Earlier this week I posted each of the following paragraphs on Facebook. If we are not free to express antisemitic (or any other hateful) views (whether about Palestinian semites or Jewish semites), we will have lost our cherished freedom of speech. https://scheerpost.com/.../the-mccarthyist-attack-on.../ If we cannot present our antisemitic views civilly, we will have lost our ability to persuade anyone of our views. I am anti rudeness and pro open civil debate and anti stereotyping people into groups and pro treating each person individually.
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I want Israel to be a safe and prosperous country. I want every country to be safe and prosperous. Sadly, Israel’s current war in Gaza is contributing to neither. Neither its stated objectives of eliminating Hamas or of removing (one way or the other) Palestinians from the River to the Sea (each objective publicly stated by one member of the Israeli government or another), will make Israel safe and/or prosperous. Israel’s brutal attacks in Gaza and increasingly in the West Bank are making it less safe and poorer. The inhumanity of its attacks has lost it support and sympathy around the world but it is also worsening its relations with the neighbors it needs to be at peace with, especially its Palestinian Semitic cousins. Until Israel treats its neighbors fairly and decently it will remain subject to their attacks.
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