Barry, you and I are similarly aged, and although I am not Jewish, I vividly recall being horrified while very young by the Nazis' extermination of millions of Jews.
More recently, watching the thousands of Israelis demonstrating against Netanyahu because of his using right wing tactics to destroy Israel's courts in order to avoid prosecu…
Barry, you and I are similarly aged, and although I am not Jewish, I vividly recall being horrified while very young by the Nazis' extermination of millions of Jews.
More recently, watching the thousands of Israelis demonstrating against Netanyahu because of his using right wing tactics to destroy Israel's courts in order to avoid prosecution for his numerous indictments, I saw the protests being diluted by the October Hamas attack. I immediately realized that Israel's military intelligence failures and uncharacteristic inattention to anticipating an imminent attack would give Bibi exactly what he needed to stay in power.
Clearly, Hamas' atrocities deserved retaliation, but killing thousands of civilians to "destroy Hamas" can't be justified. Even if Netanyahu destroys every Hamas fighter, which he won't, there will be thousands of Palestinian young people who will remember the horror wrought upon them and they will become the new Hamas fighters. The seeds were already planted by the lack of having a vote in their own destiny. They will take up the Hamas pledge to eradicate Israel, and all hope will be lost for a peaceful Jewish state.
Here and in other parts of the world, right wingers are wailing because of the threat to Jews. My question is, where were they when white supremacists were marching with tiki torches in Charlottesville, shouting "Jews will not replace us" and our resident white supremacist leader characterized the situation by insisting that there were "fine people on both sides"?
Our lives began with witnessing unthinkable evil being justified against powerless scapegoats, and we are still witnessing this evil. I fervently hope that we will begin to see the world awaking to the continued destruction before we die.
Barry, we can pray that the right's reign of terror on all of us - worldwide - will soon be over. If only Bibi and the Orange Menace could get Elon Musk construct a manned rocket to Mars and be its first occupants . . . .
Barry, you and I are similarly aged, and although I am not Jewish, I vividly recall being horrified while very young by the Nazis' extermination of millions of Jews.
More recently, watching the thousands of Israelis demonstrating against Netanyahu because of his using right wing tactics to destroy Israel's courts in order to avoid prosecution for his numerous indictments, I saw the protests being diluted by the October Hamas attack. I immediately realized that Israel's military intelligence failures and uncharacteristic inattention to anticipating an imminent attack would give Bibi exactly what he needed to stay in power.
Clearly, Hamas' atrocities deserved retaliation, but killing thousands of civilians to "destroy Hamas" can't be justified. Even if Netanyahu destroys every Hamas fighter, which he won't, there will be thousands of Palestinian young people who will remember the horror wrought upon them and they will become the new Hamas fighters. The seeds were already planted by the lack of having a vote in their own destiny. They will take up the Hamas pledge to eradicate Israel, and all hope will be lost for a peaceful Jewish state.
Here and in other parts of the world, right wingers are wailing because of the threat to Jews. My question is, where were they when white supremacists were marching with tiki torches in Charlottesville, shouting "Jews will not replace us" and our resident white supremacist leader characterized the situation by insisting that there were "fine people on both sides"?
Our lives began with witnessing unthinkable evil being justified against powerless scapegoats, and we are still witnessing this evil. I fervently hope that we will begin to see the world awaking to the continued destruction before we die.
Thank you Nancy for beautifully extending my thoughts. Barry
Barry, we can pray that the right's reign of terror on all of us - worldwide - will soon be over. If only Bibi and the Orange Menace could get Elon Musk construct a manned rocket to Mars and be its first occupants . . . .