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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: breaking the deadlock : Comments
By Alon Ben-Meir, published 4/5/2016However, a majority of Israelis and Palestinians seek peace, and the desire of Arab countries to normalize their relations with Israel offers fertile ground for the resumption of peace negotiations.
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One thing that might help is to try to make one people of the Israelis. Schools are segregated, and children grow up with different and conflicting narratives. Establish an integrated school system so Jews of all types and beliefs along with non-Jews of all types and beliefs learn together, grow up together and work together. No one in Israel can get married unless clergy approve. Introduce civil marriage so that two people of different backgrounds can easily marry if they want to. People are divided by religious beliefs and educational level and content. Have separation of religion and state so clergy do not have any status as government functionaries. Make more opportunities for people to get together and become Israelis rather than Jews, Arabs, observant, non-observant, secular, traditional religious, ultra-religious etc. Those who wish to be separate in their own enclaves should not have any government support to sequester themselves from the general population.
Posted by david f, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 6:32:06 PM
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As desirable as the above suggestion is unfortunately I don't see it panning out like that. Jewish people do not use the word human when referring to non Jews, they use the word uman. This is because they do not consider non-Jews to be human. This may not apply to all Jews of course.
What may work is for the US to use their influence with the Israeli govt and prevail upon them to adopt a more conciliatory approach to the Palestinians. Posted by Referundemdrivensocienty, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 7:15:04 PM
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"Jewish people do not use the word human when referring to non Jews, they use the word uman."
The above is bigoted crap. Posted by david f, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 9:04:54 PM
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Referundemdrivensocienty wrote "Jewish people do not use the word human when referring to non Jews, they use the word uman."
The above is absolute rubbish. Posted by david f, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 9:07:30 PM
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Rabbi Kook is the preceptor of the Jewish settlement movement in the West Bank (Gush Emunim).
In the book "Orot," Orot Yisrael chapter 5, article 10 (page 156), Rabbi Kook wrote: "The difference between the Jewish soul, in all its independence, inner desires, longings, character and standing, and the soul of all the Gentiles, on all of their levels, is greater and deeper than the difference between the soul of a man and the soul of an animal, for the difference in the latter case is one of quantity, while the difference in the first case is one of essential quality." Though common, many Jews do not hold such views, as summarised in http://www.come-and-hear.com/supplement/so-daat-emet/en_gentiles5.html Judaism is primarily a national movement, not a religion. Its main theme is the advancement of the Jewish nation, while G-d is only an incidental character, relevant because He is told to help the Jewish cause. Nevertheless, many Jewish individuals have flourished spiritually and managed to find true religion within the shade of Judaism. It is not religion that brought about or feeds the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: it's nationality - on both sides, only sometimes disguised as religion. We have a case of a wolf in sheep's skin. Attacking religion is like attacking the sheep, hurting innocents, and would do nothing to stop the wolf! Posted by Yuyutsu, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 11:25:46 PM
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Judaism is a religion, Zionism is a movement. Peace is impossible without negotiations. Negotiations are impossible unless both sides abandon ridiculous preconditions. The Palestinians must abandon their requirement that Israel return to the 1948 borders, and Israel must stop building settlements. Posted by Shadow Minister, Thursday, 5 May 2016 8:07:53 AM
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