A Necessary Change in World View

In a recent Jewish Voice for Peace "Gush Shalom" there is an article by Uri Avnery "Sorry Wrong Continent" in which Uri Traces the source of Zionism to the European Colonial Era in which it was created. Looking backward to Europe as though Israel is a part of Europe rather than looking forward to a greater unity with Asia, an affirmation of the Hebrew Future which includes being a part of Asia, treating Asian Hebrews, Palestinians of all races and Arabs as fully human beings.

This Zionism which sees itself as an outpost of Europe in a hideous Asian Desert prevents peace, it exacerbates trouble with Israel's neighbors and with it's own Asian Citizens.

Many of the elements of Avnery's essay remind me of much of the situation here in North America, The Europeans came and conquered destroying the Native Cultures and imposing a World View that looked to Europe as it's source and it's fulfillment. Even today when people speak of North America they speak of it's culture as though it were European and as if the culture and peoples who were here prior to the European Conquest didn't count then and count even less today.

Why there are even millions of Americans in the United States who know the geography of Ancient Israel better than they know or understand the geography of present North America and there are multiple millions both here in North America and around the world who think that prior to the European Conquest that North America was a vast wilderness occupied by a few naked savages who counted for nothing and whose opinions and culture didn't matter at all.

Please read Avnery's article and give some attention toward changing world views as we now enter the future. Sorry Wrong Continent

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