Obama slams anti-semitism, racism, at Holocaust Memorial
Anti-Semitism and racism have no place in the modern world, US President Barack Obama said Friday, as he toured the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre in Jerusalem, on the last day of his trip to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank.
Accompanied by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Yad Vashem head Avner Shalev, and former chief rabbi Yisrael Lau, who survived the World War II Holocaust as a young child, Obama re-lit the flame in the Centre's Hall of Remembrance.
"We could come here 1,000 times, and each time your heart will break," he said in brief remarks.
"Here we see the depravity to which man can sink. The barbarism that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us. We see how evil can for a .... time triumph when good people do nothing."
The President noted that the Israel did not exist because of the Holocaust, "but in the survival of a strong Jewish state of Israel the Holocaust will never happen again."
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