Ron Rosenbaum's essay on the possibility of a "Second Holocaust" is a profoundly weird piece of work. He loathes Walt and Mearsheimer, of course, and accomplishes the remarkable feat of arguing against Leon Wieseltier from the Right, as he apparently considers Wieseltier unacceptably leftwing on Israel/Palestine issues.
But the bulk of the essay is dedicated to exploring the possibility and dangers of what Rosenbaum calls "the Second Holocaust." "I am not the only one who has written about the potential for a second Holocaust," he says. "It has gone from a marginalized to a virtually mainstream concern among those in touch with the grim reality of the situation. The Israeli historian Benny Morris...recently published an essay in the Jerusalem Post titled "The Second Holocaust Will Be Different." ("Different" in that it will take six seconds or six minutes for a bomb or bombs detonated in Tel Aviv to kill millions of Jews, while it took Hitler six years to kill that many.)"
