Gitmo, Palestinian prisoners in Israel, Auschwitz… it’s all very similar. Honestly though if anyone today should be in a Gitmo/Auschwitz style prison, it’s the leadership of Israel.

Information, technology and progress have not improved the inhumanity of man. We must guard against unleashing the monster within.

The greatest tragedy is when we don’t learn, when the victim become the oppressor, and the cycle repeats.

In my mind, both are heinous acts of mankind. It can be argued that the sheer volume of evidence of the Holocaust renders it the great tragedy of our times.

That does not mean that what is unfolding slowly in front of our eyes – not just in terms of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib – is not another for the 21st century.

Inhumanity takes many forms, but it is still plain old inhumanity, no matter how it is dressed up.

I lived in Austria, surrounded by elderly Nazis who loved to have coffee and talk about WWII.@@ Eye-opener. I visited Mauthausen camp several times with touring friends. Heart-wrenching tragedy.

You need to see Auschwitz, 50 pounds or not. I have twice, taken by a Polish pastor who as a child watched the trains arrive, saw the smoke rise and smelled the bodies as they burned. They towns people lived in fear that they, as Poles, would be next.

I think he would weep if he saw the title here.

As bad as Gitmo is, there are no women and children dying there, burned like trash in the end. There is plenty of hallal food. They don’t have to work until they die of exhaustion, they are not used for medical experiments without anesthesia or used as prostitutes.

They were not confined because they were the wrong or inferior nationality, religion or sexual orientation. Guantanamo Bay may be a horrible travesty of modern justice, but it is not Auschwitz.

That said, I need to learn more about J Street and the groups you mention here.

Have fun in Krakow, I really enjoyed that city