[Photo from Jiser on Flickr]
There is only one reason I'm Jewish right now, and that's because of people like Barbara Lubin. If I didn't hear Jews like her murmuring in my ear at night when I doubted my own sanity, then I would have had to leave the tribe altogether a long time ago, try and walk away, forget I'd ever been there, go to church now and then with my mother-in-law who smuggled sheets into Bethlehem. But Lubin is the head of Middle East Children's Alliance, and she's in Gaza now, trying to help. She sent out this story to friends:
Out of all the devastation I have seen so
far, there is one story in particular that I
think the world needs to hear. I met a mother
who was at home with her ten children when
Israeli soldiers entered the house. The
soldiers told her she had to choose five of
her children to "give as a gift to Israel."
As she screamed in horror they repeated the
demand and told her she could choose or they
would choose for her. Then these soldiers
murdered five of her children in front of
her. The concept of "Jewish morality" is
truly dead. We can be fascists, terrorists,
and Nazis just like everybody else.
far, there is one story in particular that I
think the world needs to hear. I met a mother
who was at home with her ten children when
Israeli soldiers entered the house. The
soldiers told her she had to choose five of
her children to "give as a gift to Israel."
As she screamed in horror they repeated the
demand and told her she could choose or they
would choose for her. Then these soldiers
murdered five of her children in front of
her. The concept of "Jewish morality" is
truly dead. We can be fascists, terrorists,
and Nazis just like everybody else.
–Phil Weiss (thanks to Andy Whitmore)
