President Obama in Israel: Day 3

Jacob Miller — March 22, 2013 – 9:34 am | Comments (0) Add a comment

Today was the third and final day of President Barack Obama’s trip to Israel. The first stop for President Obama was Mount Herzl, on which Zionist leader Theodore Herzl is buried. To recognize his contribution to Zionism, President Obama laid a wreath on his grave and signed the Mount Herzl visitor book. Also on Mount Herzl lays former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995. President Obama also laid wreaths on the graves of Rabin and his wife Leah.

 

Photo Credit: Haaretz

After visiting Mount Herzl, President Obama drove to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial. The President also visited Yad Vashem in 2008 while he was a Senator. After signing the guest book, he toured the museum and gave some brief remarks:

The state of Israel does not exist because of the Holocaust, but with the survival of the state of Israel, there will never be a Holocaust again…

Here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarism that unfolds when we get to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and of life…We see how evil can for a moment in time triumph when good people do nothing.

Photo Credit: Emil Salman

Following President Obama’s visit to Yad Vashem, he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in a closed door meeting to continue discussions on pertinent matters. The President then departed Israel for Jordan.

Photo Credit: AP

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