Yet to our utter shame, Yossi Sarid hasn't yet exposed Israeli youngsters to the gory particulars of Sand Creek and all the other slaughters which accompanied it - both in North and South America. No such gap should be tolerated in our state schools' syllabus. In most countries, pupils concentrate on their people's past, but our juveniles must rise to what progressive proponents of national self-reproach deem a higher moral plane, certainly above a narrow Jewish agenda. Sarid had already opined that the Rwandan, Bosnian, Cambodian and Kosovar atrocities must be taught. There is no denying that all the above suffered abysmally.
History is crammed with massacres.
You don't need to be an antisemitic Holocaust denier like David Irving to drive this point home. You can simply be a humanist. Nothing hinders assorted Holocaust deniers, high-minded universalists or political opportunists from likening any wartime savagery to the Holocaust. Yet even the most barbaric of bloodbaths weren't the product of a meticulously blue-printed, methodical, industrialized extermination, in which every baby was systematically hunted down. Even in the cruelest conflicts, victims weren't stripped of the last shreds of human dignity, cynically deceived, tortured, starved, enslaved or subjected to sadistic pseudo-scientific experimentation, as they were in the Holocaust.