July 03, 2012
Mourning Shamir
From Mondoweiss:
If an interdependent empowerment is our goal, we need to seriously ask ourselves whether that goal can be reached with a Jewish state or if such a state permanently impedes that possibility. Today Israel and Jews in general are further away from an interdependent empowerment than at any time in the post-Holocaust era. Moreover, without a deep and material Jewish solidarity with a Palestinian future there is little chance for a collective or even individual ethical life as Jews.
Yitzhak Shamir should be remembered for impeding a Jewish ethical future. The first Palestinian intifada, which Shamir ordered crushed, may have represented the last chance for reaching across the Israel/Palestinian divide. Or was it the very formation of the state of Israel which Shamir helped birth?
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Posted by Henry Molofsky at 02:15 AM | Permalink
Comments
Supressed the Intifada? Was he supposed to embrace the terror they tried to inflict?
And a Palestinian future in the area? Fine. But Hamas still does not recognize Israel's right to exist.
Let us now talk about the ethical views of Palestinian leaders.
Posted by: DAVID LEVINE | Jul 3, 2012 7:43:20 PM
Convenient that you are so blind to the military realities of the occupation. Isreal does not recognize the right of Palestine to exist either and asserts that denial under boot and arms.
Posted by: Erich | Jul 3, 2012 10:25:09 PM
Israelis object to Palestinian words, Palestinians object to Israeli deeds.
Posted by: Sagredo | Jul 3, 2012 11:13:39 PM
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