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'Dear' Rita
author: Shirl
Shalom Rita,
It sure is nice to hide behind the 'quotation marks'' comfort.
I appreciate the 'respectful' language you used. Your approach is very 'wise', indeed.
I *gotta* admit that I *didn't* read your whole article. It sounded as if you were repeating yourself again and again. Thought you knew that APA style doesnt allow fragments.
Anyways, the one thing that stood out was the Promised Land issue you kept referring to. Of course you showed how much validty you thought that term has by using the '' you know''.
Ritaleh, I don't think you know much about Judaism, Israel, ME( Middle East) policy, its history and mentality.
The fact that you used the term 'the prmomised land' shows how much you dont understand the current Israeli motives. We do not live on ' the promised land' Rita, even the Jews that say they dont believe in Gd understand that fact. We live on a small part of the biblical promised land, and on some parts that were not.
The current Israeli struggle is the one of the Israeli born citizens, the modern day Israel IS their home, the only home they know, just like 50 years' ago precious palestinians.
This is not a religious issue for most Israelis. Its an existential one. This is not a real estate matter, this is a matter of security.
If we would have thought that returning to the 1967 borders would bring us peace and security, we would have done it. Just like we did in Yamit (Sinai).
Yet past experience shows, this "lands" for peace formula doesnt always work.
And a psychologist should understand that there are many factors contributing to this situation. Saying " the Israeli side is at fault here" is childish unbalanced and lacks any sort of base.
A psychologist should know that such a matter requires researches, experiments and surveys in order to reach a conlclusion, self-assertion is way off limits.
I didnt see anywhere in your article any proof for most of the things you claimed.
Yet those same things could be countered by facts known to us all.
For example, before there was any sort of Israeli Identity the palestinian/Arab aggression began. In fact it never stoppped, and you resfusing to acknoledge that important fact shows your narrowminded point of view.
The fact that you ignore the numerous trusted polls showing Palestinians still wont be satisfied with a 1967 bordered Israeli, and even greater numbers of arabs supportign that notion, shows you choose what you want to see only, and put into account what supports your views alone.
In fact the only ones who are dehumanized are the Jews and Israels. The only face they win on the Arab media if at all, is of a hooknosed Jew. BORING. Its unbelieveable what concepts and ideas they have of us. Dont you think this makes it even harder for us to achieve peace with them? When they are so ignorant of who we are and what we stand for?
I have yet to see an article on this platform that brings all those important factors like the daily palestinian brainwashing that started way b4 there were any 'settlements' around.
Then why again should I argue with people who view all of Israel as a settlement itself.