{"id":49829,"date":"2016-04-21T00:07:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49829"},"modified":"2016-04-21T00:07:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:07:43","slug":"brutal-violence-vs-deeply-symbolic-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49829","title":{"rendered":"Brutal violence vs deeply symbolic threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; two manifestations of the extreme right in Israel ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tablet-DQ-Israeli-right.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tablet-DQ-Israeli-right.png\" alt=\"Tablet DQ Israeli right\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tablet-DQ-Israeli-right.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Tablet-DQ-Israeli-right-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think too many people will argue that deliberately burning famiies in their homes is less than brutal. My question to ponder here is how brutal human-on-human violence of that kind is, compared with the symbolic impact of rehearsing a longed-for but long-unpracticed ceremonial, accompanied by prayer that the holy places of another religion may be flattened so that the ceremonial may once again be held in its place of origin.<\/p>\n<p>The first is clearly a simple act of murder, the second a presumably legal practice-run for the full restoration of Temple sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a Palestinian, I might perhaps be more frightened by the former; as a citizen of the world and as a poet, I find the latter more troubling &#8212; as well as considerably more complex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>New York Times<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/21\/world\/middleeast\/israel-uncovered-jewish-extremist-cell-west-bank.html\">Israel Says It Has Uncovered Jewish Extremist Cell in West Bank<\/a>\n<li><strong>Jerusalem Post<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Arab-Israeli-Conflict\/Hopes-for-Temple-Mount-to-be-flattened-expressed-at-Passover-sacrifice-ceremony-451653\">Hopes for Temple Mount to be \u2018flattened\u2019 expressed at Passover sacrifice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; two manifestations of the extreme right in Israel ] . ** I don&#8217;t think too many people will argue that deliberately burning famiies in their homes is less than brutal. My question to ponder here is how brutal human-on-human violence of that kind is, compared with the symbolic impact of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,753,635,717,1021,779,868,833,691,861],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-islam","category-israel","category-judaism","category-palestine","category-question","category-sacred","category-sacrifice","category-symbolism","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49829"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49836,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49829\/revisions\/49836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}