United Nations – Her voice cracking with emotion, the mother of college student Otto Warmbier who was sent home from North Korea in a coma and died soon after says her family will keep speaking out about the country’s human rights violations to “rub their noses” in what they did and embarrass Kim Jong Un’s government.
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Cindy Warmbier told a U.N. symposium on human rights in North Korea Thursday: “I can’t let Otto die in vain. … We’re not special, but we’re Americans and we know what freedom’s like, and we have to stand up for this.”
Her comments came at a sensitive time, as the U.S. and North Korea are planning a historic meeting, and a day after President Donald Trump hinted at the imminent release of American prisoners held by Pyongyang.
Indeed Abbas is a rabid anti-Semite, terrorist and murderer. Kim Jong Un is a despot and war-monger. At the same time they happen to be leaders of regimes. Very dangerous regimes, at that. One babbles out a half-hearted apology for his remarks. The other makes a 180 degree turn in his approach to the world, away from despotism.
We as Jews know that the world is one tough place with its maze of puzzles and contradictions. In a tough world, tough decisions are the order of the day.
Tough decisions sometimes require that we bite our collective tongue in order to allow our Heavenly Father to affect the changes necessary for the much awaited redemption to finally kick in.
Lets not forget that after all is sais and done, both Abbas and Kim are merely Shlichim (messengers) in the scheme of all things.
I once heard a very Holy Jew (a Tsaddik) declare that had someone during the Holocaust offered him the possibility of saving even one Jew from death by kissing Hitler (YM-Shmo) on the lips, he would have done so with a great deal of alacrity.