Israel’s onslaught drags U.S. Jewish life into the abyss

 by Phillip Weiss from Mondoweiss

It has been another horrifying week in Gaza, as our reporters have sought to document. It saw the murder of a great poet, Refaat Alareer, and his family, by the Israeli army. It saw the Israeli army stripping and humiliating scores of Palestinian men on the street of a bombed-out city– including, by our report, shopkeepers and journalists — in scenes reminiscent of Abu Ghraib and the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe.

It saw the U.S. defying the world to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire — and the U.S. resupplying Israel with tank shells.

“There is a real danger that we will actually lose our homeland, possibly forever, and will be forced into Egypt,” Tareq Hajjaj writes.

And here in America, the Jewish establishment has been consigned to the role of supporting genocide, and it has accepted that role eagerly in all its expressions and activities. The effect on Judaism of this moral collapse is unfathomable. Young Jews will save the religion; but the tragedy is sure to envelop my people for decades, and produce great suffering in Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. too.

I’m talking about the unanimity of official Jewish life. Tony Blinken — who became secretary of state by invoking his father’s surviving the Holocaust — is today a shell of a man. Look at him on CNN. He has stood up again and again for Israeli massacres, while saying that he has asked Israel to do better– pretty please. These performances at the gates of hell will haunt him, just like Colin Powell lying at the U.N. to enable the destruction of Iraq.

Just like J Street issuing pathetic political calibrations, aimed at standing by Biden as families are massacred...

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