I went over your post again, which is why it took me so long to answer, and looks like not all of them are things that are personal opinion, but rather personal experience. There are more places where my opinion doesn't match yours, but not to such a degree I completely disagree.
There is not a single Jewish family which did not lose members in the Nazi Holocaust. That's decidedly not true. I have friends whose families came from Middle Eastern and North African countries, and they never lost a single family member in the Holocaust. I think it is true about most European and European decent Jews, but you can't say it is true about all Jews.
[...] treatment of Palestinians as second-rate citizens [...] That's one I disagree with because of my political views, I suppose: Israeli Arabs are treated as second-rate citizens. Palestinians... I can't call it third-rate, because, to be honest, they're not treated as citizens at all. I'm not sure how to define what they're treated as, but it's nothing good.
This would have involved Israeli withdrawal from almost all of the settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an issue Israeli public opinion is strongly against, but the Israeli withdrawal from Yamit, and more recently from the Gaza Strip, shows it could be done. Recent polls, and by recent I mean since before Sharon declared his plans to withdraw from Gaza so say five years, show that a majority of the Israeli population supports a complete withdrawal (with the possible exception of the Golan Heights). Unfortunately the settlers are louder, and better established as a unified group (which means they are also better connected), than the few small groups that have been promoting land-for-peace agreements.
I have one request at the end of this all: increase contrast on your lj design. Grey text on a patterned background make it very difficult to read long posts like this one. :)
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Date: 2008-05-06 02:00 pm (UTC)There is not a single Jewish family which did not lose members in the Nazi Holocaust.
That's decidedly not true. I have friends whose families came from Middle Eastern and North African countries, and they never lost a single family member in the Holocaust.
I think it is true about most European and European decent Jews, but you can't say it is true about all Jews.
[...] treatment of Palestinians as second-rate citizens [...]
That's one I disagree with because of my political views, I suppose:
Israeli Arabs are treated as second-rate citizens.
Palestinians... I can't call it third-rate, because, to be honest, they're not treated as citizens at all. I'm not sure how to define what they're treated as, but it's nothing good.
This would have involved Israeli withdrawal from almost all of the settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, an issue Israeli public opinion is strongly against, but the Israeli withdrawal from Yamit, and more recently from the Gaza Strip, shows it could be done.
Recent polls, and by recent I mean since before Sharon declared his plans to withdraw from Gaza so say five years, show that a majority of the Israeli population supports a complete withdrawal (with the possible exception of the Golan Heights).
Unfortunately the settlers are louder, and better established as a unified group (which means they are also better connected), than the few small groups that have been promoting land-for-peace agreements.
I have one request at the end of this all: increase contrast on your lj design. Grey text on a patterned background make it very difficult to read long posts like this one. :)