Most opponents of Israel FYI are Jews. Then again some of its biggeest supporters are its biggest critics, IE: Chaim Ben Pesach. Chaim in fact is probably Israel's biggest critic while at the same time a hardcore zionist.
Posted on 08/16/2009 11:35:00 AM PDT by knighthawk
It begins, reasonably, as a response to apparently unnecessary violence by Israel. Then it moves on to accuse Israel of expanding on land the Arabs insist is theirs. Nothing wrong with criticizing that, surely. Israel, a state, deserves to be judged like any other.
Even those friendly toward Israel have often felt duty bound to point out its mistakes. In more innocent times, I imagined that intellectuals in the West paid careful attention to Israel's faults because they expected it to set a high standard. Who would worry about the moral status of, say, Bolivia? No one except Bolivians. Jews, however, live with the injunction to be (as Isaiah quotes God) "A light unto the nations."
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Most opponents of Israel FYI are Jews. Then again some of its biggeest supporters are its biggest critics, IE: Chaim Ben Pesach. Chaim in fact is probably Israel's biggest critic while at the same time a hardcore zionist.
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