Larry the Legend wrote:
Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz's religious thought was founded on a far-reaching theocentrism that allowed him to combine a commitment to Orthodox Jewish practice with a stripped-down definition of Jewish faith that yielded a radically naturalistic theology—if, indeed, what was left could bear the burden of the term 'theology' at all. In essence, he wasn't very 'Jewish'. In his later political philosophy he denied that the state of Israel had any Jewish religious significance and became an outspoken defender of the complete separation between religion and state. Again, not very 'Jewish'.
In a 1968 essay titled 'The Territories', Leibowitz postulated a tyrannical future:
"The Arabs would be the working people and the Jews the administrators, inspectors, officials, and police—mainly secret police. A state ruling a hostile population of 1.5 to 2 million foreigners would necessarily become a secret-police state, with all that this implies for education, free speech and democratic institutions. The corruption characteristic of every colonial regime would also prevail in the State of Israel. The administration would suppress Arab insurgency on the one hand and acquire Arab Quislings on the other. There is also good reason to fear that the Israel Defense Forces, which has been until now a people's army, would, as a result of being transformed into an army of occupation, degenerate, and its commanders, who will have become military governors, resemble their colleagues in other nations".
Nearly 50 years on and it still hasn't happened. There can be no doubt that Prof. Leibowitz was an angry and disappointed man. He did not get his way with David Ben-Gurion in 1947 and spent the rest of his days sulking over it.
But let's disregard all of that. Just one question: If I can get someone to say that you are a raving, mincing, bucket-of-gleet ass bandit, would that make it so? If not, why not, since that seems to be the standard you set for Israel being a Nazi State? And you really have no idea how offensive that is, do you?
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What is beyond offensive to me is a political movement which has been the root cause of 2 world wars, has stolen a country and continues to practice genocide on the people whose country they stole. This same political movement has infiltrated our mainstream media, our motion picture and TV industry, our Federal Reserve Banking system and Capitol Hill. Using their control of Capitol Hill, Zionists have been able to extort billions from our treasury annually and persuade Congress to have our military fight Israel's enemies in the Middle East while they sit back and profit off weapons sales. That's what's really offensive to me.