Comments on: The difference between them and us https://www.yourish.com/2009/07/09/8123 Cutting straight to the point Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:53:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Lucas Emanuel (Brazil) https://www.yourish.com/2009/07/09/8123/comment-page-1#comment-36859 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:53:49 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=8123#comment-36859 t be holding my breath." Shalom. Lucas Emanuel]]> I think the majority of the jews are overly self-critical, what should be a good thing if there is not a “overly” in the context. Many of us (but not all, or even the great majority, obviously) prefer to please the “sense of justice” of others, than to think by self and reach an conclusion. We are more afraid with the possibility of an error by us than with the setbacks of be so acquiescent. But is not only this. We suffer with the suffering of non-jewish people, not rarely as if is our own suffer. As we fight against the racial discrimination in the XX century, as our prophets brought to the world the conception of a great peace between all human beings, we even today are in the front in the battle against all forms of hate, against the misoginy in Islam and against the ethnic massacres in Africa, against the opression of the han majority over the subjugated nations in China and against religious, racial an political discrimination all over the world. And that make us better, because we protest against the injustices (and even, what is not good, the acts of self-defense and protection of our rights) commited by other jews, but make us vulnerable because other people don’t think this way the most of time, especially people drive by an fanatical and fundamentalist vision of the world.
But please. We are not perfect, I did not say that, but we are generally more self-critical than others.
Last, but not least, I totally agree with the conclusion of this post, and make then my words.
“When the Palestinians start behaving like Jews, there will be peace. I won’t be holding my breath.”

Shalom.

Lucas Emanuel

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