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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-801163
Let's Focus on Our Wins This Israel Independence Day
(Jerusalem Post) Gil Troy - This year, on Israel's Independence Day, I was celebrating wholeheartedly. I won't allow Hamas killers and kidnappers, or world opinion, to rob me of my joy. Every day in Jerusalem, I live the miracle of Israel: Jews' freedom, prosperity, dignity, and power. We don't hurt our necks by constantly looking over our shoulders - neither for approval nor out of fear. And we feel history's breeze on our backs, propelling us forward, noting how every decade in Israeli history was better than the previous one. The decades-long campaign - presenting the Palestinians as the world's greatest victims who are never held responsible for any crime, no matter how vicious - has hit new heights and seduced millions, some well-meaning and some less so. It's stunning to see so many people assume that the Palestinian-Israel conflict is black-and-white and about blacks versus whites. Most depressing has been the passivity of the silenced majority. The answer to so many lies about Israel is Identity Zionism - not a defense, but a sweeping, inspiring, appealing vision. The writer, a Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University, is a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute.