the current apartheid must end, such as Palestinians forbidden from driving on paved roads reserved for Jews.
If you go here, you'll read this:
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine and co-chair for the Network of Spiritual Progressives, this week will publish a full-page ad in the New York Times [full text here] urging President-elect Barack Obama to call for a Gaza cease-fire now. The ad's headline will read, "President Obama: It’s Time to End the Violence in the Middle East — Once and For All. Convene an International Middle East Peace Conference. Impose a Final Settlement on All Parties."
Affirming that both the Israelis and the Palestinians have valid grievances against one another, Rabbi Lerner asserts that the United States Government has backed Israel so blatantly...
...the rabbi wants Obama to call for the major nations to insist upon an immediate and simultaneous cease fire. He has no patience for any more nonsense about which side has to stop its attacks first.
...Elements of this solution might include Israel returning to its 1967 borders in exchange for all the Arab nations recognizing the right of Israel to exist. Ideally, all residents of Israel would become citizens with full voting rights. The West Bank could become the new state of Palestine. The Jews who have settled there could return to Israel or stay, as they wish, but the current apartheid must end, such as Palestinians forbidden from driving on paved roads reserved for Jews...He just wants a practical solution that enacts the ethical and moral precepts of both Judaism and Islam, a solution that recognized the civil rights and social responsibilities of all parties.
...Rabbi Lerner disclosed plans for the New York Times full-page ad during a public talk this past Sunday in Boulder, Colorado. He reported on Tuesday that $60,000 had been raised to pay for the national ad, half of it from online donations of less than $25 each. He noted that more than 3,000 people from all walks of life had signed the ad.
As my veteran readers know, that canard of highway apartheid is not true. Just this morning, five PA-licensed vehicles pass the #148 bus I took to Jerusalem - on the same road that I travel. Just like everyday.
Rabbis can be so ignoble, so self-serving and so wrong, on purpose.
Anyone have $60,000 for an ad I'd wish to place in the NYTimes?
P.S.
Thursday morning, I got a lift, tremp in Englishized Hebrew, or Hebrish, and so managed to snap so pictures of my Arab neighbors driving past on the same road Jews use, all the way from Shiloh to the Hizma roadblock. The PA plates are on a white background with green lettering/numbers:
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Is rabbi Lerner actually a rabbi?
Some sources aver that in his case, the title rabbi is misapplied. Where did he get, and who gave him, smicha?
I, at least, have smicha from a well-known apikorsische intsitution.....
Rabbi Pinky Schmeckelstein's Yeshiva Chipas Emess. I suspect it may be more valid smicha than rabbi Lerner's.
But how can we be sure there are no other roads out of bounds to the Palestinians? You only brought an example of one road on which both Jews and Palestinians can travel. If it were such a canard, I'd expect it to be debunked long time ago and not heard of anymore.
Peter, must Yesha roads are like this. There are a few which are either close or temporary closed or with tough checkpoints and they have reduced terrorism to a minimu and have caught scores of terrorists and dynamite, etc. Apartheid is on a basis of race and if the roads are closed , then it's due to security concerns.
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