I previously posted this graphic to illustrate the horrible effect Netanyahu has had on the support of liberals like myself for Israel. The response on FACEBOOK was to accuse me of promulgating the anti-Semitic stance of movements like the Boycotters and Steven Salaita who want Israel delegitimized. The part that bothered me most, however, was a response by my friend and Ave writer, Mirel Goldenberg.
Mirel Goldenberg In this world where the people have the time only to see images and memes, to read only titles and captions of photos, the fact that you are posting this on Facebook is an act of trolling no matter what are you saying in other sites. And if you think that those demagogical obscenities are illustrating the true images of the President of Israel, of Israel, of the IDF; if you think that what happened in Gaza War, when Hamas targeted our cities, schools. malls, houses…is a genocide…I consider this worse than a slander, I consider this the sleep of the Reason that produces monsters.Stephen Schwartz Mirel Goldenberg You and I need to disagree here. I have never bought into the idea that a citizen of a democratic society should respect an elected office when it is held by a bad person.
Also, YOU need to understand how much harm Netanyahu has done to Israel .. he is (at best) in a league with GW Bush. By electing him, Israel has hugely undermined the respect Israel’s supporters have had for Israeli.
Also, YOU need to understand how much harm Netanyahu has done to Israel .. he is (at best) in a league with GW Bush. By electing him, Israel has hugely undermined the respect Israel’s supporters have had for Israeli.
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How can you imagine a person like myself speaking up for a man who is supporting Ted Cruz? Can I tell my African American friends that Israel is proud of its African citizens when Netanyahu has not only allied himself with Obama’s opponents, hea has show vast disrespect for the office of President of the US?
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Recently I spoke out against one of the most successful voices against Israel’s existence .. Steven Salaita. Netanyahu’s alliances with the Sheldon Adelson … the likley osurce of the Jewish money that denied Salaita’s academic freedom, HUGELY strenghtened Salaita’s position.
If, as I am cming to beleive, Israel will now fail, Netnyahu will go down in our history as a Sabbatai Zvi. -
Mirel Goldenberg I was speaking about the demagogic photo from Gaza and about genocide and not about the obscene photoshop of Bibi.
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Stephen Schwartz Mirel … the two go together. The world .. or at least the part of it I live in, sees Netanyahu as the kind of person who would be unmoved by the image to the right.
You often make me despair about Israle. You hva eht eIsraeli mixture of chornic depression and drive to survive. As an American Zionist, I remain an optimist .. somehting yo point out is a lot easier to do from Seattle than it to do rfrom Rehovat.
I WANT ISRAEL to survive, I would like my Grand daughter to choose to become an Israeli. Netanyahu may be making that impossible.