{"id":350,"date":"2009-01-04T22:14:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/and-there-lie-the-bodies-by-gi.html"},"modified":"2009-01-04T22:14:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:14:49","slug":"and-there-lie-the-bodies-by-gi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/and-there-lie-the-bodies-by-gi.html","title":{"rendered":"And There Lie the Bodies (by Gideon Levy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Gideon Levy offers this powerful parable in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1052348.html\">Haaretz.<\/a> \u00a0He laments that there are no voices speaking up within Israel now about the war in Gaza but he proves himself wrong though this impassioned essay:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;The legend, lest it be a true story, tells of how the late mathematician, Professor Haim Hanani, asked his students at the Technion to draw up a plan for constructing a pipe to transport blood from Haifa to Eilat. The obedient students did as they were told. Using logarithmic rulers, they sketched the design for a sophisticated pipeline. They meticulously planned its route, taking into account the landscape&#8217;s topography, the possibility of corrosion, the pipe&#8217;s diameter and the flow calibration. When they presented their final product, the professor rendered his judgment: You failed. None of you asked why we need such a pipe, whose blood will fill it, and why it is flowing in the first place.<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"t13\"><span><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"t13\"><span><font color=\"#000000\">R<\/font><\/span><\/span><span><font color=\"#000000\"><span class=\"t13\">egardless of whether this story is legend or true, Israel is now failing its own blood pipeline test. As Israel has been preoccupied with Gaza throughout the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why. Everything is permitted, legitimate and just. The moral voice of restraint, if it ever existed, has been left behind. Even if Israel wiped Gaza off the face of the earth, killing tens of thousands in the process, as a Chechnyan laborer working in Sderot proposed to me, one can assume that there would be no protest.&#8221;<\/span><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1052348.html\">Levy continues here<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gideon Levy offers this powerful parable in Haaretz. \u00a0He laments that there are no voices speaking up within Israel now about the war in Gaza but he proves himself wrong though this impassioned essay: &#8220;The legend, lest it be a true story, tells of how the late mathematician, Professor Haim Hanani, asked his students at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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