INTO THE FRAY:WHAT!!!!?????
Dear All,
My INTO THE FRAY column appears this week on the following sites (in alphabetical order):
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There is every reason, both “concretely & in principle”, why Jews living in a Palestinian-Arab state, under Palestinian-Arab sovereignty is unacceptable
See:
ALGEMEINER: https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/04/is-israels-us-ambassador-serious/
ISRAELI FRONTLINE: https://www.israelifrontline.com/2016/08/into-the-fray-what.html
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/19289
ISRAEL’S VOICE: https://www.israelsvoice.org/2016/08/05/into-the-fray-what
ISRAPUNDIT: https://www.israpundit.org/archives/63616735
JEWISH MEDIA AGENCY: https://jewishmediaagency.com/into-the-fray-what
JEWSDOWNUNDER: https://jewsdownunder.com/2016/08/05/into-the-fray-12/
JEWISH PRESS: (TO BE POSTED)
An excerpt:
"There is no reason, concretely and in principle, why Jews should not be able to live in a future Palestinian state" - Ron Dermer, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, July 28, 2016.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former — attributed to Albert Einstein
I realize of course that juxtaposing these two excerpts might seem to some to be an overly caustic castigation of our esteemed envoy in Washington. But things are getting out of hand. In recent weeks, the Israeli public has been subjected to a barrage of imbecility from its leaders—with each statement/ declaration/proposal attaining new levels of naked absurdity. It is an absurdity that must be exposed and expunged from the political discourse in Israel…
…In its barest essentials, Zionism comprises conveying Jews from living under alien sovereign rule to living under Jewish sovereign rule This is particularly true for Jews living under an inhospitable alien sovereign authority. That is the very sine qua non of the Zionist ideal, enshrined in the words of the national anthem, Ha’Tikva: “Our hope of two thousand years will not be lost; To be a free people in our own land, the land of Zion.”…Absent this component, the notion of Zionism is left bereft of any substantive content…But this is precisely what Dermer’s remark is prescribing—and worse. For it is not only suggesting that this core element of Zionism be set aside, but that, in fact, it be inverted. …Perversely, this prospect of the sacrifice of Zionist essence is to be made at the altar of the disproven--but somehow never discredited, and certainly never discarded--political deity of “Two-States”.
Both bitter experience of past precedents and the dismal prospects of future trends portend ill for the two-state paradigm. To understate the case, its chances of success are slim and the cost of failure, grim. It therefore seems inexplicable that the Government of Israel persists in the shabby charade of supporting it. Perversely, many holding senior office today built their political careers on opposition to Palestinian statehood. Yet now that their positions have been vindicated, they persist in feigning support for it.
The time has come to stop this masquerade
Instead of trying to artificially sustain the dangerous delusion of a future Palestinian state, coexisting in peace and prosperity with a Jewish state, instead of nurturing this ill-fated illusion among overseas audiences, Israeli diplomats should be engaged in efforts to apprise them of the fatal flaws of the failed doctrine of two-statism.
That – and not consigning Jews to Arab governance – is the true challenge of Israeli diplomacy today.
As usual your talkbacks/comments/critiques welcome
Best wishes,
MS