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Israels Existenzkampf: Eine moralische Verteidigung seiner Kriege
In September 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced that agreement was near on a peaceful solution to the Middle East crisis. The announcement triggered the second Palestinian intifada, an outbreak of terrorism in the heart of Israel’s cities that continues to this day. The unprecedented violence drove Barak from office and brought to power the feared hard-liner Ariel Sharon.
In RIGHT TO EXIST, Yaacov Lozowick, an Israeli historian, describes his evolution from a liberal peace activist into a reluctant supporter of Sharon. In making sense of his own political journey, Lozowick rewrites the whole history of Israel, delving into the roots of the Zionist enterprise and tracing the long struggle to establish and defend the Jewish state in the face of implacable Arab resistance and widespread international hostility.
Lozowick examines each of Israel’s wars from the perspective of classical “just war” theory, from the fight for independence to the present day. Subjecting the country’s founders and their descendants to unsparing scrutiny, he concludes that Israel is neither the pristine socialist utopia its founders envisioned, nor the racist colonial enterprise portrayed by its enemies. Refuting dozens of pernicious myths about the conflict—such as the charge that Israel stole the land from its rightful owners, or that Arabs and Jews are locked in a “cycle of violence” for which both bear equal blame—RIGHT TO EXIST is an impassioned moral history of extraordinary resonance and power.
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First published January 1, 2003
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In this phenomenal work, Yaakov Lozowick , the director of the archives at Yad Vashem,Israel's Holocaust Museum and the author of "Hitler's Bureaucrats, The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil”, embarks on both a moral evaluation of Israel's wars for survival, as well as an indictment on the bigots of the world, who deny tiny Israel's right to exist.
As Cynthia Ozick describes so eloquently "The title alone - the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence-ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers, whether they be professors in universities , media distorters,’ peace activists' who justify terror, morally deformed intellectuals, self-deceiving unconfused haters, or merely the herd of the easily led"
The introduction describes why the author, a lifelong liberal and peace activist, in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo process, and Arafat's launching of war of terror against Israel's populace, voted for Ariel Sharon of the center right Likud Party,traditionallly regarded as a hawk and hardliner(although his record as Prime Minister was to prove the opposite).
Lozowick describes how former Prime Minster, the center left Ehud Barak, at Camp David 2000, offered the Palestinian Authority the whole of Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, (including most of East Jerusalem), and in response Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched a terror war against the Israeli people, in which thousands of Israeli Jews (mainly women and children) have been murdered, maimed, terrorized, widowed and orphaned.
In response to Arab terror war against them, the Israeli people voted for Ariel Sharon, war hero who had been vilified by Israel's enemies around the world as well as by section of Israel's left.
The election of Sharon led to a barrage of intemperate condemnation of Israel by the UN, the international media, world governments and groups like Amnesty International, placing all the blame for the conflict on Israel's shoulders ignoring the fact that Israel had recently chosen peace and been given a war of terror instead.
Lozowick describes some of the Arab terror, such as the shooting of ten month old Jewish infant, Shalevet Pass, in her stroller on a playground, in Hebron, the murder of five month old Yehuda Shoham who had his head smashed in by a rock thrown at his parents car, and the bombing of the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv, in which 17 teenagers, mostly girls, were murdered and others cruelly maimed and disfigured.
As a historian and archivist for Yad Vashem memorial, Lozowick describes how he had unearthed snap shots of some Shoah victims. For the first time, a friend of Lozowicks , saw pictures of his father as a young man ,and of his aunts, who did not survive the Shoah. He was astounded by the striking similarity of his own daughter to one of his aunts. "It was almost as if she had been given a second chance at life. For his daughter, the discovery served as a trigger to develop a serious sense of her own particiapation in the flow of Jewish history. Fifteen year old Malki Roth was murdered at the Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem”. Israel did not react to all of these killings , until in March 2002, an Arab suicide bomber struck at the Park Hotel in Netnaya, killing twenty-nine Jews as they sat down to the Passover Seder table-the most family orientated moment of the year.
Israel reacted by launching a campaign to go after the terrorists in their own lairs , a ground assault to ensure the minimum of Arab civilians were hurt. This led to a worldwide orgy of hatred , directed at Israel, by most of the world. Shrieks of loathing told of a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin , an allegation by the media that turned out to be false. The massacre had not taken place. It was a blood libel. The Israelis had ensured that very few civilians had died, which lead to a greater toll of casualties among Israeli soldiers.
When Jews were massacred the world was silent, when Israel decided to act , using ethics higher than any other nation , at time of war , the world erupted into hateful hysteria against Israel and all her people.
In Chapter 1 Lozowick outlines the early history of Zionism and Jewish resettlement in Israel, explaining the depths of the ancient roots of the Jews to the Land of Israel, renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 CE in order to cut off the Jewish historical connection to the land. He refutes hate-moner Edward Said who claims that the early Zionists were not capable as seeing the Arabs as fully human; pointing out that this in fact described rather, Arab attitudes towards the Jews, with much greater justification. He also refutes the revisionist historians, who sprang up in the 1980's with the goal of distorting the history of the Land of Israel to deny any Jewish rights there. Lozowick recounts the bloody Arab pogrom against the Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920,which started the war against the Jews presence in the Land of Israel, that has continued for the last 86 years, the 1921 attacks on Jews in Jaffa and Petach Tikva, the massacre and destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929 , together with further pogroms in Jerusalem , and the Nazi-inspired war by the Arabs against the Land of Israel's Jewish population of 1936 to 1939 in which thousands of Jews were butchered.
During the British Mandate over 'Palestine' from 1917-1947, the Jews and Arabs made many of the key decisions regarding each other. The Jews made settlements a central element of their efforts, the Arabs chose violent rejection of Jewish presence and sovereignty as their hallmark. Not much has changed in eight decades, as the author points out.
While people have been emigrating and changing the demographics of their new lands throughout human history (and it is unfair to describe this as 'colonialism'), in human history there has never been a case where a group migrated to a land it had lost for longer than living memory. Indeed very few nations have lasted over two thousand years as the Jews have. "Moreover" Lozowick reminds us,” if the Jews are a nation, how can it be moral, to deny them a place of their own, like other nations. At most you can measure the morality of a nation’s behavior, not its existence."
I would go so far as to say that denying a nation's right to exist is racism, akin to Nazism, hence in the opinion of the reviewer anti-Zionism is Nazism.
From 1920 Jews have been attacked in the Land of Israel because they are Jews because the Arabs did not want Jews in ‘Palestine’, hence the fashionable distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a false one.
The author also describes tow parallel developments during the British Mandate , the immigration of Arabs into 'Palestine' by the hundreds of thousands -too many Arab villages were growing up next to Jewish ones to fast to be explained merely as natural population growth. While the British recorded the statistics of Jewish immigration, they did not count the masses of Arabs crossing into the Palestine Mandate.
Secondly the hundreds of thousands of Jews clamoring to get out of Europe , and into 'Palestine' were blocked from doing so , and were mostly dead by 1945. “Every single Jew who wanted to immigrate to Palestine, but was denied the chance by the growing restrictions can be laid to the account of Palestinian violence and British appeasement; the number probably runs to the hundreds of thousands. Even this small fraction of Jewish dead exceeds all of the losses of Palestinian lives in the conflict with Zionism...the Palestinian decision at this time was to join the anti-Jewish camp at it's violent edge. Let this be kept in mind when the Palestinian propagandists decry their victimization by the victims of the Nazis."
The author also points out how although millions of people around the world , have been made into refugees , the only ones not to have been resettled have been the Palestinian Arabs, who have retained their refugee status, in order to use as a weapon against Israel. This in contrast to the 700 000 Jewish refugees expelled, after generations, from Arab countries in 1948, and all were resettled in Israel.
The author, while pointed out that Israeli actions have not always been perfect or praiseworthy, have been of higher moral caliber to all other armies in wartime, regardless of all the sick propaganda to the contrary. He points out that never has a Jew entered a Palestinian home and killed a Palestinian child in her bed, as Arabs have done countless times to Jewish children.
Lozowick still believes that the time may still come for a peace deal leading to two states living side by side, but that first the Arabs must genuinely accept Israel's right to exist, and give up the dream of controlling all of the Land of Israel, which would lead to the entire land being completely emptied of Jews, as most of Europe would be during World War II.
The author believes that this will take many generations, well over a century, before they realize that they cannot drive the Jews out.
It would help of course if they were not encouraged in their genocidal dreams, by far-left bigots in academia, the media, NGO's and politics to name a few of the hotbeds of anti-Israel hate.
The Right of Israel to exist is what the conflict is all about and always has been ,not about 'occupation, 'apartheid', refugees', or any of the other Goebellesque propaganda ploys designed to set up Israel and her people for destruction i.e. to prepare a second Holocaust.
As Cynthia Ozick describes so eloquently "The title alone - the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence-ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers, whether they be professors in universities , media distorters,’ peace activists' who justify terror, morally deformed intellectuals, self-deceiving unconfused haters, or merely the herd of the easily led"
The introduction describes why the author, a lifelong liberal and peace activist, in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo process, and Arafat's launching of war of terror against Israel's populace, voted for Ariel Sharon of the center right Likud Party,traditionallly regarded as a hawk and hardliner(although his record as Prime Minister was to prove the opposite).
Lozowick describes how former Prime Minster, the center left Ehud Barak, at Camp David 2000, offered the Palestinian Authority the whole of Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, (including most of East Jerusalem), and in response Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched a terror war against the Israeli people, in which thousands of Israeli Jews (mainly women and children) have been murdered, maimed, terrorized, widowed and orphaned.
In response to Arab terror war against them, the Israeli people voted for Ariel Sharon, war hero who had been vilified by Israel's enemies around the world as well as by section of Israel's left.
The election of Sharon led to a barrage of intemperate condemnation of Israel by the UN, the international media, world governments and groups like Amnesty International, placing all the blame for the conflict on Israel's shoulders ignoring the fact that Israel had recently chosen peace and been given a war of terror instead.
Lozowick describes some of the Arab terror, such as the shooting of ten month old Jewish infant, Shalevet Pass, in her stroller on a playground, in Hebron, the murder of five month old Yehuda Shoham who had his head smashed in by a rock thrown at his parents car, and the bombing of the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv, in which 17 teenagers, mostly girls, were murdered and others cruelly maimed and disfigured.
As a historian and archivist for Yad Vashem memorial, Lozowick describes how he had unearthed snap shots of some Shoah victims. For the first time, a friend of Lozowicks , saw pictures of his father as a young man ,and of his aunts, who did not survive the Shoah. He was astounded by the striking similarity of his own daughter to one of his aunts. "It was almost as if she had been given a second chance at life. For his daughter, the discovery served as a trigger to develop a serious sense of her own particiapation in the flow of Jewish history. Fifteen year old Malki Roth was murdered at the Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem”. Israel did not react to all of these killings , until in March 2002, an Arab suicide bomber struck at the Park Hotel in Netnaya, killing twenty-nine Jews as they sat down to the Passover Seder table-the most family orientated moment of the year.
Israel reacted by launching a campaign to go after the terrorists in their own lairs , a ground assault to ensure the minimum of Arab civilians were hurt. This led to a worldwide orgy of hatred , directed at Israel, by most of the world. Shrieks of loathing told of a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin , an allegation by the media that turned out to be false. The massacre had not taken place. It was a blood libel. The Israelis had ensured that very few civilians had died, which lead to a greater toll of casualties among Israeli soldiers.
When Jews were massacred the world was silent, when Israel decided to act , using ethics higher than any other nation , at time of war , the world erupted into hateful hysteria against Israel and all her people.
In Chapter 1 Lozowick outlines the early history of Zionism and Jewish resettlement in Israel, explaining the depths of the ancient roots of the Jews to the Land of Israel, renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 CE in order to cut off the Jewish historical connection to the land. He refutes hate-moner Edward Said who claims that the early Zionists were not capable as seeing the Arabs as fully human; pointing out that this in fact described rather, Arab attitudes towards the Jews, with much greater justification. He also refutes the revisionist historians, who sprang up in the 1980's with the goal of distorting the history of the Land of Israel to deny any Jewish rights there. Lozowick recounts the bloody Arab pogrom against the Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920,which started the war against the Jews presence in the Land of Israel, that has continued for the last 86 years, the 1921 attacks on Jews in Jaffa and Petach Tikva, the massacre and destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929 , together with further pogroms in Jerusalem , and the Nazi-inspired war by the Arabs against the Land of Israel's Jewish population of 1936 to 1939 in which thousands of Jews were butchered.
During the British Mandate over 'Palestine' from 1917-1947, the Jews and Arabs made many of the key decisions regarding each other. The Jews made settlements a central element of their efforts, the Arabs chose violent rejection of Jewish presence and sovereignty as their hallmark. Not much has changed in eight decades, as the author points out.
While people have been emigrating and changing the demographics of their new lands throughout human history (and it is unfair to describe this as 'colonialism'), in human history there has never been a case where a group migrated to a land it had lost for longer than living memory. Indeed very few nations have lasted over two thousand years as the Jews have. "Moreover" Lozowick reminds us,” if the Jews are a nation, how can it be moral, to deny them a place of their own, like other nations. At most you can measure the morality of a nation’s behavior, not its existence."
I would go so far as to say that denying a nation's right to exist is racism, akin to Nazism, hence in the opinion of the reviewer anti-Zionism is Nazism.
From 1920 Jews have been attacked in the Land of Israel because they are Jews because the Arabs did not want Jews in ‘Palestine’, hence the fashionable distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a false one.
The author also describes tow parallel developments during the British Mandate , the immigration of Arabs into 'Palestine' by the hundreds of thousands -too many Arab villages were growing up next to Jewish ones to fast to be explained merely as natural population growth. While the British recorded the statistics of Jewish immigration, they did not count the masses of Arabs crossing into the Palestine Mandate.
Secondly the hundreds of thousands of Jews clamoring to get out of Europe , and into 'Palestine' were blocked from doing so , and were mostly dead by 1945. “Every single Jew who wanted to immigrate to Palestine, but was denied the chance by the growing restrictions can be laid to the account of Palestinian violence and British appeasement; the number probably runs to the hundreds of thousands. Even this small fraction of Jewish dead exceeds all of the losses of Palestinian lives in the conflict with Zionism...the Palestinian decision at this time was to join the anti-Jewish camp at it's violent edge. Let this be kept in mind when the Palestinian propagandists decry their victimization by the victims of the Nazis."
The author also points out how although millions of people around the world , have been made into refugees , the only ones not to have been resettled have been the Palestinian Arabs, who have retained their refugee status, in order to use as a weapon against Israel. This in contrast to the 700 000 Jewish refugees expelled, after generations, from Arab countries in 1948, and all were resettled in Israel.
The author, while pointed out that Israeli actions have not always been perfect or praiseworthy, have been of higher moral caliber to all other armies in wartime, regardless of all the sick propaganda to the contrary. He points out that never has a Jew entered a Palestinian home and killed a Palestinian child in her bed, as Arabs have done countless times to Jewish children.
Lozowick still believes that the time may still come for a peace deal leading to two states living side by side, but that first the Arabs must genuinely accept Israel's right to exist, and give up the dream of controlling all of the Land of Israel, which would lead to the entire land being completely emptied of Jews, as most of Europe would be during World War II.
The author believes that this will take many generations, well over a century, before they realize that they cannot drive the Jews out.
It would help of course if they were not encouraged in their genocidal dreams, by far-left bigots in academia, the media, NGO's and politics to name a few of the hotbeds of anti-Israel hate.
The Right of Israel to exist is what the conflict is all about and always has been ,not about 'occupation, 'apartheid', refugees', or any of the other Goebellesque propaganda ploys designed to set up Israel and her people for destruction i.e. to prepare a second Holocaust.
June 9, 2021
In this phenomenal work, Yaakov Lozowick , the director of the archives at Yad Vashem,Israel's Holocaust Museum and the author of "Hitler's Bureaucrats, The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil”, embarks on both a moral evaluation of Israel's wars for survival, as well as an indictment on the bigots of the world, who deny tiny Israel's right to exist.
As Cynthia Ozick describes so eloquently "The title alone - the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence-ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers, whether they be professors in universities , media distorters,’ peace activists' who justify terror, morally deformed intellectuals, self-deceiving unconfused haters, or merely the herd of the easily led"
The introduction describes why the author, a lifelong liberal and peace activist, in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo process, and Arafat's launching of war of terror against Israel's populace, voted for Ariel Sharon of the center right Likud Party,traditionallly regarded as a hawk and hardliner(although his record as Prime Minister was to prove the opposite).
Lozowick describes how former Prime Minster, the center left Ehud Barak, at Camp David 2000, offered the Palestinian Authority the whole of Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, (including most of East Jerusalem), and in response Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched a terror war against the Israeli people, in which thousands of Israeli Jews (mainly women and children) have been murdered, maimed, terrorized, widowed and orphaned.
In response to Arab terror war against them, the Israeli people voted for Ariel Sharon, war hero who had been vilified by Israel's enemies around the world as well as by section of Israel's left.
The election of Sharon led to a barrage of intemperate condemnation of Israel by the UN, the international media, world governments and groups like Amnesty International, placing all the blame for the conflict on Israel's shoulders ignoring the fact that Israel had recently chosen peace and been given a war of terror instead.
Lozowick describes some of the Arab terror, such as the shooting of ten month old Jewish infant, Shalevet Pass, in her stroller on a playground, in Hebron, the murder of five month old Yehuda Shoham who had his head smashed in by a rock thrown at his parents car, and the bombing of the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv, in which 17 teenagers, mostly girls, were murdered and others cruelly maimed and disfigured.
As a historian and archivist for Yad Vashem memorial, Lozowick describes how he had unearthed snap shots of some Shoah victims. For the first time, a friend of Lozowicks , saw pictures of his father as a young man ,and of his aunts, who did not survive the Shoah. He was astounded by the striking similarity of his own daughter to one of his aunts. "It was almost as if she had been given a second chance at life. For his daughter, the discovery served as a trigger to develop a serious sense of her own particiapation in the flow of Jewish history. Fifteen year old Malki Roth was murdered at the Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem”. Israel did not react to all of these killings , until in March 2002, an Arab suicide bomber struck at the Park Hotel in Netnaya, killing twenty-nine Jews as they sat down to the Passover Seder table-the most family orientated moment of the year.
Israel reacted by launching a campaign to go after the terrorists in their own lairs , a ground assault to ensure the minimum of Arab civilians were hurt. This led to a worldwide orgy of hatred , directed at Israel, by most of the world. Shrieks of loathing told of a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin , an allegation by the media that turned out to be false. The massacre had not taken place. It was a blood libel. The Israelis had ensured that very few civilians had died, which lead to a greater toll of casualties among Israeli soldiers.
When Jews were massacred the world was silent, when Israel decided to act , using ethics higher than any other nation , at time of war , the world erupted into hateful hysteria against Israel and all her people.
In Chapter 1 Lozowick outlines the early history of Zionism and Jewish resettlement in Israel, explaining the depths of the ancient roots of the Jews to the Land of Israel, renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 CE in order to cut off the Jewish historical connection to the land. He refutes hate-moner Edward Said who claims that the early Zionists were not capable as seeing the Arabs as fully human; pointing out that this in fact described rather, Arab attitudes towards the Jews, with much greater justification. He also refutes the revisionist historians, who sprang up in the 1980's with the goal of distorting the history of the Land of Israel to deny any Jewish rights there. Lozowick recounts the bloody Arab pogrom against the Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920,which started the war against the Jews presence in the Land of Israel, that has continued for the last 86 years, the 1921 attacks on Jews in Jaffa and Petach Tikva, the massacre and destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929 , together with further pogroms in Jerusalem , and the Nazi-inspired war by the Arabs against the Land of Israel's Jewish population of 1936 to 1939 in which thousands of Jews were butchered.
During the British Mandate over 'Palestine' from 1917-1947, the Jews and Arabs made many of the key decisions regarding each other. The Jews made settlements a central element of their efforts, the Arabs chose violent rejection of Jewish presence and sovereignty as their hallmark. Not much has changed in eight decades, as the author points out.
While people have been emigrating and changing the demographics of their new lands throughout human history (and it is unfair to describe this as 'colonialism'), in human history there has never been a case where a group migrated to a land it had lost for longer than living memory. Indeed very few nations have lasted over two thousand years as the Jews have. "Moreover" Lozowick reminds us,” if the Jews are a nation, how can it be moral, to deny them a place of their own, like other nations. At most you can measure the morality of a nation’s behavior, not its existence."
I would go so far as to say that denying a nation's right to exist is racism, akin to Nazism, hence in the opinion of the reviewer anti-Zionism is Nazism.
From 1920 Jews have been attacked in the Land of Israel because they are Jews because the Arabs did not want Jews in ‘Palestine’, hence the fashionable distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a false one.
The author also describes tow parallel developments during the British Mandate , the immigration of Arabs into 'Palestine' by the hundreds of thousands -too many Arab villages were growing up next to Jewish ones to fast to be explained merely as natural population growth. While the British recorded the statistics of Jewish immigration, they did not count the masses of Arabs crossing into the Palestine Mandate.
Secondly the hundreds of thousands of Jews clamoring to get out of Europe , and into 'Palestine' were blocked from doing so , and were mostly dead by 1945. “Every single Jew who wanted to immigrate to Palestine, but was denied the chance by the growing restrictions can be laid to the account of Palestinian violence and British appeasement; the number probably runs to the hundreds of thousands. Even this small fraction of Jewish dead exceeds all of the losses of Palestinian lives in the conflict with Zionism...the Palestinian decision at this time was to join the anti-Jewish camp at it's violent edge. Let this be kept in mind when the Palestinian propagandists decry their victimization by the victims of the Nazis."
The author also points out how although millions of people around the world , have been made into refugees , the only ones not to have been resettled have been the Palestinian Arabs, who have retained their refugee status, in order to use as a weapon against Israel. This in contrast to the 700 000 Jewish refugees expelled, after generations, from Arab countries in 1948, and all were resettled in Israel.
The author, while pointed out that Israeli actions have not always been perfect or praiseworthy, have been of higher moral caliber to all other armies in wartime, regardless of all the sick propaganda to the contrary. He points out that never has a Jew entered a Palestinian home and killed a Palestinian child in her bed, as Arabs have done countless times to Jewish children.
Lozowick still believes that the time may still come for a peace deal leading to two states living side by side, but that first the Arabs must genuinely accept Israel's right to exist, and give up the dream of controlling all of the Land of Israel, which would lead to the entire land being completely emptied of Jews, as most of Europe would be during World War II.
The author believes that this will take many generations, well over a century, before they realize that they cannot drive the Jews out.
It would help of course if they were not encouraged in their genocidal dreams, by far-left bigots in academia, the media, NGO's and politics to name a few of the hotbeds of anti-Israel hate.
The Right of Israel to exist is what the conflict is all about and always has been ,not about 'occupation, 'apartheid', refugees', or any of the other Goebellesque propaganda ploys designed to set up Israel and her people for destruction i.e. to prepare a second holocaust.
As Cynthia Ozick describes so eloquently "The title alone - the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence-ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers, whether they be professors in universities , media distorters,’ peace activists' who justify terror, morally deformed intellectuals, self-deceiving unconfused haters, or merely the herd of the easily led"
The introduction describes why the author, a lifelong liberal and peace activist, in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo process, and Arafat's launching of war of terror against Israel's populace, voted for Ariel Sharon of the center right Likud Party,traditionallly regarded as a hawk and hardliner(although his record as Prime Minister was to prove the opposite).
Lozowick describes how former Prime Minster, the center left Ehud Barak, at Camp David 2000, offered the Palestinian Authority the whole of Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, (including most of East Jerusalem), and in response Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched a terror war against the Israeli people, in which thousands of Israeli Jews (mainly women and children) have been murdered, maimed, terrorized, widowed and orphaned.
In response to Arab terror war against them, the Israeli people voted for Ariel Sharon, war hero who had been vilified by Israel's enemies around the world as well as by section of Israel's left.
The election of Sharon led to a barrage of intemperate condemnation of Israel by the UN, the international media, world governments and groups like Amnesty International, placing all the blame for the conflict on Israel's shoulders ignoring the fact that Israel had recently chosen peace and been given a war of terror instead.
Lozowick describes some of the Arab terror, such as the shooting of ten month old Jewish infant, Shalevet Pass, in her stroller on a playground, in Hebron, the murder of five month old Yehuda Shoham who had his head smashed in by a rock thrown at his parents car, and the bombing of the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv, in which 17 teenagers, mostly girls, were murdered and others cruelly maimed and disfigured.
As a historian and archivist for Yad Vashem memorial, Lozowick describes how he had unearthed snap shots of some Shoah victims. For the first time, a friend of Lozowicks , saw pictures of his father as a young man ,and of his aunts, who did not survive the Shoah. He was astounded by the striking similarity of his own daughter to one of his aunts. "It was almost as if she had been given a second chance at life. For his daughter, the discovery served as a trigger to develop a serious sense of her own particiapation in the flow of Jewish history. Fifteen year old Malki Roth was murdered at the Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem”. Israel did not react to all of these killings , until in March 2002, an Arab suicide bomber struck at the Park Hotel in Netnaya, killing twenty-nine Jews as they sat down to the Passover Seder table-the most family orientated moment of the year.
Israel reacted by launching a campaign to go after the terrorists in their own lairs , a ground assault to ensure the minimum of Arab civilians were hurt. This led to a worldwide orgy of hatred , directed at Israel, by most of the world. Shrieks of loathing told of a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin , an allegation by the media that turned out to be false. The massacre had not taken place. It was a blood libel. The Israelis had ensured that very few civilians had died, which lead to a greater toll of casualties among Israeli soldiers.
When Jews were massacred the world was silent, when Israel decided to act , using ethics higher than any other nation , at time of war , the world erupted into hateful hysteria against Israel and all her people.
In Chapter 1 Lozowick outlines the early history of Zionism and Jewish resettlement in Israel, explaining the depths of the ancient roots of the Jews to the Land of Israel, renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 CE in order to cut off the Jewish historical connection to the land. He refutes hate-moner Edward Said who claims that the early Zionists were not capable as seeing the Arabs as fully human; pointing out that this in fact described rather, Arab attitudes towards the Jews, with much greater justification. He also refutes the revisionist historians, who sprang up in the 1980's with the goal of distorting the history of the Land of Israel to deny any Jewish rights there. Lozowick recounts the bloody Arab pogrom against the Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920,which started the war against the Jews presence in the Land of Israel, that has continued for the last 86 years, the 1921 attacks on Jews in Jaffa and Petach Tikva, the massacre and destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929 , together with further pogroms in Jerusalem , and the Nazi-inspired war by the Arabs against the Land of Israel's Jewish population of 1936 to 1939 in which thousands of Jews were butchered.
During the British Mandate over 'Palestine' from 1917-1947, the Jews and Arabs made many of the key decisions regarding each other. The Jews made settlements a central element of their efforts, the Arabs chose violent rejection of Jewish presence and sovereignty as their hallmark. Not much has changed in eight decades, as the author points out.
While people have been emigrating and changing the demographics of their new lands throughout human history (and it is unfair to describe this as 'colonialism'), in human history there has never been a case where a group migrated to a land it had lost for longer than living memory. Indeed very few nations have lasted over two thousand years as the Jews have. "Moreover" Lozowick reminds us,” if the Jews are a nation, how can it be moral, to deny them a place of their own, like other nations. At most you can measure the morality of a nation’s behavior, not its existence."
I would go so far as to say that denying a nation's right to exist is racism, akin to Nazism, hence in the opinion of the reviewer anti-Zionism is Nazism.
From 1920 Jews have been attacked in the Land of Israel because they are Jews because the Arabs did not want Jews in ‘Palestine’, hence the fashionable distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a false one.
The author also describes tow parallel developments during the British Mandate , the immigration of Arabs into 'Palestine' by the hundreds of thousands -too many Arab villages were growing up next to Jewish ones to fast to be explained merely as natural population growth. While the British recorded the statistics of Jewish immigration, they did not count the masses of Arabs crossing into the Palestine Mandate.
Secondly the hundreds of thousands of Jews clamoring to get out of Europe , and into 'Palestine' were blocked from doing so , and were mostly dead by 1945. “Every single Jew who wanted to immigrate to Palestine, but was denied the chance by the growing restrictions can be laid to the account of Palestinian violence and British appeasement; the number probably runs to the hundreds of thousands. Even this small fraction of Jewish dead exceeds all of the losses of Palestinian lives in the conflict with Zionism...the Palestinian decision at this time was to join the anti-Jewish camp at it's violent edge. Let this be kept in mind when the Palestinian propagandists decry their victimization by the victims of the Nazis."
The author also points out how although millions of people around the world , have been made into refugees , the only ones not to have been resettled have been the Palestinian Arabs, who have retained their refugee status, in order to use as a weapon against Israel. This in contrast to the 700 000 Jewish refugees expelled, after generations, from Arab countries in 1948, and all were resettled in Israel.
The author, while pointed out that Israeli actions have not always been perfect or praiseworthy, have been of higher moral caliber to all other armies in wartime, regardless of all the sick propaganda to the contrary. He points out that never has a Jew entered a Palestinian home and killed a Palestinian child in her bed, as Arabs have done countless times to Jewish children.
Lozowick still believes that the time may still come for a peace deal leading to two states living side by side, but that first the Arabs must genuinely accept Israel's right to exist, and give up the dream of controlling all of the Land of Israel, which would lead to the entire land being completely emptied of Jews, as most of Europe would be during World War II.
The author believes that this will take many generations, well over a century, before they realize that they cannot drive the Jews out.
It would help of course if they were not encouraged in their genocidal dreams, by far-left bigots in academia, the media, NGO's and politics to name a few of the hotbeds of anti-Israel hate.
The Right of Israel to exist is what the conflict is all about and always has been ,not about 'occupation, 'apartheid', refugees', or any of the other Goebellesque propaganda ploys designed to set up Israel and her people for destruction i.e. to prepare a second holocaust.
March 14, 2017
Yaacov Lozowick was propelled to write by the meltdown of Ehud Barak's attempts at peacemaking with the Palestinians, when Yasser Arafat kicked off an intifada to get by violence much of what he could have achieved through negotiations. Though a jilted lover of an absconded peace, Lozowick coolly reviews the historical record, employing Michael Walzer's theory of just war as a benchmark to gauge his points. In his tour de force, he argues that the Zionists have always tried to behave morally, practicing restraint and penalizing their own infractions, while the Palestinians have marinated in rejectionism and violence. This rejectionism, rather than anything Israel does or doesn't do, is the root cause of the conflict, and Lozowick doesn't pretend to see it abating anytime soon. In the meantime, however, he concurs that Israel must continue to follow moral guidelines for the sustaining legitimacy they provide Israeli society, and on this basis he roundly denounces the 1982 war in Lebanon and somewhat less categorically criticizes the settlement project.
Lozowick is at his most effective in pillorying Israel's disingenuous critics for their moral relativism, their journalistic shallowness, and (in the case of Europeans) their inability to imagine that there may be national values worth fighting for. His arguments about Barak's proposals to Arafat at Camp David and Taba, and what the lack of a constructive response to them means for the likelihood of peace, are also potent: Though there are plenty of analysts who have deconstructed Barak's "generous offer", an Arafat serious about making peace could have at least accepted the proposals in principle with serious reservations and, of course, refrained from violence.
Though Lozowick's prose is eminently readable and his hope for a two state solution with a shared Jerusalem is attractive, his efforts are partly undermined by an undisciplined narrative. At one juncture, he engages in an analysis of the demographic layers of Israeli society that seems besides the point, and his defense of West Bank settlers doesn't harmonize with his vision of dismantling settlements. But even 15 years on, with the second intifada behind us, the arguments of the book still ring true.
Lozowick is at his most effective in pillorying Israel's disingenuous critics for their moral relativism, their journalistic shallowness, and (in the case of Europeans) their inability to imagine that there may be national values worth fighting for. His arguments about Barak's proposals to Arafat at Camp David and Taba, and what the lack of a constructive response to them means for the likelihood of peace, are also potent: Though there are plenty of analysts who have deconstructed Barak's "generous offer", an Arafat serious about making peace could have at least accepted the proposals in principle with serious reservations and, of course, refrained from violence.
Though Lozowick's prose is eminently readable and his hope for a two state solution with a shared Jerusalem is attractive, his efforts are partly undermined by an undisciplined narrative. At one juncture, he engages in an analysis of the demographic layers of Israeli society that seems besides the point, and his defense of West Bank settlers doesn't harmonize with his vision of dismantling settlements. But even 15 years on, with the second intifada behind us, the arguments of the book still ring true.
August 9, 2016
Crazy concise reading of what truly goes on within the Israeli walls as well as the forces outside who deem them threats and even worse...
Great read for anyone looking for a reality on the situation in Israel concerning Palestine and such.
Great read for anyone looking for a reality on the situation in Israel concerning Palestine and such.
January 9, 2019
Brilliant read. Israel has very right to defend itself. It also has the right to peace.
November 26, 2015
In this phenomenal work, Yaakov Lozowick , the director of the archives at Yad Vashem,Israel's Holocaust Museum and the author of "Hitler's Bureaucrats, The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil”, embarks on both a moral evaluation of Israel's wars for survival, as well as an indictment on the bigots of the world, who deny tiny Israel's right to exist.
As Cynthia Ozick describes so eloquently "The title alone - the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence-ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers, whether they be professors in universities , media distorters,’ peace activists' who justify terror, morally deformed intellectuals, self-deceiving unconfused haters, or merely the herd of the easily led"
The introduction describes why the author, a lifelong liberal and peace activist, in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo process, and Arafat's launching of war of terror against Israel's populace, voted for Ariel Sharon of the center right Likud Party,traditionallly regarded as a hawk and hardliner(although his record as Prime Minister was to prove the opposite).
Lozowick describes how former Prime Minster, the center left Ehud Barak, at Camp David 2000, offered the Palestinian Authority the whole of Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, (including most of East Jerusalem), and in response Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched a terror war against the Israeli people, in which thousands of Israeli Jews (mainly women and children) have been murdered, maimed, terrorized, widowed and orphaned.
In response to Arab terror war against them, the Israeli people voted for Ariel Sharon, war hero who had been vilified by Israel's enemies around the world as well as by section of Israel's left.
The election of Sharon led to a barrage of intemperate condemnation of Israel by the UN, the international media, world governments and groups like Amnesty International, placing all the blame for the conflict on Israel's shoulders ignoring the fact that Israel had recently chosen peace and been given a war of terror instead.
Lozowick describes some of the Arab terror, such as the shooting of ten month old Jewish infant, Shalevet Pass, in her stroller on a playground, in Hebron, the murder of five month old Yehuda Shoham who had his head smashed in by a rock thrown at his parents car, and the bombing of the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv, in which 17 teenagers, mostly girls, were murdered and others cruelly maimed and disfigured.
As a historian and archivist for Yad Vashem memorial, Lozowick describes how he had unearthed snap shots of some Shoah victims. For the first time, a friend of Lozowicks , saw pictures of his father as a young man ,and of his aunts, who did not survive the Shoah. He was astounded by the striking similarity of his own daughter to one of his aunts. "It was almost as if she had been given a second chance at life. For his daughter, the discovery served as a trigger to develop a serious sense of her own particiapation in the flow of Jewish history. Fifteen year old Malki Roth was murdered at the Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem”. Israel did not react to all of these killings , until in March 2002, an Arab suicide bomber struck at the Park Hotel in Netnaya, killing twenty-nine Jews as they sat down to the Passover Seder table-the most family orientated moment of the year.
Israel reacted by launching a campaign to go after the terrorists in their own lairs , a ground assault to ensure the minimum of Arab civilians were hurt. This led to a worldwide orgy of hatred , directed at Israel, by most of the world. Shrieks of loathing told of a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin , an allegation by the media that turned out to be false. The massacre had not taken place. It was a blood libel. The Israelis had ensured that very few civilians had died, which lead to a greater toll of casualties among Israeli soldiers.
When Jews were massacred the world was silent, when Israel decided to act , using ethics higher than any other nation , at time of war , the world erupted into hateful hysteria against Israel and all her people.
In Chapter 1 Lozowick outlines the early history of Zionism and Jewish resettlement in Israel, explaining the depths of the ancient roots of the Jews to the Land of Israel, renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 CE in order to cut off the Jewish historical connection to the land. He refutes hate-moner Edward Said who claims that the early Zionists were not capable as seeing the Arabs as fully human; pointing out that this in fact described rather, Arab attitudes towards the Jews, with much greater justification. He also refutes the revisionist historians, who sprang up in the 1980's with the goal of distorting the history of the Land of Israel to deny any Jewish rights there. Lozowick recounts the bloody Arab pogrom against the Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920,which started the war against the Jews presence in the Land of Israel, that has continued for the last 86 years, the 1921 attacks on Jews in Jaffa and Petach Tikva, the massacre and destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929 , together with further pogroms in Jerusalem , and the Nazi-inspired war by the Arabs against the Land of Israel's Jewish population of 1936 to 1939 in which thousands of Jews were butchered.
During the British Mandate over 'Palestine' from 1917-1947, the Jews and Arabs made many of the key decisions regarding each other. The Jews made settlements a central element of their efforts, the Arabs chose violent rejection of Jewish presence and sovereignty as their hallmark. Not much has changed in eight decades, as the author points out.
While people have been emigrating and changing the demographics of their new lands throughout human history (and it is unfair to describe this as 'colonialism'), in human history there has never been a case where a group migrated to a land it had lost for longer than living memory. Indeed very few nations have lasted over two thousand years as the Jews have. "Moreover" Lozowick reminds us,” if the Jews are a nation, how can it be moral, to deny them a place of their own, like other nations. At most you can measure the morality of a nation’s behavior, not its existence."
I would go so far as to say that denying a nation's right to exist is racism, akin to Nazism, hence in the opinion of the reviewer anti-Zionism is Nazism.
From 1920 Jews have been attacked in the Land of Israel because they are Jews because the Arabs did not want Jews in ‘Palestine’, hence the fashionable distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a false one.
The author also describes tow parallel developments during the British Mandate , the immigration of Arabs into 'Palestine' by the hundreds of thousands -too many Arab villages were growing up next to Jewish ones to fast to be explained merely as natural population growth. While the British recorded the statistics of Jewish immigration, they did not count the masses of Arabs crossing into the Palestine Mandate.
Secondly the hundreds of thousands of Jews clamoring to get out of Europe , and into 'Palestine' were blocked from doing so , and were mostly dead by 1945. “Every single Jew who wanted to immigrate to Palestine, but was denied the chance by the growing restrictions can be laid to the account of Palestinian violence and British appeasement; the number probably runs to the hundreds of thousands. Even this small fraction of Jewish dead exceeds all of the losses of Palestinian lives in the conflict with Zionism...the Palestinian decision at this time was to join the anti-Jewish camp at it's violent edge. Let this be kept in mind when the Palestinian propagandists decry their victimization by the victims of the Nazis."
The author also points out how although millions of people around the world , have been made into refugees , the only ones not to have been resettled have been the Palestinian Arabs, who have retained their refugee status, in order to use as a weapon against Israel. This in contrast to the 700 000 Jewish refugees expelled, after generations, from Arab countries in 1948, and all were resettled in Israel.
The author, while pointed out that Israeli actions have not always been perfect or praiseworthy, have been of higher moral caliber to all other armies in wartime, regardless of all the sick propaganda to the contrary. He points out that never has a Jew entered a Palestinian home and killed a Palestinian child in her bed, as Arabs have done countless times to Jewish children.
Lozowick still believes that the time may still come for a peace deal leading to two states living side by side, but that first the Arabs must genuinely accept Israel's right to exist, and give up the dream of controlling all of the Land of Israel, which would lead to the entire land being completely emptied of Jews, as most of Europe would be during World War II.
The author believes that this will take many generations, well over a century, before they realize that they cannot drive the Jews out.
It would help of course if they were not encouraged in their genocidal dreams, by far-left bigots in academia, the media, NGO's and politics to name a few of the hotbeds of anti-Israel hate.
The Right of Israel to exist is what the conflict is all about and always has been ,not about 'occupation, 'apartheid', refugees', or any of the other Goebellesque propaganda ploys designed to set up Israel and her people for destruction i.e. to prepare a second holocaust.
As Cynthia Ozick describes so eloquently "The title alone - the scandal of calling into question a living nation's existence-ought to shame the prevaricators and defamers, whether they be professors in universities , media distorters,’ peace activists' who justify terror, morally deformed intellectuals, self-deceiving unconfused haters, or merely the herd of the easily led"
The introduction describes why the author, a lifelong liberal and peace activist, in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo process, and Arafat's launching of war of terror against Israel's populace, voted for Ariel Sharon of the center right Likud Party,traditionallly regarded as a hawk and hardliner(although his record as Prime Minister was to prove the opposite).
Lozowick describes how former Prime Minster, the center left Ehud Barak, at Camp David 2000, offered the Palestinian Authority the whole of Gaza and almost all of the West Bank, (including most of East Jerusalem), and in response Arafat stormed out of the talks and launched a terror war against the Israeli people, in which thousands of Israeli Jews (mainly women and children) have been murdered, maimed, terrorized, widowed and orphaned.
In response to Arab terror war against them, the Israeli people voted for Ariel Sharon, war hero who had been vilified by Israel's enemies around the world as well as by section of Israel's left.
The election of Sharon led to a barrage of intemperate condemnation of Israel by the UN, the international media, world governments and groups like Amnesty International, placing all the blame for the conflict on Israel's shoulders ignoring the fact that Israel had recently chosen peace and been given a war of terror instead.
Lozowick describes some of the Arab terror, such as the shooting of ten month old Jewish infant, Shalevet Pass, in her stroller on a playground, in Hebron, the murder of five month old Yehuda Shoham who had his head smashed in by a rock thrown at his parents car, and the bombing of the Dolphin Disco in Tel Aviv, in which 17 teenagers, mostly girls, were murdered and others cruelly maimed and disfigured.
As a historian and archivist for Yad Vashem memorial, Lozowick describes how he had unearthed snap shots of some Shoah victims. For the first time, a friend of Lozowicks , saw pictures of his father as a young man ,and of his aunts, who did not survive the Shoah. He was astounded by the striking similarity of his own daughter to one of his aunts. "It was almost as if she had been given a second chance at life. For his daughter, the discovery served as a trigger to develop a serious sense of her own particiapation in the flow of Jewish history. Fifteen year old Malki Roth was murdered at the Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem”. Israel did not react to all of these killings , until in March 2002, an Arab suicide bomber struck at the Park Hotel in Netnaya, killing twenty-nine Jews as they sat down to the Passover Seder table-the most family orientated moment of the year.
Israel reacted by launching a campaign to go after the terrorists in their own lairs , a ground assault to ensure the minimum of Arab civilians were hurt. This led to a worldwide orgy of hatred , directed at Israel, by most of the world. Shrieks of loathing told of a massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in Jenin , an allegation by the media that turned out to be false. The massacre had not taken place. It was a blood libel. The Israelis had ensured that very few civilians had died, which lead to a greater toll of casualties among Israeli soldiers.
When Jews were massacred the world was silent, when Israel decided to act , using ethics higher than any other nation , at time of war , the world erupted into hateful hysteria against Israel and all her people.
In Chapter 1 Lozowick outlines the early history of Zionism and Jewish resettlement in Israel, explaining the depths of the ancient roots of the Jews to the Land of Israel, renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 CE in order to cut off the Jewish historical connection to the land. He refutes hate-moner Edward Said who claims that the early Zionists were not capable as seeing the Arabs as fully human; pointing out that this in fact described rather, Arab attitudes towards the Jews, with much greater justification. He also refutes the revisionist historians, who sprang up in the 1980's with the goal of distorting the history of the Land of Israel to deny any Jewish rights there. Lozowick recounts the bloody Arab pogrom against the Jews in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1920,which started the war against the Jews presence in the Land of Israel, that has continued for the last 86 years, the 1921 attacks on Jews in Jaffa and Petach Tikva, the massacre and destruction of the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929 , together with further pogroms in Jerusalem , and the Nazi-inspired war by the Arabs against the Land of Israel's Jewish population of 1936 to 1939 in which thousands of Jews were butchered.
During the British Mandate over 'Palestine' from 1917-1947, the Jews and Arabs made many of the key decisions regarding each other. The Jews made settlements a central element of their efforts, the Arabs chose violent rejection of Jewish presence and sovereignty as their hallmark. Not much has changed in eight decades, as the author points out.
While people have been emigrating and changing the demographics of their new lands throughout human history (and it is unfair to describe this as 'colonialism'), in human history there has never been a case where a group migrated to a land it had lost for longer than living memory. Indeed very few nations have lasted over two thousand years as the Jews have. "Moreover" Lozowick reminds us,” if the Jews are a nation, how can it be moral, to deny them a place of their own, like other nations. At most you can measure the morality of a nation’s behavior, not its existence."
I would go so far as to say that denying a nation's right to exist is racism, akin to Nazism, hence in the opinion of the reviewer anti-Zionism is Nazism.
From 1920 Jews have been attacked in the Land of Israel because they are Jews because the Arabs did not want Jews in ‘Palestine’, hence the fashionable distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is a false one.
The author also describes tow parallel developments during the British Mandate , the immigration of Arabs into 'Palestine' by the hundreds of thousands -too many Arab villages were growing up next to Jewish ones to fast to be explained merely as natural population growth. While the British recorded the statistics of Jewish immigration, they did not count the masses of Arabs crossing into the Palestine Mandate.
Secondly the hundreds of thousands of Jews clamoring to get out of Europe , and into 'Palestine' were blocked from doing so , and were mostly dead by 1945. “Every single Jew who wanted to immigrate to Palestine, but was denied the chance by the growing restrictions can be laid to the account of Palestinian violence and British appeasement; the number probably runs to the hundreds of thousands. Even this small fraction of Jewish dead exceeds all of the losses of Palestinian lives in the conflict with Zionism...the Palestinian decision at this time was to join the anti-Jewish camp at it's violent edge. Let this be kept in mind when the Palestinian propagandists decry their victimization by the victims of the Nazis."
The author also points out how although millions of people around the world , have been made into refugees , the only ones not to have been resettled have been the Palestinian Arabs, who have retained their refugee status, in order to use as a weapon against Israel. This in contrast to the 700 000 Jewish refugees expelled, after generations, from Arab countries in 1948, and all were resettled in Israel.
The author, while pointed out that Israeli actions have not always been perfect or praiseworthy, have been of higher moral caliber to all other armies in wartime, regardless of all the sick propaganda to the contrary. He points out that never has a Jew entered a Palestinian home and killed a Palestinian child in her bed, as Arabs have done countless times to Jewish children.
Lozowick still believes that the time may still come for a peace deal leading to two states living side by side, but that first the Arabs must genuinely accept Israel's right to exist, and give up the dream of controlling all of the Land of Israel, which would lead to the entire land being completely emptied of Jews, as most of Europe would be during World War II.
The author believes that this will take many generations, well over a century, before they realize that they cannot drive the Jews out.
It would help of course if they were not encouraged in their genocidal dreams, by far-left bigots in academia, the media, NGO's and politics to name a few of the hotbeds of anti-Israel hate.
The Right of Israel to exist is what the conflict is all about and always has been ,not about 'occupation, 'apartheid', refugees', or any of the other Goebellesque propaganda ploys designed to set up Israel and her people for destruction i.e. to prepare a second holocaust.
December 14, 2016
A defense for israel
September 2, 2016
The author describes the lengths to which Israel has gone to defend itself without violating its moral code. In general, the Israelis have bent over backwards to avoid harming Arab civilians, and have learned from their mistakes. The reason so many Arabs civilians have been killed in the conflict is that the Arab terrorists hide inside groups of their own civilians. The author discusses a couple of examples of Israeli misbehavior, which are notable mainly for their rarity.
(1) Dei Yassin: The massacre of about one hundred Arab civilians at this village in 1948 was perpetrated mainly by Irgun Zevai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Israel (also known as the Stern Gang). The leaders of mainstream Zionism were horrified and apologized to King Abdullah of Jordan.
(2) Kibiya: The massacre of 69 Arab civilians at the village of Kibiya (Qibya) in 1953 during a reprisal operation lead by Major Ariel Sharon has ever since been used by the Israel Defense Forces as an example of what not to do.
(1) Dei Yassin: The massacre of about one hundred Arab civilians at this village in 1948 was perpetrated mainly by Irgun Zevai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Israel (also known as the Stern Gang). The leaders of mainstream Zionism were horrified and apologized to King Abdullah of Jordan.
(2) Kibiya: The massacre of 69 Arab civilians at the village of Kibiya (Qibya) in 1953 during a reprisal operation lead by Major Ariel Sharon has ever since been used by the Israel Defense Forces as an example of what not to do.
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