Author Elie Wiesel supports Obama
At a recent visit with President Obama to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, Elie Wiesel had the following to say about the President’s push for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
“This includes so many of what now would be your vision for the future, Mr. President. A sense of security for Israel, a sense of security for its neighbors, to bring peace in that place. The time must come. It’s enough — enough to go to cemeteries, enough to weep for oceans. It’s enough. There must come a moment — a moment of bringing people together.”
Here’s an excerpt of the President’s remarks:
These individuals never could have known the world would one day speak of this place. They could not have known that some of them would live to have children and grandchildren who would grow up hearing their stories and would return here so many years later to find a museum and memorials and the clock tower set permanently to 3:15, the moment of liberation.
They could not have known how the nation of Israel would rise out of the destruction of the Holocaust and the strong, enduring bonds between that great nation and my own. And they could not have known that one day an American President would visit this place and speak of them and that he would do so standing side by side with the German Chancellor in a Germany that is now a vibrant democracy and a valued American ally.
You may read the whole text of President Obama’s and Elie Wiesel’s remarks at WhiteHouse.gov:
“Remarks by President Obama, German Chancellor Merkel, and Elie Wiesel at Buchenwald Concentration Camp.” Office of the Press Secretary, The White House. June 5, 2009.