Reprinted from Gush Shalom
NO. IT'S not "us" and "them."
Not "us" -- the good ones, the moral ones, the righteous ones. Or, to put it bluntly, the magnificent ones. The Jews.
And not "them" -- the bad ones, the evil ones. To put it bluntly again: the despicable ones. Yes, the Arabs.
We, who were chosen by God, because we are so special.
They, pagans all, who pray to all kinds of idols, like Allah or Jesus.
We, the heroic few, who are faced in every generation by those who want to destroy us, but we save ourselves from their hands.
They, the many cowards, who want to kill us and our state, and our courage defeats them.
They, all the goyim, but especially the Muslims, the Arabs, the Palestinians.
No, its not like this. Not at all.
SOME DAYS ago, Yitzhak Herzog said something especially obnoxious.
Herzog, the leader of the Labor Party, the chairman of the "Zionist Camp" union, the Chief of the Opposition (a title conferred automatically on the leader of the largest opposition party), declared that his party is failing at elections because people believe that its members are "Arab lovers."
If translated into German, it may be better understood. For example, that Angela Merkel's party consists of "Jew lovers."
Nobody says so. Indeed, nobody can say so. Not in today's Germany.
One may assume that Herzog did not mean it the way it sounds. Certainly not in public. It just escaped his mouth. He did not mean it.
Maybe. But a politician who lets such words escape his mouth cannot be the leader of a large political camp. A party with such a leader, which does not throw him out on the same day, is not worthy of leading the country.
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