Op-Ed: Peace? Not a chance - (Israel)

Times of Israel ^ | August 12, 2013, 7:02 am | Corinne Berzon

[haffast]

Once upon a time I was kindly asked to leave my Jewish high school. It seems that 15 year olds who wear kefiyehs on the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre and question the legitimacy of Israel’s settlement policy pose an insurmountable obstacle to a parochial educational system based on ideological conformity.

Years after my unceremonious expulsion, I attended a university whose student handbook calendar marked May 15th as “Naqba Day”. When Bibi came to speak on campus, riots erupted. My qualms about Israel’s policies towards its Abrahamic cousins were overshadowed by the desperate need to defend Israel’s right to exist. Any criticism I may have had of Israel was quieted by the constant shouts of anti-Semitic rhetoric disguised as political dissent. The battle for Concordia University (a full account of what transpired can be found here) is, in the end, what brought me back to the pro-Zionist fold. I realized that as long as Palestinian leadership remained committed to driving every Jew into the sea, publicly supporting the left would be tantamount to ethnic suicide.

Flash-forward a decade since my riotous college days. Here I am in the Holy Land, a proud, identity card carrying Israeli citizen, occupier of Palestinian land, voter of Netanyahu, wife of a war criminal and mother of potential future war criminals of the Zionist apartheid. How the self-righteous have fallen… and yet nothing else seems to have changed.

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[haffast]

"I have kept up with UN resolutions, blogs, NGOs and activism that target Israel, and I can only describe the vitriolic condemnation of the Jewish state as supernatural."

Points covered and expanded on in Berzon's op-ed:

1. World opinion is mysteriously unanimous in its hatred of Israel:

2. Israel is unanimously disharmonious:

3. Foreign Jews are supportive of Israel and totally know how to solve all our problems:

4. Palestinians are the world’s most victimized victims, right?

5. Mean people with masks and guns fire stuff at Israel:

Long, good read.

[Utilizer]

There is no such place, or really never should such a place have been allowed to form, as “Palestine”. It is a made-up location, rather like some mexican freeloaders who have illegally established themselves in this country are attempting to create a new place/location from part of this country of mexican-speaking individuals called “Atzlan”. I refuse to dignify their racist ideals by calling that a “nation”.

[upchuck]

Until the Lord returns (soon, I hope, please?), there will not be peace in the Middle-East. The Moslems are commanded by their Religion of Peace to kill the infidel. Which is everyone but the Moslems. Thus, there will always be fighting and unrest, despite and words written or treaties signed.

John Skerry is wasting his time. Which, for him, is a good thing. Keeps him out of trouble :)

[lavaroise]

So we have El baraeidi in Egypt resigning cuz he won’t want to be responsible for the deaths there, but they never resign when it is Israel blood.

Duly noted.