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Viagra sale, The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations recently "reaffirmed its longstanding position that a united Jerusalem should remain the sovereign and eternal capital of Israel," according to a JTA story. Some left-of-center groups were against it but they could not stem the tide. Anyone with the slightest familiarity with Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in the last decade, billige viagra Apotheke, including Ehud Olmert, Viagra pedido en línea, knows that the status of Jerusalem is an open question that must be resolved as part of a comprehensive agreement, but that did not deter the groups from, once again, billiga viagra apotek, being more Israeli than the Israeli government. Viagra without prescription, The idea that the Jewish people have had a continuous, unbreakable emotional and spiritual connection with Jerusalem for thousands of years is, of course, Iowa IA , one of the organizing principles of our narrative. Cheap viagra no rx, I certainly feel that connection, deep in my bones. But the transformation of that emotional and spiritual identification into the core of a political ideology, is, in fact, a recent phenomenon, viagra sale.
For one thing, cheap viagra from canada, many secular Israelis on the coastal plain want nothing to do with Jerusalem, Texas TX Tex. , rarely if ever venture there, and live quite happily without such a connection. That is, lowest price viagra, I think, Buy viagra no prescription, their loss. But the Zionist pioneers who are mythic heroes to American Jews also lacked an attachment to the city. I just stumbled upon a compelling tidbit in The History of Zionism by Walter Laqueur, För viagra online, by far the best and most comprehensive history of the movement. Viagra sale, He is, by and large, sympathetic to the Zionist cause. Ordering viagra from canada, But, in a new preface written in 2005, he tells us:
The question of Jerusalem illustrates best the enormous difference between historical Zionism and the ideology that has replaced it, comprar viagra de descuento. Jerusalem contains the holy places of three world religions, Alaska AK , and elementary prudence if not basic tolerance should have prevented declarations according to which Jerusalem was to remain forever undivided under Israeli rule. It was, in fact, cheap viagra, an empty declaration, Rabatt kaufen viagra, for in actual fact Jerusalem is of course a divided city.When Hertzl first visited Jerusalem, he saw only the musty deposits of two thousand years of inhumanity, Massachusetts MA Mass. , intolerance, Comprare viagra, and impurity; he perceived superstition and intolerance on all sides. Hertzl suggested Haifa as the capital of the new Jewish state, viagra sale. But it was not only Hertzl, the assimilated Jew, buy viagra online, who reacted in this unsentimental manner. Buy viagra no rx, Chaim Weizmann always feared becoming involved in the Jerusalem imbroglio. And because their attachment to the city was not overwhelming, David Ben Gurion and other leaders of the second aliyah did not visit Jerusalem for the first time until two or three years after their arrival in the country, viagra cheap. For many years, Pharmacie viagra bon marché, not a single Zionist leader chose to live in Jerusalem. Viagra sale, For them, Jerusalem symbolized the negative past of Jewish history, that part of the tradition from which they wanted to disassociate themselves.
The idea that Jerusalem was the beginning and end of Zionism, that Israel could not exist without having full sovereignty over the entire city emerged only after 1967 and the growth of a religious fanaticism and aggressive nationalism that had more in common with the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood than the founding fathers of Zionism, West Virginia WV W.Va. .
And so, South Carolina SC S.C. , guarding the holy sites has become a nightmare and Jerusalem itself has become a dangerous flashpoint. The insanity of a few religious fanatics –Jewish, Muslim or Christian—has the potential of transforming a local conflict into a religious war with incalculable consequences, Kansas KS Kans. .
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Friday, September 14th, 2007Cheap viagra overnight delivery, There is a sentence towards the end of Walt and Mearsheimer’s new book that undercuts some of what they have tried to accomplish with their critique of the “Israel Lobby.” Having rejected the binational, single-state solution as well as Israel’s permanent occupation, they assert: “The United States will have to put significant pressure on Israel to accept the creation of a viable Palestinian State, which in practice means accepting a solution within the Clinton parameters.”
The “Clinton parameters!?”
Earlier in the book, the two professors disparage Clinton’s Middle East peace team and snipe at the U.S. approach to the Barak-Arafat talks at Camp David. They invoke Aaron David Miller’s familiar conclusion that, cheap viagra tablets, too often, Cheap viagra online cheap, the U.S. had acted as “Israel’s lawyer.” They claim that “the American delegation at Camp David took most of its cues from Israeli Prime Minister Barak, coordinated negotiating positions with Israel in advance, buy cheap viagra online, and did not offer its own independent proposals for settling the conflict.”
To them, Ordering viagra no prescription, the whole exercise was just one more example of America’s inability to act as a neutral mediator and make suggestions that Israel does not like. Camp David, to them, cheap viagra from canada, is “the Lobby” at its worst, Viagra en ligne afin, since they include the Jewish members of the Clinton team as part of that Lobby. They question whether the “well-known sympathies” of Ross and Indyk for Israel made the administration “less inclined to bring U.S, cheap viagra overnight delivery. leverage to bear on Israel.”
Yet, when it comes time to step out of the ivory tower and endorse something that might work “in practice, buy viagra c.o.d.,” they opt for the Clinton plan. Nevada NV Nev. , That plan was crafted with the guidance of the very same officials who were supposedly Zionist fifth columnists. And it wasn’t created after Ross and Indyk went to some kind of post-Camp David, 12-step, viagra online, Zio-detox facility and purged themselves of “sympathies for Israel.” [Ross: “Hello, Buy viagra without prescription, my name is Dennis and I’m not a credible mediator.” Other Jewish officials: “Hi Dennis.”]. The plan, which calls for historic painful compromises by both the Israelis and Palestinians, Arizona AZ Ariz. , was the end result of the arduous negotiations that had come before it, New York NY N.Y. , at Camp David, at Taba and in less public interactions. Cheap viagra overnight delivery, At Camp David, Ross, Indyk, Miller, Malley and the others were trying to engender an agreement that the Israeli and Palestinian publics could conceivably accept. It seems incredible that is necessary to point out the following, viagra for sale, but it is not clear if Walt and Mearsheimer understand it: no agreement that was fashioned at Camp David would have had any value in the real world unless, För viagra online, somehow, the Israeli people got behind it and the Prime Minister who was proposing it.
That was, ordering viagra, apparently, Order viagra, one of the main reasons why Clinton’s diplomats spent so much time and effort testing the diplomatic waters with the Barak government before bringing proposals to the table. Perhaps they spent too much time. Perhaps they leaned too far in Israel's direction, buy cheap viagra. I don’t know exactly what happened at Camp David, cheap viagra overnight delivery. No one does, Order viagra pills, including the people who were there. All of the accounts by participants or interviews with participants provide different versions of what transpired. But I do know that, farmacia viagra baratos, for all of his considerable flaws, Cheap viagra, Ehud Barak ended up pushing for an agreement that was well beyond anything the Israeli people had ever been asked to consider by an Israeli government, including the formal division of Jerusalem and land swaps with the Palestinians. It is easy for academics to declare that Israel should do this or Israel should do that and not worry about Israeli politics or public opinion, order viagra overnight delivery. Cheap viagra overnight delivery, Israeli Prime Ministers don’t have that luxury and neither do American diplomats.
It is clear that many mistakes were made by all the parties at Camp David. Osta viagra online, It is certain that Barak's take-or-leave-it negotiating style did not work. Perhaps the Clinton team didn’t have sufficient sensitivity to Arafat’s vulnerabilities and his sense that, especially when negotiating over Jerusalem, pharmacy viagra, he was representing the entire Muslim world. Maine ME Me. , Perhaps the whole summit should never have been held, as Arafat reportedly was not ready for it.
But Clinton and his team deserve a lot more credit than Mearsheimer and Walt deign to give, cheap viagra overnight delivery. While they quote from the Rob Malley/Hussein Agha critique of the U.S, New Hampshire NH N.H. . approach in the NY Review of Books a few times, they conspicuously leave out a paragraph that undermines the notion that the U.S. was marching in diplomatic lockstep with Israel. Malley and Agha wrote :
…One of the more debilitating effects of the visible alignment between Israel and the United States was that it obscured the real differences between them. Cheap viagra overnight delivery, Time and again, and usually without the Palestinians being aware of it, the President sought to convince the Prime Minister to accept what until then he had refused—among them the principle of land swaps, Palestinian sovereignty over at least part of Arab East Jerusalem and, after Camp David, over the Haram al-Sharif, as well as a significantly reduced area of Israeli annexation. This led Barak to comment to the President that, on matters of substance, the US was much closer to the Palestinians' position than to Israel's. This was only one reflection of a far wider pattern of divergence between Israeli and American positions—yet one that has systematically been ignored by Palestinians and other Arabs alike.
It has also deliberately ignored by Mearsheimer and Walt, and that is one of the many, troubling aspects of this book. I still believe it has some merit and that they don’t deserve the complete hatchet jobs that are now starting to occur. But they were manifestly unfair to Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk.
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007Viagra without prescription, I am quite certain that the following post will be the first discussion of the Jewish National Fund and Zionism to invoke the poet Wallace Stevens. People who appreciate Stevens tend to be amateur philosophers and a bit nerdy (yeah, I appreciate him), but if neither of those apply to you, buy viagra no prescription, please have patience and read this short poem anyway:
“Men Made Out of Words”What should we be without the sexual myth,
The human reverie or poem of death. Arizona AZ Ariz. , Castratos of moon-mash - Life consists
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This is not exactly original thinking, this notion that we create our own reality and organize our experiences and passions based on certain assumptions and myths. But I still remember that poem from college, while just about everything else I read back then has faded away, viagra without prescription. Oregon OR Ore. , Stevens came to mind amidst the controversy over a preliminary Knesset bill that would sanction discrimination against Israeli Arabs who wish to purchase State-managed land. That land is owned by the Israel-based Keren Kayemeth [Jewish National Fund]. The bill has been described and attacked in my previous posts.
If ever there was an eccentric proposition, kjøpe viagra online, it was Theodor Hertzl’s, who held that after centuries of dispersal and torment, Buy viagra, the Jews had no alternative but to create their own homeland in Palestine, as nothing else –NOTHING else—could solve the problems inherent in exile. Viagra without prescription, When Dr. Max Nordau, who became one of Hertzl’s early supporters in Vienna, buy viagra online, first met him, he reportedly told Herzl:“You are mad!” Than Nordau threw his arms around him and said “And I am mad, Viagra sale, too!” (or words to that effect). But the fact that the idea was eccentric did not mean it was wrong
Another proposition, that Jews around the world had an obligation to help make the land of Israel thrive, and that slipping coins into a little blue collection box would help to preserve and protect the Jewish people, Rhode Island RI R.I. , was the basis for the Jewish National Fund. It was one of the organizing myths of Diaspora Jewry and of my childhood. Buy viagra online without prescription, But the blogosphere is filled with recent displays of anguish and anger from people –many of them Zionists--who realize that it is time to rewrite or update both propositions. These reactions have been prompted by the aforementioned Knesset bill, viagra without prescription. It has appalled liberal Diaspora and Israeli Jews (and, of course, non-Jews), παραγγείλετε online viagra, because an official “Jews-only” land policy is both morally wrong and a monumentally stupid message to send to an unsympathetic, increasingly hostile world. Discount viagra, On my blog, a commentator called “Allan” wrote:
I think that all of us who brought our nickels [sic] and dimes to Hebrew school for donation to the JNF should demand our money back. In my case, this would probably be about $20.00, purchase viagra online, which was quite a lot for my parents back in the fifties. Add in the interest and you’re talking money. Viagra without prescription, I remember our teacher calling role. Viagra prescription, In response to our name we answered “Hineni. Yesh li tsedakah. (Here I am. I have my charity.)” Hineni, New Mexico NM N.Mex. . Give me the money back, viagra without prescription.My family should get a refund of the money my grandmother put in her pushka (charity box). I can remember it clearly hanging on her kitchen wall with its blue and white map of Eretz Yisroel. Washington WA Wash. , I also want a refund of the dimes I brought to buy trees in Israel. For years I wondered where my trees were planted. Viagra without prescription, It is quite likely, I’ve since learned, that they are located in parks developed to hide the sites of former Arab villages destroyed in 1949.
Equally poignant reactions can be found in the comments on two web petitions against the bill. One petition was initiated by Jewish and Israeli bloggers led by Richard Silverstein. The other, viagra farmacia a buon mercato, posted by Ameinu, was mostly copied from a letter from that group to Ze’ev Elkin, Acheter en ligne viagra, one of the Knesset bill’s sponsors (Full disclosure: I wrote that letter). Here are some comments to be found on the petitions’ web sites:
o--:“As someone who, with my Cousin Gabi Bauer (Kityat Motzkin) has sponsored a 100 tree forest in honor of our grandfather, Rabbi Jacob Winter, Idaho ID , for 50 years Senior Rabbi in Dresden, Germany, Generic viagra, I am thoroughly against the legislation being proposed. It discriminates against citizens of Israel and is against our basic values."o--“If this decision holds and civil rights are denied Israel's Arab citizens--I wish I could take back every penny I gave to the JNF growing up!”
o--“While the reasons for buying land for Jewish settlement were valid in the past, they no longer are valid. JNF housing developments must be open to all citizens of Israel.”
p—“What has happened to the Israel I knew in the 40's, viagra without prescription. Is that what I fought for in the Milchemet Ha’atzma?”
These good people realize that many propositions need to be re-written, billige viagra Apotheke, as circumstances change, and also as new facts about old events come to light. Ordering viagra pills, Re-visiting and then rewriting them is a sign of political and emotional maturity.
In today’s Jerusalem Post, Rabbi Andrew Davids of the Association of Reform Zionists puts it well:
Though the JNF was entrusted with bringing a Jewish state into being, some institutions need to be `reevaluated, buy generic viagra,' said Davids. `What we are seeing is the maturation of an Israeli democratic society, West Virginia WV W.Va. , and some institutions need to be reevaluated with regards to the current demographics. Viagra without prescription, Israel will never be a state exclusively for Jews,' he said.
I continue to believe it was a necessary step for Jews to carve out a little state of their own, for all of its flaws. But now that it’s here, do we really want to insist on preserving relics from another time, another world, halvalla viagra apteekki. Apparently Russell Robinson, the JNF –USA’s Executive Director, thinks so. Here is his astonishing statement from the same Jerusalem Post story:
“It's important for us who had a covenant with the donors, that we honor that covenant…For 2000 years, I don't remember that we were praying and dreaming that we can't wait to establish a democratic state in the Middle East, but we did say that we can't wait to reestablish a Jewish homeland.
Excuse me. Along with ending the occupation, the most daunting challenge faced by Israel is to remain a democracy with a Jewish majority that affords equal rights and a sense of belonging to Israel’s Arab citizens. The anti-Israel left and the far right in Israel believe that is impossible, viagra without prescription. Many Israelis (Jews and Arabs) and their supporters overseas believe it can and must be done (with, for example, aggressive affirmative action programs to close the economic and educational gaps, mandatory teaching of Arabic in all public schools, a civil service option for Israel Arabs who can’t serve in the military, declaring that Israel is a “state for all its citizens” and other measures).
But rather than trying to figure out how to address the challenge, the man responsible for the JNF in the U.S. has apparently thrown up his hands and said, “Forget democracy. That’s a minor priority.”
No it isn’t. Viagra without prescription, We should be “praying and dreaming” that the problems of Israel’s Arabs citizens will be solved, rather than telling them that they will never have the same rights as their Jewish neighbors. That’s the task ahead for Israel. It won’t be accomplished by scribbling the same propositions, again and again. Too many of them are based on a time when the “terrible incantations of defeats” were still ringing in our ears. The Jews have won. The state is here. But the victory will always be partial unless and until that state is reinvented so that one fifth of its citizens feel like they have a stake in it
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007Price of viagra, Ken Bob, President of Ameinu, is a self-taught expert on the morass of official and semi-official Israeli institutions. For that alone, cheap viagra tablets, Missouri MO Mo. , he deserves a medal. In an email, För viagra online, Comprar viagra, he cleared up an issue raised in the previous comment thread by "Chris," who insisted that the JNF is a "private organization:"
[The term] "JNF" causes some confusion so let me just clarify this point, Michigan MI Mich. . Cheap viagra no prescription, The entity that administers the lands and the funds in Israel is called KK"L - Keren Kayemet L'Yisrael. They are governed by a board of directors of Israelis only that reflects the political make-up of the World Zionist Organization, købe viagra online. It is chaired by Efi Stensler, a Laborite, price of viagra. Buy viagra overnight delivery, They use the term "JNF" as their English translation.They also have affiliates around the world, Kansas KS Kans. , Viagra pharmacy, including the U.S., that engage in fundraising only, viagra discount. Arkansas AR Ark. , Some of those affiliates and in particular the U.S. led by Ron Lauder (President) and Russell Robinson (Executive Director), Køb discount viagra, Buy viagra without prescription, are very independent, decide on fundraising objectives that are not always fully coordinated with the KK"L and go in and out of tense periods with their Israeli counterparts.., Connecticut CT Conn. . Price of viagra, [Note from DF: I will emend Ken's email and henceforth refer to the entity based in Israel as "KK'L/JNF", to distinguish it from its affiliates.]
...Since it was chartered by Theodor Herzl in 1901, the KK'L/JNF has purchased land to promote settlement of Israel by the Jewish people. Order viagra overnight delivery, The KK'l/JNF owns around 13% of the land in Israel. In 1961, viagra without a prescription, Massachusetts MA Mass. , the KK'l/JNF signed an agreement with the Israel Lands Authority (ILA) which authorized the ILA to manage KK'L/JNF lands in accordance with the KK'L/JNF charter. In 2004, cheap viagra pills, Wisconsin WI Wis. , the Supreme Court decided that the ILA couldn't discriminate against non-Jewish citizens, even when it comes to KK'L/JNF lands, viagra. Buy viagra, The law that passed the Knesset in a first reading yesterday basically allows the ILA to follow its 1961 agreement with the K'KL/JNF.
Thanks, Ken, Køb billige viagra. Maine ME Me. , This is not a matter of the whims of a private group. Because the Israel Lands Authority, viagra pedido en línea, a government body, is involved, this is about official Israeli policy. But it is also very much a matter for Diaspora Jews who have kept KK'l/JNFafloat. It is not too late to change that policy and bury this bill.
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Ordering viagra pills, My new friend Jerry Haber, "The Magnes Zionist" tipped me off to a shameful story about the Jewish National Fund and proposed Knesset legislation. Here is the Ha'aretz report:
Bill allocating JNF land to Jews only passes preliminary readingBy Yoav Stern and Shahar Ilan
The Knesset plenum approved a bill Wednesday, in its preliminary reading, District of Columbia DC D.C. , which calls for all lands under the Jewish National Fund (JNF) to be allocated to Jews only. Order viagra without prescription, The bill passed by a massive majority of 64 MKS to 16.
The bill, initiated by MK Uri Ariel (National Union-National Religious Party), order viagra online, MK Zeev Elkin (Kadima), Purchase viagra, and MK Moshe Kahlon (Likud), is geared to bypass a 2004 court ruling which annulled an Israel Lands Administration (ILA) policy that prevented Arabs from participating in bids to purchase land owned by the JNF.
As a result of the ruling, buy viagra online cheap, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz decided that all land managed by the ILA, South Dakota SD , including land owned by the Jewish National Fund, will be marketed without discrimination or limits including to non-Jews.
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When the bill was discussed in the Knesset presidency, Colorado CO Colo. , there were demands to nullify it because it was called racist, αγοράσετε viagra έκπτωση, but Knesset legal advisor Nurit Elstein said a bill should only be rejected if the racism is explicit in the proposal.
Hadash Chairman MK Mohammed Barakeh called the bill an "abominable legislation" and added that "the Knesset's face is the face of Uri Ariel, the radical of the settlers." He maintained that, billig kaufen viagra, "this is another expression of a series of racist laws that are passed every day in the state of the Jews. Buy viagra without prescription, The Arab population won't accept the theft of their rights to the lands that have been expropriated from them for years."
In response to the bill, MK Ahmed Tibi (Ra`am-Ta`al) said "this is institutionalized Jewish racism and ethnic democracy that is raging against anything Arab."
The Meretz faction said that the government's support in the racist bill exposes its real face. "The Knesset is giving an excellent excuse for whoever is asking to represent Israel as an apartheid state which must be destroyed, order viagra online legally," said the party's statement. Ordering viagra pills, MK Wassel Taha (Balad) said, "Only an insane Knesset passes a racist law that perpetuates the "great land robbery of 1948" and changes it into an only Jewish asset."
MK Jamal Zahalka, also of Balad, maintained that the law shows an increase in the level of racism, and a decrease in the level of democracy, and a sprint to the direction of institutionalized apartheid. Iowa IA , MK Elkin, however, said that the bill comes to prevent the state of Israel from breaching the basic treaty between the state and the JNF, ordering viagra overnight delivery, and to make historical justice.
I haven't closely followed the various controversies that the JNF has been embroiled in lately. Kaufen viagra, Anyone who, like me, retains the mad idea that Israel could be a country that does not spark more shame than pride should start paying attention, cheap viagra. What is so disheartening about this racist bill is that it was not just a few Knesset members who got behind it. For viagra online, It was a "massive majority of 64-16."
I have a simple question for the MKs who voted yes:
Are you NUTS. Leaving aside the immorality of sanctioning blatant discrimination against 20% of Israel's citizens (which, apparently, doesn't trouble you) do you understand what most of the world already thinks of Israel, ordering viagra pills. And please don't tell me you don't care about the world's opinion. You don't have the luxury of ignoring the steady decline of your image and your pariah status, Montana MT Mont. .
At a moment when Israel is accused of being every bit as racist as South Africa by more and more people, Generic viagra, at a moment of high tension between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs, why have you decided to board a time machine and pretend that it is 1903, or 1921, Alabama AL Ala. , or 1939, Order viagra from canada, when the JNF had a vital role to play in building the nucleus of a Jewish state.
That state is here, guys and gals, New York NY N.Y. . Ordering viagra pills, It is entrenched. Maybe no one told you. Um viagra online, One fifth of its citizens are Arabs, who deserve and expect equal protection under the law. By any reasonable standards of jurisprudence, Oklahoma OK Okla. , its basic laws should supersede restrictions placed on land ownership when those restructions are contrary to the laws (that was, Ordering viagra online legally, in essence, what Mazuz was driving at with his decision).
By any reasonable standards of decency, farmacia viagra baratos, you should be trying to figure out ways to close the gaps between Israel's Arab and Jewish citizens, and to ensure that your Arab neighbors feel like they have a stake in the country's future. Instead, you are acting as if there is some compelling national purpose in sticking your fingers in the eyes of your neighbors, and in thumbing your noses at a world that already considers Israel a blight among the nations, not a light, ordering viagra pills.
My grandmother became a Labor Zionist when she was a young teenager in the Ukraine, about a decade after JNF's founding in 1901. In the 192Os and 1930s and 1940s, when she organized Jewish kids in Toledo, Ohio and then in Manhattan to collect funds for the JNF, she did it out of an idealistic zeal for a desparately needed Jewish homeland. So did all of the goodhearted Jews around the world who plopped their hard-won coins into those famous blue collection boxes.
She was a generous soul who hated injustice. Ordering viagra pills, So did many of the other Labor Zionist pioneers, despite the calumnies now heaped upon them by the far left. If she were around today, I am quite sure that she would understand that the Knesset-sanctioned JNF restrictions are relics. She would not understand why they are still necessary. I am quite sure she would want to throw them out, not preserve them.
Why don't 64 Members of the Knesset understand that.
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Judah Magnes, cialis online kopen, as this blog has noted, was an important part of a tiny but memorable Zionist bloc that advocated a binational state beginning in the 1920s. He represents the kind of Zionism that has been ignored and shunted aside for far too long. Cialis for teens, The following post by Haber Are You A Moral Zionist. Take the Test! is worth quoting in full, sildenafil citrate trial. I am not sure I agree with each and every one of his premises, particularly his wholesale dismissal of "political Zionism." But he evokes the intellectual journey many --albeit not nearly enough --Israeli and Diaspora Jews have been taking in the last few decades, as we come to terms with the fact that much of the history we were taught as kids was, to put it mildly, sildenafil citrate generic availability india, one-sided and inaccurate. Here is his "test":
Zionism, like other things, Buying viagra with no prescription, comes in various shapes and sizes. I, for one, am a Zionist who doesn't believe that the State of Israel as founded in 1948 is a good idea; it has to be changed fundamentally to make it into a liberal democracy with a more vital and challenging Jewish component. Political Zionism may have been a reasonable idea at the time, buy prescription cialis, especially if you came from Eastern Europe, but it hasn't worked out well. Sildenafil citrate trial, When Magnes addressed the Jewish Agency and said that declaring a state would provoke unending war with the Arabs, he was laughed at. Who's got the last laugh now. Counterfeit tadalafil, But today, I want to talk about a different division of Zionism, not one of political vs. cultural, but immoral vs, canada viagra pharmacies scam. moral. And I have devised a test that you can take to judge your morality meter, sildenafil citrate trial. I know, I know, Types of sildenafil citrate, this is "beyond Chutzpah," to use Norm Finkelstein's phrase (so don't accuse me of plagiarism!), but there is a point to the exercise.Are you a moral Zionist. Answer these questions, sildenafil citrate next day.
1) As part of your Zionist indoctrination, you were taught that the Jordanians desecrated Jewish holy sites and cemetaries between 1948 and 1967, but that Israel respected Arab holy sites. Sildenafil citrate trial, Now you learn that the Israeli government had a deliberate policy of destroying Arab towns and villages (around 500 of them), including sixty mosques, many of great archaeological value, over the objections of Israeli archaeologists. Cheapest prices on viagra, Your reaction is:
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2. Sildenafil citrate trial, You were always taught that the land for settlements in Judea and Samaria were obtained according to law, and that the Arab demand for making parts of Eretz Yisrael "Judenrein" was antisemitic. You now learn that many settlements are built on Palestinian private land, that much private land was declared public land by dubious legal methods, and that distinction between private and public land is actually irrelevant, comprar cialis baratos, because all of the land is considered by the world "Occupied" except by some Israelis, Zionist Jews, and Christian fundamentalists. How to buy cialis, Your reaction to this:
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3. You were always taught that the Palestinians fled during the 1948 and 1967 fighting because their leaders urged them to do so, real cialis online, so they could come back after the Arab victory and loot the Jewish stuff. Sildenafil citrate trial, You now learn that Palestinians were forcibly expelled as part of IDF policy, and at any rate, even those who left voluntarily, or happened to be away at the time, were not allowed to return to their birthplace as part of a strategy to provide a Jewish majority, and that this strategy of transfer had already been discussed by the executive of the Jewish Agency prior to the State. Your reaction is to:
A. To feel outrage that you were lied to, Order tadalafil no prescription, and to acknowledge that Israel lost the moral high ground on this issue.
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D. To argue that life is tough, that your parents or grandparents were refugees, and that the Arabs themselves kicked out the Jews from their countries, sildenafil citrate purchase, that their own brethren should take responsibility for them the way Jews take reponsiblity for their refugees, that the Palestinians could have stayed put, that the whole damn thing is their fault, Who should not take sildenafil citrate, and that, anyway, refugees are a fact of life, expecially after World War II.
Well, tadalafil warnings, I'll stop here. Sildenafil citrate trial, If you answered A or B to all three, then you are an adult and moral Zionist. Pat yourself on the back and feel bad about being a bleeding-heart.
If you answered C, then you are an amoral Zionist; in fact, you are pretty amoral altogether wheh it comes to the behavior of states. Or to use the jargon, you believe in realpolitik. We won; they lost; let's eat. You may use the language of morality (3C), but that's just for outward consumption and inward self-justification, sildenafil citrate trial. Even if the Jews act immorally, the only thing that really matters is that are alive to act at all. Better a live bad Jew than a good dead one.
If you generally answered D, then you are an immoral Zionist. Or you are a moral Zionist, whose conception of morality is that of Tony Soprano or Meir Kahana. Sildenafil citrate trial, In the professional jargon, it's called "Mafia Morality." This usually means that you do an enormous amount of hesed work, that you always have guests for shabbat, that you give a lot charity to Jewish causes, and that you would do anything, anything for anybody who is a member of the tribe. But that if somebody is not a member of the tribe, then he or she has worth only in so far as she is good for the tribe.
(I will have a post later on Torah morality according to Tony Soprano (or Dov Lior, or Yisrael Rosen, etc.))
If you answered B to all the questions, then send me an email -- we should have coffee together some day.
Best
Jerry
PS. Read about the mosque destruction at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/878851.html
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