How Jews Should Relate to Palestine
February 6, 2013
I very intriguing post about conceptualizing Israel, Palestine and our relationship with them. This is from Jerry Haber, a pseudonym for an Orthodox Jewish studies and philosophy professor who blogs as The Magnes Zionist.
As a religious Jew, I believe that the Jew qua Jew has three homes: the state of which she is a citizen; the Jewish community of which she is a participant, and the land of Israel. Jews do not need political sovereignty in an exclusivist ethnic state in order to feel at home in that land. In fact, increasingly I am feeling less at home in the State of Israel, then in the United States.
Read the entire post (which came via Israeli blogsite +972) here: How Jews Should Relate to Palestine
Categories: Israel, Middle East
Israel, Palestine, State of Palestine, Zionism
Excellent article with some conceptual leanings that bring a breath of fresh air to the Israeli/Palestinian situation.