bok {vetwreed & lekkerpuh} inthemeantime yomkippur


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@a diasporized@
@(multicultural)@[israel]@'
@{world}@"individual@
@citizen@" ...
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FOR
those of us
who are equally committed
to social justice and collective Jewish existence
some other formation must be
constituted.

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I suggest
that an Israel
which reimports diasporic consciousness,
a consciousness of a Jewish collective
as one sharing space with others,
devoid of exclusivist
and dominating power,
is the only Israel
which could answer PAUL's
[and Lyotard's & Nancy's] call for a species-wide care,
without eradicating cultural
difference.

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I would
propose an Israel
in which individual and collective cultural rights
would become
an essential part of its structure,
no longer coded as a Jewish State
but as a bi-national,
secular, and multucultural
one.

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FOR
historical models,
one might look to the millet system of the Ottoman Empire,
on the one hand,
and to that multiculturalism now struggling to be born
in the United States & Europe
on the other.

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The point would be
precisely to avoid both the coercive universalism of a France,
the Pauline option, on the one hand,
and the violence of a joining of ethnic particularism and state-power,
contemporary Israel,
on the other.

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Reversing
A.B. Yehoshua's famous pronouncement
that only in a condition of political hegemony is moral responsibility
mobilized,
I would argue that the only moral path would be the renunciation
of near-exclusive Jewish
hegemony.
[/oramje]
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THIS
would involve,
first of all,
complete separation of religion from state,
but even more than that
the revocation of the Law of Return
and such cultural, discursive practices
that code the state as a Jewish State and not a multinational
and multicultural
ONE.

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THE
dream or a place
that is ours
founders on the rock of realization
that there are Others there,
just as there are Others in Holland, Poland,
Marocco, and Ethiopia
[f.i./a.o.!] ...

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Any
notion, then,
of Redemption through the Land
must either be infinitely deferred
[as Natorei Karta understand so well?!]
or become a moral
monster.

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Either
Israel must entirely divest itself
of the language of race and become truly a state
which is equally for all of its citizens
and collectives,
or the Jews musr divest themselves
of their claim
to space.

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Race & space,
or genealogy and territorialism,
have been the problematic and necessary [if not essential] terms
around which Jewish identity has been
[r]evolved.

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In Jewish history,
however, these terms
are more obviously in dissonance with each other
than in synergy.

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THIS allows
a formulation of Jewish identity
not as a proud resting place,
indeed not as a "boast,"
but as a perpetual,
creative, diasporic
tension.

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16 sep 2005 - bewerkt op 25 mrt 2008 - meld ongepast verhaal
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