Enough is Enough
In the never-ending crock maker of what some people will do to delegitimize Israel, the anti-Semites are at it again. This time their target is to boycott stores that sell Israeli goods. Because of that, I am planning on going to Trader Joe's to buy some humus and tehina, if I can find any, and whatever else I can lay find that is made in Israel. Whether or not I eat anything of if it just sits and fsters in my refrigeraor is beside the point.
The point is never again. When they are not fighting us with missiles and weapons, they are fighting us through the media. When they are not fighting us through the media, they are fighting us at the universities. When they are not fighting us at the universities, they are fighting us in the aisles of the stores. Maybe one day people will see that there is a domino effect in the world and in life, and when one group is brought down, the rest of civilized society soon follows.
Rupert Murdoch said it rather eloquently here.
Maybe our plopping a religious state right in the middle of an area under control, for 1300 years, of a retro-grade religion in 1948, where much land was expropriated by Ir-gun and the Stern Gang's action to terrorize the Arab inhabitants and cause them to run for their lives, wasn't such a good idea after all. Now that religious state has become the driving force behind the creation of Islamist states who, aside from having apocalyptic end time scenarios, are busting their humps to acquire the means to do so (nuclear weapons). Israel, the guilty creation over the horrible abuses of the Jews by Nazi Germany, may just end up being the catalyst for the next attempted self annihilation of Humanity. Religious states must never be allowed to exist, as they always act on their doctrinaire and dogmatic imperatives and many of them require an end to the world.
a.) we returned
b.) we are not responsible for the actions of the Arabs or anyone else. Are you?
No, but I am not a delusionalist chauvinist who thinks that I am a member of a made-up god's chosen people. The world, and Judaism, would have been far better served if the Jews of Europe had been absorbed into the countries that were the victors after WWII, instead of taking away land that had been in the hands of others for almost 2000 years. It was not the fault of the Arabs that the Roman Emperor Vespasian was so efficient at dispersing the Jews in 76ACE. Perhaps your real claim should have been addressed to their descendants and as they had been properly defeated in the war, but that would not negate the fact that it was a bad idea to reverse the 500 year trend away from religious governance, toward the secular model, by the deliberate creation of a retrograde religious state.