Jewish Rebels Rally Against Zionism
By Alex KaneFrom the February 6, 2009 issue | Posted in Local | Email this article
Anti-Zionist activists blockade the entrance to the Marriott Marquis Hotel at 47th and Broadway in Manhattan. They were protesting a $1,500-per-plate fundraising dinner for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the nation’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying organization. Ten people were arrested during the action. PHOTO: VANESSA CHAN
Judy Rebick has received death threats, been screamed at, and been labeled a “self-hating Jew” for her outspokenness on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
But that hasn’t stopped her participation in any of the many Jewish-led and supported actions during Israel’s latest incursion into the impoverished Gaza Strip in Palestine.
“For people who embrace a progressive Jewish vision, Israel is against everything we believe in,” Rebick said. “They’re violating the Jewish tradition of progressive struggle, and their claim of being a victim is wrong.”
Rebick, who holds the Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University and who founded rabble.ca, a progressive Canadian news website, was arrested along with seven other Jewish women after they occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto Jan. 8 in an action against the Israeli bombing and invasion of the Gaza Strip, which killed more than 1,300 Palestinians and wounded at least 5,000.
Jewish peace activists in Montreal, San Francisco and Los Angeles have staged similar demonstrations at Israeli Consulates, highlighting the many Jewish voices around the world that are speaking out against continued occupation and war in Palestine in what is often a bitter and polarizing debate.
In New York City, Jews Against the Occupation-NYC (JATO) dropped antiwar banners near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and near the U.S.S. Intrepid, and another group of New York City Jews hastily organized a demonstration outside the Israeli consulate in New York Jan. 12 that drew around 1,000 people. On Jan. 29, 10 anti-Zionist activists, two of them Jewish and most of them college students, were arrested while trying to blockade the entrance to a Midtown hotel that was the site of a $1,500-per-plate benefit for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the nation’s leading pro-Israel lobbying group.
“[Israel] is the state that purports to be our homeland, and whether we feel that it is or not … its actions somehow reflect on Jews in general,” said Alisa Solomon, co-editor of Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and a contributing editor to the WBAI radio show “Beyond the Pale: Radical Jewish Culture and Politics.” “It’s a very dubious and dangerous collapse when ‘Jew’ and ‘Israel’ are conflated,” Solomon said. “Anti-Semites do it a lot, and unfortunately, powers of the Israeli state do it as well.”
And while being a Jew who forcefully speaks out against Israel’s actions continues to be a minority position within the larger Jewish community, there is something of a generational shift among younger Jews away from attachment to Israel. According to a 2007 National Survey of American Jews, 54 percent of Jews younger than 35 are “comfortable with the idea of a Jewish state,” compared to 81 percent of Jews older than 65, who grew up with the memory of the Holocaust fresh in their minds.
“The shift is going to happen slowly in the Jewish community, very slowly,” said Ethan Heitner, 25, an activist with JATO and Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East. “There are starting to be cracks in the Zionist hegemonic viewpoint on things … [Activism] has to continue, it has to keep growing, even when things get quiet.”
Michael Letwin of New York City Labor Against the War supports terminating U.S. aid to Israel as well as a nascent divestment and sanctions movement against Israel modeled on the one that confronted apartheid South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. He says he lost the presidency of his union, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys UAW Local 2325, in the year after 9/11 due to his anti-Zionist views. Still he insists it is crucial for progressive Jews to speak out despite the possible consequences. “It’s very hard to be an anti-Zionist in this country … but there is space,” he said. “And to the extent that we can open that space, and keep pushing the envelope, I think there’s more opportunity sometimes than we think there is.”
Letwin also stresses the importance of Jewish activists doing Palestine solidarity work engaging in open and constructive dialogue with Jews who believe in Zionism and support the state of Israel.
“There’s no point in just speaking to people who are already convinced. We have to show our support for people who are already convinced … but that’s only the beginning, not the end,” said Letwin. “We’ve got to talk to people that aren’t already convinced, who don’t know anything about it, or if they’re Jewish and have a totally distorted view.”
Partnerships between Jews and Palestinians who protest Israel’s occupation are also essential “to break this myth that there’s no relationships available between these groups of people,” said Flo Razowsky, the U.S. coordinator for the International Anti-Zionist Jewish Network, an organization that was a key player in the Israeli Consulate actions in California. Razowsky, 34, was once the president of a Zionist youth group. She says she had a “strong relationship to Israel.”
“The simplest way to put it is to make an analogy between white-skinned people doing anti-racist work [with] Jews doing anti-Zionist work. … [Zionism] is a deadly form of racism based on a very specific identity,” Razowsky said.
A Palestinian supporter speaks out at a rally in Bryant Park Dec. 29. PHOTO: JOEL COOK
To read more coverage on the Arab-Israeli conflict and related activism, click here.
29 Responses to “Jewish Rebels Rally Against Zionism”
February 7th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I totally agree with Phil. Were the few germans that opposed Hitler unpatriotic? In my own country, Portugal, the true patriots were the ones who opposed Salazar’s fascist/colonialist regime that oppressed and tortured both us in Portugal as our african brothers in our former colonies ( Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau). A regime that fortunately was overthrown in 1974! A patriot can also be an internationalist. A patriot is someone who wants his/her country to improve and to do that he/she must expose the crimes and wrongdoings of its government, not hide them! In the US the patriots are the ones who stood against the “Patriot” Act, not Bush who billed it!
A patriot rather wants his/her country to be loved and respected than hated or feared. I praise the many jews around the world that, like Judy Rebick, fight against the criminal acts of Israel.
And I admire even more the ones that do it within Israel!
The only correct way to express love onto Israel is by being anti-zionist.
There is no such rubbish as an “Chosen People”! Jews, like the rest of us, belong to a zoological species: the homo sapiens…
Warmest greetings from this side of the Atlantic ( Lisbon, Portugal )
Luís
February 7th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
I too am tired of criticism of Israeli actions somehow being anti-semitism. Self defense is one thing but when Israel launches a campaign in the name of “self-defense” that inflicts a 90 to 1 casualty rate on mostly civilians , how can anyone say that is somehow justified? If I was alive in 1973 I would have supported Israel fully from what was blatant Arab aggression. But to bomb crowded civilian neighborhoods is a war crime and I cannot support actions like that whether they be Jew or Gentile.
I stand by my Jewish compatriots and denounce this insane violence perpetrated by the Israeli government. Israel playing the victim doesn’t work anymore and it’s heartening that young Jews in the US are starting to turn against the violence.
February 7th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Bob,
Hamas works out of the Palestinian population centers and cynically exploit them, so the responsibility for Palestinian civilians getting hurt rests on their shoulders. Israel, for its part directs its activity at terrorist elements and does its utmost to refrain from harming the innocent.
The vast majority of those killed in IDF actions have been t Hamas terrorists. Hamas does not always wear uniforms to distinguish themselves from the general population.
During the past year alone, more than 3000 rockets and mortars have been launched into Israel towns. What is Israel supposed to do?
February 7th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Whatever else is going on, and regardless of any other issues, why is the US still sending Israel so much money? The US has enough economic problems of their own without sending billion dollars to a foreign (developed!) nation…
If the US feels the need to send billions of dollars to another country, I’m sure we here in Canada would be happy recipients with far less controversy. After all, Canada is the single largest supplier of oil to the US, and yet we get far worse treatment than the Saudis. Even though we send more oil to the US than the Saudis.
February 8th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Israel has committed atrocities against civilians and chilren.The operation cast lead has killed 1300 half being women and chidlren.The Zionist have been using our tax money to cause distruction for a long time and will continue. The word anti-semite is overused…who said the zionist are right all the time? When you tell the truth and speak for the “silent” you are called anti-semite? give us a brake.People of good reason and of all faiths should stand up against zionism otherwise the will cause distruction throughout the land.Isreal is not poor…the billions they get of our free money should be reviewed immediately because we need the money right here.The indescriminate bombing of civilians house, UN centers, Prayer centers and use of phopherus against international law is an act of terorism that is beyond pale.Procecute all the criminals that were involved. Because holocaust happend to Israelis some time in the past does not justify the same and worse to be done to others.Well done for those who had the courage to stand up for the truth.
February 8th, 2009 at 12:19 am
louthejew
You really don’t know history that much. Arabs and Jews did not fight for thousands of years, even for centuries. Saying so only betrays ignorance, or the wish to attribute this conflict to some old hatred that cannot be helped.
For everybody else in the self-defense-team: those terrorist attacks are inexcusable. Yet, they are only a consequence of the Israeli policy towards Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Consequence. That’s the key word. If you don’t treat them like animals, they will not attack you like that. It’s that simple. Their homes were taken from them, millions live in refugee camps or in the two open-aired prisons in Gaza and the West Bank. They are humiliated, beaten and killed on a daily basis. They don’t have a future, and they have nothing to loose. Try living their lives, big boys, then talk about self defense and all. If they had 3 billion dollars in aid in weapons every year, they’d fight with tanks, too.
(And about the whole hiding between civilians argument. I don’t know since when people got real dumb, but this is what guerrillas do. This is what the partisans did. This is what the Jewish terror organizations did when they fought the British. They don’t have uniforms. They don’t have high tech weaponry. It’s called asymmetrical warfare, And by supporting the murder of civilians, you are also saying that the German reaction for partisan activities, or the American reaction for the Viet Cong’s activities -e.g. murdering as many civilians as they could was essentially OK. Look deep inside your souls.)
February 8th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Excellent . One of my university professors was an ex-holocaust survivor and a really headstrong opposer of Israel’s foreign policy.
I went to a school where on an almost monthly basis there was always a fight between Palestinians and Israelis, both political protests and legitimate brawls. The school had more Israeli supporters, with several prominent Israeli companies funding the school. So it was really surprising to see my professor literally voice out her opinions about Israel, knowing that 1) she could be reprimanded and that 2) she could have been labelled as a self-hating Jew.
I must say I find her willingness to raise attention to the issue, if even in the classroom, quite respectable.
Not all Jews and Israelis are hell-bent on killing the Palestinians, and the same is true of Palestinians. The good thing about what happened now is that Israeli is getting pressure from the World to stop their genocide.
February 8th, 2009 at 4:49 am
@Adam, if I were the Canadians I’d form a cartel with Mexico and Venezuela, and place an embargo against the U.S.
@James, what happened in 2001 and 2002 that the vast majority of dates on your list come from? Outside of that, the combination of the rest would is probably less than similar incidents that occur in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, or California on a monthly basis. The only difference being guns vs. explosives, and the gunmen don’t shoot themselves.
February 8th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Israel did not leave Gaza. It controls airspace and the waters that belongs to Gaza. It controls the borders and send in troops whenever they like.
Secondly: Gaza is a part of Palestine. When 8000 settlers left Gaza, 12000 moved to the West Bank.
Israel is an apartheidstate. Nothing cosy about that. But it is not odd that white people with racist ideals support Israel. It is a western nd white traditon to see other people as untermensch.
February 8th, 2009 at 8:41 am
People need to realise what the “Western” media is portraying is not an unbiased view into events. The news channels, including the well-respected BBC etc, leave out all the negative views of Israel, and all the positive views of Hamas and the Palestinians.
Palestine is indeed democratic, Hamas was elected by the people of Gaza. Yes, Hamas has money, and that’s because they are the *elected government*. In actual fact, Hamas promised peace and unity to the people of the Middle East, but Israeli and Western media has framed Hamas for their militant actions and omitted the whole democratic and peace-loving side to Hamas!
We should be asking ourselves why we are letting Israel occupy Palestinian land that is beyond the 1967 borders agreed by the UN? And what on earth gives Israel the right to control the borders of Palestine?!
February 8th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Israel is behaving like the apartheid regime in South Africa. There is no excuse for that. As the Roman philosopher Seneca once said: “Injustice never rules forever..”.
February 8th, 2009 at 11:53 am
All of you justifying Israel’s aggression are part of the problem that perpetuates violence and puts off any hope of a peaceful agreement.
First off, the Torah is not a land-deed.
The West Bank settlers are no better than terrorists, but they are better armed and have no problem picking on women and children.
Israel never kept their end of the bargain in the cease-fire with Gaza. The blockade continued and while we were watching Obama get elected on November 4th, the IDF went into Gaza and killed 6 Palestinians that they claim were “up to no good.” Meanwhile, Hamas actually kept their end of the bargain up! The few rockets fired during the ceasefire? They were from Fatah. Israel’s alleged friends. Now, who’s the terrorists, Tzipi? Speaking of which, how’s daddy?
You’re losing credibility Israel.
Don’t forget also that Israel carves up the West Bank with hundreds of checkpoints, Jewish-only roads, the wall and settlements. Hmm. Sort of starting to look like WWII Germany, but without the Star of David armbands–yet.
February 8th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Human rights are important for 3 reasons:
First, if you are careful not to violate the human rights of others, you have standing to expect them to respect yours.
Second, it prevents you from becoming ‘bad guys’, from taking on the characteristics of your enemies.
Third, it prevents you from making a bad situation worse.
NOTHING that Palestinians do justifies violating their civil rights ,their human rights. Israel uses ‘moral’ arguments to justify their inhuman actions, has both become the bad guys and made the situation worse.
Obviously, Israel does not want peace and intends to expel the Palestinians from “greater Israel’. Read NormanFinkelstein.com for a very detailed look at Israeli statements and policy.
I never say anything good about the Palestinians: nevertheless more justice is on their side than the Israelis.
February 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Israel’s actions in Gaza are justified under international law, and Israel should be commended for its self-defense against terrorism. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter reserves to every nation the right to engage in self-defense against armed attacks.
February 8th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Kim,
You must have a different international law, than the rest of the world.
February 8th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
James says that ‘Hamas works out of the Palestinian population centers and cynically exploit them, so the responsibility for Palestinian civilians getting hurt rests on their shoulders. Israel, for its part directs its activity at terrorist elements and does its utmost to refrain from harming the innocent.’
But the Haganna and other Zionist terrorist groups worked out of civilian population centres, be they kibbutzim or towns/cities. The British discovered arms caches hidden in 2 synagogues. Would that have justified destroying the synagogues and all those within them?
Even today the missile silos used to bombard Lebanon were situated next to population centres, Kiryat Shmoneh and kibbutzim. This is a feeble argument. The partisans also worked out of civilian populations, so were the nazis right to exactl much the same ratios of civlian deaths for their own casualties?
Palestine is occupied, the people live under occupation, they therefore create resistance and therefore there is no real separation. But to bomb schools with phosphorous bombs, and clinics, hospitals, doctors, UNWRA food centres - requires the kind of callous cruelty which is born of the nazi mentality. But then Arabs are only animals anyway according to religious Zionist ideologues.
February 8th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
If Israelis referred to arabs as niggers, or if arabs were black, it would be obvious to any thinking person what was going on. We learned about this kind of apartheid from South Africa. And supposedly we learned from Nuremberg that exporting a population is unethical, immoral, and illegal.
While I give crap to Israel for its racist, segregationist policies, I have a healthy dose to give to the majority of its neighbors. They too are racist, intolerant, nationalist theocracies, with a ridiculous, backwards view of the world. But they also are not involved in an occupation of captured land, or using their military to collectively punish civilian populations who have been forced to self-dispossess.
Sadly the two state solution is almost certainly dead. The West Bank is Swiss cheese, like Bantustans except even more isolated. It’s completely non-viable as a state. Vacation of the settlements will almost certainly result in an Israeli civil war. It’s a pretty messy situation no matter how it’s looked at.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:29 am
I am an Israeli Jew and I have been brought up on the motto that because of the holocaust everything is permissible.
Israel and zionism monopolised the holocaust and use it as a tool to justify the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.I want to mention that Zionist aims of colonising Palestine existed before the holocaust and the zionist were very “smart” to utilise the consequences of it to advance their own goals.This ,together with guilt complex of the Western world and the need of US imperialism to have a “policeman” in the middle east created the creature - Israel of today.
The Zionist were successful in creating the feeling among Israelis that they face “annihilation” by the arab world and thus mobilse them to participate and support war crime under the feeliong “it is us or them”.
So far Israel got positive support among progressive and liberal forces in the west including the leadership of the Jewish communities.
An anti Zionist Jewish groups is a step in the right direction as up to now every anti zionist was labeld by Israel as “antisemite”.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
if you are living in palestine and someone(Israel) keeps lobbing bombs into your neighborhood…. and prevents you from leaving….destroys your homes and farmland to build settlements, builds a wall where your house used to be… arrests 10-15 thousand males age 16-60 and supports a crazy corrupt government in your homeland, (though it had supported the muslim brotherhood in the 70s and 80s to undermine the PLO)…. you would be a militant too.
The arab countries nearby have their leadership bought off by Israel and the US…. so they have to live with dictatorships in Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia…ect…..
As a Jew I definitely want to establish that Israel doesn’t speak for me, and I find it utter hypocracy that a people who were slaves and who said “never again” …this mantra I have been brought up with…would establish an ethnic exclusionary state with small ghettos for the indigenous people living there…….. so either you are ill informed…. or you are knowlingly supporting war crimes…. either way…. dont pretend to speak for jews…. cause you dont
February 9th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I too am tired of Israel’s pro-military force attitude tarnishing the image of Jews the world over. It’s time to stop acting like children!
As a Jew, I find it rather audacious that, as Jews, we created the state of Israel. Torah specifically states that G-d would lead us back to the holy land when we’re ready. For us to take that upon ourselves is akin to thumbing our nose at G-d. We should be ashamed.
February 9th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Israel’s actions are in self defense?I refer you to this lenghty, but important quote:
“The mantra that is endlessly repeated is that Israel has the right to use force to defend itself. The thesis is partially defensible. The rocketing is criminal, and it is true that a state has the right to defend itself against criminal attacks. But it does not follow that it has a right to defend itself by force. That goes far beyond any principle that we would or should accept. Nazi Germany had no right to use force to defend itself against the terrorism of the partisans. Kristallnacht is not justified by Herschel Grynszpan’s assassination of a German Embassy official in Paris. The British were not justified in using force to defend themselves against the (very real) terror of the American colonists seeking independence, or to terrorize Irish Catholics in response to IRA terror - and when they finally turned to the sensible policy of addressing legitimate grievances, the terror ended. It is not a matter of “proportionality,” but of choice of action in the first place: Is there an alternative to violence?
Any resort to force carries a heavy burden of proof, and we have to ask whether it can be met in the case of Israel’s effort to quell any resistance to its daily criminal actions in Gaza and in the West Bank, where they still continue relentlessly after more than 40 years. Perhaps I may quote myself in an interview in the Israeli press on Olmert’s announced convergence plans for the West Bank: “The US and Israel do not tolerate any resistance to these plans, preferring to pretend - falsely of course - that `there is no partner,’ as they proceed with programs that go back a long way. We may recall that Gaza and the West Bank are recognized to be a unit, so if resistance to the US-Israeli annexation-cantonization programs is legitimate in the West Bank, it is in Gaza too.”
Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah observed that “There are no rockets launched at Israel from the West Bank, and yet Israel’s extrajudicial killings, land theft, settler pogroms and kidnappings never stopped for a day during the truce. The western-backed Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas has acceded to all Israel’s demands. Under the proud eye of United States military advisors, Abbas has assembled ’security forces’ to fight the resistance on Israel’s behalf. None of that has spared a single Palestinian in the West Bank from Israel’s relentless colonization” - thanks to firm U.S. backing. The respected Palestinian parliamentarian Dr. Mustapha Barghouti adds that after Bush’s Annapolis extravaganza in November 2007, with much uplifting rhetoric about dedication to peace and justice, Israeli attacks on Palestinians escalated sharply, with an almost 50 per cent increase in the West Bank, along with a sharp increase in settlements and Israeli check points. Obviously these criminal actions are not a response to rockets from Gaza, though the converse may well be the case, Barghouti plausibly suggests.
The reactions to crimes of an occupying power can be condemned as criminal and politically foolish, but those who offer no alternative have no moral grounds to issue such judgments. The conclusion holds with particular force for those in the U.S. who choose to be directly implicated in Israel’s ongoing crimes — by their words, their actions, or their silence. All the more so because there are very clear non-violent alternatives - which, however, have the disadvantage that they bar the programs of illegal expansion.
Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the U.S. and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. I will not once again run through the inglorious record, but it is important to be aware that U.S.-Israeli rejectionism today is even more blatant than in the past. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept. That leaves the U.S.-Israel in splendid isolation, not only in words.”
- Noam Chomksy
February 14th, 2009 at 8:37 am
It is curious to me the difficulty in finding any articles like this anywhere…for quite some time I have been reading articles regarding the support for Israel and the condemnation of Palestine with no regard for the fact that the Plalestinians are and have been living in hell for the past 60 years due to the fact that Israel wanted there homeland in that exact spot where someone else was living. Britain had the crazy idea to reward them and gave them this land …which Britain had no right to do. Now here we are 60 years later and it’s been war after war, killing after killing…and everyone knows that they will never live together peacefully.
You can trace back to the middle east conflict almost every problem that is currently happening at hand …Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afganistan…..all for what.
February 14th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I am a Jew and I have been appalled at what Israel has done in Gaza/Palestine. Bothered to the point of making art in protest. (Not my first art on the subject of Israel in re Palestinians.) I am older, and it took me a long time to learn about the subject. I’m a NYC Jew and really wanted to avoid it, sigh. One can’t ignore injustice. Especially with so much emotional connection, that emotional connection as being a Jew who was a child during WWII.
DemocracyNow has some great coverage, for George, in his comment above: www.democracynow.org The transcripts are free, online. You can hear DemocracyNow on WBAI 99.5FM in NYC (and environs) on Mon-Th at 9AM. (shows are archived for 90 days,also, free).
I wish Noor had posted a date for Noam Chomsky’s statement/quote (or I missed it).
The US is enabling Israel. Chomsky has also called the attack on Gaza a US-Israeli action. I suspect the US government could say, “Stop” and Israel would stop the illegal settlements, blockade, etc. And if not, then ….there’s a bigger mess. Chomsky once said, “if South Africa could have a peaceful resolution, then Israel/Palestine can”. One hopes.
February 14th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Correction:addenda: WBAI has “DemocracyNow” Monday thru Friday, 9AM-10AM (and slightly longer during fundraising). I had a typo in my earlier comment. WBAI is 99.5FM and also online, live streaming and archived www.wbai.org
February 17th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Wow, what a great discussion brewing. Usually article comments are littered with name-calling and all sorts of adult-maturity. I’m impressed!
Adam, I’m Canadian too, and gosh darnit, we sure could use that 5.5 billion that the US forks over to Israel a year! But they would never do because the US wants Canada to be dependent on their economy.
Food for thought: The number one killer of an IDF soldier is not a Palestinian. It’s suicide.
45% of Gazans are the age of 15 or under.
Palestinian boys that have been arrested for defending themselves have often been charged with being a, “Rock-thrower.”
And final food for thought:
If I were in Palestine, I’d drop my camera, pick up rocks, and throw at as many IDF tanks and soldiers as possible.
FREE FREE PALESTINE!!!!!!!
February 17th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
If all of Israel’s neighbors were truly seeking peace……….THERE WOULD BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. BUT SOME SPEND THEIR MONEY AND ENERGY ON HATE, DESTRUCTION AND MURDER OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS. THEY ARE BLIND TO THE TRUTH BY HATE. BASELESS HATE AT THAT.
BUT THE TRUTH ALWAYS COMES OUT.
FREE PALESTINE??????????????????????????????????
RESPECT THE LAW AND THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE AND YOU WILL BE FREE. BE PRODUCTIVE INSTEAD OF DESTRUCTIVE AND MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. THAT IS WHY GOD PUT YOU ON THIS EARTH……………………………..NOT TO KILL AND HATE!!!!!!!
HELLO??????????????????????????????????????????
February 6th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
awww…. Vanissa, you jinxed it…. Ruth, are you sure you’re not confusing pride with ignorance?
February 7th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I am not a Jew. I need to say that up front. Nor am I an anti-semite. But I support the idea that Israel needs to “grow up” and stop being the perpetrator all the while hiding behind what happened 60 years ago. Yes, the Holocaust happened; and, yes it was terrible. I’m sorry it happened, but because it did happen is NOT an excuse for them to (a) steal land and (b) act in the same manner that the Nazis did. If Israel cannot “play nice” with it’s neighbors, then it is time the USA and the rest of the world stops dealing with Israel as if they were adults. By acting in the manner that they are, they are polarizing the world against them and toward the Arab nations that all this time have been saying that Israel is bad. More and more Israeli actions like Gaza will drive the point home even further. The news doesn’t cover practically anything that paints Israel in a negative light, but that won’t continue–eventually it will hit and the world will begin to see them as they are, and that may signal the end of Israel. So, the question is this: can we save Israel by eliminating the hatred, or not? And what’s more, is Israel worth saving?