SherriMunnerlyn
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that is a bit unfair, don't you think?
there are israelis out there like amira hass.
OK, if they proclaim themselves to be Anti Zionists I will make an exception. But the numbers of Israelis who want peace seems to grow fewer every day. I think about Israelis I admire, so many are leaving, Miko Peled, Joseph Dana, Illan Pappe.Every day, more and more leave. I think it was last year 972 Magazine had a couple of really good articles addressing Israelis leaving. The ship is sinking.
in principle, i am opposed to even the existence of israel because it is not only a european colonial venture but because it was established in a modern era as a religious state.
there are, however, some zionists i suppose who want justice for the palestinians and still want an israel. i think amira hass may be in that category, as well as others.
i have no doubt that you are right. it is the ultra-zionists who will destroy israel. unfortunately, it may not be well after they destroy any prospect for a viable palestinian state, which will be rightfully be called a genocide...and that will leave an indelible black mark on judaism which may not survive as a either as a religion or a culture.
yes, the ship is sinking.
I believe Amira Hass sees herself as an Anti Zionist. She lives in the West Bank among Palestinians, not in an Israeli settlement.
In the article from Haaretz discussed below, she speaks about the crumbling Jewish regime.
"Amira Hass explains why Israels U.S. model of ethnic cleansing failed, and why Jewish regime will crumble"
Her words:
"The real question is not whether the solution is "two states" or "one state." History in any case does not recognize end points - every stage leads to another. Visions are also not lacking. The visions must develop and change during the struggle for equality and justice, otherwise they will become gulags. The question was, and is, how much more bloodshed, suffering and disasters will be needed until the Jewish regime of discrimination and separation, which we have created here over the past 64 years, crumbles.
The Palestinians provided us, the Israelis, a ladder that would have saved us the kind of suffering and loss that we have caused them. A ladder that we could have climbed to a historic rung where we could have been accepted in the region as neighbors who also have roots in this place and rights - not only as aggressive invaders. But successive Israeli governments, with the backing of their voters, have knocked the ladder over. They knew only too well why they must thwart the two-state solution (in its original, pre-1967 borders format ). It would have led to different ways of living together and sharing the land. But the basic logic of these ways of life requires giving up Jewish hegemony and superiority."
Amira Hass explains why Israel's U.S. model of ethnic cleansing failed, and why 'Jewish regime' will 'crumble'
This is so much like an article I just read written by Bassem Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, the complete inability to see exactly how this will end, what things will look like, but a realization that the Jewish discriminatory regime cannot endure.
Sherri