The Pharoah of Pals.? or Maybe, The Putz of Jews

Michael Lerner, Rabbi, puts this metaphor into to other persons mouths, so as not to be criticized by people like me for being an out-and-out wacko:

...This year I've been hearing a very different story from my rabbinic colleagues and from many Jews who are not part of any religious community.

...the wildly disproportionate response of the Israeli army that led to the killing of over 1,200 Gazans, hundreds of them children and women civilians, has shocked and dismayed many Jews whose identification with their Jewishness came primarily through their commitment to its ethical teachings. [so, in other words, they are not completely Jewish - either ethnically, nationally, religiously, just morally] Moreover, growing numbers of Jews in Israel and the rest of the world have become aware that the core of the problem lies in the way that Israel's creation in 1948 led to the expulsion from their homes of some 800,000 Palestinians. Some fled in anticipation of a quick destruction by invading armies of the newly formed Israeli state. But Israeli historians in the past two decades have documented that hundreds of thousands of those refugees left their homes because of a fear generated by Israeli terrorists [actually by Arab terrorists who killed Jews - and the Arabs, not being so dumb, sort of realized that something similar might be done to them] that Arab civilians would be targeted during the war [again, as if hundreds of Jewish civilians, weren't targeted by Arabs] or to escape a war zone as civilian have traditionally done during active hostilities...

...The recent election of Benjamin Netanyahu, whose central campaign promise was to never allow an independent Palestinian State, and the selection of Avigdor Lieberman, whose campaign was filled with racist attacks on Arab citizens of the State of Israel, as the new Israeli Foreign Minister, have pushed many American Jews to question how they can celebrate Passover with a full heart this year. As several congregants put it to me, "We Jews have become Pharaoh to the Palestinian people -- so we would be hypocrites to sit around our Passover table celebrating our own freedom, rejoicing at the way the Egyptians were stricken with plague and their first born killed, while ignoring what Israel is doing today in the name of the Jewish people."

They are not ignoring but ignorant as is Lerner for not correcting the wrong historical parable.


P.S. And she backs me up.