How Jewish Supremacy Tore Israeli Society Apart [View all]

We once marched together at protests, but in the intervening years you and many others have changed your views. An open letter to a right-wing friend

Not long ago, by chance, I happened on a post of yours, long and well-reasoned, not particularly militant, that generated numerous Likes. In the distant past we were friends, almost best friends. We shared a similar worldview, similar dreams and hopes. Since then we have gone our separate ways. Occasionally we send each other a greeting, albeit in the knowledge that beyond this the affinity between us has faded.

But I see your words before me now, and they prompt me to examine the distance between us, the separate worlds, but also perhaps to discern what is left of the connecting dots. In what follows I will try to do this as honestly as I can and through this, you will get a response to what you wrote.

Do you remember how, back then, on the eve of Yom Kippur, after the end of Shabbat Shuvah 5743 (Sept. 25, 1982), we stood together, shoulder to shoulder, among a mass of people in what was then called Kings of Israel Square, today's Rabin Square, in Tel Aviv? With awe and dread we stood there, in a suffocating crush. We stood and cried out over the massacre of innocents in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon. A massacre perpetrated on the watch of the Israel Defense Forces, in the midst of a controversial war.

About a tenth of the population of the State of Israel stood together with us on that evening after Shabbat. The streets around the square were teeming with women and men; together we demanded the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the events of that massacre. About a month later, the Kahan Commission was established; it submitted its conclusions four months later. Immediately afterward, and in the wake of the same chain of events, Emil Grunzweig, an educator and peace activist, was murdered not far from the Knesset during a Peace Now rally, whose participants were violently attacked along the way. We remember the blast of the grenade that killed Emil. It was a sign of things to come.

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Source : Haaretz .