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Stated elegance from
to generalize about Israelis
and Jews: "I don't give my-
self the liberty of
dehumanizing the other. If
they (the Israelis) do so, they
have already paid a higher
price for the occupation than
us."
This juxtaposition made
West Bank Jewish settlers
out to.be neo-Nazis and Pa-
lestinians to be noble and
lofty. This is not to say, of
course, that there are no
racist Jews or Israelis. Or
that some Palestinans are
not noble. Or that many
have not received a bum deal
from Israel, other Arab
states, and even by their
own leaders.
But surely Mr. Lawrence
could have found an Israeli
(especially someone from
Peace Now) to say something
about the pitfalls of gen-
eralizing and dehumanizing.
This would also have helped
make the point that Israelis,
as well as Palestinians, are
being town apart by the 24-
year-old occupation.
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Weighing Black-
Jewish Tensions
Recent black anti-
Semitism in New York has
again focused attention on
the on-again, off-again na-
ture of black-Jewish. - rela-
tions. In The Nation, writer
Letty Cottin Pogrebin at-
tempts to unravel this love-
hate relationship.
"Maybe," she says, "Jews
and blacks lock horns more
than other groups because
we are the only ones who
take each other seriously,
the only minority groups
who still seem to believe
that our destinies are inter-
woven?" -
Perhaps central to black-
Jewish ambivalence, sug-
gests Ms. Pogrebin, is their
wholly different cultures.
Both, for instance, fre-
quently use the word
"survival," but quite diff-
erently: "For blacks, sur-
vival means actual physical
endurance, staying alive in
the face of violent crime,
drugs, hunger, homelessness
"For Jews, survival means
keeping a minority culture
and a religion alive against
all odds, guarding against
anti-Semitism and the slip-
pery slope that could lead
from hate speech to the gas
chambers, and helping to
guarantee the security of
Israel.
"In other words, blacks
worry about their actual
conditions and fear for the
present; Jews worry about
their history and fear for the
future."
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