On 22 Jan., 19:29, "willy minnen" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Thanks, gruff, even here it is dangerous to talk about them the same way as
> about others.
>
"them" ... This is a basic part of the problem and one of the roots of
anti-semitism, even if we are mostly unconscious of it. There is no
"them". There are orthodox Jews, secular Jews, atheistic Jews, Jews
who support everything Israel does, Jews who don't. There is the state
of Israel, which is a jewish state, whose doings and being-done-tos
are significant to those who live there and Jews all over the
world ... but which is, nevertheless, a particular problem.
I am a non-German, living in Germany. Even here, where the horror of
the holocaust is consciously, chosenly, rightly present, as a
responsibility to the past, present and future (incidentally, making
the relationship between Germans and Jews endlessly uncomfortable and
the theme of Israel and its actions continually complex), I still
experience this "them" oozing out of the unconscious Christian/
European rooted tradition. "They" are different. And the different is
strange, somehow untrustworthy.
We have to move beyond "them".
Francis
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