I read the book “Jewish Paradox” from Nahum Goldmann. He was creator of the World Jewish Congress in 1933 to protect Jews from Hitler and president of World Zionist Congress.

In his book he often criticizes Ben Gurion for only using military might in dealing with Palestinians. He says all belligerent tone from Israel society was learned from Ben Gurion.

according to him, had Israel applied 1/5 of the effort it used to get favours with Western Powers for understanding arabs, Israelis and Palestinians would be in peace. Not just legal peace on the paper, but real peace from heart to heart.

This book has inspired me a lot and I’d like to know if any of you can recommend a book by another Israel/Jewish politician/leader which had really from it’s heart the desire to be in peace with Palestinians.

If possible, please a politician/leader who wrote a book themself

  • AOCapitulator [they/them]English
    11•13 days ago

    No one anywhere even close to power, that’s for sure

    This is why the cry of death to Israel, death to its government and systems of oppression and violence

  • @cfgaussian
    10•13 days ago

    When you start your question by equating Jewish people with Israelis by writing “Israeli/Jewish” you are already committing a grave fallacy. There are plenty of Jewish people who fit the criteria of what you are asking, many of them who are deeply dedicated to the struggle for a free Palestine, but none who are or could ever be “Israeli” leaders because to be an Israeli politician let alone a leader you need to be dedicated to upholding and perpetuating the genocidal settler-colonial project. Never, ever associate Jewishness with being Israeli, the Jewish people deserve better than to be named in the same breath as that crime against humanity called “Israel”. Only Zionists and antisemites perpetually equate the two.

    • @caveman@lemmy.mlOP
      6•13 days ago

      When I say Jewish I mean anyone who could have lived before Israel State existed, or who didn’t move to there.

      And when I say Israeli is in case after Israel exists and the person had a role in Israel government.

      A/B means A OR B. Doesn’t mean A EQUALS B

      I just wanted to make it a abroad as possible.

      If you look the general post I assume that I want someone to inspire, so the goal was clearly on the positive side for whoever is mentioned.

      Ps: I have edited the question to make the OR more explicit

  • culpritus [any]English
    6•13 days ago

    This seems like a relevant event related to your question.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin

    Due to the ultimate failure of further progress on the Oslo Accords, there is a popular view that the assassination was highly successful, with some calling it the most successful political assassination in modern history due to it achieving the goals of its perpetrator.

    • @caveman@lemmy.mlOP
      7•13 days ago

      This Netanyahu is really a f*****:

      “Rallies organized by Likud and other right-wing groups featured depictions of Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform, or in the crosshairs of a gun.[2][3] Protesters compared the Labor party to the Nazis and Rabin to Adolf Hitler[5] and chanted, “Rabin is a murderer” and “Rabin is a traitor”.[8][9] In July 1995, Netanyahu led a mock funeral procession featuring a coffin and hangman’s noose at an anti-Rabin rally where protesters chanted, “Death to Rabin”.[10][11] The chief of internal security, Carmi Gillon, then alerted Netanyahu of a plot on Rabin’s life and asked him to moderate the protests’ rhetoric, which Netanyahu declined to do.[8][12] Netanyahu denied any intention to incite violence.[2][3][13]”

      And there was a religious order to kill Rabin (called rodef). It’s outraging that Zionists complain about Islamic fatwas, but their religion has the same shit:

      “In the Israeli settlements, pamphlets debating the validity of applying din rodef and din moser (“law of the informer”) to Rabin and the Oslo Accords were distributed at synagogues. Both carried a death sentence according to traditional Halakhic law.[6] There was disagreement among religious Zionists as to whether Amir ever secured authorization from a rabbi to carry out the assassination of Rabin.[16] His father later said that in the months before the assassination, Amir repeatedly “said that the prime minister should be killed because a din rodef was issued against him”.[17] During his later trial, Amir stated: “I acted according to din rodef. … It was not a personal act, I just wanted [Rabin] to be removed from his position”.[18]”