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A JEW AGAINST GENOCIDE
In general, I do not like to identify as a Jew. I was born into and raised Jewish, and am 99.9% Ashkenazi Jew according to my DNA . I do not think the World Community is well-served if we identify as being of a particular religion or tribe. Rather, it is time we acknowledge and identify with broader, more inclusive truths, such as we are all humans, sharing this world with other humans and nonhuman beings.
However, because of the Holocaust being perpetrated on the People living in Gaza, I am compelled to speak out as a Jewish Person, angry and ashamed that the Israeli government is murdering and starving the Palestinian People. I also cry out to every other country and every Person complicit in this genocide by remaining silent or supporting it with weapons, such as the US.
There is no justification for silence or inaction. Sending (or attempting to send) “humanitarian” aid, while simultaneously supplying weapons, is an insane form of psychopathy. We cannot accept arguments that it is ‘complicated’, resulting from millennia of deeply rooted and justifiable animosity. It is quite simply brothers killing brothers (Muslims and Jews, all children of Abraham) and in the process, men murdering all the women and children through their insane hatreds, all for a strip of seaside real estate and illegal territorial occupation, using Biblical gibberish as rationale.
Supplying aid while also supplying weapons and doing nothing to force Israel to administer that aid and stop the killing and starvation is as insane and cruel as the Walrus in Lewis Carroll’s poem from Through the Looking Glass. As the title suggests, this is ass-backward. A portion of the poem follows with the bold type mine to stress the hypocrisy.
From The Walrus and the Carpenter
“I weep for you,' the Walrus said:
I deeply sympathize.'
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter,
You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none —
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one."
Netanyahu would be the Carpenter, the Jewish Hitler who doesn’t have any empathy or feeling towards those he is murdering and starving. Everyone in support or denial are his Nazi collaborators.
Do you have a child, a grandchild? All children are our children. It is our children being murdered and starved to death every day. Whatever identity you might ascribe to the people living in Gaza, or to yourselves, they are our people. THEY ARE US.
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Please go here for the original article on Lewis Goldstein's Substack: https://goldsteinl.substack.com/p/a-jew-against-genocide?r=1flrbi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
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