THE INTERESTING CASE OF ISRAEL

There are two sides to every story.  Having supported Israel my whole life as a country, I have not always supported what the government has done.  I have dear friends who are Palestinians, who were born into this nightmare, and are not the types of people portrayed by our irresponsible media.  Nor do I believe Israel is the hate-mongering country that the media portrays here as well.

What I posted below was written in 1968 by Eric Hoffer of the LA Times, a non-Jew.  Keep in mind, it doesn't speak to what the answer is, but simply points out the world hypocrisy when it comes to the way Jews are viewed and dealt with.  Sadly, it is true. 

ISRAEL 'S PECULIAR POSITION...by Eric Hoffer –

Los Angeles Times May 26,1968.

The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.

Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.

Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchman.

Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees.

Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.

Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.

Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms.

But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace.

Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.

Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed.

Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.

No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on.

There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia .

But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him.

The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did in Vietnam , did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews.

They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops in Norway .

The Jews are alone in the world.

If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources.

Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally.

We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us.

And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.

I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all. 
 
 
 
I want to clarify that this does not make Israel right in all its policies or in the way it handles things.  However, the world does have a funny way of reproaching Isarel, particularly when you consider the situation with the Palestinians and Israelis is one the U.N. created.