Nee Wong first began to suspect that her parents were planning to flee Vietnam when they suddenly enrolled her in a swimming course – “so that I wouldn’t drown at sea if the boat capsized,” explains the petite, elegantly dressed woman with short black hair. But Wong, who was 14, never expected to end up in Israel. “It was a land I thought existed only in Biblical stories,” recalls the 48-year-old Vietnamese-born...
- By bronxite10
- 06 Feb 2013
- 07:42PM
identifying with a Palastinain state. A Jewish state is a necessity of history, and a Palastinain state may be so as well, but there's no reason to turn either into an monomaniacally ethnocentric entity rejecting all others who would be a part of the group. France and the U.K can be Catholic and Protestant in culture, but there can be room in both for Jews and Muslims, and both Israel and a Palastinain state can be the same. The Dreifus Affair in small and the Holocaust in large demonstrated that humanism is not enough, and Zionism is a requirement for the survival of the Jewish people. But Zionism without humanism is like a Beitar soccor riot: a cheap and tawdry affair not worthy of the Jewish people or anyone else.
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