To read how Holocaust survivors applaud the President for his remarks is certainly good news.  What bothers me, though, is the presence of Ron Dermer, the ambassador representing a government that is indeed capable of defending the sovereign nation of Israel, but is at the same time engaged in severely damaging its democracy by ostracizing and harassing any individual or group of Israeli citizens who expresses criticism of the Netanyahu government out of loyalty to the sovereign and democratic nation of Israel (never mind Mr. Netanyahu's disrespect fir the sovereignty of this nation by actively meddling with internal affairs of the American Republic).  It is a tragedy to witness how the current government in Jerusalem continues to be the dangerous threat to the democratic nation of Israel it presently is, rending it asunder with its willful undermining of internal political discourse.  That, I dare say, is not what the Holocaust victims died for.