Polite Discussion on Zionism: Is it Possible?

By Karin Friedemann
April 25th, 2007

I found http://www.realisticdove.org/ very interesting because it is the first time I have come across a progressive Jew so honest about his racism. Usually when confronted, these confused souls just get indignant and refuse to speak to you for a few months. I always wondered how a person could think that Israel has a “right” to “security” and shrug off this amazing assumption with the accusation that anyone who has questions about his definitions is accusing him of being an evil murderer. Why would any sane person think that he has the right to live unharrassed on someone else’s stolen property? Even the cute kids waving Israeli flags are participating in a criminally insane political ideology.

Progressive Jews want to make the bottom line “Jews are nice people.” But that is not the bottom line. As Hillel mentioned, the bottom line is that you don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you. What would we expect if our neighbor, with or without warning, bulldozed our house?

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