ISRAEL, WORLD WAR 2, THE SILENCE OF THE LIBS
IS WORLD WAR II HISTORY STILL RELEVANT? By David Harris
https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/09/03/is-world-war-ii-history-still-relevant/
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, when German forces invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, is the history still relevant? Does it have contemporary meaning? Or is it destined to fade away, as the wartime generation of soldiers, eyewitnesses, and survivors reaches the twilight of their lives? There are, I believe, five enduring lessons of this defining period in modern history.
First, a failure of imagination can be catastrophic.
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Top-PA-religious-leader-called-Jews-in-Jerusalem-colonialist-cancer-600459?fbclid=IwAR0kSkeD0tjswC2M8ui9vpUL_tzddoMERFeBXN7UALaR6RCpgfM4_SLZzds
PALESTINIAN RELIGIOUS LEADER CALLS JEWS IN JERUSALEM ‘COLONIALIST CANCER’
Prominent Palestinian religious leader denounced “Jewish attacks” against Palestinian religious symbols in Jerusalem and referred to the Jewish presence in the land of Israel as a “colonialist cancer,” NGO Palestinian Media Watch said on Monday. According to a report by the Palestinian Authority official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, as quoted by PMW, the Supreme Fatwa Council, led by Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, “Warned of the danger of attacks against the religious and national symbols in occupied Jerusalem, and held the occupation government fully responsible for these violations.” “The council expressed its rejection of all types of settlements and emphasized that the Palestinian people will not stand idly by in the face of this colonialist cancer,” the report added.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is the Palestinian Authority’s highest religious leader. Hussein, a former imam of the Al Aqsa mosque, was appointed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas in 2006.
SILENCE OF THE LIBS: IS SECURITY A JEWISH VALUE? (David Suissa, Jewish Journal, Aug 25)
What I found odd with T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC), Rabbis for Human Rights, and the New Israel Fund when I took a close look at their websites is that while they mention plenty of Jewish values, I didn’t see one mention of “security.” The closest was Rabbis for Human Rights, which mentions “safety” for “the stranger, the different and the weak, the convert, the widow and the orphan.” That is indeed noble, but what about “safety” for a 17-year-old Jewish girl whose only crime was to go on a nature walk with her family? Is it possible that the silence of these groups after the murder of Rina Shnerb was connected to the absence of “security for the Jewish people” in their values statements? After all, they are very loud when they pounce on Israel for any violation of the human rights of Palestinians…
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