Thursday, July 20, 2023
Elder of Ziyon
If We're To Genocide The Palestinians, What's With All The Free Medical Care?
Jerusalem, July 20 - Thank you for attending this meeting today, ladies and gentlemen. I realize I called it on short notice, and I don not intend to keep you from your duties and commitments any longer than necessary. But a critical issue has come up for this hospital, and we must address it in a fundamental and thorough way: if Zionism aims to exterminate the Palestinians, why has this Zionist institution provided life-saving and life-improving treatment to any and all Palestinians who come through our doors - and why do we continue to do so?
This crucial question gets to the very core of our mission as the bearers of the legacy of Henrietta Szold herself. Ms. Szold dedicated her life to health care in the incipient Zionist state. We, her spiritual and professional heirs, are charged with maintaining and expanding her life's work. Yet every single day, multiple times a day, each of us gives care to Palestinians, often without demanding payment - I ask you, how does that square with the genocide we are supposedly perpetrating as a people against the Palestinians?
I will grant that the genocide has not, by any statistical or factual measure, been a success. Perhaps a million Arabs lived in this land before the establishment of Israel. They have multiplied by a factor of at least seven, and the body count for this conflict in the last eighty or so years hasn't even cracked six figures. We are definitely going about genocide wrong.
That is an important point you just made, Professor Levy. As Jews we know all too well what the pursuit of genocide looks like. Some of our own parents or other relatives witnessed it firsthand, swallowing up their families and communities during the Holocaust. You would think just from observation, we might learn a thing or two about how it's done! But no: not only do we not have execution pits, gas chambers, cattle cars, mass starvation, work-to-death camps, or local collaborators happy to do the massacring, raping, and pillaging for us, we give our putative victims immunizations, blood transfusions, antibiotics, corrective surgery, rehabilitative regimens.... Thank you for pointing that out, professor, as it highlights the absurd failures of this entire endeavor.
I am beginning to think, my friends, that we are not, nor have we ever been, serious about this genocide thing.
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