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Michael Sussman

The main theme of Holocaust Remembrance Day is “Never Again.” In Dubai’s ceremony, a new dimension was added.
Why was this night different? This was the first time an Israeli ambassador had told the story of the exodus from Egypt in the UAE.
Dubai was so unexpectedly open that I felt safer wearing my “kippah” there than even on the streets of New York, Toronto and London.
In the realpolitik of the 21st century, Europe will have to decide whether its discomfort with Jews outweighs its professed values.
To restore and maintain “mu-wazana,” (“balance”), the rest of the Gulf States—and other Arab countries—will wish to follow Abu Dhabi’s lead.
What’s clear from Israel’s experience in Lebanon in the 1980s, and that of America in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that trying to overthrow regimes and install replacement governments has not delivered desired results.
Just as it has the Holocaust, pogroms, the expulsion of the Jews in 132 C.E. and the ancient Greek wars, Judaism will survive the coronavirus pandemic.