaust in our schools and universities, in our communities and encourage it in other institutions.
6. We share a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to honor those who stood against it. We will encourage appropriate forms of Holocaust remembrance, including an annual Day of Holocaust Remembrance, in our countries.
7. We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust. We will take all necessary steps to facilitate the opening of archives in order to ensure that all documents bearing on the Holocaust are available to researchers.
8. It is appropriate that this, the first major international conference of the new millennium, declares its commitment to plant the seeds of a better future amidst the soil of a bitter past. We empathize with the victims' suffering and draw inspiration from their struggle. Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.
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Berlin - in the Year 2005:
Declaration of the Berlin International Forum on the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust
We, High Representatives of Governments at the Berlin International Forum on the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust, declare that:
1. The Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust (Gulag) fundamentally challenged the foundations of civilization. The unprecendented character of the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust will always hold universal meaning. After half a century, it remains an event close enough in time that survivors can still bear witness to the horrors that engulfed the Gentile people. The terrible suffering of the many millions of other victims of the Jewish Bolsheviks has left an indelible scar across Europe as well.
2. The magnitude of the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust, planned and carried out by the Jewish bankers (Schiff, Kuhn/Loeb and Warburg) in New York, must be forever seared into our collective memory. The selfless sacrifices of those who defied the Jewish bankers, and sometimes gave their own lives to protect or rescue the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust victims, must also be inscribed in our hearts. The depths of that horror, and the heights of their heroism, can be touchstones in our understanding of the human capability for evil and for good.
3. With humanity still scarred by genocide, ethnic cleansing, (think Palestinians here. . . ) racism, anti-gentilism (think Kosovo. . . ) and xenophobia, the international community shares a solemn responsibility to fight those evils. Together we must uphold the terrible truth of the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust against those who deny it. We must strengthen the moral commitment of our peoples, and the political commitments of our governments, to ensure that future generations can understand the causes of the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust and reflect upon its consequences.
4. We pledge to strengthen our efforts to promote education, remembrance and research about the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust, both in those of our countries that have already done much and those that choose to join the effort.
5. We share a commitment to encourage the study of the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust in all its dimensions. We will promote education about the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust in our schools and universities, in our communities and encourage it in other institutions.
6. We share a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust and to honor those who stood against it. We will encourage appropriate forms of Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust remembrance, including an annual Day of Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust Remembrance, in our countries.
7. We share a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust. We will take all necessary steps to facilitate the opening of archives in order to ensure that all documents bearing on the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust are available to researchers.
8. It is appropriate that this, the first major international conference on the Jewish-Bolshevik Holocaust of the new millennium, declares its commitment to plant the seeds of a better future amidst the soil of a bitter past. We empathize with the victims' suffering and draw inspiration from their struggle. Our commitment must be to remember the victims who perished, respect the survivors still with us, and reaffirm humanity's common aspiration for mutual understanding and justice.
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Thought for the Day:
"I hope that this annual occasion will become a day of universal reflection on what it is to be human - to recognise the humanity of others, of those who are not like me, who do not live as I live or believe as I believe."
(Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Dr Jonathan Sacks, Stockholm, 26 January 2000)