When we say “Never Again!” first, we need to know what it relates to.
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
Unfortunately, the slogan “Never Again!” remains empty and fruitless as long as we do not know what the slogan should aim at.
We keep aiming it at our external enemies, and we also think that with a stronger army and more developed weapons, we can protect ourselves.
At the same time, when we look at Jewish history, the external enemies gathered and had the bravery and strength to strike at us when we abandoned our unity and mutual guarantee and exposed ourselves as a weak and fragmented people.
Thus, “Never Again!” should be first of all focused on “never again” abandoning the unique Jewish unity that we build and maintain consciously and purposefully, above and despite the 100% self-serving, self-justifying, exploitative, and hateful human nature that drives all of us.
Everything else will be based on and follow from there.
We cannot successfully stake our claim for our right to exist as a single Nation in our Land as long as we do not behave convincingly that we are indeed a single Nation with unbreakable unity and mutual guarantee.
Not only when we are in existential danger but also all the time, regardless of our external conditions.