Quote from someone (not sure if they want to be drawn in):
“I mostly stay off Jwitter now because it's constantly two opposite sides using identical tactics to dismiss each other's reaction to trauma in order to feel morally superior, and I hate it.”
One can’t *mention* guns:
Who cares about the guns or whether our fortresses are bigger or smaller then the European ones. Doesn’t it really suck that we have them at all?? Can we stop the “everything is American tribalist politics” thing and mourn a second?
What’s wrong with us?
Not about this particular poster, it’s everywhere.
It is disturbing to yet again see the main focus of the discourse on this website center around “are Jews that call for more police ‘Bad Jews’?” And whether Jews have a right to be scared…
Rather than: “HOLY CRAP, IT HAPPENED AGAIN! SOCIETY HAS FAILED TO PROTECT MINORITIES”
Yea, you who live in a costal liberal enclave can work out a plan with volunteers & knowable response times and be able leave the police off stage
But the “out of towners”: the only viable protection are police.
So pack up a little of the sanctimony.
On the other hand: where possible it would be nice to not get hassled by the police.
As someone who actually occupies the identities concerned and not a pawn between political factions, there is nuance.
Let’s all show the issue the respect and flexibility it deserves.
My mission since leaving my former faith has been to get other zionist Jews to understand the existential threat of letting the Christian Right define America’s relationship to Israel and the parameters of Jews’ relationship to Israel. I’m sad to be proven correct.
Make no mistake: he is laying claim to *Jewish liberation* itself and telling YOU, ME, AND OUR RABBIS which Jewish are “klal” and who is “chutz l’machane” based on Christian goals for eretz Israel. That’s what’s happening: stare it in the face.
From his appointment as ambassador Dermer nurtured and grew evangelical lobbying and gave them more access to Israeli officials. Israel cannot subordinate Jewish needs for the whims of Christian tourists, but that seems to have been the goal.