Miranda Grant
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Saxon University
| | cartoon hat (2nd Dec 20 at 5:40am UTC) |   | Few Diaspora Jews cartoon hat want the real Israel at their doorstep. Like German Christians, Diaspora Jews prefer, indeed demand, an idealized version of Jewishness. Israeli Jews who have left Israel have little patience with the idealism vested in them. They know what they have done. They know what Israel has done.These Still/Former Jewish/Israelis have been the Jewish boots on the ground. They have returned to the Promised Land, served in the military, done the dirty work of occupation and expansion and now refuse the rescue of their embracing religious and national ethos.
However, anyone who observes Jewish post-Holocaust life from a dispassionate distance can see it for what it is an interconnected web of ascendancy and power.Being on the other side of empire power for so long, who can criticize Jews for deciding that is their turn for power, even if it is at the expense of another people's suffering. After all, Germany has made the same decision charlie 1 horse hats after the Holocaust and with help from these very same Constantinian Jews who, in their own self-serving way, limit their critique to the German past. And if the choice were theirs to make, who among the nations would choose any other route, regardless of the cost?
So what are we left with?Whether through chicago bears hat practical reality or utopian aspirations, the positive Israel-Palestine one-state solution is a non-starter for a variety of reasons, including Israel's absolute opposition to such a state, a position that Israel's American-European allies are in full agreement with. Refusing a real two-state solution, Israel correctly calculates that the American-European commitment to Israel is far more important to its history, politics and empire than Palestinians are or will be. No matter the pressure received, Israel knows the American-European coded language well. In the final analysis, the American-European alliance will not abandon Israel.
But with the end of the two-state solution and without a positive one-state solution in sight, chinese hat what are Germans and German Christians to do even with progressive Jews, Israelis and otherwise, who seek solidarity between, in their minds, a chastened/innocent Germany and a beleaguered/innocent/wayward Israel? If Germans continue to see themselves as chastened and innocent but cut through Israel and Jews as beleaguered/innocent/wayward, German feelings about Jews might then revert to the "perversion" of the anti-Semitic Nazi era. Here Germans may rediscover an ambivalence about Jews that remains beneath the surface of contemporary German and German Christian life.
Palestinians surface the hypocrisy within the well positioned German-Jewish solidarity. Germans may believe that the enablement of Israel truly wipes its history of violence and atrocity clean and it can now move onto other more immediate issues foreign workers for example. This presumes that the non-acceptance of the Other in German society is not Jewish-specific. Rather it is simply a cultural working out of difference as in many societies around the world. At the same time, Palestinians who experience the violence of a German-enabled Israel might uncover the mostly hidden Jewish anger of a Holocaust trauma that cannot be bridged by oppressing another people. This means that Israel-enablers are not really forgiven either.
The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) seems to present a way through this church hats holding pattern, calling Israel to account for its occupation of the West Bank and Jerusalem, albeit in a limited way. At least, this holding pattern works as a form of negotiation between Israeli power and the West's indeed the world's unwillingness to act decisively. For though it is rarely discussed, the BDS movement could be frozen or ended with the signing of any agreement, even an interim one, by Israel and the Palestinian Authority. In the political world, BDS is a materially actualized movement but, whatever [img]https://www.hannibaltvshow.com/images/u/church hats-523mbe.jpg[/img] the movement's rhetoric, is limited to a two-state demand. | |
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