Somehow more intellectually honest with his settler colonialism than any zionist today

  • jaeme
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    9 months ago

    "...Our God is not theirs..."

    Even back then we can see the mental distancing of Judaism and Islam when they should be in solidarity with one another. This line just rubs me in the wrong way that I can't describe fully.

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Ben Gurion was militantly secular. I think in this case he’s saying “God” in the sense of what the theologian Paul Tillich called “ultimate purpose.”

    • edge [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      They literally believe in the same God.