Naomi Wolf walked out of synagogue when they had nothing to say about Gaza massacre

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/synagogue-nothing-massacre.html

Challenged below for why I am mourning genocide in Gaza. I mourn genocide in Gaza because I am the granddaughter of a family half wiped out in a holocaust and I know genocide when I see it. People are asking why I am taking this ‘side’. There are no sides. I mourn all victims. But every law of war and international law is being broken in the targeting of civilians in Gaza. I stand with the people of Gaza exactly because things might have turned out differently if more people had stood with the Jews in Germany. I stand with the people of Gaza because no one stood with us. I went to synagogue last Friday night and had to leave because I kept waiting for the massacre of Gaza to be addressed. … Nothing. Where is god? God is only ever where we stand with our neighbor in trouble and against injustice. I turn in my card of faith as of now because of our overwhelming silence as Jews…I don’t mean Israelis, a separate issue…about the genocide now in Gaza.

I want no other religion than this, that is, seeing rather than denying my neighbor under fire and embracing rather than dismissing those targeted with annihilation and ethnic cleansing.

[Dustlawyer]

1. While not excusing Hamas, the irony of the Jewish State of Israel keeping a people in a giant

Concentration Camp, limiting their food and making them live in their accumulating filth is terrible! Rodney King had it right, "Why can't we all just get along?"

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. "Why can't we all just get along?"

Ask that to the families of the hundreds of dead Palestinians or the West Bank Palestinians watch as their country is eaten from under them.

[Dustlawyer]

5. I hear you! Hamas and Israel both have blood on their hands and the Palestinians are caught

in the middle. I am not saying that there is an equivalency either, but the senseless bloodshed needs to stop. Israel holds most of the cards and has been taking more and more Palestinian land. The Palestinians have been cornered and everyone knows what happens when someone is backed into a corner, they have to come out fighting or die.

[WillyT]

2. K & R !!!

[ellenrr]

3. Kudos to her! nt