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Conditional Support of Israel Is Not Support at All
(Medialine) Mark Lavie - Some American Jews don't like the results of the Israeli election. But that's how the election turned out. It's democratic by definition. Is there another American group - ethnic, national, religious or racial - that is so intimately involved in the workings of another country, the way Jews are with Israel? Do descendants of Chinese immigrants demonstrate over Chinese abuses of human rights? Do Japanese Americans pore over the inner workings of the Japanese government? Of course not. Israel has its problems, to be sure. But getting in the way of solving them is the security issue. The Palestinians have sabotaged all efforts to solve the problem, turning down viable offers to create a Palestinian state. The reality is that much of the Middle East has moved on from the Palestinians. In contrast, antisemites have taken on the Palestinian issue as a way of bashing Israel and Jews in general. BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel), for example, really has little to do with Palestinians and everything to do with Jew-hatred. The writer has been covering the Middle East for major news outlets since 1972.