From Cornelio Sommaruga, Switzerland. (Letter).You kindly published a generous `profile' on me in your August/September 2002 issue, under the title `A passion for the human family'. The journalist, Andrew Stallybrass, correctly reports that I was particularly saddened by the personal attacks on me as being anti-Semitic. He also relates the history and the details of what happened, when I was called on, in April 2002, by the Secretary General of the United Nations, to be one of the three members of a fact-finding team for Jenin, in the Occupied Territories This article is about occupied territory in general: for more specific discussion of the territories captured by Israel in the Six-Day War, see Israeli-occupied territories. Occupied territories . During the 2002 Caux conferences, and particularly at the official celebrations to mark the 100 years of the Caux-Palace on 7 July, I gave some concluding remarks at the invitation of the moderator during a panel on `Learning the lessons from the past'. I spoke after Professor Egon Mayer Egon Mayer (born 19 August 1917 in Konstanz at the Bodensee, killed in action March 2 1944 near Montmédy) was a German World War II fighter ace who served in the Luftwaffe from 1937 until his death in 1944. He shot down 102 enemy aircraft. , of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. University, himself born in Caux in December 1944 as the son of Jewish refugees In the course of history, Jewish populations have been expelled or ostracised by various local authorities and have sought asylum from antisemitism numerous times. The articles History of antisemitism and Timeline of antisemitism contain more detailed chronology of anti-Jewish from Hungary interned in the house, and Professor Bronislav Geremek, who witnessed the deportation of his own father to Auschwitz from the Warsaw ghetto, and who himself participated as a child in the famous uprising. I felt then that the Holocaust was so present in the minds of the several hundreds of participants. I returned briefly to the polemics po·lem·ics n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. The art or practice of argumentation or controversy. 2. The practice of theological controversy to refute errors of doctrine. against me in the media, and said that I wished to forgive the journalists who had quoted incorrectly from a report of a private meeting, without ever taking the trouble to check back with me. In the spirit of Caux, I went on to ask the forgiveness of Jews for any hurt caused by my psychological mistake in speaking of the request of Ceylon/Sri Lanka to have their own symbol recognized in the Red Cross Geneva Conventions: the swastika. I thought that your readers might be interested in this footnote to this story. The editors welcome letters for publication but reserve the right to shorten them. Please write to `For A Change', 24 Greencoat Place, London SWIP SWIP Scottish Widows Investment Partnership SWIP Shared WhoIs Project SWIP Society for Women in Philosophy SWIP Sensor Web for Infrastructure Protection (centralized monitoring) SWIP Software Improvement Program IRD IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (French) IRD Inland Revenue Department (New Zealand's tax revenue collection department) IRD Integrated Receiver Decoder . E-mail: fac@uk.iofc.org FIND YOUR WAY THROUGH FAC 2002! The index for Volume 15 is now available from Maria Grace, 15 Lewis Walk, Newbury, RG14 6TB, UK. Tel/fax 01635 47196, price 2.00 [pounds sterling]. Or e-mail:fac@uk.iofc.org |
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