Here is the text of the International Forum on Holocaust

Here is the text of the International Forum on Holocaust. I am frankly, always brought
to tears at the sight of pictures of people of my own religion standing on the edge of lime pits, being machine gunned by SS Soldiers, or being led into shower areas, to be gassed, and their bodies, mute with the pain of death by poison, then rendered into Soap, or burned in the Ovens.

I still have a problem sitting in a Mercedes Benz, as Benz was a manufacturer of Ovens of Auschwitz and Treblinka and elsewhere. When my peers buy one, it bothers me no end.

Not that I believe the modern day owners of Chrysler Letter Editions and Type S Benz's to be sociopath Nazi Murderers, but for some reason, my entire life there are echoes of the massacre of millions of God fearing, honorable Jewish Europeans, by the Nazi's that have not ceased to leave me in personal pain, and I have come to believe that the impact on all of us and our Planet has never been fully acknowledged by our World, that so many gave their lives, that we should live, victims, soldiers, civilians alike. Holocausts are wildfires that know no bounds. From a tiny fire, they spread.

When I see a similar set of circumstances happening to a People, it brings me to the point of outrage, just as when I see those that would bring on racial Holocausts, profiteering from their misdeeds. I am one of those people who has dedicated his life to improving his country, protecting it and contributing to the life of us all. I just can't sit back and watch a John McCain and Lord Hansen jointly profiting from the destruction of a People, and that it is happening to a people like the Hopi, who are among the most kind, the most gentle, noble and spiritual of all the people to first come and settle here in this melting pot of a nation... that they are the victims is beyond an outrage.

Place your understanding of what's being done to them in the light of the following document. Perhaps there are no Gas Chambers, and no Ovens, in Arizona, but their are Uranium Spills, Capped Wells, Drained Aquifers, forcible resettlement and poisoned stock, ignored pleas, and trampled human rights. The Jews faced that as a pre-cursor to Concentration Camp Internment. And, there's homes destroyed, people simply left to die of shock, and homelessness, dispossessed by greedy, carpet baggers, and a Senator and his peers who simply saw that they could enrich themselves and promote themselves on the growing number of Native American corpses in the wake of the big Mining Equipment sailing its way across the Black Mesa... And there are now over two thousand of the Hopi/Dineh that have died, and tens of thousands more at risk. The Hopi are not the only People being mistreated like this, its happening in varying degrees to Native Americans everywhere. Yet it is amongst its worst in its manifestation of the Navajo Resettlement Act and what's been done to the Hopi and Dine'. When you put an end to such things, you have to start somewhere: the line has to be drawn somewhere. Otherwise, it begins to spread from Native Americans, next its Jews and Blacks, then Hispanics, then Arabs, and Chinese, and on and on in varying ways.

Those of us who stand AGAINST Holocaust, stand against ALL HOLOCAUSTS, EVERYWHERE.

For, it starts with one People, then it extends to others, and before very long, it becomes SHOAH.

NEVER AGAIN.

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Text: Declaration of Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust

(Jan. 28: Pledge education, research and commemoration efforts)

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Participants in the January 26-28 Stockholm International Forum

on the Holocaust issued a declaration affirming the unprecedented

character and universal meaning of the Holocaust and pledging their

efforts towards appropriate education, research and commemoration.

The three-day conference, subtitled "A Conference on Education,

Remembrance and Research," drew statesmen, educators,

scientists, and Holocaust survivors from all over the world.

"Together we must uphold the terrible truth of the Holocaust

against those who deny it," the declaration states. "We must strengthen

the moral commitment of our peoples, and the political commitment

of our governments, to ensure that future generations can understand

the causes of the Holocaust and reflect upon its consequences."

Following is the text of the declaration:

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The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust

A Conference on Education, Remembrance and Research

26-28 January 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 unprecedented 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 in our collective memory. The

selfless sacrifices of those who defied the Nazis, and sometimes gave

their own lives to protect or rescue the Holocaust's 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 capacity 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 commitment 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 this 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 honour 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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