Breaking the Silence’s exhibit of soldiers’ photos from the occupation is at Penn this week, going to Harvard next week. I gather the great Yehuda Shaul was on C-Span last night. Haven’t watched this myself yet, but here’s the link. Shaul is one of the most incredible speakers you will ever hear. He speaks in concrete details describing the character of the Occupation and how his service changed him morally and how it has changed men that he loved and respected. When I was in Hebron, he brought us to the spot where soldiers used to fire from, indiscriminately. If you believe that "the unexamined life is not worth living," you will be moved by Shaul’s religious example, of self-interrogation–and bearing witness.
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Did you read of the recent agreement between Hebron rabbis and Islamic clerics to co-reside?
And the response of Al-Aqsa Martyrs, to order the assassination of one of the "collaborators"?
Any plausible sense of how to make that shift?
I'm sure that you know that in Hebron in 1920, ALL of the Jewish residents in the town (mostly old frail non-offensive Jewish orthodox) were forcefully removed.
Was it Qassam (leader of "the Black Hand") that orchestrated the riot?
How do those realities get reconciled on the ground? and communicated and accepted by the solidarity?
The big question, HOW IS PEACE CONSTRUCTED?
And, if "solidarity" hinders some prospects for peace in fact, is it worth continuing on the part of peace-seeking activists?
Or, is it worth reforming the approach to limit dissent to concise and certain truths, in contrast to the guesses and generalizations?
A list of Zionist and Arab acts of terrorism in Palestine from 1918-1948
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/brits.html
If you're an Arab, and you saw how well these tactics worked for the Jews, would you give up on them?
Being a conspiracy nutter here :-)
Expect one of the soldiers to suddenly say "Haha I lied its not that bad over there!", which will be pounced upon by the US and Israeli media, with the meme that ALL the pictures and ALL the Israeli soldiers stories who disagree with occupation are lies.
This has happened with the infamous memo that was fake, thereby making ANY accusation that bush jr. was AWOL fake (it's not logical – didn't matter, worked fine – the story was discredited despite numerous soldiers saying they WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED a son of a CIA director if he served).
Next is the Reuters photo that was doctored to show a bigger plume of smoke over the city. This one bogus photo was used to discredit ALL evidence of Israel bombing civilians, ambulances, power generators etc.
I called it first.
"If you believe that "the unexamined life is not worth living," you will be moved by Shaul's religious example, of self-interrogation–and bearing witness.
Will I be moved too, if I think ALL life is worth living?
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