Each and every single public
place that has hosted Mr. Saul's Holocaust "show" is
a victim.
Each and every organization
donating money to Mr. Saul's bogus Visas for Life
project is a victim.
Each and every individual that
has been associated with or donated money to
Mr. Saul's project, and did not derive any benefit
from it, is a victim. (We do
not know at this stage of our investigation whether
Mr. Bingham is a victim of Mr. Saul's scam or a
willing participant to it but within 30 days, we should
be able to have a clear understanding of this important
distinction. This is because within that period of time,
Mr. Bingham would have an opportunity to make known
his stand not through his words, if any, but through his
actions and deeds.)
Each and every newspaper,
Internet website, and other media outlets from the United
States, Israel, or from other parts of the world that
publicized Eric Saul and his bogus Holocaust project is a
victim. (We, ourselves have
been victimized by the Bingham-Saul "show" as noted at
the beginning of our presentation.)
All the damages inflicted by
Mr. Saul's insidious project were of the most
profound and lasting nature, as it struck at the core of
each and every victim's most important asset: the
victim's reputation and credibility.
From all the victims that
Mr. Saul was able to prey on, Yad Vashem stands out,
by far, as the most damaged. No person from the entire
tumultuous history of the Jewish State has done more harm
and damage to Yad Vashem than Mr. Saul did with his
"Visas for Life" project. As you perhaps have noticed
from Mr. Saul's reply to us (Exhibit 11
, hereto, ¶13), he was bragging to us how Yad Vashem
had embraced his "Visas for "Life" project by
stating:
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"Yad Vashem has
duplicated the Visas for Life exhibit and is touring
this exhibit throughout the world."
And his bragging was not without teeth as Yad Vashem
has even created in their website a place for displaying
Mr. Saul's Visas for Life exhibition (see,
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/exhibitions/temporary_exhibitions/visas/home_visas.html
or
http://www.yadvashem.org.il/exhibitions/temporary_exhibitions/visas/home_visas.html)
Let there be no mistake as to
where we stand with respect to this enormously tragic
occurrence:
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Every day, every
hour, every minute, every second that Yad
Vashem is promoting and/or is associated with
Eric Saul's "Visas for Life" is an affront to
the memory of the Holocaust and its victims,
and an affront to the survivors of the
Holocaust.
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Respectfully, a fundamental
question needs to be asked as to whether Yad Vashem can
continue, in its current set up and with its current
leadership, to remain as the official guardian of the
Holocaust "grounds."
You see, for many people around
the world, Jews and non-Jews alike, Yad Vashem is not
merely a Holocaust museum, or merely a gigantic
repository of Holocaust documents --although certainly in
both respects it is second to none.
For many, Yad Vashem is first
and foremost the keeper and guardian of the world's
conscience frozen in time, of a time, when the human
conscience has reached one of its lowest points of its
tumultuous existence. We are a part of those people, that
view Holocaust as sacred grounds and Yad Vashem as the
official keeper of those grounds.
The catastrophic blow that Yad
Vashem has suffered as a result of its association with
Eric Saul and his Visas for Life project may parallel in
a way to the catastrophic blow that NASA has incurred
with its Columbia mission. Yad Vashem would be well
advised to follow NASA's resolve to correct its lapses
and move on. Yad Vashem's security lapses are so enormous
that it is truly frightening and beyond
comprehension.
As in the case of NASA that has
halted its entire operation until it can find first and
foremost the root cause that led to the catastrophic
result in the Columbia mission, Yad Vashem would be well
advised to follow NASA's tenacity to come clean from its
past errors and move on as a more responsible and far
stronger and equipped agency.
For all practical purposes, the
Yad Vashem's "Righteous Among the Nations" program must
be indefinitely placed on hold as it is utterly absurd to
continue with a program that needs serious fixing.
As in NASA's case, Yad Vashem must appoint an
outside panel that could be called the Red
Alert Investigative Department
(abbreviated with the acronym RAID) whose foremost task
would be to recommend to the Chairman of the Yad Vashem
Directorate as well, as needed, to Knesset (the Israel's
Parliament) of structural and operational changes that
Yad Vashem needs to implement in order to be able to keep
up with the new wave of impostors. Protecting itself from
intruders of Mr. Saul's type and caliber or even of more
sinister ones, is essential, for Yad Vashem's own
survival, if is to remain the undisputed guardian
and ultimate keeper of the most sacred of all sacred
grounds that the Holocaust surely must represent. It may
very well be possible that RAID would even evolve into a
permanent watchdog for Yad Vashem whose task would
be of issuing warnings and alarms of various types for
securing at maximum the sacred grounds of Yad Vashem from
each and every possible direction.
There is little doubt in our
mind that Yad Vashem needs to go through a thorough and
most comprehensive self-examination as it will be a
tragedy of immeasurable proportion if it cannot be
awakened from its current complacent state. The sanctity
of Yad Vashem is now at stake and that sanctity must be
protected at any cost.
Assessing the damages in an
accident is only one side of the coin. The other side is,
of course, assessing the accountability and that, is the
subject of our next section.
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