Things that Jewish Americans love

Whether it is relevant to this generation or not, American Jews love peaceful resistance. Like 1960's peaceful resistance. A disproportionate amount of Jews accompanied and worked for the civil rights movement, and this is obviously not a coincidence. We can hypothesize that this comes from Jewish liberalism (probably), Jewish values (maybe), or even the relevance of the Holocaust to the 1960's. Whatever the individual's reasons, these were Jewish Americans taking non-violent action to fight for civil rights and against American injustice.
But what does the Jewish American feel about non-violent resistence for the sake of human rights in 2011? We have all seen what happened in Egypt. Protesting for democracy, who's against that? Of course, this revolution of sorts comes back to Israel for the Jewish American. Will Egypt's new, potentially "youthful" regime withhold the most important treaty of Israel's short history? Will the anti-Israel Muslim Brotherhood take over power in egypt? Now it gets tricky. What if they want to fight for their Palestinian neighbors, or what if they would support the Palestinians in peaceful protests of their own?

This feels like a vast generalization. What if Palestinians were able to gain the popular media attention that Egypt has for a peaceful protest? Jewish Americans love non-violent resistance! Would the Jewish American support a Palestinian non-violent cause for human rights? I would think so, but this is exactly where it gets complicated.

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The Palestinians would certainly have to give Gilad Shalit back. They would need to have not shot rockets into Israeli territories for a few years. Everything complicates the matter. I would support peaceful resistance by Palestinians if there was a deal for Gilad Shalit and they hadn't shot rockets into Israeli territories for a few years. There would need to have been peace for a few years. But, that hasn't happened, that may never happen.... and it is at times like these that I just want to think about something else.