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Israeli thinktank confirms AG
However, just as it is true that mass murder has been with us since time immemorial, it is also true that the opposite, namely selfless sacrifice for others, has been with us as well. The yearning for death and the yearning for life are both, apparently, part of our basic make-up. In the real world, as well as in the imagined world of literature that reflects it, both have a parallel existence. Righteous among the nations-and that includes whole communities, even whole ethnic communities or the vast majority among them, such as the Danes-rescued xxxs; righteous Turks and Kurds rescued Armenians during the Armenian genocide; righteous Hutu rescued Tutsi in Rwanda. Often such activities involved real self-sacrifice for a total stranger. It is this other pole of our mental and instinctual being that makes action against genocide a realistic prospect, albeit a very difficult and perhaps remote one.