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{"id":20817,"date":"2012-12-13T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=20817"},"modified":"2013-02-02T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:19:22","slug":"israel-one-persons-inner-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2012\/12\/13\/israel-one-persons-inner-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel: One person’s inner conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/strong>The real-world, political\/military\/cultural conflict between Israel and its neighbors is bad, and the war inside my head is getting worse. Israel and I are roughly the same age, and in my early Sunday-school years, I was inculcated with post-Holocaust grief and pro-Israel pride. Jews and Israel were the underdogs who, after centuries of persecution, got justice and a permanent place to live. Like others similarly educated, I felt solidarity with Israel and supported its clear need to defend itself against neighbors who vowed to wipe it off the face of the earth.<\/p>\n
Solidarity with Israel has been an article of faith for American Jews during my lifetime. I never quite understood the confusing inner workings of Israeli parliamentary politics, but that didn\u2019t matter to me, because I had been taught to see the very existence of the country itself as a moral victory. I didn\u2019t look at Israel objectively, because I didn\u2019t know how to, and I could justify to myself that I didn\u2019t need to. I found myself drawn to Israeli music, dancing and language; I visited the country and cultivated Israeli friends along the way. Even when I moved away from religion, my cultural and emotional connection to Israel endured.<\/p>\n
But that connection puts me in conflict with contemporary American liberal dogma. Others who share my liberal American politics have been much more openly critical of many of Israel\u2019s internal and external policies. They call for an end to Israeli \u201capartheid\u201d against Palestinians. They feel solidarity with Palestinians, call for an end to Israel\u2019s occupation of the West Bank, and are outraged that a nation born from persecution has become, itself, a persecutor. I see their point.<\/p>\n