Leftists Aren’t the Only Perpetrators of Anti-Semitism in the World
Orpone, I am SO glad that you posted such an excellent rebuttal to/analysis of Bev’s letter castigating the author; and although perhaps some of Gould’s observations & conclusions are a bit spotty, they certainly don’t merit Bev’s supercilious put-down. All along, as I was reading it (Bev’s post), I kept thinking that this is definitely a case for – drum-roll & trumpets! – SUPER-WOMAN: Caroline Glick, a senior editor of the Jerusalem Post and a writer/journalist/analyst par excellence, VERY pro-Israeli, an American who made aliyah many years ago and served five years in the IDF as an officer – the list of accomplishments goes on & on (she also sits on a think-tank/foundation based in DC and focused on MidEast policy in general and Israeli foreign policy (& relations) in particular). Anyway, I’ve been a HUGE fan for the past couple of years that I’ve read her excellent columns in various outlets; but just this week I had the amazing experience of hearing her speak in person, with a good Q & A following – and, bottom line (and no surprise to those who know her writings), she wsa unequivacol in her assessment and understanding of both basic and complex issues concerning Israel. And she had one word for the question of a shared Israeli-Arab capital of Jerusalem: NO! And she has used those very sentiments that you, too, have re encouraging the Jews to build their own ovens next time around – or, as Pam Geller rather bluntly states the case, “committing jewicide!”
It is a struggle for life and death for the State of Israel – their fight for an existential right to exist! – that those who decry the “disproportionality” of Israel’s defensive moves and who demand the most unrealistic of double standards – but only for Israel! – either seem not to grasp or, if they do, simply reject out of hand (because, after all, it’s not THEIR backsides on the line!) the notion of a policy of self-defense and self-determination. That is the irrefutable bottom line. Anything less is denial or, as the joke goes, “not just a river in Egypt…”
