Beinart says ‘Israeli government is reaping what it has sowed’ with Palestinian violence

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2015/11/government-palestinian-violence

The liberal Zionist Peter Beinart last night attributed the violence in Israel and Palestine to Israel’s “moral darkness.” Speaking at Beth Chayim Chadashim, a progressive synagogue in Los Angeles that came out of the gay community, Beinart said, “the Israeli government is reaping what it has sowed” in Palestine because it has denied dignity and basic rights for millions of Palestinians for decades.

Here’s a fuller context for the remarks. He started by saying that it was hard for a traumatized people to hear the truth about terrorism:

The September 11th attacks were a monstrous, demented response to American foreign policy, a foreign policy of support for Arab dictatorships and Israeli policies which produced tremendous suffering in the Arab world. And today’s Palestinian terrorism is a monstrous, demented response to Israel’s denial of basic Palestinian rights.

That’s not a popular thing to say in Israel right now, but within a people as within a family, you don’t build real solidarity by telling people things they want to hear at the expense of what you believe is true.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Perhaps a certain gasbarist can let all know what Howard Stern thinks.