Comments | richardf8: A few points to bear in mind on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

richardf8

A few points to bear in mind on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

Sep 26, 2004 01:05

Today my Synagogue had, as a guest, a Presbyterian Minister who came by to explain how it came to pass that the Presbyterians have decided to divest from corporations invested in Israel. It was not a position with which he himself agreed, and he has been getting quite an education as he has been talking about it. It seems his purpose to get them ( Read more... )

palestinians, anti-semitism, israel

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wow.. that's quite a work! c_eagle September 26 2004, 12:17:34 UTC

I hope you had a good Rosh and a good Yom ... *wags*

locakitty September 26 2004, 15:14:42 UTC

This is a good post, I admit, I am not well educated in what the hell is going on over there. My next nonfiction splurge of reading will probably be on this topic (i heart the library).
Hope your holidays were good :)

deckardcanine September 26 2004, 19:52:15 UTC

That cartoon seems to agree with your point that making the issue out to be Good versus Evil is problematic: neither side looks so nice to me. I do believe in Good and Evil, but as the Iraq War has exemplified to me, few if any interpersonal conflicts feature one side standing for something all-good and the other all-evil.

childings November 18 2004, 05:56:50 UTC

The most annoying thing I think about the whole matter is that a lot of liberals view it as a white vs. non-white thing, like the Israelis are racist towards the "brown-skinned" Palestinians. There was an opinion piece along these lines in my university's newspaper this week. I wish people would realize a) Judaism is an ethnicity, not a race. Actually my boyfriend says he considers it a "civilization", but I don't know about that one. Basically, there are black Ethiopian Jews, middle-eastern Israeli Jews (and yes there were Jews already LIVING there when they created the state of Israel), and white American ashkenazi Jews. The idea that all the Jews in Israel are exactly the same as Jews in New York is fallacious and ludicrous. b) The Palestinians weren't there for time immemorial. Arabs actually immigrated to that part of the middle east. It's not like they were always there. There have been Jews, Bedouins, Kurds and other ethnic groups living there pretty much since the time of Jesus, and guess what? They all got along well enough ( ... )