Israel Against The World
- Thread starter Ponca Dan
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I think it's more like "Dan and his brothers against the Jews". With Iranian aid. 🖕
I pay for access to Glenn Greenwald's podcast, which appears nightly. Glenn is Jewish, but is harshly critical of what Israel is doing in the supposed name of Judaism, so I suppose some on this board would instantly dismiss him as an untrustworthy self-loathing Jew whose word is to be ignored. Personally, I hold the man in the highest of esteem for his unwavering integrity and relentlessly objective journalism. (I probably shouldn't have said that. A couple of people on this board, I won't name names but you know who you are, will now hate him with a fervent passion.)
At any rate he brought up something I had not thought of, and found to be of utmost intrigue. He was talking about a retired US Ambassador to Israel, I'm sorry, I don't remember his name, and pointed out quite accurately that no one could be a US Ambassador to Israel unless he was Zionist to his very core, which this man certainly was. And so a memo the ambassador had written seems to be of greater poignance than the usual memo. In it he said people's "loyalty" to a country is based on their personal experience, that Joe Biden is part of the last generation for whom the memories of the holocaust are seared deep within their consciousness, and therefore it is understandable why he remains so steadfast in his devotion. But he then points out that today's younger generation does not have that personal connection, that American 20-and-thirty-year-olds' connection/memories of what Israel represents is the ongoing genocide/mass slaughter of Palestinians taking place today. The college kids who are so vehemently lambasted for demonstrating on college campuses across the country, indeed the world, their displeasure with the genocide. And in another twenty years or so, when those 20-30 year olds are in their 40's and 50's, and they are the ones running the country, their memory/impression of Israel will be that it is a well-deserved pariah that slaughters people at its pleasure, and Israel may never get back the unyielding support from America, and most of the world, it enjoys today. He begs Israeli leadership to think what will be the long term result of what it is doing today.
At any rate he brought up something I had not thought of, and found to be of utmost intrigue. He was talking about a retired US Ambassador to Israel, I'm sorry, I don't remember his name, and pointed out quite accurately that no one could be a US Ambassador to Israel unless he was Zionist to his very core, which this man certainly was. And so a memo the ambassador had written seems to be of greater poignance than the usual memo. In it he said people's "loyalty" to a country is based on their personal experience, that Joe Biden is part of the last generation for whom the memories of the holocaust are seared deep within their consciousness, and therefore it is understandable why he remains so steadfast in his devotion. But he then points out that today's younger generation does not have that personal connection, that American 20-and-thirty-year-olds' connection/memories of what Israel represents is the ongoing genocide/mass slaughter of Palestinians taking place today. The college kids who are so vehemently lambasted for demonstrating on college campuses across the country, indeed the world, their displeasure with the genocide. And in another twenty years or so, when those 20-30 year olds are in their 40's and 50's, and they are the ones running the country, their memory/impression of Israel will be that it is a well-deserved pariah that slaughters people at its pleasure, and Israel may never get back the unyielding support from America, and most of the world, it enjoys today. He begs Israeli leadership to think what will be the long term result of what it is doing today.
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