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Posted in: Roger Cohen: The Israelis are the problem
11/16/09 03:59 PM
Cohen should have addressed what the Palestinians should do as well. I agree up to that point. However, the larger onus is on Israel by virtue of the fact that she is the controlling or occupying power over all Palestianian lands. Thus the Palestinians could do all sorts of changing and it would be for naught - within the context of permanently resolving the conflict - unless Israel changes, because the Palestinians don't control their own terroritory and will never be in a position to militarily dislodge Israeli control without explicit Israeli acquiescence. That doesn't excuse the Palestians or give them license to never change. It simply aknowledges objective reality for what it is.
Posted in: Goldstone's motivation
10/19/09 03:03 PM
I agree with what Goldstone says here. All of it.
Posted in: Cohen: Enough about the Holocaust already
10/16/09 04:37 PM
Echo David Szonyi's criticism of Uriel Hellman's blatent misrepresentation of what Cohen called for. I fail utterly to see how the interests of Jews anywhere on the planet are furthered by such glib intellectual dishonesty. I expect more from JTA. A lot more! Take away the intellectually honest reporting and these daily JTA digests are just more unwanted spam cluttering my inbox.
Posted in: If AIPAC ain't broke...
10/14/09 02:13 PM
Cheryl, perhaps you missed the following Freilich quote in the article: "Those Jewish Americans, who share a deep concern for Israel's trials and travails, have the right, even the duty, to express their criticism within the Jewish community, the public at large, pretty much anywhere -- except before the administration and Congress." Freilich's own words clearly show that he is presuming to tell American Jews how to conduct our business in America. He is in effect saying that our first allegiance as American citizens is to "present one voice" to our own elected leaders viz Israel. That is both presumptuous and exceptionally arrogant given his criticism of American Jews voicing criticism of HIS elected government.
Posted in: If AIPAC ain't broke...
10/14/09 12:18 AM
If, as Freilich asserts, it is presumptuous of American Jews "to believe that they 'know better' what is right for Israel" then by that very same logic it is presumptuous of Freilich and Israeli Jews to believe they 'know better' how American citizens ought to handle our civic responsibilities as American citizens. Yet there is Freilich presuming to tell American Jews what our duty is as American citizens. We don't exist to rubberstamp AIPAC or whatever government happens to be in control of Israel at any given point in time. We are Jews, but we are also citizens of the United States and most of us take our citizenship very, very seriously. We do not owe our first allegiance to the government of Israel and it is the height of presumptuous arrogance for Freilich to suggest otherwise.
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