Reflections and Ruminations; A Visit with Col/Dr. Moti Kedar

 Phyllis Chesler

"Oh, I could go on, but Dr. Mordechai taped our conversation, and he may have much more to quote from. As to what he told me: I dare not repeat most of it. Suffice it to say: The Jews are also at war with each other in the Holy Land."

"When I first heard that people were bringing the Hamas footage of 10/7 to Davos to be seen--I said: "I don't think that's a good idea. The sight of Jewish blood and of Jewish weakness will incite even more blood lust among the Jew haters."

"I think I had a point--and yet, I lacked the requisite power to enforce any opinion, however prescient or plausible it might have been. Indeed, the footage did just that.

"I also said that the best place for this toxic footage is in a Jerusalem courtroom in a trial similar to that of Eichmann's. I stressed that expecting such footage and all subsequent forensic and witness accounts to be impartially heard in an international venue was a fool's errand and a huge mistake.

"My guest, last night, my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, suggested that if Israel dared try Palestinian terrorists in a Jerusalem courtroom that the world would probably cheer for the barbarians as "freedom fighters." A better decision would be assassinating them, one by one, so that each and every Hamas leader or collaborator would know that, one by one, their day of death was imminent, sooner rather than later. I believe this is precisely what Israel has been doing; it is as "proportional" as Hell, ain't it?

"Lt. Colonel/Dr. Mordechai was here to interview me about the state of American Jewry. And so I talked about all our self-loving Jews who loved themselves and their privileged positions so very much that they would do anything to keep their places even if it meant having to demonize other Jews--just so long as they were spared. At least for now. Or for a very long time. Take them--the "oustjuden." The "greenhorns." The haredim. The right-wing Israelis. Especially PM Netanyahu. The IDF. The "settlers." All those Jewish thinkers and writers who support any of the above, etc.

"Yes, we have our own American judenrat--those infamous and pitiful councils which chose which Jews the Nazis could take first--and did so in order to spare hundreds or thousands for a while longer." . . .

"Some Reform and some Reconstructionist American "temples" are pro forma anti-Zionists--and passionately and loudly so. One such temple invited and then dis-invited me as a lecturer. Only afterwards did I discover that they did not allow an Israeli flag on the bima and said no prayers for the state of Israel." . . .

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