tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5374700250372600438.post7851416278067171596..comments2015-04-04T13:25:25.769-07:00Comments on 36voices: Deal with Iran seems to leave much unsaid, and perhaps even more undone Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5374700250372600438.post-25175994710447905272015-04-04T13:25:25.769-07:002015-04-04T13:25:25.769-07:00I write from Hungary where great strides were made...I write from Hungary where great strides were made by my own group, RtL, the Wiesenthal Centre, USHMM, and others in recasting potentially revisionist HS textbook away from serving to undo the shame of teachers, publishers, and government in "truth telling of history." Stonewalling of opposition to the texts may be one answer to the problem you address --although it will arouse deepest discomfort for many. It rests on a simple view --we, as older folks, hardly matter, but what matters is the future of our children. 1. After 25 years grandmothers could talk wit their grandchildren, show pictures, perhaps weep together about the Holocaust. 2. For such youth then to go to school and be fed lie would arouse their resistance. But if forced to swallow it, they --and their friends --would variously sicken. 3. When presented by sympathetic voices, the very same message as from USHMM, the US Embassy, etc. seen as antagonists, were heard and acted on. 4. The same sympathetic voices could help make understandable that to "spend billions to lie to children, would also bring into question any trust in business cooperation." What was achieved was a "correction" in historically derived self-knowledge, away from the tragedy of 1849, the execution of all Hungarian generals by the Hapsburg, to awareness that the real Golgotha of Hungarian history rests with the destruction of 160,000 children in 1944 in three short months. Indeed, an enormous gain. But comparatively simple, as it dealt merely with lie and shame.<br />But the concerns you address correctly are deeper --existential. Yet if one is to be heard, the tendency to close off divergent voices must be resisted. As is, a GroupThink discolours all discourse, and the Jewish view is misunderstood as "fear mongering."<br />https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/illustrating-groupthink-dr-laszlo-petrovics/edit<br /><br />Present funding sources for Hillel USA, and other groups, shut out seemingly opposition voices in conferences. That is, we hear and reinforce each other, over and over, as if in a cocoon.<br /><br />Hellen seeks to come to Europe. One manner, across the years to come, to lessen this problem in communication is to understand that Hillel in Europe --when conferencing --must include Arab voices of dissent which are not extremist but seek understanding, but dissent nevertheless. If Hillel USA is simply transplanted to Europe, it will minimally serve the mutual understanding we were able to achieve in Hungary. Dr. László Petrovicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005310373675261934noreply@blogger.com