History for Doloras

alon222

You will find most Jewish people supporting Israel because when they hear chants like “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” it kind of scares them and many Jews feel a responsibility to support Israel as it’s the only Jewish majority country in the world. Jews pray towards and for Jerusalem 3 times a day, and in the Passover meal we always say “next year in Jerusalem”. Whether they will bring Israel flags I’m not sure, but yes, majority of Jews in the world support Israel similar to how most Muslims support Palestine.

"Palestine will be free" scares only those who have convinced themselves that a free Palestine means mass murder of Jews - that Palestinians are animals who just hate all Jews, that they're not human beings like any other. Like white South Africans convinced themselves that an end to apartheid would mean that Nelson Mandela would personally butcher them all. 

Not for a second that I'm not arguing that anti-Semitism isn't real, that some Palestinians do have such views, like some black South Africans still sing songs about killing Boers, and that ain't okay. But if a people have convinced themselves that they have to keep a particular population in submission, trapped in an open-air prison, deprived of rights, occasionally bombed, and taking away more and more of their land, because the alternative is to all be murdered in their beds... I don't think any people who historically thought that ever turned out on the right side of history. 

alon222

You will find most Jewish people supporting Israel because when they hear chants like “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” it kind of scares them and many Jews feel a responsibility to support Israel as it’s the only Jewish majority country in the world. Jews pray towards and for Jerusalem 3 times a day, and in the Passover meal we always say “next year in Jerusalem”. Whether they will bring Israel flags I’m not sure, but yes, majority of Jews in the world support Israel similar to how most Muslims support Palestine.

 "Palestine will be free" scares only those who have convinced themselves that a free Palestine means mass murder of Jews - that Palestinians are animals who just hate all Jews, that they're not human beings like any other. Like white South Africans convinced themselves that an end to apartheid would mean that Nelson Mandela would personally butcher them all.