Obama and the Middle East
By Hussein Agha, Robert Malley
New York Review of Books
Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009
What many critics of Israel seem incapable of accepting, these two, no 'lovers of Israel', are unabashed to write:
Aspirations reflect historical experience. For Israel's Jewish population, this includes displacement, persecution, the life of the ghetto, and the horrors of the Holocaust; and the long, frustrated quest for a normal, recognized, and accepted homeland. There is a craving for a future that will not echo the past and for the kind of ordinary security—the unquestioned acceptance of a Jewish presence in the region—that even overwhelming military superiority cannot guarantee. There is, too, at least among a significant, active segment of the Israeli population, a deep-seated attachment to the land, all of it, that constitutes Eretz Israel.
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How is Eretz Israel different from greater Serbia or greater Germany? You Sir are a nationalist bordering on being a fascist, the reason I say this is because judging from your writings the only ones qualified for belonging to your country are jews. Do you wish for Israel to be a Theocracy like Iran?
Sir, You are in dearth of historical knowledge. Since Israel has Arabs, both Muslim and Christians, as citizens, who vote and there are 10 Arab Members of Knesset and this has been the reality since 1949, what theocracy are you talking about? Israel is the Jewish homeland, where Jews came come for positive reasons or due to antisemitism. But you don't have to be Jewish to live here.
And why Greater Serbia or Germany? Why not an example like Great Britain, ruling over Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland? Or the United States ruling over all the Indians they kicked off their lands? Or France vs. Corsica, or Spain vs. Basque country? Etc., etc. Why do you imply racism, and facism and worse to Israel as if that makes it easier for you to hate the Jewish country?
Well, I stand corrected. I do not hate the Jewish country, I do not hate jews, what I do hate e.g. is a ultra-modern jewish army unleash on civilians to punish a piss poor terrorist organizations that only rule those same civilianz through terror. It's the death of civilians I hate Sir, not you. All appologiez for voicing my protest.
Beautiful words, anon.
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