Do We Believe?
By Jonathan Tobin
"Bush's obsession has survived the demise of Yasser Arafat. It has even become the key to the administration's biggest and riskiest project: the transformation of Iraq."And what would that word "democracy" describe?
Surely not US elections (e.g. the diabolical in Ohio)
Surely not the separation of church and state (see pledge of allegiance,
"in God we trust" on coins, and "God shed his grace on thee"
Surely not one man (even one who claims being chosen by God)
could decide foreigh policy for a "democracy".And what could the word "democracy" describe?
Surely a country where the people decide and debate,
especially such things as "foreign policy"?Where is the Jewish olive branch?
Where is the unNamed god that is proclaimed to be everywhere?Surely in the eyes of Arabs as well as Jews
at least
in any true "democracy".
Why not a Palestinian Ghandi?
Why not an Israeli Ghandi?The voice of Ghandi is speaking on both sides
let their voices be heard
please.
Jonathan S. Tobin is executive editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
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