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Leon Gunther's avatar

I don't recall ever before reading an article that is so long whose every word is so incisive and shouldn't be erased. Thank you again, Avrum.

Elizabeth Block's avatar

Yes. People say, What about Iran, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan..... and I say that so far as I know, (1) none of them claim to be "the only democracy in....." and (2) none of them are being armed, subsidized, and diplomatically supported by the US and Canada.

Charlotte Harris's avatar

Thanks, John, for giving this article to a new audience - did Rali get a copy, too? In the comments I found a reference to a proposed Israeli party that could find wide support outside Israel: Kol Ezraheha. The immense wrong done Palestinians by US, UK and other western powers by allowing and supporting Jewish militarized colonization of Palestinians' land is now reaching it's culmination in Gaza and the West Bank. Supporting a Jewish - read apartheid - state is both immoral and it's stupid. Kol Ezraheha shows a better way

Kol Ezraheha (קול אזרחיה, "Voice of its Citizens") is a proposed political party in Israel aiming for equality, equity, and representation for all citizens, regardless of race, religion, or gender. It intends to be a joint Arab-Jewish movement focusing on cancelling the nation-state law, promoting a constitution, and ending the occupation.

Danny Schwartz's avatar

When a person is terminally ill they often seek their religion for comfort and help. America is a country that is terminally ill as is Israel. Seeking a religious answer for the challenges faced is clearly not the answer. Thank you for your latest post. I look forward your next book.

Elizabeth Block's avatar

and other people sometimes say, "That's a great issue. What are you doing about it?" Of course they're doing nothing.

BrianFrankonFacebook's avatar

This is why I adore you Avrum. My only issue is the financial empire that clearly runs the world from the shadows. Influence is easily bought, and Drumpf lives for that. The pay to play peace board is clear sign of that. 😢😢😢

Bob Gluck's avatar

I think you identify the issue of our time, even during this very dark moment in history. Thank you for this: “It is possible to shift the center of gravity of the world from guilt and accusation toward reconciliation and repair. To speak the searing truth about what must never happen again and what must be done from here on.”

Elena Faro's avatar

Thank you; well written, clear & concise yet without malice.

Paul Scham's avatar

This isn't a direct response to this post, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who, when Mansour Abbas said Ra'am was interested in putting a Jew on its slate, thought immediately of you. I know your heart is with the revival of Kol Ezraheha, but it would be self-defeating if it were to compete with a revived Joint Arab list. I hope you are in talks with Ra'am about his; it would be the next best thing to a joint party. And I'm sure you could work out a protocol where you could vote differently n cultural issues where you disagree with Ra'am.

Michael Alan Dover, PhD's avatar

Avrum, thank you for your truly important Substack post, titled Between Washington and Jerusalem: The Capitols of Killing and Frights. It helps us understand something about the frozen souls of too many of the leaders of both the USA and Israel. As I contend on my free Substack’s Middle East Peace with Justice beat (https://tinyurl.com/MiddleEastPeaceWithJusticeBeat), his article can help us free our memories, which to some extent have been held hostage by the nihilistic amoral atmosphere that dominates the democracies of both nations. Avrum writes the day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2026, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Soviet Union’s Red Army in 1945.

This day is different from Israel’s memorial day Yom HaShoah, coming later each year, which is observed by many Jewish congregations globally. As I prepare to attend a City Club of Cleveland event 1/26/27 —where Michael Koplow and Ahmed Alkhatib will have a conversation about Israel, Gaza, the Ceasefire, and the Prospects for the Future, Avrum’s article helps me to re-center on the enormity of the suffering and death which ensues when totalitarian theocratic patriarchal power brokers or others of an ideological or ethnonationalist variety seek to dominate our national lives and impose their will on other peoples and nations.

Dolores Hall's avatar

Often moved, and deeply so, and challenged too at times by Avrum’s writing.Thank you.

DH in Ottawa