Palestine, Israel, God’s people and democracy

Avraham Burg, a former speaker of the Knesset, author of “The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise From Its Ashes” and the chairman of Molad, the Center for Renewal of Democracy,  wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times of Sunday August the 4th 2012.
He wrote that his generation, born in the ’50s, grew up with the deep, almost religious belief that the America and Palestine shared basic values and principles.

Having right to a piece of land

Also in my family we grew up with the understanding that the Jews were the rightful owners of the promised land, who were blessed as People of God, and would prepare the most righteous country in the world.

As a child and young adult, it was not always clear how we had to interpret the Shoah (השואה, HaShoah) or the “catastrophe” which befell that promised People of God, because sometimes it was presented to us that it was Gods cleansing, as prophesied in the Old Testament, to make sure that those who survived would be the most sincere Jews, faithful to God. I do not want to say that my parents liked what had happened. The opposite. We also learned the importance of avoiding such a ‘cleansing’ by people. But we also learned that it was the most holy people, and what annoyed me sometimes, that no bad word could be said about them. So when we noticed something going wrong around Jerusalem it could never be the Jew to blame.

A democracy according Gods Will

After the genocidal state Germany a new world could be built up were Jews would be able to create a democracy according the Laws of God.

“Selektion” on the Judenrampe, Auschwitz, May/June 1944. To be sent to the right meant slave labor; to the left, the gas chamber. This image shows the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia, many of them from the Berehov ghetto. The photographer was Ernst Hofmann or Bernhard Walter of the SS. Image courtesy of Yad Vashem.

For me it was strange to notice that people who felt so much the damage of control of territory and resources after some years started doing the same things as their oppressors had done. They started to exclude others of the right of using water or land. They even started to built a wall, which is for me so incomprehensible, when they themselves should have to know how their ancestors felt, being enclosed by walls and having to live in Ghettos and camps.

I would have thought that the unique feature of the Holocaust and unprecedented in history would have been engraved in the Jewish heart as something they would not want to happen to any body any more in this world.

Secular or religious state

A big problem seems to be the the secular versus religious debate for forming The Israel, or the Jewish nature of the state.

The 1942 Biltmore Program, the fundamental departure from traditional Zionist policy of the Zionist Organization with its demand “that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth, did not seem to succeed to create common wealth for all the people in the region. explicitly called “that Palestine be established as a Jewish Commonwealth.” In 1946, the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, also known as the Grady-Morrison Committee, noted that the demand for a Jewish Statewent beyond the obligations of either the Balfour Declaration or the Mandate, and had been expressly disowned by the Chairman of the Jewish Agency as recently as 1932.

English: David Ben-Gurion testifying before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Jerusalem עברית: דוד בן-גוריון מעיד בפני ועדת החקירה האנגלו-אמריקאית לענייני ארץ ישראל בירושלים (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Arab-Jewish co-existence

Unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine did not seem to be a problem at first, but with the years to many immigrants became live too close to each other and made that certain groups wanted to expand the territory. An other problem was that the Biltmore Program was implicitly a rejection of the proposal for a binational solution to the question of Arab-Jewish co-existence in Palestine.  Sometimes you could also have the impression for some Europeans it was a nice plan to get all the Jews out of Europe, placing them all together in their own State, far away in the Middle East.

It looked sometimes that there was constituted a new Zionist “battleground” and that Washington would have the paramount say in the struggle for Jewish sovereignty. West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights never seemed to get out of the news. After the Austerity Period (1948 – 1958) when food, clothes and furniture had to be rationed, they ended up with two million people, who wanted the sole right on the land.

One day,on 5 June 1967, we even thought World War III had started, and everywhere everything stopped  to go in front of the television to watch the start of the Six-Day War. Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. Jerusalem’s boundaries were enlarged, incorporating East Jerusalem, and the 1949 Green Line became the administrative boundary between Israel and the occupied territories.

Lots of talking and debate

Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands at the signing of the Oslo Accords, with Bill Clinton behind them, 1993

Americans and Israelis talked about democracy, human rights, respect for other nations and human solidarity. Camp David Accords (1978) and the Israel–Egypt Peace Treaty (1979) could not bring the light or ending of the internal battles between Arabs, Palestinians and Israeli. The Basic Law: Jerusalem, the Capital of Israel, passed in 1980, was believed by some to reaffirm Israel’s 1967 annexation of Jerusalem by government decree and reignited international controversy over the status of the city.

Yasser Arafat, at the 2000 Camp David Summit, rejecting the plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state was a missed change to bring peace in the region. After the collapse of the talks and a controversial visit by Likud leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount, the Second Intifada began.

Secular or religious Laws

The 1950ies was an age of dreamers and builders who sought to create a new world, one without prejudice, racism or discrimination.

The Basic Laws of Israel function as an uncodified constitution on which the Knesset began to draft an official constitution in 2003.

Looking at how certain Jews react to other people you can wonder in how-far they are still God fearing people. In Torah there are enough writings in which God gives advice on how to treat others and how to behave in this world. Though they seem to forget that they as other creatures are allowed by God to live here on this earth.

Netanyahu sitting with Madeleine Albright and Yassir Arafat at the Wye River Memorandum

“Listening to today’s political discourse, one can’t help but notice the radical change in tone.” does the opinion writer Burg finds. Also his children have watched their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, kowtow to a fundamentalist coalition in Israel. They are convinced that what ties Israel and America today is not a covenant of humanistic values but rather a new set of mutual interests: war, bombs, threats, fear and trauma.

For me that is also what worries me most. I cannot resist thinking that many Jews who now live in Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine have long forgotten their original laws, which were given by the Creator of heaven and earth, who had given them the promise of the Holy Land to their and our patriarch Abraham. Either they do not believe that Jehovah, the God most High Almighty, Elohim Hashem is capable of bringing His promise into reality, or they do not trust Him and wants everything happening much faster than in Gods Plan. They should know more the design in the creation of the world and the promise of Worldpeace by the Creator. The world should trust God more and count on Gods hope, looking for blessed hope.

“Israel arose as a secular, social democratic country inspired by Western European democracies.” writes Burg. “With time, however, its core values have become entirely different. Israel today is a religious, capitalist state. Its religiosity is defined by the most extreme Orthodox interpretations.” Often enough we see those orthodox Jews bullying the other believers and non-Jews. More than once they find ways to provoke the gentiles and Arabians. Often they defy others with the weapons in their hands or by taking such a disrespectful attitude. Already for years they challenge the others to the fight, while nobody of the Western World wants to bring them to their senses.”

Children of the founders of the State

Avraham  Burg his father was one of the founders of the state of Israel and of the National Religious Party. He was an enlightened rabbi and philosopher. I get the impression he could accept that to be a Jew was exactly like being an Italian, Frenchman or American and that the term “Jewish” could be national and secular.
Though the Zionist forefathers promised to make the Jews ‘people like other people’ which meant that they, in the first place, accepted that Jews weren’t like other people. Already in the early days of ‘secular’ Zionism, Jewish ethnicity stood as the collective bond.

English: Jewish immigrants walk to Palestine. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

According to me there lies one the fundamental problems with many of the younger generation. When I look at the documentaries made by Louis Theroux, visiting extreme right-wing Jews and interviewing Jewish immigrants, those newer inhabitants of the young state, take on a totally different view of the Israel than their founding fathers. Even converted Christians or ex non-believers who became Jew and found that they have to live in Palestine which should be only for the People of God, have lost all the Western democratic views and all of the Judeo-Christian values. They are far less open than the 1950-60s supporters. I also get the impression they do not fear God at all but fear a phantom enemy more than anything else.

Burg agrees that today, the meaning of “Jewish” in Israel is mainly ethnic and religious. “With the elevation of religious solidarity over and above democratic authority, Israel has become more fundamentalist and less modern, more separatist and less open to the outside world.” he says.

His father may have dreamed like many Jews and several Christians, that democracy was the only way to regulate the interests of many contradictory voices, but that a government could create a humane and safe place for Jews and gentiles.

Jewish Culture and Halakha

“Jewish culture, consolidated through Halakha, the religious Jewish legal tradition, created a civilization that has devoted itself to an unending conversation among different viewpoints and the coexistence of contradictory attitudes toward the fulfillment of the good.”

“The modern combination between democracy and Judaism was supposed to give birth to a spectacular, pluralistic kaleidoscope. The state would be a great, robust democracy that would protect Jews against persecution and victimhood. Jewish culture, on the other hand, with its uncompromising moral standards, would guard against our becoming persecutors and victimizers of others.”

Wanting to make Palestine an exclusive space for only Jews, makes it a place out of the world, but also demanding for problems because it has always to stay part of the world until the coming of the Messiah.

Walls and restrictions danger to democracy

Putting up all the borders and having everywhere control gates, are clearly showing that many of the Jewish people are not willing to accept others in their community.

Palestine child (Photo credit: Tato_p2p)

Excluding non-Jews from Israeli public spaces should bring up the question why they do not exclude then the non-religious Jews from those places.

Graffiti in the streets demonstrates the hidden dreams of the rude and arrogant power brokers, some of whom hold senior positions in government: a pure Israel with “no Arabs” and “no gentiles.” But why do they not consider the non-religous Jews as gentiles either?

Its capitalism has erased much of the social solidarity of the past, with the exception of a few remaining vestiges of a welfare state. Israel defines itself as a “Jewish and democratic state.” However, because Israel has never created a system of checks and balances between these two sources of authority, they are closer than ever to a terrible clash.”

Palestine Grafities (Photo credit: Wall in Palestine)

Jewish minority rules over a Palestinian majority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — controlling millions of people without political rights or basic legal standing, and the world seems to agree with it.

Many Jews started to allow killing other believers in God and some of them found it even enjoyable to kill in the name of Jews.

How did this happen? Where is that righteous Israel or that righteous America? Whatever happened to the good old Israel, holy for all Abrahamic religions including Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá’í Faith?

The Holy Land, or Palestine, showing not only the Ancient Kingdoms of Judah and Israel in which the 12 Tribes have been distinguished, but also their placement in different periods as indicated in the Holy Scriptures. Tobias Conrad Lotter, Geographer. Augsburg, Germany, 1759

So many believers and followers of God did or do still have their hope in Israel, “Israel HaShlema”, the Holy Land, Kingdom of Israel, the Judea, or Kingdom of Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael or Ha’aretz), Zion, Retenu (Ancient Egyptian), Southern Syria, and Syria Palestina.

But it are the many Jews themselves who have gone far away from their God. It is secular Jewish politics that made the Israeli Jew into a plunderer of someone else’s land. It are the non-religious Jews who control the land and find their financial assets more important than the religious foundation of a “Holy Land”.

Options

According to Burg there is another option: “an iconic conflict could also present an iconic solution. As in Northern Ireland or South Africa, where citizens no longer spill one another’s blood, it will eventually become clear that many Israelis are not willing to live in an ethnic democracy, not willing to give up on the chance to live in peace, not willing to be passive patriots of a country that expels or purifies itself of its minorities, who are the original inhabitants of the land.”

Palestine Café – Ramallah, Palestine (Photo credit: Backpack Foodie)

“Only on that day, after much anguish, boycotts and perhaps even bloodshed, will we understand that the only way for us to agree when we disagree is a true, vigorous democracy.” he writes in the New York Times. “A democracy based on a progressive, civil constitution; a democracy that enforces the distinction between ethnicity and citizenship, between synagogue and state; a democracy that upholds the values of freedom and equality, on the basis of which every single person living under Israel’s legitimate and internationally recognized sovereignty will receive the same rights and protections.”

Solution

As a simple mind, for me, the solution shall be there when more Jews recognise the Hand of God and when they are willing to put their trust more in Him. God is a god of his word. Whatever He promised He did or shall fulfil in His time schedule.

Palestine (Photo credit: No Lands Too Foreign)

When the Jews shall follow more their Old Hebrew Laws, listening to the One who promised their Holy Land, and living according to those Laws given by God, they shall be able to accept others in their midst and would not have to fear for them.

As soon as they are willing to create a free state for all in which the government is willing to behave with fairness and equality toward all persons without prejudice based on religion, race or gender, than they will find that the gates of the whole world shall be willing to open to them. Their eyes should go open and to should return to the fundamentals or the principles on which Israel was founded and the values that bound Israel and America together in the past.

Israel, America, the European Union, should give hands and unite in the Judeo-Christian values, following Gods Law and having an open mind to other religions and cultures.

Humanism and Liberty should come in the forefront.

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Please find:

The debated article: Israel’s Fading Democracy

Deconstructing Avraham Burg
Jewish ethnicity stood as the collective bond. But this cement wasn’t geo-centric, it was actually racist. Jabotinsky and Nordau used biological determinist terminology: referring to race, blood and genes. Burg cannot deny that the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians was driven by Jewish racist ideology. But, to some extent, Burg is also correct. I guess that his generation and mine as well could be seen as a fulfillment of the Zionist dream. We regarded ourselves as Israelis, we weren’t even Zionists. For us, Jewishness was a secondary matter.  Some of us were religious, others weren’t, but we were all Israelis just because we were born in Israel. But then, as it seems, Israeliness wasn’t sufficient to sustain an Israeli collectivism. Something was clearly missing, and this is where the problem starts. Israel has never matured into a ‘state of its citizens’, it remained the ‘state of the Jews’.
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Democracy is based on the vision of equal civil rights together with enlightened individualism, yet Judaism is fuelled by tribalism, choseness and the elimination of civil life in favour Hlachah law.
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It could be argued that the early Zionists, who were largely anti-Jewish, did indeed try to form a Jewish state that would be free of most Jewish characteristics. But their dream did not prevail, Israel is Jewish; it is tribal, it is racist: it is the definitive Jewish ghetto. Israel and Zionism have nothing to do with enlightened humanism – probably for the same reason that Jews had no impact on the evolution of enlightenment.

The Roots of Jewishness

Modern Jews, who number more than 13 million worldwide, are traditionally divided into various groups. They include Middle Eastern Jews, who live in Iraq, Iran, and other places in the Levant; Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal; Ashkenazi Jews from Europe, who comprise 90% of American Jews; North African Jews from Morocco, Algeria, and other countries north of the Sahara; Ethiopian Jews; and many other communities scattered across the globe. In the Bible, the roots of Jewishness reach back 4000 years to Abraham and his descendants. But historians have suggested the story of Jewishness is more complicated, and may not include a single ancestor. Some have even argued that most modern Jews are descended from converts to Judaism and don’t share genetic ties at all.

Recent studies have turned to DNA for answers. In 2010, human geneticist Harry Ostrer of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and colleagues found that three of the major Jewish groups—the Middle Eastern, Sephardic, and Ashkenazi Jews—share a genetic connection going back more than 2000 years, and are more closely related to each other than to nearby non-Jewish groups. Genetic ties within each of the groups were even closer, about the equivalent of fourth or fifth cousins. But that study didn’t include North African Jews, who represent the world’s second largest Jewish population, or any groups whose claim to Jewishness has been controversial, such as Ethiopian Jews.
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Identifying the genetic component of Jewishness—though controversial because the Holocaust was predicated on the idea that Jewishness was a genetic trait that could be eliminated from the German population—could have medical as well as historical value, Tishkoff adds, because many Jewish populations have high incidences of genetic disease. Knowing more about the groups’ biological makeup could enable doctors to provide more informed genetic counseling to Jewish couples, or better personalize courses of treatment. Tishkoff notes that the little-studied Jewish populations of India, sub-Saharan Africa, China, and Burma weren’t examined in the latest analysis. Ostrer says his team plans to include their DNA in a future study to complete what he calls “the tapestry of Jewishness.”
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Thus those who are religious and identify themselves as Jews would have been more likely to marry other Jews, rather than non-Jews.

On the other hand, those who were not religious and who were more willing to integrate into the surrounding population, would be less likely to identify with Judaism and would simply disappear into the larger population after a few generation.

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