Reply #7: No. An eye for an eye isn't the answer. [View All]

[PDJane]

However, what I am trying to point out is that, to quote Amira Haass, "The way to fight the fading memory is not merely with memorial monuments and ceremonies. It is done mainly with an uncompromising rejection of the master race ideology, which divided the world into superior and inferior races and denied the principle of equality among human beings. We were placed at the bottom of the ladder of the Nazi ideology. Would this ideology not have been criminal had we been ranked in the upper rungs? An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be improper and wrong--the apartheid in South Africa, for example. Thirty-eight years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian nation have accustomed generations of Israelis to regard the Palestinians as inferior, and therefore not as deserving as we are. But hush, one must not say that out loud, because Israelis will raise an indignant cry: 'How can you compare?' In the same way, it is forbidden to demand of us--with diplomatic threats--to change our ways. Because then we will remind them of our people who were murdered."

You cannot continue an occupation of another's land, a brutal occupation that lasts for forty years, without having the occupied get tired of being shot at and kept from the land they rightfully consider theirs.

This is neither sane nor just.