Losing It Big TIme
28-09-2006, 03:32
So I don't know how much of a problem this post may cause but it's really been on my mind since around the beginning of the conflict in Lebanon. And something has happened to really annoy the hell out of me....
I'm a British Jew. I abhorr the state of Israel and everything that the Israeli government has inflicted on the Palistinian and Lebanese peoples. Whilst I recognise that Israel must continue to exist I nevertheless feel that the only solution to longterm peace is for Israel to withdraw fully from the West Bank and for the country to return to the pre-1967 agreed borders.
However, I'm writing not simply to air this opinion but to describe something that happened to me yesterday: I was in conversation with a friend in a bar. My friend's girlfriend was with us and I was meeting her for the first time. We started to talk about Israel and I started to air my views. I'd barely started speaking when she said: "But aren't you a Jew?" I said "Yeah, I'm not religious though." To which she replied, "Then you're Israeli. It's the Jews fault what's happening in Israel, your people should be ashamed."
Firstly I thought, holy hell it's Mel Gibson in disguise...
Then I questioned something, And now - longwindedly - I get to my questions:
DO ISRAELI ACTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST BREED ANTI-SEMITISM?
and
ARE PEOPLE AWARE THAT NOT ALL JEWS SUPPORT ISRAEL?
I'm a British Jew. I abhorr the state of Israel and everything that the Israeli government has inflicted on the Palistinian and Lebanese peoples. Whilst I recognise that Israel must continue to exist I nevertheless feel that the only solution to longterm peace is for Israel to withdraw fully from the West Bank and for the country to return to the pre-1967 agreed borders.
However, I'm writing not simply to air this opinion but to describe something that happened to me yesterday: I was in conversation with a friend in a bar. My friend's girlfriend was with us and I was meeting her for the first time. We started to talk about Israel and I started to air my views. I'd barely started speaking when she said: "But aren't you a Jew?" I said "Yeah, I'm not religious though." To which she replied, "Then you're Israeli. It's the Jews fault what's happening in Israel, your people should be ashamed."
Firstly I thought, holy hell it's Mel Gibson in disguise...
Then I questioned something, And now - longwindedly - I get to my questions:
DO ISRAELI ACTIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST BREED ANTI-SEMITISM?
and
ARE PEOPLE AWARE THAT NOT ALL JEWS SUPPORT ISRAEL?