It is the identification of traumatized people with bullies, who cannot be opposed or acknowledge mistakes. The Jews have an opportunity to deprogram themselves, as some of us have chosen to do when faced with the Palestinian challenge. We change our self-perception, our myths about ourselves. We challenge the terms of our group belonging to families, religion, state, and nation that are bonded together by bullying, shunning, perfectionist views of ourselves, and the dehumanization of others. But many Jews resist the change, viewing change itself as a threat of violence, pretending away the
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