Wednesday, 26th of July, 2006

There may initially have been a good reason to start an offensive against Hezbollah. Israel is a country surrounded by nations that to a large extent wish to wipe it and its people off the map.
But killing innocent Lebanese never entered into the equation.
We left-wing Jews find ourselves in an increasingly poisonous position. We know that we don’t have to self-identify with the Jews in the Knesset or the IDF, or in Jewish communities the world over, who support the disproportionate actions now going on, but we know that every day the war continues, Israel incites more anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiment the world over.

Nobody’s the winner here, except perhaps Hezbollah.

Links:
Gush Shalom
Amazing interview with a secular Arab woman on Al-Jazeera
Letters between Etgar Keret and Samir El-Youssef
Jews should stop seeing any & all criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism (even though clearly some criticisms of Israel do have anti-Semitic overtones) Some interesting discussion in the comments of this blog post too.