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In reply to the discussion: I am going to take my leave from DU for a time: [View all]barbtries
(28,787 posts)PCIntern, i have not posted in any of the threads for fear of being labeled an anti-semite because i deplore what Israel is doing in Gaza. technically i am a jew, my children are jewish, my ex-husband was born in Israel. i do not believe that i am an anti-semite; i believe that it is wrong to kill people so indiscriminately (actually my belief is simply that people should not kill people). that there should be a way to achieve peace and that that way will inevitably involve some giving on the part of Israel (for instance some land seized in violation of treaties). the people of Gaza have no where to go; for israel it's like shooting fish in a barrel, except it's people, and they're killing them at a horrific rate. a solution is imperative and Israel needs to be part of it.
they have to find a way to be friends though i despair that the day will ever come. endless war is not the answer.
by the way i have to say that i am only technically jewish because a, ethnically i am a WASP (converted when i married), and b, i don't claim any religion. religion sucks imo, pretty much across the board. it's good at ritual; i've considered trying out a universalist church for the comfort of ritualized community (i hear they welcome atheists and that would be me). but even if i returned and practiced judaism fervently i would still deplore the warmongering in the middle east.
well i wish you weren't breaking from DU right now so i could know if what i have written here seems reasonable, or anti-semitic to you. what a terrible and sad state the world is in right now.