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We once marched together at protests, but in the intervening years you and many others have changed your views. An open letter to a right-wing friendNot long ago, by chance, I happened on a post of yours, long and well-reasoned, not particularly militant, that generated numerous Likes. In the distant past we were friends, almost best friends. We shared a similar worldview, similar dreams and hopes. Since then we have gone our separate ways. Occasionally we send each other a greeting, albeit in the knowledge that beyond this the affinity between us has faded.
But I see your words before me now, and they prompt me to examine the distance between us, the separate worlds, but also perhaps to discern what is left of the connecting dots. In what follows I will try to do this as honestly as I can and through this, you will get a response to what you wrote.
Do you remember how, back then, on the eve of Yom Kippur, after the end of Shabbat Shuvah 5743 (Sept. 25, 1982), we stood together, shoulder to shoulder, among a mass of people in what was then called Kings of Israel Square, today's Rabin Square, in Tel Aviv? With awe and dread we stood there, in a suffocating crush. We stood and cried out over the massacre of innocents in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon. A massacre perpetrated on the watch of the Israel Defense Forces, in the midst of a controversial war.
About a tenth of the population of the State of Israel stood together with us on that evening after Shabbat. The streets around the square were teeming with women and men; together we demanded the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the events of that massacre. About a month later, the Kahan Commission was established; it submitted its conclusions four months later. Immediately afterward, and in the wake of the same chain of events, Emil Grunzweig, an educator and peace activist, was murdered not far from the Knesset during a Peace Now rally, whose participants were violently attacked along the way. We remember the blast of the grenade that killed Emil. It was a sign of things to come.
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Continue reading @ https://archive.md/ohAX2
Source : Haaretz .
Lonestarblue
(11,982 posts)We do not want such people running the US. Why do so many approve them running Israel?
Israeli
(4,310 posts)10.2.16
33 years ago today, Emil Grunzweig was murdered by an extreme right wing activist at a Peace Now demonstration.
On 10 February 1983, Peace Now organized a demonstration in Jerusalem, calling the government to adopt the Kahan Commissions recommendations following the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Violent right wing activists screamed, cursed, pushed and beat the demonstrators as they marched towards the Prime Ministers office. Emil Grunzweig was 35 years old when he was killed from a grenade thrown by Yona Avrushmi, following massive incitement against the Israeli left.
This is the result of incitement. The level of incitement we are seeing today is reminding us of the incitement in February 1983 and November 1995. In 2016 high level officials are the ones leading the incitement. We call upon the government to wake up and act now in order to prevent the next murder.
With your help, our voice against incitement and for peace and democracy can be louder. Please share this post and consider supporting Peace Now:
https://peacenow.org.il/en/emil-grunzweig-murdered-33-years-ago
Mosby
(17,634 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 28, 2024, 06:45 PM - Edit history (2)
They consider pretty much all of Israel a illegal Jewish Settlement. Why else the demand for unlimited right of return. The refugee population exceeds 6.5 million, where do you suppose they are going to live? Jaffa?
Eta FYI Notions of Jewish Supremacy is usually expressed by white supremacists. This is maybe the first time I have read an essay by a so called leftist who is using the terms of nazis and white supremacists. Considering it's from Haaretz I shouldn't be surprised, the family who own it cut print because there was no money in it, and went all in on anti-zionist, anti-Israelism because that's where the money is. It's literally their niche.
Israeli, do you understand what's happening in the US and Europe right now with an explosion of antisemitism? This is beyond tone-deaf. Calling Jews supremacists is a far RW tactic to delegitamize Israel.
"Israeli, do you understand what's happening in the US and Europe right now with an explosion of antisemitism? This is beyond tone-deaf. Calling Jews supremacists is a far RW tactic to delegitamize Israel."
You confuse calls from around the world to stop the slaughter of innocent civilians with antisemitism.
Delegitimizing Israel as a Democratic country that tries to get on with its neigbours doesn't need any help, Israel is doing that all by itself.
But you have 2 choices:
1. Israel has no choice but to defend itself very aggressively, and the deaths of civilians in other countries doesn't matter.
2. See the slaughter of innocent civilians as inhumane.
And call for that to stop, without using emotionally laden rhetoric.
Mosby
(17,634 posts)Here's my number 3: Israel continues to defend itself from these illegal, genocidal attacks on the nation, taking care to minimize civilian casualties.
Aussie105
(6,460 posts)How realistic is that option though?
A great idea, when is that going to start happening?
Hard to do that if you are using 2,000 lb bombs to take out a single suspected enemy individual or position.
And what is the current kill ratio?
1 bad guy for 10 to 50 civilians?
What is your personal tolerance level for that?
Eko
(8,602 posts)Mosby
(17,634 posts)Thoughts?
Eko
(8,602 posts)Between the two. Of course I have no idea if you are asking historically or currently. I would say what it is when you have 2 citizens and the laws give one of them on the basis of race or religion more rights than the other? What do you call that?.
Born in America and imported to here .
Rabbi Meir Kahane and Israels far right, explained
Understanding the predecessor to todays Otzma Yehudit party and his ideology requires a look at his past
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brokered a partnership between the extreme right-wing party Jewish Power, or Otzma Yehudit, and the more moderate right-wing Jewish Home, the late American-born Rabbi Meir Kahane was suddenly all over the news.
Kahane, whose extremist Kach party was outlawed in Israel several years after his assassination in 1990, is the ideological father of Jewish Power. By extending a welcoming hand to the party ahead of Israels April elections, Netanyahu was accused of legitimizing Kahanes deep legacy of racism, violence and hatred.
But understanding Kahane and his ideas goes much deeper than just knowing that he has a link with Jewish Power.
Continued @ https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-meir-kahane-and-israels-far-right-explained/