GAZA – Haven't we moved on from Bible times with animal sacrificing?
Deuteronomy?20:10–18 Tribalism OR Deuteronomy 5:6-21 - "Thou shalt not kill" - The Ten Commandments
Daniel Finkelstein writes in the Times that Israel “has no alternative” . https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/once-again-israel-finds-it-has-no-alternative-hk3f5bm708j The Times did not publish this reply.
As a Jew and as, for good reason, a Zionist, I cannot avoid a sense of shame when I watch the news from Gaza on TV.? It is not because Israel’s conduct is not proportionate. Which war has ever been fought proportionately? States fight wars to win them. But you have to win the peace as well as the war. Is anyone doing that? My sense of shame is not for Israel.? When people talk of Nuking in the Middle East or in the Ukraine, ?my sense of shame is for Man. I think about the future of humanity.
This war has been won already. All those who have directly or indirectly funded Hamas know full well that Hamas has squandered their money on tunnels. And after 7 October, with Palestinians a calculated human sacrifice. Will they be so unwise as to fund them ever again?
And isn’t it? the UN’s job to rescue the hostages not Israel’s and without a deal? Isn’t hostage-taking a threat to everyone?
This is the time to win the peace.
In Europe the EEC decisively ended centuries of war yet preserved the nation states within it. Here a Judean Economic Community of Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, and maybe Egypt too, ?could be a catalyst for peace in the region. Tourism, water, energy, and the Alexandria Declaration of 2002 would be ample to sustain it. Think of Jerusalem in that context.
As always, the real challenge is to turn a negative into a positive.
Share not just the thought. Share the intent.
#GAZA #PEACE #ISRAEL #HOSTAGES
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10 个月Also, please read this article by Dr. Yoav Litvin, an Israeli American Doctor of Psychology & Behavioral Neuroscience. He explains the psychology behind Israeli support for the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/22/the-anatomy-of-zionist-genocide/ Over the 23 years before October 7th, around 2300 Palestinian children and 150 Israeli children were killed, on October 7th 36 Israeli children were killed, and since then over 7,000 Palestinian children have been killed and more are dying every day. And our tax dollars are helping pay for it. Please share this article which explains what it would take to finally end this horrible cycle of violence: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/how-israel-can-beat-hamas-without-killing-more-innocent-marwan-saleh-qe5tc/? And please go to m.youtube.com/@IsraelPalestine101 for videos of thousands of Jewish and Israeli scholars, journalists, and soldiers with firsthand experience, explaining the truth about this conflict. Here is one to start with: Jewish Israeli Holocaust & Genocide scholar, Professor Raz Sega, explains why what Israel is doing right now is legally genocide (16 mins): m.youtube.com/watch?v=V5YOctHHccM
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10 个月I agree that Israel needs to try to win the peace, but I'm not sure if I understood how you propose they do that. I'll try to read it again but I'd be grateful if you would clarify that.