Yet we have seen this kind of moral equivalency in the stark contrast between the condemnations of Israel for taking military action in selfdefense and the silence after attacks on Israel by its adversaries. We have seen it. too. in the U.N. arms embargo in the former Yugoslavia. which applied equally to the victims and perpetrators of aggression. There is no denying the Wests tendency when confronted with monstrous wrongs to avert its eyes or to rationalize inaction. especially when acting carries a price. In the Holocaust Museum. one can learn about how in 1939 U.S. officials. by refusing to waive certain immigration restrictions. forced 937 Jewish refugees on the S.S. St. Louis to return to Nazi Germany. where many later were killed.
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