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Shkruar nga Namir Lapardhaja
Precisely for this reason, the symbolism of visits and ceremonies today seems quite hypocritical, because more than this, moral humility would be needed, gratitude to those who saved lives would be needed, not instrumentalization of history to wash away criminal political images like that of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Today the world commemorates the Holocaust, the Nazi crime against the Jews, which remains an open wound in European and human history, unequivocally condemned by the public conscience and by the fundamental documents of international law. For decades, this tragedy has served as a moral compass not simply as a reminder, but as a warning so that humanity does not repeat its own dramas of its darkest periods.
However, memory without moral coherence turns into political hypocrisy.
Europe has lived with the weight of guilt for years, and some countries still carry the historical burden of what happened, but in the context of World War II, Albanians chose a different path, not surrendering the Jews, but sheltering, feeding, and protecting them. This story speaks more about the Albanians than about the Jews who were saved.
Precisely for this reason, the symbolism of visits and ceremonies today seems quite hypocritical, because more than this, moral humility would be needed, gratitude to those who saved lives would be needed, not instrumentalization of history to wash away criminal political images like that of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Because today, the world is faced with new crimes, where after what happened in Gaza, the old Nazi Holocaust against the Jews is nothing more than an excuse and an alibi to close our eyes to today's reality.
It is not the first time that humanity has not learned from the past, it has done so before, so today, while remembering the Nazi crime, on the other hand, it tolerates or relativizes new crimes against defenseless civilians in Gaza. While repeating "never again" about the Holocaust against the Jews, it allows starvation, bombing, systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure and mass murder to be normalized as "security necessities" against defenseless Palestinians.
UN reports, statements by humanitarian agencies and assessments by international human rights organizations have repeatedly raised alarms about signs of a genocidal policy in Gaza, where the use of starvation as a tool of war, collective punishment, forced displacement and killing of civilians have become tools of repression in violation of all international laws and conventions. These are not opinions, but documented facts.
Here lies the great hypocrisy of politics, where a world that holds solemn ceremonies for yesterday's crimes while shaking hands with a leader accused of war crimes; that publishes photographs of Nazi camps while closing its eyes to today's ruins and mass graves. A moral mise-en-scene where memory is used as decor and justice as a weapon of the strongest.
The Holocaust cannot be a moral card for anyone, nor an excuse, nor atonement, so if history serves to silence the face of new crimes, it is betrayed twice: once to yesterday's victims and once to today's victims.
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