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There are no words for this brutality. Those who engage in dehumanizing others are, in fact, dehumanizing themselves. 

Why is there no central loud and authoritative moral voice within Israeli society calling  the people and their leaders to accountability? Why is there no loud collective outcry from the nation’s rabbis condemning this behavior and exhorting their fellow citizens to show  mercy and love? Christians have the Pope. Is this genocidal brutality, in fact, being sanctioned by the Torah? Deuteronomy 20:16-17.  At this point, I’m convinced that Zionism is a disease. The Zionists, of all people, should realize how evil ethnic cleansing and genocide is. “Do NOT do unto others what you would have them NOT do unto you!” 

However, after a brief glance, it is apparent that both Islam and Christianity have abundant episodes of the ethnic cleansing and genocide of other humans in their own histories. My condemnation of Zionism must be joined by condemnation of both Christianity and Islam. The three Abrahamic faiths have failed in their responsibility to prevent ethnic cleansing & genocide. And, I suspect, neither have the other two major faith traditions complied with this moral imperative: Hinduism & Buddhism. 

Perhaps we are standing on new ground historically:  maybe these historical atrocities were committed without the actual direct witnessing of them by the general public in those days. What’s new today is the ubiquitous presence of digital media everywhere witnessing these atrocities and bringing it to phones and living rooms everywhere on the planet, making many humans virtual eyewitnesses to these atrocities. And these episodes provide a direct appeal to our instinctual human morality. And this, then, could be the basis for a new sustainable morality and ethics. And let's disregard the various ethnocentric ideologies that justify violence against the outside groups!