Here’s another Argentine “story” for guilt-stricken Israelis like Noam. Today is a public holiday in Argentina. What’s being celebrated is The Day of the Race. No, that’s not race as in human race, it’s race as in the conquerors and colonizers who came here from Europe and wiped out the indigenous population. A day to celebrate the start of a genocide, if you like.
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In recent weeks, the courageous Nicholas Kristof, accompanied by George Clooney, has been revisiting the hell on earth that has enveloped Darfur and eastern Chad. In one of his searing columns, he wrote about a 27 year-old woman named Suad Ahmed.
Stanley Milgram’s famous obedience experiments in the early 1960s were widely regarded as laboratory proof of Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” Ordinary, unremarkable people will commit terrible acts of violence and cruelty under orders.
That the savagery of the Sudanese regime and its Janjaweed thugs in Darfur knows no bounds is a fact we have all been aware of for a long time - too long. Now, though, there is a new report which should shake the world out of its complacency, or “Darfur fatigue,” or whatever you want to call it.
