On the miracle of being born – Gideon Levy in Haaretz:

‘Exactly 25 years ago, a few months before he was elected prime minister, I asked Barak in a TV interview: “If you had been born a Palestinian, how would your life have unfolded? What would you have become?” He courageously gave the only possible true answer: “I suppose that if I were at the right age, at some point I would have joined one of the terror organizations.” I admired him for his answer and for the conclusions it entailed.
Ten years later, the same Barak, as minister of defense, commanded Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s most barbaric assault on the Gaza Strip, which left 1,385 Palestinians dead, more than half of them defenseless people, including 318 children, 109 women and 248 traffic policemen. That barbaric attack was another pinnacle of Israel’s military tyranny over the Palestinian people. Barak conducted it, one cannot forget that.’

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‘But Barak is also one of the biggest deceivers in this movement. His temporary identification with young Palestinians fighting the military tyranny named Israel has been long forgotten, and he is now working, with determination shared by both right and left, to make the issue disappear, to deny and suppress it.
The fact that there is no democracy as long as this tyranny continues has long been swept out of Israel’s consciousness. Barak and his ilk are the ones who caused this. They enabled the false image that allows people to take to the streets with pathos, fighting for democracy for one people and feeling so good about it, in a country in which two nations of equal size live in an apartheid state.
One reads Barak in disbelief. A perfect democracy is about to be destroyed by Netanyahu and his associates. A regime of liberty and equality which so characterized Israel is about to be shattered by villains on the right. A dictatorship is around the corner. Barak concludes: “This is the most important fight we’ve ever taken part in.” Here is another direct and honest sentence from Israel’s most-decorated soldier: This is indeed the most important struggle you’ve ever taken part in.’

Read the article here.

That’s the essence, if you had been born the enemy, you be would do what enemies do, most of them at least.

I agree with Levy, but imperfect democracies without equality for the law can be worth saving too. And of course, it would be better if people would acknowledge this, alas, the imperfect world.