“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance,” former US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said.
As Israel was preparing to mark its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 12, the killer from Damascus presented his Jewish neighbors with horrifying scenes, massacres of children and women. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made it clear to survivors of the Holocaust and members of the second and third generations that genocide is still possible, here and now. The gut-wrenching photos from Douma must have failed to move Russian President Vladimir Putin, sponsor of the crimes against humanity that have claimed an estimated half a million lives over the past seven years. Moscow dismisses the evidence of a nerve gas attack on the Syrian town and at the same time castigates Israel, which is trying to distance the Iranian army from its border.
