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Jeffrey Harrison's avatar

Well done Cara. Long ago and far away in a distant galaxy, I supported Israel. Then I found out what they had done. One of the problems I have with a lot of this is that Jew is not a nationality, it is the votary of a specific religious sect – a member of one of a small number of tribes that lived roughly in what we call the Levant today. But archeologists have discovered Jewish catacombs under Rome dating to ~200BC – i.e. before Rome's conquest of the area. As the Roman Empire of the East became the only outpost of the Roman empire, we had the crusades to "rescue" the holy land from the Arab hordes of infidels. A number of the European heavies moved in, built castles ala Europe and created their own petty kingdoms. They were all gone 100 years later. I have in the past predicted the same fate for the present state of Israel. Then, as now, as Jim Kable said so succinctly – a land called Israel built upon the story of theft and murder - a very very shaky foundation (indeed). No basis for supreme executive authority as Monty Python would say......

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Betsy's avatar

Cara, you are a beautiful writer. This is unbearably moving and compelling. Thank you for what you are doing, as always. Sending love.

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