The persecuted become the persecutors
Reb Halabi like many of us is appalled about how white has become black in Palestine.
With what is going on in places like Beit Lahiya in north Gaza right now, it seems that the so-called “generals’ plan” formulated by Gadi Eisenkot, and the Dahiya doctrine are operational right now. Mass murder by the day, full scale destruction of buildings and infrastructure, separation of men from women and forced dispossession, depopulation and forced marches. The bitter irony is that Israeli is taking out on the Palestinians what European Jews experienced from the Nazis. Reinhard Heydrich, who headed the Wannsee conference to actuate the “final solution” in 1942, might shake his head in wonder.
Some writers point to the Old Testament story about wiping out every Amalekite in the ancient area that is now Palestine and Israel in God’s name as grounds for Israel current action.
Never mind the Amalekites, I invite readers to read or reread the Book of Joshua which records what was done by the Israelites to the then existing inhabitants of Palestine/Israel with the full support, according to the Old Testament, of the Jewish God. A few original inhabitants survived, including the Jebusites (Jerusalemites).
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