(Newsweek) Marc Gellman- Nobody seems to have asked, why can 1 million Arabs live in peace within Israel but 9,000 Jews can't live in peace in Palestine? I know the Palestinians consider Gaza occupied territory, even though it was taken from Egypt in 1967, not from Palestinians, and even though the UN calls it a disputed, not occupied, territory. I just do not understand why it is obvious and correct to most of the so-called civilized world that Arabs cannot live with Jews but Jews can live with Arabs. If the only way to satisfy the moral grievances of the Palestinians is to destroy Israel, then they are not moral grievances at all but rather just history's newest version of anti-Semitic blood lust that must be defeated, not appeased. The writer is senior rabbi of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, NY.
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