Thank you, Nana, for sharing your thoughts.

I do not claim to know the answers, but what motivates me as a parent is the desire to leave a better world for my daughter and her generation. I include links to two articles summarizing my latest thinking.

https://medium.cm/liberation-works/the-pisdom-of-solomon-b1dc511b5a96

https://medium.com/the-taoist-online/spiritual-puzzle-how-to-resist-injustice-with-love-abbbfb7daeb9

Certainly the last four months have brought me closer to understanding the primeval fears of Western Jews given their experience in Europe. I got to feel what it was like for the world to watch and do nothing while they were crushed by a state that decided it didn't want them. However, under no circumstances do I believe that being a victim of violence justifies inflicting further violence.

That "Jews are safest in a state of their own" is a political theory, a hypothesis, and one possible only in the settler-colonial world of the last century, when it was considered "progress" for groups of violent Europeans to take over other parts of the world. Since, the Zionist movement (Jewish and Christian) has turned that theory into dogma. For decades, Jewish Americans have seen Israel as an oasis of sorts, a safe-haven and a guarantee for their safety. They kept their eyes shut to the injustices on which Israel was based and continues to practice.

This thesis was based on the pessimistic assumption, that Jewish people would never be safe as a minority in any country. Zionism was thus formed out of victimhood. I would much rather see Jews safe in every country in which they live, or for the matter, everyone should feel safe everywhere in the world.

The world powers have co-opted Zionism because it advances their colonial interests. We as Americans cannot pretend neutrality, because our government hands out billions of dollars in weapons to Israel, every year.

If theories are to be tested by the results of the experiment, the last 75 years of turmoil, and especially the ongoing genocide, are proof of the dismal failure of that ideology.