A culture, I am told, is the result of continuous aggregation of experiences and memories, expressions and struggles, lessons and prophecies. How terrifying, then, to watch Israel hold a torch to the fabric of its culture and, through her actions, render the agony of centuries past irrelevant. Spitting in the face of global pledges to "never again" allow crimes of the type and scale committed against Europe's Jewish populations, Israel is turning Palestine into its very own private ghetto. "Awake, O Israel," and stand up against the evils that you faced; "Cease from your slumber," and stop those who would unleash it again upon the world.