In recent months, the Jewish leader has given interviews and speeches (posted online, links below) that convey his generational world view. Hoenlein's parents escaped Germany but his grandparents were killed in the Holocaust; and Hoenlein's core beliefs are: The importance of Jewish power to save Jews; the importance of Jewish unity to maintain that power and produce miracles in Israel. Hoenlein is baffled by young Jews' indifference to his causes. His response is that we have to "inoculate our kids younger and younger" - as early as five - so that they understand why the news features pictures "of an Israeli killing a kid or an adult."
Here are some of Hoenlein's statements. On the Holocaust forming his belief in Jewish power:
I know how strongly I was influenced by the Shoah, and from the time I was ten or eleven years I got involved politically because I believed that only when Jews could have control of their own fate and future and understood the political process and got involved - as Abba Eban said, In World War Two, Jews had influence in many places but power in none. I knew that Jewish power was the key to our survival. And I remember my parents getting the telegram that my grandparents had been killed. As a very young child when those yellow telegrams came and those of our neighbors and others who received them, I know it made a lasting impact. So much of what I have done is to avoid another situation where Jews will live at the sufferance of others, that Jews will not determine their own fate.
Comment: Even if that means turning into monsters in the process? Apparently so.













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