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What is the statute of limitations on atrocity? When do the oppressed become the oppressors?
Before and during World War II, the world did nothing about the Holocaust, nothing. Never forget, people rallied when it was all over, never again.
But they did forget. And it has happened in varying degrees again and again and again.
Which brings us to the systemic, systematic starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza in a war that has seen passive-aggression at its most brutal play out in a zero-sum game whose end strategy now is the elimination of the Palestinians from Israel in one form or another.
Whenever there’s a civic holiday coming up, the recessional hymn at our church is always “America the Beautiful.” We in the choir usually sing all four verses, and we always get a round of applause at the end — for us, for the country, maybe both.
I’ve never liked the song. It’s no “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” which I find far more melodic and moving. But lately my antipathy toward “America the Beautiful” has taken on deeper meaning.
