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martha's avatar

As yeshivah students in brooklyn, we were taught about the many places that Zionists had contemplated and debated for a homeland. My favorite was "I [pronounced ee] New York," which means an island in New York Bay or Harbor. I guess Uganda was another place contemplated. Despite my upbringing and milieu, I abjured Zionism at age 14 or 15 and haven't been back to Israel, and am truly repulsed by the behavior of Israeli tourists in various countries and indeed by that of most Israeli men I've met (long story on post 19-45 maleness in Israel)—but I still feel an almost unbreakable empathy for the deaths of noncombatant secular Israeli Jews (despite their army service!) and peaceniks.

But not enough to keep me from last night's Grand Central sitdown, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, to demand a ceasefire .

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Allen Blitz's avatar

As a landsman from the same pedigree, but from the Bronx, thank you fro this column.

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