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It’s Your Funeral, Man . . .

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Dear Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and anybody else who thinks they have something to prove in the Middle East:

Just because you CAN kill your enemy doesn’t necessarily mean you SHOULD. Especially in a situation where right and wrong and guilt and innocence are fuzzy, where the moral weight is shifty and hard to guage. Because you can always find an excuse to blame and punish the guys on the other side and, not unreasonably, so can they. But then you’re gonna spend your whole stinkin’ life hating and killing and burying and grieving, back and forth, until everybody’s forgotten what the petty, pathetic little war was all about in the first place. Is that what you want?  Say something. Say you’d prefer that hell on earth over anything else. Say you’d rather blow each other’s brains out than try understanding, forgiveness, or god forbid, peace. Go ahead, retaliate like there’s no tomorrow. Yeah, knock yourself out.

You’re dreaming if you think . . .

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Whoever wants Israel to “get tougher” and “destroy” Hamas or Hezbollah is living in a bubble of delusion. When you are generally perceived as a perpetrator of war and aggression and suppression, as Israel is in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, you are cultivating radical militants by the thousands. You will not destroy these groups, you will propagate them many times over. Such groups are “destroyed” by one method only: Sincere dialogue in pursuit of peace. And prosperity. But will the Israeli people ever wake from their delusional trance?

The U.S. Must Not Be Complicit

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Through most of its history the young State of Israel was singled out, scapegoated, and threatened. But its current military policies are reckless and ruthless. In continuing its senseless war in Gaza, human rights violations in the West Bank, and now spreading terror in Lebanon, it is clear that the current leadership of Israel does not want peace, it wants perpetual war.

The attacks upon Hezbollah in Lebanon the past two days by means of remote-controlled explosives planted in pagers and walkie-talkies were nothing short of barbaric. Indescriminately killing and maiming civilians along with its Hezbollah targets, I believe the operation was a War Crime and a Crime Against Humanity, under international law.

As an American Jew, I demand that the U.S. stop all military aid to Israel and double its diplomatic effort to end these conflicts and establish a permanent peace in the region. These wars solve nothing, and every day that they wage on is a day of death, terror, and deepening despair. They’ve shoved Peace into a body bag and the zipper is closing fast.