"I tremble for my country..." (was zionism)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>In the Middle East, it's not quite as funny, since there
>>is a small but positive chance that the Jews of Israel
>>could be driven into the sea.
>
>How would that happen? The Israeli army would kill anyone who tried, 
>and anyone who looked like there was a remote chance s/he'd try. 
>It's this sort of fantasy of vulnerability that's used to justify 
>all kinds of repressive horrors.
>
>Doug

The Israeli fantasy of vulnerability flies in the face of the reality 
of overwhelming asymmetry of power between Israel & Palestinians, but 
it lives on nonetheless because it springs from a kernel of moral 
truth which has to be covered up by the fantasy to maintain power.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in his "Notes on the State of Virginia":

*****   Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is 
just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering 
numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of 
fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it 
may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no 
attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JEFFERSON/ch18.html>   *****

God stands with the oppressed, & justice is on the side of the exiled 
& persecuted -- who believes in this morality tale more fervently 
than the Jews?  Israel must tremble, as Jefferson did, if it reflects 
on the fact that it has become a nation that has oppressed & exiled 
another, thus putting itself out of God's favor, if not out of the 
U.S. government's.  Only the fantasy of vulnerability can 
ideologically restore Israel on God's side.

Yoshie