Excellencies, distinguished priests of One God, colleagues parliamentarians, ladies and gentlemen!

Let me share with you some words on tragedies in plural, not only that unique we are commemorating.

Haiti disaster caused by the earthquake is an enormous and terrible human tragedy, which does continue until now.

The tsunami, which passed over Aceha and other Indonesian areas, caused tremendously huge and painful human tragedy, as well.

But what about mass murders in Rwanda, Darfur, East Timor, Kambodja, Chechnya etc.? – there we need another, different definition.

Tragedy for the victims, not for the killers.

What then about the Holodomor or death camps of Nazis and Soviet Bolsheviks, indoctrinated and premeditated for extermination day-by-day of millions of innocents? We need again a different, special definition there for the dark creatures – from the system-builders to physical perpetrators, so similar to humans – but we would abuse the beasts when calling those shaped on two legs by this very word. Wild beasts never behave in such a way. Who could kill the elder, women and children – thousands and millions – only because they were Jewish?

Allow me to say, Ladies and Gentlemen, not so many words of sorrow and sympathy to the victims we are commemorating in solidarity and mourning, as they deserve, today and here, near to Auschwitz. Requiem aeternam. This European camp of death is a particular one, as it was used for real industry of killing and only by one totalitarian power only, not by two replacing each other like it was made in Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen or even Macikai in my native Lithuania. But if we stay on it, one may ask: why do you not look into the future?

Allow me to say more words about the mysteries of the degrading human soul. It may become deadfully significant for our common future. Holocaust of the 20^th century was a signal about essential failures of culture, even that called the Western one, but same time also about future disasters which are currently and worldwide coming on.

Did we receive that signal?

If “Work gives freedom” – along with the mockery of Auschwitz, – what gives freedom from morals, from compassion and love, from being human?

That false freedom is brought upon us by totalitarian, sorry, total relativism on what is good and what is evil. Unfortunately, this also eliminates an abyss of a distinction between love and hatred. The latter takes over and goes on applauding, and then we face the abyss.

Teachings of immorality and hatred do flourish world-wide, while love and compassion are becoming “politically incorrect”. If the time allows, I could tell you the story about the Constitution for Europe. Any reference to any religion was totally opposed there as having nothing with Europe, and it was expressed with harsh intolerance stemming from those who usually call for tolerance.

The entire world is on wrong track now. But going again a little back to the matters related with the historical and symbolical site Auschwitz, who could say, what is the destiny of the State of Israel? For the Friends of Israel, it should be the matter of greatest concern. The only victory for all sides in conflict is Peace, but Iran and its proxies do not want it. After producing a bomb, they will blackmail the region much more aggressively. As US direct support for Israel in an openly military way would be detrimental for the Americans, their adversaries fighting for domination will eagerly provoke such pro-Israeli American war in the Middle East. First success in such a pretty provision is isolation of the US, as well as unity of extreme Arabs and Moslem consolidated by strong anti-Americanism. Moscow’s dream, be sure. The second in line success, a sweet dream of the hegemonist Iran and its instructors, would be retreat and geo-ideological isolation of the US. The third, rather local, success of several totalitarian regimes in the area, would be the second historical exodus of the Israeli people… Save God, but I am not sure, as anyone may be, if there is no such planning and if Europe, increasingly tied with Russia, would rush into a crusade for Israel. The mantras about the two state solution or unceaseable right of Israel to exist may look not binding anymore, on line with many others. What would be the last alternative or preemption of second Holocaust – the Israeli bomb dropped on Iran? And what after that?

Excuse my painting such diabolic pictures in black colours only; but that very place of ashes and tears, short to what we now gather, is calling tremendously loud: do something, you people of reason and humanity, do something to change that fatal course drafted by the Satan! Even if it would be only one among several options, we have to do everything for that option ceases to exist.

At the same time, dangers for Jewish nation and State of Israel do signal much more, similarly they could do during the Holocaust. Approaches of all the nations to each other and Nature, if they wish to survive on our globe, should be essentially changed. The same about the relations between the groups and single people everywhere. As Mother Therese have said – and I heard it – adoption, not abortion! – accordingly we must insist everywhere on cooperation replacing any domination. A simple word – love – tells us what is to be found anew and fundamentally. If we still wish to survive, of course.

Speech at Conference of the European Friends of Israel, to the 65^th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camps.
26 January 2010, Krakow