Re: “How Israel-Gaza protests may damage Democrats this summer time” [April 22, Nation & World]:
The article missed the important thing level of the protests on the 1968 Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago. Sure, the Democrats misplaced the battle (the presidential election) however they gained the battle (with U.S. troops withdrawing from Vietnam in 1973). As we speak’s politics over Gaza may end up the identical manner.
The hard-right authorities of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has full monetary and army backing from each President Joe Biden and the U.S. Congress but this battle, nevertheless “profitable” within the brief run, is shaping as much as develop into a historic defeat for Judaism itself. The entire world is now debating the that means of the phrase “genocide.”
I really feel very unhappy for the various peace-loving individuals who have been devoted to a everlasting answer, grounded in historic justice, particularly Jewish Voice for Peace. However simply as the tip to the Vietnam Conflict was truly a defeat for the militarism and imperialism that had corrupted our authorities, we are able to hope that the world comes to acknowledge that it’s the present resurgence of militarism and imperialism that’s the enemy, not Judaism.
Dick Burkhart, Seattle
