Here is the new government linuep, and here is Avnery’s analysis of Israel’s new government. Quotable quotes by Lieberman proposing nuking Gaza and drowning Palestinian prisoners in the Dead Sea, here, and here. Records on Lieberman’s conviction for beating up a boy who fought with his son can be found here.
This will be interesting. Everything has consequences, and the scientific laws of causality, the literary insight of poetic justice, and the religious ideas of karma, or poked avon avot, the sins of one generation visited on the next, all have their place here. The sins of suicide bombing in Jerusalem gave rise to Netanyahu the first time, which in turn destroyed the peace process and caused the Intifada of 2000, which in turn gave rise to the Wall and the imprisonment of the West Bank and Gaza, which in turn gave us the rocket age in which almost every Israeli family feels threatened and in the mood to vote right wing, which has in turn given us Avigdor Lieberman. Everything has consequences in the causal connections of violence and injustice going back to the very beginning of the Arab/Jewish relationship in Palestine. And everyone is responsible.
The ancient rabbinc idea of kol yisrael areivim zeh lo’zeh, that every Jew is responsible for the behavior and fate of every other Jew, really should be extended to the family of man. We are all as human beings responsible for each other, in every one of our interpersonal, economic and political choices, every day. Because everything we do affects changes that impel others to do what they do, sometimes for good and sometimes for bad. And I say, what many of us increasingly feel, that Israel and the Arab world, are driving each other off a cliff. And the car they are driving in is called ‘irresponsibility’. Let’s see how the cycle continues. It certainly will be interesting.
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