Kidnapping! Speaking of which, yesterday, a Hamas leader came out and took credit for the kidnapping of the three Israeli youths. Why no entry on that by any of the fair minded writers for this website? Weren’t the experts at Mondoweiss claiming that this was a story concocted by the Israelis in order to precipitate the latest chapter in the “struggle”?
Perhaps Netanyahu’s analogy isn’t so far off!
Speak for yourself. I am not a Palestinian nor do I have any desire to be one. The arrogance is transcendent.
Oh, so the thugs who threatened the Rabbi are merely protestors! How did they know that this rabbi even supported the Israeli government? This is yet another instance where anti-Zionism covers up anti-antisemitism.
Anne then you have absolutely no knowledge of Jewish culture. Read this, you might find it enlightening: http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=647
Eljay, of course you miss the whole point of my post with your false analogy to the “rapists” mind, and you merely reveal your antisemitism. The point I was trying to make is that Zionism is part of the Jewish culture and historical legacy. It did not spring up at the turn of the 19th-20th Century and his been part of the Jewish liturgy for thousands of years.
If you truly want to resolve the issues in question, you had better stop accepting reality. Jews, as expressed in their holy works, have always yearned for a return to Israel. Not that complex.
Mooser you should be ashamed of yourself. Mr. Street gave an honest description of what he experienced personally. The paranoia among you people is as bad or worse then the paranoia among Zionists.
A little sensitive coming from a guy who hangs out with people who dislike Jews as a “category” but avoids the topic in order to be loved.
“As perhaps others with regard to race, religion or ethnicity, I have known and had good relationships with people who did not like Jews as a category, and while we avoided certain topics it did not interfere with other healthy and pleasurable interactions.”
This doesn’t surprise me. You had healthy relationships with anti-Semites, which kind of explains what kind of person you are. Thanks for confirming what I suspected.
It’s not the Jewish establishment–its historical Judaism. Have you not read the hundreds of references to the return to Jerusalem in the Jewish liturgy? It’s part of what Judaism is. To paint it differently and make it seem as if its some dictate from the establishment is missing the point entirely.
Precisely. Hear oh ISRAEL the Lord is our God the Lord is One. “Next Year in Jerusalem” Israel, and a return to Israel has been an essential part of Judaism throughout the ages. Therefore, it plays a very powerful role both consciously and subconsciously in the minds of Jews throughout the world. That’s why polls continually show overwhelming support of the Jewish state throughout the diaspora.