"That country (Israel) simply does not exist"

[Ahmed]

Haaretz

A Special Place in Hell / My generation ruined Israel. Yours could save it
Mine is, after all, the generation that gave Israel the settlements.
By Bradley Burston

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/special-pl ... t-1.291968

My generation, skin verging on baggy and mind let off its leash, is now the generation unable to look at itself. For all our bluster and ideology and self-satisfaction and volume, we are cowards. Mine is the generation frightened by what we might find in a frank, naked, unfettered investigation of the war we made in Gaza. Instead, we blame Richard Goldstone for our use of phosphorus. We trash the New Israel Fund ("the New Ishmael Fund," West Bank Professor Ron Breiman called it on Army Radio on Monday, in an exemplar of the smugly sophisticated neo-racism in which we're all sinking) for the artillery and aerial barrages which accounted for the civilian death toll.

Mine is the generation which decreed that not talking honestly about settlement and its many-faceted shield, occupation, was apolitical and therefore correct. In America, as well, the fear of admitting any wrongdoing on Israel's part, has made it impossible to see Israel at all. No wonder young American Jews are disengaged from Israel as it is presented to them. That country simply does not exist.

I've quoted the main points of the article here, I have two statements to make on this 1) It's an interesting article 2) The generation Burston speaks of won't come from the Americas or Europe, they're already there: They are Palestine: The ones who would never surrender to tanks and bombs, compromise with injustice or indulge falsehood.

Now its easy, and in some respects right, to dismiss the piece as a get out clause or safety valve for some Jews to escape the judgement / punishment that they themselves have sown the seeds for (especially the suggestion that Zionist Jews are only now "sinking into neo-racism"---when everyone knows the entire Zionist doctrine is the most racist / vile dogma since the Talmud). BUT, the subtext raises a point worth considering: Some Zionist Jews want rid of their cult / come in from the cold but don't know how. I acknowledge the sincerity of certain defectors who work through the appropriate channels to speak out against Talmudic depravity / Jewish extremism. The question is, how can we bring in genuine defectors who, though at their wits end with Talmudic Judaism, can't quite muster the courage to denounce it?