Moral Monsters

To my daughter: Never support Moral Monsters who exploit and kill. Most of my life I have listened to the lies told by some of our leaders, lobbyists, and interest groups. I have become a monster of complicity myself. There is no difference between me and a dutiful German citizen during World War II who closed their eyes to atrocity. There is a component of the morally monstrous in our support of Israel. It derives from a component of the Israeli body itself which is a monster. The people of Israel are a brave and good people. It seems that now the monsters have come to power. This has paralleled the rise to power of the monstrous within our own country. They have fired upon the women of Bait Hanoun. We have destroyed Iraq in the name of our Democracy. Now Avigdor Lieberman, the deputy prime minister, proposes a Cyprus model for the partition of the land into a Palestinian state and Israel. He states that minorities are the biggest problem in the world. I do not need to draw parallels with monsters from the past. It is too obvious. These statements - if they are accepted - go back to the founding of the State of Israel and what was said and what was done at that time. If you cannot live in harmony with others, they must be destroyed...unless we may build a wall...unless we may divide the land... Our god is not big enough. The God of Abraham worshipped by Jews and Muslims and Christians is not big enough. If Jacob were to wrestle with God, the God, that is, that we believe in, God would give up. God would back off. Let the man do whatever the man wants. The terrorism of today is but a little terror compared to the Big Terror being dreamed up by the Monsters in power.