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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax
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To: JHP who wrote (3210)12/27/2002 2:24:44 PM
From: Elmer Flugum   of 3467
 
Honorable Rabbi or Self-hating Jew?

abcnews.go.com

"MICHEL MARTIN: Would you characterize yourself as having been an extremist ... a fanatic?

RABBI HIRSCHFIELD: Now, if "extremist" means not what most Jews believe, yeah. If "fanatic" means not being able to see any other position, yes. No one was purposefully violent. It wasn't like that. There wasn't -- it wasn't that you'd sit around the table and there would be hate speech about Palestinians. It was that really you just dulled your senses to the reality of 100,000 other human beings.


UpClose: A man of God who worries about the evil that can lurk in religion. Orthodox Rabbi Brad Hirschfield worries about people whose religious beliefs convince them that they are 100 percent right. He worries because he has been there. He grew up in Chicago, but went to Israel and became a settler in the West Bank town of Hebron. He was convinced he was reclaiming land that God wanted him to have.
After three years he was shocked to see how easy it is to let the thirst to be right and the desire for absolutes lead to acts of massive injustice. He says he saw murder and vigilantism justified in the name of religion. Hirschfield is now committed to the proposition that being religious includes a commitment to seeing what is right in others.

Ater Sept. 11 he came to the conclusion that the Muslims who hijacked those planes and the Jewish settlers in the West Bank share one thing: the desire to be 100 percent right. Rabbi Brad Hirschfield is an extraordinarily dynamic voice speaking up for tolerance from his personal experience."
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