Amy's mom rocks the world and sent us this editorial from The Forward (Deh Foiwahds)"
It’s a safe bet that donations will pour in from around the world for the victims in Lebanon. It’s equally likely that Israel will be left to rely on its own resources, coupled with whatever help it can get from world Jewry and perhaps the American Congress. Even after the killing has ended, the humanitarian reconstruction efforts could easily become one more part of the inexorable drift toward polarization and, eventually, new conflict.
Or people of good will could choose another path. Friends of Israel could begin planning now to direct a portion of its fundraising proceeds to Lebanese relief, in the hope that other international relief agencies will reciprocate and direct a portion of their Middle East aid to rebuilding northern Israel.
See that? An acknowledgment of Israeli's unfortunate position in the international community, directly followed by a call for us to HELP THE OTHER TEAM. What? Even though WE WE WE are suffering and need help, and even though THEY THEY THEY are gonna get help from all those other nations-- we still can stand up and reach out. We can try to operate from a new paradigm, one not based on bitterness and finger-pointing, one that might ultimately prove foolish in the end, but one that is based on hope, and a quiet confidence that, even rejected, our sense of love and justice demands expression, and sees beyond today's conflict into the chance for a more unified tomorrow.
Hashem Echad-- remember that one?
Hashem Echad-- remember that one?
2 comments:
Well, it looks to me like more of a cynical call to give money to THEM in the hopes that other people will give more money to US when they see how 'nice' we are. Not that I'm necessarily against such cynical manipulations...
Yeah, Eitan, I hear you. When we first read the piece, we were so excited that we missed that one sentence where he expects reciprocation. But take that sentence out, and he says some good stuff, I reckon. We are davka not expecting reciprocation. I do hope, in a dreamy way, that we can set a precedent for a new paradigm on all sides--- not only Hizbollah helps the Lebanese, not only lefty peace-junkies care about humanity, religious Jews aren't always racist and paranoid, wanderingstu.com is cuddly yet strong, like a real man, and he wears Brut, by Faberge..
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