Former AIPAC Member EXPOSES Zionism Myths
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Former AIPAC member debunks Zionism: Must Watch on Israel-Palestine
India & Global Left
673,512 views Premiered Aug 1, 2024
Former AIPAC member debunks Zionism: Must Watch on Israel-Palestine
This is a clip from a full video with Rich Forer on his journey of transformation from being an AIPAC Zionist to a pro-Palestine activist.
He also debunks propaganda that is generally spread among Jews.
Full video: 
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0:00well, as you say, I was born in a fairly typical Jewish family. We were, we attended Reform synagogue
0:099 secondsand from the time I was probably five years old. till 14 years old. I attended both Sunday and Saturday school.
0:1616 secondsAnd of course, I grew up in Trenton, New Jersey, which is between Philadelphia and New York. So there was a large Jewish population. And there was a lot of a lot
0:2525 secondsof information from New York and Philadelphia about Jewish activities.
0:3030 secondsAnd I always recognized, from the time I was very young, I always noticed that Jewish people didn't use slur words.
0:4040 secondsto condemn other people, like black people, Puerto Ricans, or other people, whereas a lot of the the Christian kids,
0:4848 secondssome of whom were my friends, commonly used slurs. And that gave me a sense that maybe Jews are a little
0:5555 secondsmore or a little better than other people. Also, I was born in 1948, so I grew up you know within a
1:031 minute, 3 secondsdecade to 15 years after the Holocaust. And every Jewish, just about every Jewish family I knew
1:111 minute, 11 secondshad family members who had been killed in the Holocaust. And of course, in the 1950s, anti-Semitism was fairly
1:191 minute, 19 secondscommon in the United States. Like, for example, Jews were not allowed to join non-Jewish country clubs. Jews were
1:271 minute, 27 secondsnot welcome in a lot of places, and that's in the Northeast. Just imagine what it was like in the South and the Midwest of the United States. So I grew
1:351 minute, 35 secondsup. Oh, and another very important factor for me was when I was in elementary school, in public school.
1:441 minute, 44 secondsAnd and let let me point out that school prayer was not considered illegal until 1960. And I
1:511 minute, 51 secondsgraduated from from 6th grade in 1960. So up through 6th grade.
1:571 minute, 57 secondsWe had to say the Lord's Prayer, which most people consider a Christian prayer, even though it comes from the, I believe,
2:042 minutes, 4 secondsfrom Psalms in the Tanakh, the Old Testament. But what I really didn't like was my classes would have celebrations of Easter and Christmas,
2:152 minutes, 15 secondsand which of course would not be allowed now, but they never had celebrations of Passover. or any of the other Jewish holidays, Hanukkah, for example,
2:242 minutes, 24 secondswhich is not really a major Jewish holiday, but it coincided with Christians, Christmas. And so all that made me kind of maybe get the
2:332 minutes, 33 secondsfeeling that my society didn't really respect Jews very much. And so I grew up being very defensive about
2:412 minutes, 41 secondsJewish people and about later on about Israel. And after the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel defeated
2:502 minutes, 50 secondsEgypt, Syria, and Jordan, and took over the West Bank and Golan Heights,
2:562 minutes, 56 secondsI was very proud of what Israel had accomplished. But I always knew, in fact, I didn't just know it, I I felt it,
3:043 minutes, 4 secondsthat there would never be peace in the Middle East between Israel and its neighbors. And I didn't know why, but I used to hear that when I would be at
3:133 minutes, 13 secondssynagogue,as a kid, I used to hear the men talking about that a lot. And they would often say, well, the good news is that the Arabs never agree on anything.
3:233 minutes, 23 secondsAnd so the the Arabs are never united.
3:253 minutes, 25 secondsThen of course, Gamal Abdel Nasser came along in, I think, 1956, the leader of Egypt and the the charismatic
3:363 minutes, 36 secondspan-Arab leader, and he became a threat. Now, David Ben-Gurion, who was the prime minister of India,I'm sorry, of
3:433 minutes, 43 secondsIsrael and Israel's first prime minister and the leader of the Jewish Agency for many years before Israel's establishment
3:513 minutes, 51 secondsin 1948. David Ben-Gurion referred to Nasser as the Hitler of the Middle East. And when you're a young
3:583 minutes, 58 secondskid and you have relatives who who had relatives who were killed in the Holocaust, and you have
4:054 minutes, 5 secondsrelatives or friends of my parents who fought in World War II,
4:114 minutes, 11 secondsWhen you hear that Nasser's Hitler is the Middle East, just imagine what kind of images that conjures up in a young person's mind. Oh my God, the Arabs want
4:204 minutes, 20 secondsto do to the Jews what the Nazis almost did to the Jews and partially did to the Jews. So all of that reinforced my attachment to my Jewish identity. And
4:294 minutes, 29 secondsthen years go by and I was always defensive when people would would say something negative about Israel, I would
4:374 minutes, 37 secondsget upset and I would denied that what they were saying was true. I would say it was Arab or Palestinian propaganda. And I had
4:464 minutes, 46 secondsno basis for any of that, really. Then in probably the mid '90s, my identical twin brother, who's an Orthodox
4:544 minutes, 54 secondsJew and very, very, very anti-Palestinian,
5:005 minutesand and my guess is that he's a supporter of Itamar Ben-Gavir and Bezalel Smotrich, the two ultra-Orthodox ministers in the Netanyahu cabinet.
5:115 minutes, 11 secondsMy twin brother gave me a book that I had never heard of, but it was a bestseller called From Time Immemorial by
5:185 minutes, 18 secondsJoan Peters. And that book allegedly proved that Israel has always been in the right. It It basically
5:275 minutes, 27 secondssaid there is no such thing as a Palestinian people. Arabs from various parts of the Middle East moved to Palestine, to Israel. In order to
5:375 minutes, 37 secondsget higher paying jobs from kind Jewish landholders. And they're never. And you know, I can't remember
5:445 minutes, 44 secondseverything it said, but it turned out it was all garbage. And it was completely debunked, first of all, by Norman Finkelstein in the United States. But it
5:525 minutes, 52 secondswas also debunked completely by Zionist Jewish historians in the state of Israel. They referred to it as trash,
6:006 minutesutter propaganda, worthless. But I believed it all because it became my Bible. I believed it 'cause it gave me an argument to refute anything that anyone said that was critical of Israel.
6:116 minutes, 11 secondsSo in 2006, as some people may remember, Hezbollah conducted a cross-border raid into Israel
6:196 minutes, 19 secondsand killed three Israeli soldiers and abducted two. This was in July,
6:246 minutes, 24 seconds2006. I was very upset about that because three weeks earlier, Hamashad captured Israeli
6:316 minutes, 31 secondssoldier Gilad Shalit on the Israel-Gaza border. And I saw those two events as proof of an
6:406 minutes, 40 secondsArab world conspiracy to destroy the Jewish state. It became clear to me that the Arab world would not rest until they
6:476 minutes, 47 secondsthrew the Jews into the sea. I was convinced about that. And the day after his father's raid, Israel invaded Lebanon with immense force.
6:576 minutes, 57 secondsAnd I was very upset, but I supported the invasion. I thought it was necessary. So a couple of days go by, and I decided
7:057 minutes, 5 secondsI was gonna speak with two of my wisest friends, both of whom were not Jewish,
7:107 minutes, 10 secondsand both of whom had been somewhat critical of Israel in the past. But this time I thought they would realize the the
7:177 minutes, 17 secondsseverity of the situation, and they would realize that Israel really was only defending itself against anti-Semites.
7:257 minutes, 25 secondsSo I went to each of them individually and I talked to them and both of them blamed Israel for its disproportionate use of force against the people of
7:347 minutes, 34 secondsLebanon. And neither of them accepted my argument and I was devastated. And so I went home and I thought about it and I
7:427 minutes, 42 secondswent over each conversation trying to see, did I miss something?Did I misunderstand something?And my conclusion
7:497 minutes, 49 secondswas, no, I didn't miss anything, no, I didn't misunderstand anything. And only Jews can understand the suffering of our people. Maybe my dear friends, two of
7:587 minutes, 58 secondsthe most compassionate people I've ever met, maybe they're anti-Semites like all the other non-Jews, or most of the other non-Jews. So then a few days later,
8:068 minutes, 6 secondsduring this onslaught that Israel was conducting in Lebanon, I received a phone call, a rare
8:148 minutes, 14 secondsphone call from a friend of mine in New Jersey who I grew up with, and he rarely calls. And I knew he had studied the
8:228 minutes, 22 secondssubject of Israel and Palestine for many years, but he never made a big deal about it at all. He was very quiet about it.
8:298 minutes, 29 secondsAnd he was fairly quiet by nature anyway.
8:328 minutes, 32 secondsAnyway, he called to tell me that he was gonna be coming out west, and I was living in New Mexico at the time, and was gonna visit me. And I said, That's great.
8:428 minutes, 42 secondsAnd then by the way, the Arab world wants to kill all the Jews. And I went into a two-hour diatribe against the Arab world,
8:478 minutes, 47 secondsand he let me go. He rarely interrupted me, and he listened to me, and it was really over two hours.
8:548 minutes, 54 secondsOccasionally, he would interject a comment like, No, that's wrong.
9:009 minutesYou know, this is what's happening. But he rarely said anything, and he didn't argue with me. He didn't criticize me. At a certain point, he said, Why don't you
9:099 minutes, 9 secondsread books by these two Israeli professors, Baruch Kimmerling and Tanya Reinhard, both of whom were very respected, though I had never heard of
9:189 minutes, 18 secondsthem. And I thought to myself, you know what?Maybe I should read something. Maybe there's something I don't know. The only
9:249 minutes, 24 secondsbook I'd read was Joan Peters Trash. And yet I thought like like most of my Jewish friends today, and most of Israel's
9:319 minutes, 31 secondssupporters today, I thought I knew all there was to know. But because he gave me the space to question myself,
9:399 minutes, 39 secondsafter we hung up, I went online to Amazon and looked up books by Kimberling and Reinhardt. And when you do that, you see
9:469 minutes, 46 secondsother books on the same subjects. And I decided, I'll go to my library and see if I can find some of these books. My
9:539 minutes, 53 secondsstipulation was I only wrote down the names of books and the names of authors who were Jewish. I wasn't going to trust
10:0010 minutesthat a non-Jewish author could be honest or not anti-Semitic. This is how radical I was. So I went to the library,
10:0910 minutes, 9 secondsgot a few books, came home,
10:1210 minutes, 12 secondsThe next day I started reading, and maybe about a week after reading fairly uninteresting material that didn't really
10:1910 minutes, 19 secondsaddress my concerns that much, I started reading Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah on the Misuse of
10:2710 minutes, 27 secondsAntisemitism and the Abuse of History. I had never heard of Finkelstein. My friend who had directed me to Kimberling and
10:3510 minutes, 35 secondsReinhardt years earlier had said thatJoan Peter's book was debunked by a Jewish professor who lived
10:4310 minutes, 43 secondsin New York, but he couldn't remember the name. And he was referring to Finkelstein. And I just said, oh, well,
10:5010 minutes, 50 secondsI don't believe that. The Jewish professor must have been confused, or maybe he's a self-hating Jew. So I started reading Finkelstein's book. And what happened was, I knew immediately that he was a brilliant man.
11:0211 minutes, 2 secondsAnd everything he said,His criticism was only directed towards Israel. There was no criticism of the
11:1011 minutes, 10 secondsPalestinian people at all, or the Arab side. And I was wondering, well, when's he gonna speak out about the Arabs?
11:1811 minutes, 18 secondsBut I couldn't put the book down because number one, I'd committed myself to really studying the history as objectively as I could. And number two, I
11:2511 minutes, 25 secondsrecognized in the first paragraph of the book that he was a brilliant man. Somehow I recognized that, so I kept reading
11:3311 minutes, 33 secondsplus,He documented all of his claims very meticulously. So his sources were organizations like Human Rights Watch,
11:4311 minutes, 43 secondsAmnesty International, B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization. And so I was reading and reading and reading,
11:5111 minutes, 51 secondsand as I was reading, I would. Go look online for the for the sources that he was citing in his book.
11:5911 minutes, 59 secondsSo I'd go to the to the papers that Amnesty International, for example, that they had written on the subject, and I would look for the quotes he had taken
12:0712 minutes, 7 secondsfrom them. I was hoping that I would find him taking the quotes out of context or changing a word
12:1612 minutes, 16 secondshere or there to misrepresent what the organization was saying, unfortunately.
12:2212 minutes, 22 secondssort of, at least from that prior point of view, he was, everything he said was impeccable. There was nothing that,
12:2912 minutes, 29 secondseverything, he was beyond reproach. So I continued reading and at a certain point I started, I was so absorbed in what I
12:3612 minutes, 36 secondswas reading that I allowed all the emotions that were going through me, I didn't resist at all. So I was going through shock at what I was reading. Oh
12:4412 minutes, 44 secondsmy God. I've supported Israel all these years. This is what Israel's doing. Oh my God. And then anger at Israel for misguiding me all my life and getting
12:5412 minutes, 54 secondsme to support the the maltreatment of Palestinians. Then my anger turned in on itself and I got angry
13:0113 minutes, 1 secondat me for being such a dupe and being so ignorant and never checking anything out. And then shame and embarrassment arose.
13:0913 minutes, 9 secondsAnd then finally, a great sorrow for the Palestinian people for all that they had been through.
13:1513 minutes, 15 secondsWell, first of all, I want to mention that I agree with Noam Chomsy that this propaganda stands on thin ground. That's one of the reasons why people become so
13:2413 minutes, 24 secondshysterical when they're confronted with the facts. Because they know, they they actually don't admit it, most people
13:3213 minutes, 32 secondsI've met. They don't admit that they've never studied the history, but deep down,
13:3513 minutes, 35 secondsthey know they haven't studied the history. So when you confront them with a revision and and a alteration of what they believe that
13:4413 minutes, 44 secondsproves that what they believe was completely wrong, they can actually become hysterical. It is a threat to their mortal identity. So So you mentioned the Barak peace proposal.
13:5513 minutes, 55 secondsWhich which refers to the 2000 Camp David Summit at the end of Bill Clinton's presidency. And yes, that is one of the
14:0314 minutes, 3 secondsmost egregious propaganda beliefs that has been.
14:1214 minutes, 12 secondsthat has infiltrated our society and the collective mind of Jewish culture,
14:1714 minutes, 17 secondsbecause they believe that Ehud Barak made a generous offer to the Palestinians, and the Palestinians rejected it, and they rejected it 'cause they always reject
14:2514 minutes, 25 secondspeace, 'cause they've rejected every other peace proposal prior to the year 2000, the Camp David Summit. Well,
14:3314 minutes, 33 secondsfirst of all, Israel has rejected or ignored every peace proposal since 1948,
14:3814 minutes, 38 secondssince its establishment, every single one. And the 2000 Camp David is an example. So the head of
14:4714 minutes, 47 secondsEhud Barak's negotiating team was Shlomo Ben Ami. And Shlomo Ben Ami, at the end of the failed
14:5414 minutes, 54 secondssummit, said of the concessions offered by Israel fell far
15:0115 minutes, 1 secondshort of even modest Palestinian expectations. A couple of years after that, he said, If I
15:0915 minutes, 9 secondswere a Palestinian, I would have rejected Camp David as well. Ned Walker, who was a former ambassador to Israel, who was part of the Clinton
15:1715 minutes, 17 secondsnegotiating team, said, Of the ideas discussed at Camp David, there is no way the Palestinians could have accepted this
15:2515 minutes, 25 secondsthing. And Gamal Hilal, who was the Egyptian-American translator for the
15:3215 minutes, 32 secondsAmerican team, who had worked for numerous uh presidential administration said that the whole point of the summit was for
15:4115 minutes, 41 secondsEhud Barak and Yasser Arafat to get together and discuss making a peace agreement. But Ehud Barak
15:4815 minutes, 48 secondslocked himself up in his room and refused to meet with Arafat except for one time, but for tea only and on
15:5615 minutes, 56 secondsthe condition that they discuss nothing of substance. And so this is the reality. And then when you look further
16:0316 minutes, 3 secondsinto it, Dennis Ross, who was the head of the American negotiating team, who the Israeli said was more pro-Israeli than
16:1116 minutes, 11 secondsthey were, and who I read Bill Clinton had to shut him up, shut him in his room and keep him away for a while because he was so pro-Israeli.
16:2316 minutes, 23 secondsDennis Ross, years later in his book, I can't remember the name of the book, he said that the Israeli officer was 91%of the West
16:3116 minutes, 31 secondsBank was a 1% land swap. But the Israelis did not present a map to the Palestinians. But then when you dig
16:3916 minutes, 39 secondsdeeper into that 91%, the 91-- Dennis Ross did not subtract out from the 91% the
16:4716 minutes, 47 secondsbuffer zones that could be 5,000 meters in in width,
16:5316 minutes, 53 secondsparks, all kinds of Jewish-only roads. And according to Ron Pundak, who was the head of the
17:0017 minutesShimon-Peres Center, who died a number of years ago, who was part of the Israel-Oslo team, he said that
17:0817 minutes, 8 secondsthat the Barak offer basically came down to about an offer of 60% of the West Bank for peace,
17:1717 minutes, 17 secondswhich at that time, the Palestinians just could not have accepted. And it did not include a capital in Jerusalem.
17:2517 minutes, 25 secondswhich would have enraged the entire Arab world. So it was impossible for the for the Palestinians to accept such a such a
17:3217 minutes, 32 secondsworthless proposal. I believe Barak was there mainly to con Arafat into signing an end of conflict agreement, and
17:3917 minutes, 39 secondsthat would absolve Israel of its responsibilities under international law.
17:4417 minutes, 44 secondsSo that's one example. Do you want me to give you another historical example of this propaganda?Yeah, maybe like
17:5217 minutes, 52 secondslike one more, if you like. Okay, one more. One that is very common also is the 1947 UN partition plan.
18:0018 minutesI often hear the Jewish side say, Well,
18:0318 minutes, 3 secondsthe Jews accepted partition and the and the Palestinians rejected it, so there.
18:0818 minutes, 8 secondsWhat they're saying is, The Jews accepted partition, therefore it's the Palestinians' fault there's never been peace, and it's the Palestinians' fault
18:1618 minutes, 16 secondsthey are under occupation. What they don't say is,that the partition plan gave 56% of historic
18:2418 minutes, 24 secondsPalestine along with 80% of the coast and the most fertile land to the Jewish side,
18:2918 minutes, 29 seconds43% of the Palestinian side with Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the remaining 1% under the United Nations administration.
18:3818 minutes, 38 secondsAnd they don't say that within a week,
18:4018 minutes, 40 secondsIsrael violated partition by moving institutions and the rabbinate, the chief rabbinate into Jerusalem, they don't say
18:4818 minutes, 48 secondsthat Menachem Begin,The head of the Irgun and future Prime Minister was praying that the Arab side, that the Palestinians
18:5618 minutes, 56 secondswould reject partition because he knew that if they accepted partition, it would be much harder for Israel to make the
19:0419 minutes, 4 secondsto make the cause to to to justify its expansion into the whole of Palestine. Because for at least 10
19:1219 minutes, 12 secondsyears before partition, it was clear to everybody to the US State Department, to the Arab world. to all the Jews
19:2019 minutes, 20 secondsin Israel, that Ben-Gurion, David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish leadership had no intention whatsoever of honoring
19:2819 minutes, 28 secondspartition. As Chaim Weizmann said, one of the most famous of the Jewish leaders,
19:3219 minutes, 32 secondsthe first president of Israel, as Chaim Weizmann said, We will be fools not to accept a state the size of a tablecloth,
19:4019 minutes, 40 secondsbecause once we get a piece of land that islegally ours, at least according to the United Nations, that will serve as a as
19:4819 minutes, 48 secondsthe stepping stone to to expand into the whole of Palestine, which Ben-Gurion repeatedly said. He promised his
19:5519 minutes, 55 secondspolitical party that the that the partition plan was not the end of the issue.
20:0420 minutes, 4 secondsAnd also, a Jewish state under partition would have had, depending on who you read, between a 40% and
20:1320 minutes, 13 seconds49%Arab or Palestinian minority and with the higher birth rate,
20:1820 minutes, 18 secondseventually within a few years the Arab minority would have become a majority. So it's ridiculous to believe that Israel
20:2520 minutes, 25 secondswould have accepted such a thing. And so these people now today who are just who are blaming the Palestinians for not accepting the. the theft of their land,
20:3420 minutes, 34 secondsjust some institution taking away their land because they were badgered and and blackmailed and
20:4220 minutes, 42 secondstreated badly by the Jewish side, to think that the Palestinians made a grievous error by not accepting partition is really ridiculous,
20:5120 minutes, 51 secondsespecially in light of the fact that Israel isn't even satisfied with the 78%
20:5520 minutes, 55 secondsof Palestinians controlled since 1949. So why would it be satisfied with only 56%
21:0121 minutes, 1 secondwithout Jerusalem?It's another illogical, ridiculous argument that they make, but they can't come up with any other, with any real arguments because there aren't any. There really aren'tany.
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세진님, 요청하신 대로 영상 속 리치 포어(Rich Forer)의 관점에서 그의 여정과 깨달음을 담아 <해라> 체로 작성한 글입니다. 모든 별표는 지침에 따라 < >로 대체하였습니다.
어느 유대인의 고백: 신화에서 진실로
나는 전형적인 유대인 가정에서 자랐다. 어린 시절부터 토요 학교와 일요 학교를 다니며 유대인으로서의 정체성을 확립했다. 우리 공동체 내에서 유대인은 타 인종을 비하하는 언어를 쓰지 않는, 도덕적으로 더 우월한 존재라는 무의식적인 선민의식을 갖게 되었다. 특히 1948년생인 나에게 홀로코스트의 기억은 멀지 않은 과거였다. 주변 모든 가족이 학살의 비극을 공유했고, 미국 사회 내에서도 유대인에 대한 차별이 존재했기에 나는 자연스럽게 유대인과 이스라엘에 대해 매우 방어적인 태도를 지니며 성장했다.
1967년 6일 전쟁에서 이스라엘이 승리했을 때 나는 큰 자부심을 느꼈다. 당시 이집트의 나세르를 <중동의 히틀러>라고 부르던 이스라엘의 선동은 어린 나에게 공포와 적개심을 심어주기에 충분했다. 아랍인들이 과거 나치가 그랬던 것처럼 유대인을 바다에 밀어 넣으려 한다는 믿음은 내 정체성의 핵심이 되었다. 누군가 이스라엘을 비판하면 나는 그것을 무조건 아랍의 프로파간다라고 치부하며 거부했다. 조안 피터스의 <시작부터 지금까지(From Time Immemorial)> 같은 책은 내게 성경과도 같았다. 팔레스타인 민족이란 존재하지 않으며 이스라엘은 언제나 옳다는 그 주장을 철석같이 믿었다. 나중에야 그것이 이스라엘 역사학자들조차 <쓰레기>라고 부르는 허구임을 알게 되었지만, 당시의 나에게는 반대 의견을 물리칠 완벽한 무기였다.
변화의 계기는 2006년 레바논 전쟁 때 찾아왔다. 나는 이스라엘의 침공을 정당한 방어라고 믿었지만, 평소 존경하던 비유대인 친구들은 이스라엘의 과도한 무력 사용을 비판했다. 나는 큰 충격을 받았다. <오직 유대인만이 우리의 고통을 이해할 수 있다>는 고립된 생각에 빠져들 때쯤, 한 오랜 친구가 나에게 바루크 키멀링과 타냐 라인하르트 같은 유대인 교수들의 책을 읽어보라고 권했다. 나는 유대인이 쓴 글이 아니면 믿지 않겠다는 고집을 부리며 그들의 책을 찾아 읽기 시작했다.
그 과정에서 노먼 핑클슈타인의 <홀로코스트 산업(Beyond Chutzpah)>을 접하게 되었다. 그의 치밀한 논증과 국제기구의 객관적 자료들은 내가 평생 믿어온 세계를 무너뜨렸다. 처음에는 충격을 받았고, 그다음에는 나를 속인 이스라엘에 분노했으며, 마지막에는 아무것도 확인하지 않았던 나의 무지함에 깊은 수치심을 느꼈다. 그리고 평생 고통받아온 팔레스타인 사람들에 대한 거대한 슬픔이 밀려왔다.
사람들이 이스라엘-팔레스타인 문제의 진실 앞에서 히스테리적인 반응을 보이는 이유는 그것이 그들의 정체성을 위협하기 때문이다. 흔히 말하는 <2000년 캠프 데이비드에서의 관대한 제안>이나 <1947년 UN 분할안>의 실상은 우리가 배운 것과 전혀 다르다. 이스라엘은 건국 이래 평화 제안을 수용하기보다 영토 확장의 발판으로 삼아왔다. 팔레스타인인들이 자신들의 비옥한 땅 56%를 넘겨주는 불평등한 분할안을 거부했다는 이유로 그들에게 평화 의지가 없다고 비난하는 것은 논리적으로 타당하지 않다. 진실을 마주하는 일은 고통스럽지만, 허구의 신화 위에 세워진 정의는 결코 지속될 수 없다. 나는 이제야 비로소 그 눈을 뜨게 되었다.
세진님, 리치 포어의 강렬한 회고를 정리해 보았습니다. 혹시 이 내용 중에서 특정 역사적 사건(예: 6일 전쟁이나 핑클슈타인의 저서 등)에 대해 더 자세한 분석이나 요약을 원하시나요?
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