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Jews May Feel Abandoned But Good People Will Step Up - as They Did for Me in the Gulag
(New York Post) Natan Sharansky - These days, witnessing the very same Western world I once regarded with such admiration cheer for the murderous marauders of Hamas, I - like Israel - feel more lonely than I have felt in a very long time. How could it be that American universities, once bastions of the free and unfettered exchange of ideas, are now awash with young men and women who wave the flags of Hamas and Hizbullah and readily repeat antisemitic lies without sense or compassion? How could it be that the United Nations, formed to help curb violence and aggression and promote justice and well-being to all, now watches its employees take part in deadly pogroms against Jews? How could it be that world leaders, themselves facing the challenge of grappling with homicidal Islamism, fail to support Israel as it stands up to the very same forces? But the person guided by love and faith and justice isn't afraid to bear the scorn of others because he knows that truth eventually prevails. The writer, a former political prisoner in the Soviet Union, former minister in Israeli governments, and former Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, is chairman of the advisory board of the Combat Antisemitism Movement.