Well, yes we do. Along with Avi Chlaim, Gideon Levy, Ilan Pappé, and a long list of Israeli and Jewish Mensches.
Because his voice has more chance, albeit slight, to give pause within his community. And also because he is an observant Jew. And also because he is an American Jew because Israel won't change until America conditions its supp…
Well, yes we do. Along with Avi Chlaim, Gideon Levy, Ilan Pappé, and a long list of Israeli and Jewish Mensches.
Because his voice has more chance, albeit slight, to give pause within his community. And also because he is an observant Jew. And also because he is an American Jew because Israel won't change until America conditions its support on human rights/civil rights. The sad truth is that. And, almost especially, because he has come from a 'right wing' place - he has 'made a journey' that many more Americans need to make. Despite that the mainstream media reports, more American Jews no longer support the Israel project.
His outspoken opinion, Sean, a chara, outweighs yours or mine in reversing this ongoing catastrophe sometime in a distant future.
In a roundabout way I was trying to defend Peter, by pointing out that many more commentators out there, some like the people you mentioned, hold similar views.
Well, yes we do. Along with Avi Chlaim, Gideon Levy, Ilan Pappé, and a long list of Israeli and Jewish Mensches.
Because his voice has more chance, albeit slight, to give pause within his community. And also because he is an observant Jew. And also because he is an American Jew because Israel won't change until America conditions its support on human rights/civil rights. The sad truth is that. And, almost especially, because he has come from a 'right wing' place - he has 'made a journey' that many more Americans need to make. Despite that the mainstream media reports, more American Jews no longer support the Israel project.
His outspoken opinion, Sean, a chara, outweighs yours or mine in reversing this ongoing catastrophe sometime in a distant future.
In a roundabout way I was trying to defend Peter, by pointing out that many more commentators out there, some like the people you mentioned, hold similar views.
Either way, I entirely agree with your comments.
I know and appreciate that.
For irony, I dredged this from 2009: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123275572295011847
How Israel Helped to Spawn
Hamas
By Andrew Higgins
Jan. 24, 2009 12:01 am ET
Moshav Tekuma, Israel
Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired
Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's trajectory back to an "enormous,
stupid mistake" made 30 years ago.
"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born
Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious
affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take
shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today
Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction.
Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for
years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the
secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant
faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric
named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would
become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the
recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins,"
primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.
Last Saturday, after 22 days of war, Israel
announced a halt to the offensive. The
assault was Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for
years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the
secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant
faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric
named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would
become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the
recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins,"
primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.
Last Saturday, after 22 days of war, Israel
announced a halt to the offensive. The
assault was aimed at stopping Hamas rockets from falling on Israel. Prime Minister (....)
says Mr. Cohen, Israel for
years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the
secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant
faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric
named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would
become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the
recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins,"
primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.
Last Saturday, after 22 days of war, Israel
announced a halt to the offensive. The
assault was aimed at stopping Hamas rockets from falling on Israel. Prime Minister (...)