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Quote by: Nono But what about someone like Noam Chomsky? Tricky that. But wait! We'll invent some psycho-babble about "self-hating Jews". That way we basically write off any criticism from Jews as the ravings of people with a pyschological problem. Hell, it's so easy. Yes, he's Jewish, but he's uhh, a little sick, been exposed to anti-Semitism for so long he's rejected his own identity, like black people who get their hair straightened and take skin-lightening treatment. |
Well I'm a fan of Chomsky's, Nono... sorta. I've listened to his lectures on tape and he's a skilled rabble rouser who's fun to listen to. But he's definitely a far, far left gadfly whose opinions I take with a grain of salt.
So having said that, methinks you and I are not that far apart, but it's that small space that's so close, yet so far.
You believe that before peace can be achieved, Israel has to reclaim all the moral high ground, make pre-emptive political sacrifices and achieve perfection before it has any right to complain, while the Palestinians get a moral pass because they've been the perpetual suffering victims, whether or not they brought it upon themselves.
I believe the Israelis have been driven
from the moral high ground by 50 years of constant and vicious aggression against them, and that it's up to the Palestinians -- AND their Arab puppeteers -- to finally accept Israel as a reality and to prove they mean it by making pre-emptive peace. Then, if the Palestinians still feel unfairly discriminated against, to take the moral high ground themselves through a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience, rather than guerrilla warfare.
Alas, given the apparent Arab/Moslem cultural imperatives regarding
honor/revenge/etc., that might be difficult for them.
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