{"id":1709,"date":"2003-09-08T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2003-09-08T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T23:24:00","slug":"a-light-unto-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/09\/08\/19\/24\/a-light-unto-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"A Light Unto Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avraham Burg used to be a Speaker in the Israeli parliament<\/a>. Now he seems quite pessimistic<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The Jewish people did not survive for two millennia in order to pioneer new weaponry, computer security programs or antimissile missiles. We were supposed to be a light unto the nations. In this we have failed. It turns out that the 2,000-year struggle for Jewish survival comes down to a state of settlements, run by an amoral clique of corrupt lawbreakers who are deaf both to their citizens and to their enemies … Israel, having ceased to care about the children of the Palestinians, should not be surprised when they come washed in hatred and blow themselves up in the centers of Israeli escapism. They consign themselves to Allah in our places of recreation, because their own lives are torture. They spill their own blood in our restaurants in order to ruin our appetites, because they have children and parents at home who are hungry and humiliated. We could kill a thousand ringleaders and engineers a day and nothing will be solved, because the leaders come up from below – from the wells of hatred and anger, from the “infrastructures” of injustice and moral corruption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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