The threat implied, is sadly not new and sadly shows how the West has been cajoled finally to join the Arab League and Palestinian’s to siege the Jewish state until it’s destruction.

The editor is correct that Israel’s declaration of Independence enshrines individual human dignity in it’s founding document, a right that predates the Geneva Conventions, founded and codified in the Book of Books, the Bible, that man is created in God’s image. This founding vision continues to hold amongst religious and non religious Jews in Israel and is in no way lying in any sort of balance.

The editor writes that Israel was born in violence, implying a foundational original sin at the root of Israel’s founding in 1948. The editor is correct, the idea of political Israel, an idea penned by Theodor Herzl in the 1880s was absolutely born in violence, a recognition of the insatiable Christian violence against the Jews of Europe that gave Jews no rest from violence on local or even state level, culminating in the worst crime known to mankind – the Holocaust.

From Israel’s actual founding in 1948 and before, a hand of peace was always extended to it’s neighbors, Statement to the Elected Assembly of Palestine Jewry by........

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