This conversation between Jon Stewart and Peter Beinart is pretty much my internal dialogue as an American Jew, but said out loud.
https://youtu.be/X5kXCdzt_us
Honestly, I have an easier time talking about Gaza with non-Jews than I do with fellow Jews, because being pro-Israel is so ingrained in the Jewish experience that it might as well be the air we breathe.
Right around 12:28 in the video Jon says “I was raised in the story of Israel being necessary for the safety of Jews. Which, by the way, if that’s the case, we have a much bigger problem in this world than anything else. The idea that a people need to have an armed fortress of a homeland just to be safe living in this world is an absolute failure of humanity in the first place.”
I get that we (Jews) have thousands of years of history of being the underdogs/scapegoats/victims of persecution, but character is measured by how one behaves when one has power as well as how one behaves when powerless.
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