Barack Obama visits Yad Vashem holocaust memorial in Israel לעולם לא שוב

The Illinois Senator said that he would put prime importance on Israel's security needs. And he promised that if he is elected President, he will keep his focus on helping to foster peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. Obama began the first full day of his second-ever trip to Israel with a pilgrimage to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, where he laid a wreath of white flowers on a stone under which ashes of those who died in the camps are buried. And he chose as the site for his only news conference of the day the police station at Sderot, a town near the edge of Gaza that has been the target of Palestinian bombardment for the past seven years. His backdrop was a stack of hundreds and hundreds of shells that have fallen on Sderot. With Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni standing behind him, Obama declared, "I'm here to say as an American and as a friend of Israel that we stand with the people of Sderot and with all the people of Israel."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826017,00.html
"Dona Dona" ("Dana Dana", "Dos Kelbl") lyrics:
[Translation by Kevess & Schwartz]
On a wagon bound for market
There's a calf with a mournful eye.
High above him there's a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky.

How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh and laugh the whole day through
And half the summer's night.
Dona, dona, dona...

"Stop complaining," said the farmer,
"Who told you a calf to be?
Why don't you have wings to fly away
Like the swallow so proud and free?"

Calves are easily bound and slaughtered
Never knowing the reason why.
But whoever treasures freedom,
Like the swallow must learn to fly.
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[Translation by Secunda]
On a wagon bound and helpless
Lies a calf, who is doomed to die.
High above him flies a swallow
Soaring gaily through the sky.

The wind laughs in the cornfield
Laughs with all his might
Laughs and laughs the whole day through
An half way through the night
Dona, dona, dona...

Now the calf is softly crying
"Tell me wind, why do you laugh?"
Why can't I fly like the swallow
Why did I have to be a calf,

Calves are born and soon are slaughtered
With no hope of being saved.
Only those with wing like swallow
Will not ever be enslaved.

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[carsophieify]

President of EUA a Great Man and a great tribute of Holocaust.

[castonbasketball]

I hope