the significance of what Israel has done to Gaza. It is why Gaza became the moral question that defines our time in history.

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Mary Kostakidis

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Former Speaker of the Knesset, Avrum Burg, on the significance of what Israel has done to Gaza. It is why Gaza became the moral question that defines our time in history. ‘After 1945 the Germans awoke from the nightmare of Nazism and faced what had been done by them and in their name. After Vietnam, Americans emerged from the shattering of national innocence as a different people. The war in Gaza is such a moment for the Jewish people. It is not another round in the endless cycle of Middle Eastern violence but a historic turning point. It is a moment in which we must look in the mirror and recognize what we have become. And it is ugly… .. Even if one could justify the start of the war as a response to a monstrous crime, nothing can justify what followed: the obliteration, the bombardments, the erasure of entire neighborhoods, the killing of tens of thousands of innocents for whom we did not even pretend to mourn. Israeli soldiers and their commanders interred the sacred commandments of their own tradition beneath the ruins of Gaza.. .. Yet in Israel there was not a single moment of collective sorrow. Not in the Knesset, not in most synagogues, not in the public square. Not a single prayer was uttered for the children who died pointlessly on the other side. There were only endless rationalizations: “They understand only force.” “They used human shields.” “It’s their fault.”.. This collapse is not political; it is existential.’ https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=5061079&post_id=175939612&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b88mv&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxODg2MDIxNSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTc1OTM5NjEyLCJpYXQiOjE3NjAyNjIxOTQsImV4cCI6MTc2Mjg1NDE5NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTUwNjEwNzkiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.NL7xZL-fSFp7jI5-A46TOeYRNW8PJKnoBDy9cZ46siA