Only in Haaretz… A few weeks back I did a post quoting an Israeli settler writing to Haaretz and expressing solidarity with Palestinians over their oppression. "Meir of Gush Etzion." It was a remarkable moment because it showed that you cannot demonize people collectively. Even in the settlements, there are rays of light. Men have souls, and maybe there are creative and loving ways out of this mess.
Today I got the following note from the friend who had passed on that earlier Meir sighting:
Remember the settler expressing sympathy to the Palestinian suffering? I was browsing Haaretz today when this article caught my eye: "Arab lawyer detained after refusing to remove pants during airport check."
In itself, it is just another of the travesties of the imperfect democracy of Israel, and I was going to move on when I saw that one of the commentators – #33 – was this guy Meir. His comment is titled, "This one made a headline, how about others." Meir says:
"I accompanied a businessman from Dubai to Ben Gurion airport. He was mid east representative of a large American firm. His letters from the American company, his referral by us, an Israeli company…his previous annual entrances..all did not help. I was with him as his Lap top was taken and returned broken..as he was led away and checked "privately" in closed quarters. He would not tell me what went on..but he looked a bit shaken..even though he tried to put on a smile.
"'I want to fly safe..so I respect their precautions,'" he said. He meant it.
"I am not sure I can expect an Israeli Arab to feel the same. May the next year bring us more wisdom and sensitivity."
#38 meir gush etzion
How exactly did their breaking his laptop computer constitute a "precaution"? This sort of submission to abuse in the name of safety reminds me of Ben Franklin's remark about how people who would give up liberty for security will end up with neither.
Weiss: "Even in the settlements, there are rays of light. Men have souls, and maybe there are creative and loving ways out of this mess."
The childlike naiveté is touching, but I fear you and other righteous Jews are headed for nothing but heartbreak and worse until you come to terms with the fact that there is a deep and abiding contempt for non-Jewish humanity deep within the recesses of organized Judaism that is eating away at the entirety like cancer. Righteous Jews look at their kindly relatives without a malicious bone in their bodies and conclude: "No problem here. It's just a few right-wing rouges." They don't look to the Talmud, the original fascist tract; they don't look to the Jewish Bolsheviks and their millions of murders; a few are only now starting to examine the Jewish Neocons.
The Judeofascist will never be "reasoned" out of their malice, which is so deeply embedded in their psyches that it has produced multiple tumors. The cancer will have to by physically cut out and flushed, or sooner or later it is going to kill the entire patient, if the patient isn't eliminated by gentiles first in a legitimate act of self-defense.
Chris Moore (aka Ed) – Are you advocating for gentiles to kills Jews?
You're slipping Chris. You're not supposed to be so blatant.
I posted the following above to an expression of concern, and will post it here for the record:
I’m not advocating some blind hacking of innocent Jews. To clarify my comment, I first distinguish between Jews and Judeofascists, and then I advocate surgical removal of their cancerous ideas before they spark blowback against all Jews who have been seduced by Judeofascism, which given its advanced rhetorical, propaganda and guilting techniques and system, and its shameless willingness to impose hysterical, overwrought personal appeals on the Jewish people, is an understandable failing. (Many gentiles have succumbed as well, as has virtually the entirety of the two-party regime.) Perhaps I should have written ‘if the (Judeofascist) patient isn't eliminated by gentiles first in a “legitimate” act of self-defense,’ meaning, as Eva Smagacz suggested, plausible arguments can be made by demagogues that there is no other way but to wipe out the entirety of Judeofascism.
But if I was truly some kind of murderous Communist or Nazi, I would be lined up with either the Democrats or Republicans, who as we speak, are instigating the blind hacking of innocent Muslims and Arabs in the Mideast, and are toying with instigating the blind hacking of Persians, and have subsidized the blind hacking of Palestinians for decades.
If even one tenth of all those Americans who are always oh-so-worried about the plight of Jews had given even a second thought to the plight of the Arabs, we wouldn't be where we are today.
Jewish visitors to this site will not be served by not listening to Ed–or, at least, their children will not be served.
If you think Ed is an anti-semite you know nothing about ensuring
"Never Again."
Good man Meir. He's a man before he's a Jew, while those who would oppose him have it the other way around.