Who's playing?

A dust-up in the press: corporations and a few leading Jewish groups are SHOCKED over Mr. Mosley's possibly Nazi-scented S&M sex play. Toyota, Daimler Benz, various Jewish groups are all issuing condemnations and asking that he resign his job in racing.

You see, Mosley used a German accent during consensual, paid role-play in which he whipped a woman; then let some more women dressed in black and white stripes whip him. Therefore hinting of Auschwitz. Everybody is so horrified that he might have play-acted the Holocaust in what he thought was a private sexual act. (one of the women had a hidden camera in her bra). The black-and-white miniskirt outfits might imply prison camp...and his father was a British Fascist and notorious friend of Hitler.

Meanwhile the Israelis have put up a giant walled ghetto and are starving the inhabitants; rounding people up and expelling them; celebrating the sixty-year anniversary of a mass expulsion with massacres; etc. (draw your favorite Nazi tactic here) and is Toyota complaining? The World Jewish Congress? Anybody? I guess play-acting a Nazi is horrible, but really doing what Nazis did is okay - if you're Israeli.

Yes, yes, I know that Israelis have not sent anybody to gas chambers, and when they committed mass expulsions they did not put people on cattle cars or build work camps for them; nor have the Israelis killed six million Arabs. (Not quite a hundred fifty thousand dead Arabs by now, if you include Israel's wars on Lebanon. And of course a hundred fifty thousand dead Arabs don't matter to anybody but their relatives and countrymen).

If you don't see the similarity between Gaza and the Warsaw Ghetto, then you are trying not to look. I think the Israelis are acting out their own trauma unconsciously upon the Other, stimulating all kinds of murderous response, which they use as an excuse to continue killing and oppressing the people under their control.

Hotheaded replies will tend to one of several positions: 1) it's not so bad what the Israelis are doing; 2) Arabs deserve it anyway; 3) Israel is justified because she's under so much stress/threat or 4) you are anti-Semitic for talking about this.

What's the highest spiritual truth about this? We all need to forgive each other and quit hurting each other. Pretty simple.

Comments

[Randa]

Amen, sister. Perfectly said.

[Judy]

How do you see forgiveness playing out in this? I'm curious as to whether you see it at the end of a long process of communication and sharing, or just sort of "bury the hatchet" up front...

You really had me up until that last 'graph, but I don't know about the value of forgiveness without repentance.