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Avrum Burg:
Yet the very principle that justified Israel’s creation now calls it to account. The right of self determination does not include the right to deny another people’s identity, nor to erase its existence. A state that rules another nation in the name of liberty for itself alone undermines the moral foundation on which it stands. Israel, born as a member of the family of nations, has drifted away from it, losing touch with the universal values that once gave it meaning: justice, freedom, equality, and human solidarity. In their place has risen an ideology of brutal power, racial supremacy, and political isolation.
From a moral perspective, Jewish civilization is not bound to this course. Israel is not Judaism, and Jews are not bound to the policies of this state, even if it Flaunting as “Jewish”. On the contrary, the further Israel moves from the shared values of humanity, the greater the need for a Jewish voice that will say clearly to the world, and to ourselves, that being Israeli and being Jewish are not the same. The war in Gaza made this truth impossible to ignore. Israel’s actions may not be unusual in the history of nations, but they are utterly alien to the Jewish tradition. A tradition built on the sanctity of life, on responsibility for the other, and on the belief that power must serve moral ends cannot coexist with a culture of humiliation and violence.
Had a Jewish peace camp existed during the Gaza war, Israel would have acted differently. A broad Jewish moral voice could have restrained the loss of direction and reminded all that morality is not a luxury of peace but the foundation of national survival. Since Gaza on one side and Jewish nationalism, occupation, and repression on the other are not going away, a global Jewish Peace Camp must be created now to prevent the next and greater horrors already on the horizon.
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