“Ultimately, peace is about mutual respect. Each side needs to confront the psychological impact of our offenses against the other. We must learn to respect each other’s difficult histories.”
“Do we allow ourselves to be distracted by Holocaust comparisons, or do we focus on one of the Holocaust’s actual lessons — the fact that, as Zelensky said in his speech, ‘indifference kills’?”
“The prophetic vision of the Jewish people’s return to their homeland was not merely one of security and comfort…Part of Jewish nationhood is a sense of responsibility for the world.”
“We see mostly women, children and toddlers, some with bags and suitcases and their cats and dogs, and they are on their own in this flight out of Ukraine,” Polonsky said.
To sum it all up, Israel wants to be on the right side of history and wants to side with Ukraine, but it also does not want to risk its own security by speaking out against Putin.
Whoopi Goldberg was wrong to assert that the Holocaust wasn’t about race, but correct that Jews are not a race. Here’s why her comments and this entire debate matter.
“Let’s…work together with Arabs and Jews to resolve these conflicts in a peaceful way, instead of adopting the ideologies and lies that are repeated by extremists who don’t believe that Israel, the only Jewish-democratic state in the world, has the right to exist at all.”
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