overall relationship to the Arab minority has been one of disdain and
discrimination. Sadly, this conduct extends to other minorities.
Two
weeks ago, I wrote about my reasons for moving
to Israel. I wanted “to help in building a nation that would be a
reflection of the best of the Jewish
value heritage – a country based on the prophetic vision of equality,
social justice, decency and humanity.” I fully expected that the Zionist
enterprise would be inclusive, pluralistic, humanistic and universal.
In
retrospect, almost 40 years after my aliya, I view my life here through
a different lens. Perhaps I should have been more realistic, accepting
David Ben-Gurion’s vision that we should seek “normalcy” and be like any
other nation, which meant there would be “Jewish police and Jewish
criminals.” For certain, that is true.
But, what I did not expect
was institutional criminality. I am not referring to those Knesset
members serving time in jail or a president and prime minister being
accused respectively of rape and embezzlement. I am speaking of the type
of institutional criminality that bears the mark of discrimination… >>>