Hanan Schlesinger Answers 18 Questions on Jewish Power, Coexistence, and Palestinian-Israeli Peace

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Hello, my name is Kanan Schlesinger. I'm a rabbi. I'm a teacher and I'm a peace activist. This is 18 questions, 40 Israeli thinkers from 1840. So, we'll begin where we always do. As an Israeli and as a Jew, how are you feeling at this moment in Israeli history? I'm feeling despondent, almost despairing. I am deeply disillusioned by what Zionism has become. What do you mean by that? I have lived within the Jewish story for most of my life. I've lived so deep in the Jewish story that I didn't even know I was living in that I didn't even know I was living in the Jewish story. It was the only story I knew. I wasn't seeing it from the outside. I was seeing it from the inside. And I guess we believe, we Jews have always believed that we're special, that there are things that happen, could happen, do happen to other nations, other peoples that couldn't happen to us. us. And it seems to me that terrible things have happened to us. What I mean is terrible developments in the moral and spiritual fiber of us Israeli Jews as a collective and as individuals. I think that we've proven ourselves not to be any special, any different than to be any special, any different than any other. By special you mean more morally or spiritually I mean morally or spiritually better certainly not and like many of my friends uh the paradigms that we've lived our lives within have been shattered. Which paradigms was that? I suppose that we had a deep deep sense, a conviction

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2. 6:18corrupts. What's going to happen when the Jewish people have power, have a state, can have…
3. 12:33kamas is two things in their own consciousness and in reality. Hamas is a violent extremist…
4. 18:48and speak more broadly about your views on Israel society and the different structures within it.…
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6. 31:11streets especially since October 7th less they will be uh uh suspected of being terrorists. I…
7. 37:26I even have to admit that that Judaism is as Judaism does. I take that from…
8. 43:42lost his land. They opposed Zionism as they see it. And some, I don't know if…
9. 50:02You gave me an outing. You said part. Of course, it's part. The question is, what…
10. 56:15place in the whole of Judea and Samaria where Israelis and Palestinians, local people, can and…

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