When mice got into my house and I heard them scurrying under the bed at night, I didn’t hate them. I just wanted them gone. Same for cockroaches.
You won’t hear much from Israelis about how much they hate Arabs. They don’t need to. The presumption of Jewish supremacy runs too deep for that. It’s a very different sort of bigotry from the i…
When mice got into my house and I heard them scurrying under the bed at night, I didn’t hate them. I just wanted them gone. Same for cockroaches.
You won’t hear much from Israelis about how much they hate Arabs. They don’t need to. The presumption of Jewish supremacy runs too deep for that. It’s a very different sort of bigotry from the inferiority complex that drives rural southern American whites.
I reject that hackneyed and reflexive charge of antisemitism for saying this. It comes from friends who live in or have visited Israel. In the days of psychedelic trance a lot of the artists were Israelis, we communicated a lot, and to a man they deplored the nonchalance of their countrymen’s dismissal of Arabs as subhuman.
We’ve heard from both Israelis and Palestinians who want peace. You won’t hear it from the settlers or their movement.
I see no way out of this not externally imposed, and nobody is going to do that. Biden is a stenographer. AIPAC has vast funds to keep anyone not stridently supportive of Israel out of office.
The rest of the world is seeing the wanton brutality but Israel is less likely to see reality than the GOP.
When mice got into my house and I heard them scurrying under the bed at night, I didn’t hate them. I just wanted them gone. Same for cockroaches.
You won’t hear much from Israelis about how much they hate Arabs. They don’t need to. The presumption of Jewish supremacy runs too deep for that. It’s a very different sort of bigotry from the inferiority complex that drives rural southern American whites.
I reject that hackneyed and reflexive charge of antisemitism for saying this. It comes from friends who live in or have visited Israel. In the days of psychedelic trance a lot of the artists were Israelis, we communicated a lot, and to a man they deplored the nonchalance of their countrymen’s dismissal of Arabs as subhuman.
We’ve heard from both Israelis and Palestinians who want peace. You won’t hear it from the settlers or their movement.
I see no way out of this not externally imposed, and nobody is going to do that. Biden is a stenographer. AIPAC has vast funds to keep anyone not stridently supportive of Israel out of office.
The rest of the world is seeing the wanton brutality but Israel is less likely to see reality than the GOP.