05-07-2024, 10:14 PM
Israel does not have separation of church and state.
"Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism"
"The Arabs would be the working people and the Jews the administrators, inspectors, officials and police -- mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 million to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret-police state, with all that this implies for education, free speech, and democratic institutions."
Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath
Outraged by the Qibya massacre in 1953, committed by the infamous Unit 101, Leibowitz has been quoted as saying:
"We have to ask ourselves where this youth of ours emerged from; young people who had no mental inhibitions about committing this atrocity? What inner motivation for such acts could have been at work here? This youth is not a mob but the product of Zionist, humanist social education."
Leibowitz cautioned that the state of Israel and Zionism had become more sacred than Jewish humanist values and went on to describe Israeli conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories as "Judeo-Nazi" in nature, warning of the dehumanizing effect of the occupation on the victims and the oppressors.
Oppression dehumanizes both the victim and the oppressor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshayahu_Leibowitz
"Religious nationalism is to religion what National Socialism was to socialism"
"The Arabs would be the working people and the Jews the administrators, inspectors, officials and police -- mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 million to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret-police state, with all that this implies for education, free speech, and democratic institutions."
Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath
Outraged by the Qibya massacre in 1953, committed by the infamous Unit 101, Leibowitz has been quoted as saying:
"We have to ask ourselves where this youth of ours emerged from; young people who had no mental inhibitions about committing this atrocity? What inner motivation for such acts could have been at work here? This youth is not a mob but the product of Zionist, humanist social education."
Leibowitz cautioned that the state of Israel and Zionism had become more sacred than Jewish humanist values and went on to describe Israeli conduct in the occupied Palestinian territories as "Judeo-Nazi" in nature, warning of the dehumanizing effect of the occupation on the victims and the oppressors.
Oppression dehumanizes both the victim and the oppressor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshayahu_Leibowitz