"The attack into Lebanon, following a year of brutal fighting in Gaza, following the brazen assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, represents the culmination of Netanyahu’s go-it-alone strategy. From a geopolitical perspective, it is hard to understand how a strategy like that could possibly be sustainable for a nation as small and embattled as Israel."

~ Sam Kahn

#Israel #Lebanon #Palestine #Netanyahu
/1

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/israel-cant-survive-by-a-go-it-alone

Israel Can’t Survive by a Go-It-Alone Strategy that Squanders International Goodwill

Its people should not have to spend the next Rosh Hashanah in bomb shelters

The UnPopulist

"Netanyahu’s speech at the U.N., as well as his video directed at the Iranian people, were interesting above all as a departure from Israel’s existing communications strategies. Simply put, Israel, over the course of the last year, has barely even bothered to justify its conduct to the international community."

#Israel #Lebanon #Palestine #Netanyahu
/2

"I cannot remember a Rosh Hashanah when the collective moral stakes were any higher for the American Jewish community than this year. I would even go as far as to say it may be the most morally consequential High Holiday season of our lifetimes. As we begin this new year, the shofar calls us to account for a genocide, ongoing even as we speak, perpetrated by a nation acting in the name of the Jewish people."

~ Brant Rosen

#Israel #Lebanon #Palestine #Netanyahu
/3

https://truthout.org/articles/we-charge-genocide-the-shofar-calls-us-to-account-on-rosh-hashanah/

We Charge Genocide: The Shofar Calls Us to Account on Rosh Hashanah

In the Jewish new year, we must confront the carnage that Zionism has wrought.

Truthout

"More than ever before, this High Holiday season calls for Jewish communities to reckon seriously with what Zionism has wrought. …

This is what comes of an ideology and movement that from the beginning viewed Jewish safety as zero sum; in which our security can only be achieved at the expense of others, empowerment gained through the sheer power of superior military technology, stronger weapons and higher walls."

#Israel #Lebanon #Palestine #Netanyahu
/4

@wdlindsy I have not read the piece you linked to nor have I heard of its author. However, I’m utterly offended that you have posted this on Rosh Hashanah, despite the author’s claim that he knows what I, an American Jew, should be thinking about. Today of all days, when every Jewish religious and community site is battened down with security and hardened against potential violent attack, the last thing we need is another guy telling us about what is “wrong” with Zionism. 1/2

@JaneinNJ It appears you may not know that Brant Rosen is an American rabbi.

You want to censor him? Why? If he thought that it was important, as a Jewish religious leader, to make this statement during Rosh Hashanah, I wonder why he thought that.

@wdlindsy Here’s a link my rabbi’s sermon from this morning, which he posted on FB. He expresses far better than I ever could where I am coming from. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-kaDLQy42Ffat5x9ogpqtyOl62z34z7ZBXURHBzCSp0/edit
@JaneinNJ Thanks for helping me see where you're coming from. I have very significant (to me, they are) conversations with my Jewish neighbors, whom I esteem, and who represent a Jewish identity and viewpoint that is strongly critical of Zionism and of the alliance of some of their fellow Jews with the worst right-wing folks (as my neighbors and I see things) in the U.S.
@wdlindsy (5) what is more, the captors have not coordinated with the International Red Cross to ensure the safety of the captives—the Red Cross has not visited once, as far as I know. So my And yet…response addresses that situation. There are still around 100 civilians, from all over the world, from tiny children to old people, being held. And the most virulent voices of the “anti-Zionist” movement basically say, tough luck, they deserved it. (Continued — one more)