Skip the patronizing lectures
We should invite George Will here more often, because he's written a lot more about Israel since he's been here than he normally does. And his writing proves that he gets it (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). Israelis younger than 50 have no memory of their nation within the 1967 borders set by the 1949 armistice that ended the War of Independence. The rest of the world seems to have no memory at all concerning the intersecting histories of Palestine and the Jewish people.It's a pity Obama won't listen to him. The lecture about 'taking risks for peace' probably ticks off Israelis more than any other lecture these days with the exception of those who call us Nazis. We've taken all the risks for peace. We have gotten war and only war in return.
The creation of Israel did not involve the destruction of a Palestinian state, there having been no such state since the Romans arrived. And if the Jewish percentage of the world's population were today what it was when the Romans ruled Palestine, there would be 200 million Jews. After a uniquely hazardous passage through two millennia without a homeland, there are 13 million Jews.
In the 62 years since this homeland was founded on one-sixth of 1 percent of the land of what is carelessly and inaccurately called "the Arab world," Israelis have never known an hour of real peace. Patronizing American lectures on the reality of risks and the desirableness of peace, which once were merely fatuous, are now obscene.
Read the whole thing.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:04 PM
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Carl - how do we convince Jews, in particular, frum Jews, to learn how to protect themselves. I am a VN era vet, kept kosher, shabbos, etc while in the army. I know how to protect myself. The key fact in the article is:
'f the Jewish percentage of the world's population were today what it was when the Romans ruled Palestine, there would be 200 million Jews'
our dead cry out to us.
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