To quote Peter Beinart in "Being a Jew after the Destruction of Gaza":
"I still believe in the metaphor of Jews as a family. But it has been corrupted. Jewish leaders have turned our commitment to one another into a moral sedative. They have traded on our solidarity to justify starvation and slaughter. They have told us that the way we show we care about the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas is to support a war that kills and starves those very hostages, and that the way to honor the memory of the Israelis Hamas murdered is to support a war that will create tens of thousands more scarred, desperate young Palestinians eager to avenge their loved ones by taking Israeli lives. We need a new story--based on equality rather than supremacy--because the current one doesn't endanger only Palestinians. It endangers us."
And Beinart is no liberal squish, he's a former editor of The New Republic and editor-at-large at Jewish Currents.
I once thought of Beinart as a thoughtful thinker about Israeli-Palestinian issues. But over the last few years he has moved his opinions into favoring a quasi federated "one state solution" in which Jews and Arabs will share what is the current majority Jewish State of Israel. He's entitled to his opinion, but let's not pretend he represents anything other than a distinct minority position of Jewish Americans when it comes to Israel. And for the record Jewish Currents, while interesting, is a progressive publication. Suggesting it is in any way part of mainstream American Jewish thought is disingenuous at best.
Sorry Peter..the long arm of history is against you..the Jews escaped to Egypt and then they came back..they were sent to Babylon and they came back..the Romans scattered them after the second rebellion and then they came back…the Germans gassed them and they came back. They will defend their home. And every Ten years the Palestinians will try again.
To quote Peter Beinart in "Being a Jew after the Destruction of Gaza":
"I still believe in the metaphor of Jews as a family. But it has been corrupted. Jewish leaders have turned our commitment to one another into a moral sedative. They have traded on our solidarity to justify starvation and slaughter. They have told us that the way we show we care about the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas is to support a war that kills and starves those very hostages, and that the way to honor the memory of the Israelis Hamas murdered is to support a war that will create tens of thousands more scarred, desperate young Palestinians eager to avenge their loved ones by taking Israeli lives. We need a new story--based on equality rather than supremacy--because the current one doesn't endanger only Palestinians. It endangers us."
And Beinart is no liberal squish, he's a former editor of The New Republic and editor-at-large at Jewish Currents.
I once thought of Beinart as a thoughtful thinker about Israeli-Palestinian issues. But over the last few years he has moved his opinions into favoring a quasi federated "one state solution" in which Jews and Arabs will share what is the current majority Jewish State of Israel. He's entitled to his opinion, but let's not pretend he represents anything other than a distinct minority position of Jewish Americans when it comes to Israel. And for the record Jewish Currents, while interesting, is a progressive publication. Suggesting it is in any way part of mainstream American Jewish thought is disingenuous at best.
Not that you care, but the vast majority of us Jews think Beinart is a disgusting little "token Jew" troll.
Beinart is not a liberal squish, although he used to be. He is now a far left anti-Zionist activist.
Sorry Peter..the long arm of history is against you..the Jews escaped to Egypt and then they came back..they were sent to Babylon and they came back..the Romans scattered them after the second rebellion and then they came back…the Germans gassed them and they came back. They will defend their home. And every Ten years the Palestinians will try again.