DURHAM - As a Jew, I want the Triangle to know that not everyone in the Jewish community supports the Israeli government's large-scale attacks in Lebanon or Gaza. Further, we do not support the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, now in its fourth decade. We also believe that Hezbollah's attacks on Israelis cannot be justified. We mourn all those who have died and suffered injury as a result of so much senseless violence. For those who attempt to justify Israeli policy as a matter of security, Israel is now less safe than it was just four weeks ago. The idea that any of us become safer by killing hundreds of civilians, many of them children, or through the wholesale destruction of towns, homes, roads, water supplies, electric towers and hospitals of our neighbors, is the senseless (yet prevailing) logic that led the U.S. into the morass that is Iraq.
All evidence points to the fact that both Hezbollah and Hamas are stronger and more popular than they were four weeks ago. And this is inevitable. Just as Israeli public opinion turns against Arab neighbors every time Israel experiences a suicide bombing or rocket attack, so, too, does the Arab world feel outrage when violence is directed toward its civilians (always with higher casualties). Common sense tells us that no one on the receiving end of violence is in a position to grasp the other side's rationale for that violence, regardless of whether the violence is delivered by Hezbollah or Israel the fourth largest military in the world.
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