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Wed Jan 17, 2024, 10:34 PM Jan 2024

The irony

The Minneapolis City Council intends on issuing a call for a ceasefire in Gaza and many object, saying that the city has enough problems to deal without branching into foreign affairs.

Members of the Jewish Voice for Peach (I have never heard of them) had an oped supporting this and while I did not read it, I likes this letter in response:

In decrying the "conflation" of "Jews and Judaism with Israel," the authors quote a portion of Deuteronomy: "Justice, justice, you shall pursue." The authors would do well to read the rest of sentence: "Justice, justice, you shall pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that your God is giving you." That "land," of course, is Israel.

https://www.startribune.com/readers-write-gaza-resolution-in-minneapolis-the-houthis-the-iowa-caucuses/600336120/?refresh=true

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