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LisaLightning's avatar

Thank you Bruce, I’m glad Glenn Greenwald read your comment so I could find your Substack. It sounds so clear the way you lay it out. I grew up Jewish in a Jewish neighborhood and was told from very young childhood that we were the chosen people. We were better than everyone else. Such bullshit.

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Frederick Roth's avatar

How many instances of the Polish or French resistance in Nazi occupied Europe can you provide of the resistants attacking German civilians, raping women and kidnapping people? Occupied people do have the right to resist but by ANY MEANS? The humanist interpretation is that violence should be the last resort only when other means have run out, furthermore that even when you do use force there are rules of engagement you follow. Do you disagree?

While it is true that there is huge hostility to the Arab side by the right wing in Israel, this is the result of decades of war. Whereas the whole "Israel is colonial" line is a contrived calumny. Simon Sebag Montefiore recently wrote a rebuttal here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/

I find it fascinating that so many leftist Jews have fallen so deeply into the antizionist line. (I am neither Arab, Muslim or Jewish in case you wonder about my own background) Many in Australia have woken up by this terrorist attack and have received a rude shock that the left is now a greater threat to Jews than the hard right.

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