05-22-2021, 10:40 AM
(05-22-2021, 08:22 AM)David Horn Wrote:(05-21-2021, 11:56 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: So how does being "disgusted by the carnage" mean that they oppose the cease fire?
No, they (Millennials) favor that, but they are rapidly moving away from unmitigated support of the Israeli state. They find no good-guys on either side, except for the innocent people themselves. Assume this blossoms as some new method of engagement, but what is beyond me. The Israeli RW is hard to like, and they aren't buying into the Jewish identity argument anymore.
That is the only viable solution. Just as Jews are not exempt from criticism when they go bad (Judaism never defended rogue Jews such as gangsters and swindlers), neither is the Israeli state.
The Gaza Strip is not going away, and neither are the Palestinians.
I see one possible point of an Arab-Israeli peace settlement: that the number of Jews who emigrated from the Arab world to Israel is about the same number of people as the Arabs who fled Palestine as the Zionists took over. Two wrongs do not make right, but by now people of Palestinian origin in the Arab world might as well have the choice of citizenship in lands in which they now live. If they can get this in the United States, then why not.... (name the Islamic country)?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
