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Monday, March 2, 2015
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Samantha Power addresses AIPAC
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUN envoy Samantha Power addresses the AIPAC forum.
Power says it’s a “great honor to be here” and thanks the organizers.
She mentions the history of Jan Karski, who disguised himself in 1942, and smuggled himself into the Warsaw Ghetto and concentration camps.
“Jews in Poland almost completely annihilated,” his cable later read, once he arrived in London, detailing the Nazi atrocities. “Believe the unbelievable.”
She moves on to the establishment of the State of Israel.
“The Shoah gave this long-held dream greater urgency,” she says.
Power says she became a journalist after she was moved by the Holocaust and covered the Bosnian conflict.
“I was chilled by what I saw, and was chilled equally by the slowness of the world’s response,” she says.
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