[Peace-discuss] Review of Last Night's Program in anti-Semitism

[Karen Medina]

Rereading the definition of a "Jewish state" might change Stuart's understanding of the statements.

Jewish state = "a state where only Jews live"
where "a set of laws which confer rights and benefits on Jews but not on others."

"Where does this leave Arabs, who are currently 20% of the population inside Israel (not counting the Gaza Strip and the West Bank)? The Declaration makes a clear distinction between Jews, who are the sovereign authority in Israel, and the Arab inhabitants who are not."

-karen medina 


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>> a one-state solution to the Palestine conflict. 

>> the idea that it is _wrong_ for there to be a Jewish state in Palestine did not see the light of day in this documentary. 

>(http://newdemocracyworld.org/state.htm)
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>So this anonymous reviewer is actually saying (here and elsewhere
>in the review) that (s)he thinks Israel shouldn't have been
>established as a state, that there should be no Jewish state where
>Israel is today, even within the pre-1967 borders -- is that right?
>The front page of the newdemocracyworld.org site seems to confirm that
>they think so too.
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>Given the UN's long-since acceptance of Israel's existence, that seems a strange thing to suggest at this point.  And the reviewer doesn't even suggest why Israel's existence should be considered wrong, as if in some moral sense.  Why would he expect a documentary on antisemitism to bring this up?
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>Do you (David or anybody) understand where this person might be coming from? >How is this review being disseminated (besides on this list)?
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>I certainly want Israel's government to act rightly,
>and to be bound by UN resolutions and by the agreements it's made, which it is not doing.  But calling for it to cease to exist is foolish, and much worse, it promotes the idea that Israel really needs to fear for its national life -- which it does not.
>It's this kind of language that served as a cover for Israel's bombardment of Lebanon last summer, and is liable to serve so again in promoting an attack on Iran.
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>    Stuart
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