US Guilt

[Max B. Sawicky]

. . .
It's by now pretty well-established that the holocaust narrative was 
hardly of much concern in the 1950s and 1960s, when people were 
indeed much closer to the events and there were any number of living 
witnesses, from survivors to soldiers who entered the death camps at 
the end of the war. Indeed, the narrative itself was not much present 
even within Israel itself.

mbs:  I would say it was of considerable concern to those
who lost family and those who nearly died!  When I was
very young, my parents showed me a picture book entitled
"This must never happen again!"  I was instructed at an
early age, well before 1967.  That last bit about Israel
is ridiculous.

Guilt is partly political and can be inculcated to some
extent.  It can also set in with a lag.  So the movements
of the Guilt Index doesn't discount its level at any
particular point, nor its foundation.  But in the end
I agree we have to look beyond public opinion to uncover
the roots of U.S. Israeli relations.

mbs