[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: developments in Israel/Gaza

[Greg Gillis]

Thank you Elizabeth as always Ted sends out some of the most well informed
information on this ongoing tragedy!

In Peace

Greg


On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 8:00 PM Elizabeth Whelan via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Ted sent this earlier today. I’m sharing it with his approval.
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> *From: *Ted Schmidt <jtschmidt at bell.net>
> *Subject: **developments in Israel/Gaza*
> *Date: *October 12, 2023 at 11:59:08 AM EDT
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> this is from my friend, Alan Brownfeld in Washington
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> This is a short statement I sent to Americans for Middle East
> Understanding, which requested my thoughts about the latest developments in
> Israel/Gaza.
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> To: Americans for Middle East Understanding.
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> From: Allan C.Brownfeld, Editor of ISSUES, the quarterly journal of the
> American Council for Judaism. (www.ACJNA.org <http://www.acjna.org/>).
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> If anything is clear as a result of the horrible terrorist attack upon
> civilians in Israel by Hamas—-including the beheading of babies, a truly
> barbaric act—-and the Israeli response, largely against civilians in Gaza,
> it is the need for a Palestinian state.  Israel has occupied the West Bank
> in violation of international law for more than fifty years and the
> Netanyahu government now speaks of annexing it and expelling as many
> Palestinians as possible.  Israel calls itself a democracy yet millions of
> Palestinians have no right to vote or civil rights.
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> Sadly, Israel is a theocracy with no religious freedom for non-Orthodox
> Jews.  Reform and Conservative rabbis cannot perform weddings, conduct
> funerals or have their conversions recognized.  Beyond this, Zionism itself
> has a long history of terrorism.  At the time of Israel’s creation,
> massacres of Palestinians were conducted in many Palestinian villages such
> as Deir Yassin, Lydda and Tantura to cause Palestinians to flee. Privately,
> Zionist leaders admitted that they were engaging in a form of ethnic
> cleansing.  David Ben-Gurion told Nahum Goldmann, the Zionist leader, “Why
> would the Arabs make peace?  If I was an Arab leader, I would never make
> terms with Israel.  That is natural.  We had taken their country….We come
> from Israel, it’s true, but two thousand years ago, but what is that to
> them?  There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was
> that their fault?  They only see one thing:  We have come here and stolen
> their country.  Why should they accept that?”
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> Jewish moral and ethical values have been rejected by those who wield
> power in Israel at the present time.  Those Jewish voices who warned the
> world about where Zionism would lead—-Judah Magnes, Albert Einstein, Hannah
> Arendt and a host of others—-are now seen as prophetic.  What is needed now
> is the creation of a Palestinian state which can live peacefully with the
> state of Israel.  Unfortunately, Hamas and those who support it is a form
> of terrorism reminiscent of the early Zionists.  Its goal is not democracy
> and religious freedom for all, but something far different, as we can see
> by viewing developments in Iran, which supports and finances Hamas.
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