When I hear anything that smacks of racial or religious purity I cringe, because hiding behind the thin layer of masked language are the ideas of exclusion and discrimination, hate and genocide.
And the Jewish people have been recipients of this treatment for hundreds of years. Egyptians, Romans, Crusades, Inquisitions, Nazis - and those are just well known instances - tons of persecution.
And some of us have engendered acceptance and co-existence. But the recent movement in Israel to be a Jewish only state, is a movement of exclusion, discrimination and hate.
“Israel is not a state of all its citizens,” he [Netanyahu] wrote a few weeks before the election. “Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people — and only it.”
What makes this different than 1930s-40s Germany then? What makes this different than Rwanda, Darfur, Ireland?
This is a mistake. And it's a mistake for US Government to support it. And it's a mistake in the playbook for all Jewish persons - understand that we sit in the role of persecutor now. And that cannot be the case. We of any, should be working for the eradication of hate, not the cultivation of it - even in the face of extremist adversity - should be pushing for peace.
Should israel be strong - yes. But they need to carry that with restraint. Mr. Netanyahu is not. He is figuratively and literally killing innocents along with terrorists. He is persecuting Israeli citizens because of their genetics and beliefs.
How do we achieve restraint?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/benjamin-netanyahu-israel.html
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