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Aretha sang about it a long time ago.

Now, the PLO’s ambassador to Poland shows it by visiting Auschwitz:

The PLO’s ambassador to Poland visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Wednesday. … After signing the camp’s visitors’ journal, [Khaled] Soufan told reporters he was there to convey his solidarity with the Jewish people’s suffering during World War II.

It would be easy to deride this as cheap political theater were it not for the fact that Holocaust denial is all the rage among some rather  prominent Muslims.

Which makes this gesture all the more powerful and resonant. So hat’s off to Khaled Soufan, and bravo.

The long road to peace begins with reconciliation. And there is no reconciliation without mutual respect.

By the way, the Pakistani ambassador to Poland also visited Auschwitz recently, I see from the same article. Nice of the media to report it, eh?