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The Questions Israel's Critics Refuse to Ask

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi Steven Abraham critiques Jeremy Ben-Ami's perspective on Israel's political landscape, especially in the wake of violence against Israelis. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Yitzhak RabinZionismJewish EthicsPeace ProcessIsraeli PoliticsOctober 7 AttackPalestinian StatehoodJewish SovereigntyJeremy Ben AmiRabbi Steven Abraham

Places mentioned

Israel
"The late Yitzhak Rabin arrives in the United States during his time as Israeli Defense Minister, 1986."
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
"From my desk here in Omaha, the contrast between what I read out of Washington and what I see in my own sanctuary has stopped being merely jarring and become something closer to offensive."
Washington DC, United States
"There is a frictionless, lacquered certainty to Beltway policy dispatches that feels wholly severed from the raw and unhealed grief of the people sitting in my pews."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"For decades it has run on a single theological premise wearing the costume of political analysis: that if only Israel were more flexible, more generous, more willing to take the risk, peace would arrive."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"They imagined it as they dragged their own citizens from their homes in Gush Katif and handed Gaza over, to the last soldier and the last grave."
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