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In reply to the discussion: This is not a "war", it is a pogrom in a ghetto, the Gaza ghetto is like the Warsaw ghetto. [View all]CTyankee
(63,903 posts)Not to be too nit-picky here, but what I read was not a direct comparison of the state of Israel with the perpetrators of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. I did not read her statement as wishing for destruction of the state of Israel, but she clearly stands for justice and peace, not at all the goal of the Nazis which was just destruction and obliteration of an whole population. I think she feels that Israel needs a different policy, led my Jewish beliefs and tradition. I think she wants to end the suffering caused by Israel, but not the wiping out of the Jewish state.
IMO, hers is a fine, eloquent statement, one that many in my largely progressive, Jewish neighborhood could heartily endorse. Ditto my stepdaughter, who is a rabbi, leading a Reform Jewish congregation in Arizona.
Thank you for sharing that statement! It has lifted my spirits today!