Confiscation of Palestinian property? Israeli soldiers killing women and children? Israeli soldiers destroying and defecating on the Koran? Palestinians living in ‘refugee’ camps and Israeli-created ghettos? According to Judaism, the Jewish people are God’s chosen, special among all other people by the covenant of Abraham and by blood. Is this starting to sound familiar? History is full of irony. The once powerless gain mastery and fall prey to the same mistakes. I remember reading Chaim Potok’s The Chosen in high school and feeling proud of Israel. Now I am ashamed. It is obvious that the suicide bombers are murderers, but in this situation all power is with the Israelis. They are the ones who can decide how this will all turn out. Will we have an endless cycle of murder and genocide perpetrated by two desperate peoples?