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Live! On The Nose Episode
(jewishcurrents.org)
I shouldn’t act surprised, but somehow it almost stuns me that people can have this conversation at all now: what direction Judaism is going to take after this apartheid régime dies, which for all we know could very well happen before this decade is over.
I think that it is too early to try to predict how exactly the régime is going to collapse, but without apartheid to obstruct anybody I can imagine more anticolonial Jews from the Americas and elsewhere coming over to offer medical care, reconstruction, food aid, education, orphan adoption, and other reparations, but the healing is going to be slow. Ultimately, though, I think that relations between Jews and Palestinian Gentiles are going to come full circle:
[I]nside the walls of the Old City at that time lived Yemeni and Bukhari Jews, and we had good relationships with them, despite the massacre of the Jews (madhbahat al-yahud) that took place in Hebron in 1929. We never saw American Jews or Polish Jews […] All of them were local Jews, in fact, we called them Arab Jews (yahud ‘arab) because we had lived together for ages.
My father had good relations with some of the Jewish rabbis (hakhamin) and I remember his friends used to stop and visit him in his shop always after the afternoon prayer, the rabbi of the Jewish quarter (harat al-yahud) and a Greek Orthodox priest, and they would play backgammon (tawlat al-nard) together and drink coffee that I would prepare for them in the shop. We lived together in mutual understanding (bi-tafahum tam) without hatred between the Arabs and the Jews. We didn’t know the meaning of “Zionism” because we didn’t hear it. I remember their kids and sometimes we would play together.¹³
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