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| …In a nutshell, the word ger does not refer to a neighboring non-Jew who murders your teenage daughter with a bomb in a pizza parlor, or so batters your 12 year-old son his corpse can only be identified by his DNA. We Jews are not Christians who are enjoined to love their enemies.
I remember when American journalist Terry Anderson in the 1980s was held by Hezbollah as a hostage in some crummy apartment in Beirut for seven years, much of the time chained to a radiator like a dog, who upon his liberation said that as a Catholic he was obligated to forgive his kidnappers. Well, we Jews ain’t Catholics. We are not ordered to love a neighbor, a non-Jewish neighbor, who plants a bomb in a supermarket on a Friday morning and blows up your wife shopping for Shabbos, G-d forbid, or your grandmother. That would be to demand of us Jews behavior that is simply not of this world. So, I think young Mr. Jacob Magid needs to do more studying about what a real occupation is and why our situation in Judea and Samaria is nothing to be ashamed of. He also has to understand that within the term narrative as he uses it, there is post-modernist poison which corrupts not only the soul but the mind and one’s moral faculties… |
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