It is so very generous of you to respond to my need to receive some feedback from you on a poem I wrote the other day.

As you are someone directly affected by Israel's policies (I understand you /your relatives live in the West Bank ) I feel it is vital that people directly affected by the issues I was addressing in my poem, have opportunity to respond.

I'm sure you have so much to deal with these days, with th horror of th constant bombardments of Gaza and the 'settlers' wreaking bloody havoc in the West Back, and so I am extremely grateful that you have taken the time to respond with such obvious care and thoughtfulness.

You said you would respond this evening, and you did, which is also admirably honourable, if I may say so.

I have not seen anyone make this connection tht I have made in the poem, that the notion of being 'God's Chosen People', can have the effect of making people of good conscience extraordinarily more responsible and careful in not taking liberties with the powers they have been bestowed with; or, in those of a sociopathic nature/psychopathic bent, could it be that they use this idea of the Jews as a 'God's Chosen People', to consider themselves superior, others as inferior and that it gives them rights over those 'Others', who are thereby, dehumanised.

I do see that being a foundational aspect of Zionism, just as the Nazis' ideas about being part of the 'Aryan race', and deploying the Nietzshean concept of the 'Superman', to dehumanise those they determined lay outside of their definition of the Arayn race/the 'Uberman'.