Israel Matzav

Close the tent

Kenneth Levin weighs in on the controversy over whether organizations who support a 'limited BDS' only against Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria ought to be a part of the Jewish community. After reviewing the history of negotiations for 'peace' in the Middle East, Levin concludes that they should not.

Israel faces genocidal enemies, nations and groups openly dedicated to its annihilation. The country has a right to defend itself and to retain the capacity to do so. Yet there are Jews and Jewish organizations demanding concessions from Israel that would compromise its defense. They call for pressures to force it to accept such concessions, condemn the nation for resisting, and do so without addressing the threats faced by the nation. There are Jewish individuals and groups that ignore the threats, and the long and continuing history of assaults upon Israel by her neighbors, and cast Israel's insistence upon defensible borders as land grabs, as rejection of peace, as colonial expansionism. Such people are defaming the Jewish state and making common cause with those who would destroy her.

For organizations genuinely dedicated to Israel's well-being to welcome such individuals and groups - caricatures and travesties of pro-Israel efforts - within the tent of Israel's supporters, to lend them that legitimacy, is a betrayal of the cause of the Jewish state's survival and security.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: BDS, big tent, UN Security Council Resolution 242

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:44 PM