Sunday, September 18, 2011
RE ISRAEL: ADRIFT AT SEA ALONE NYT FRIEDMAN
He makes some telling points.
The new state of Israel was never a very good idea, even as a small settlement in 1917, as a WW I strategem.
The US, (and its (too?) powerful pro-Israel lobby as Friedman himself acknowledges), should never have sponsored Israel closely after WW II. Bad idea. This is my view, not his. Such close sponsorship has not been, and will not be, in Americans', including American Jews', and other foreign non-Israeli Jews', interests, going forward.
Here is one suggestion:
We, and other nations, whom we must persuade (Britain and Europe, including Russia, would be high on the list), offer to take various portions of the Israeli Jewish population as citizens. Israel would not go for this, of course, unfortunately, but the alternatives are not going to get any better for anyone.
The new state of Israel was never a very good idea, even as a small settlement in 1917, as a WW I strategem.
The US, (and its (too?) powerful pro-Israel lobby as Friedman himself acknowledges), should never have sponsored Israel closely after WW II. Bad idea. This is my view, not his. Such close sponsorship has not been, and will not be, in Americans', including American Jews', and other foreign non-Israeli Jews', interests, going forward.
Here is one suggestion:
We, and other nations, whom we must persuade (Britain and Europe, including Russia, would be high on the list), offer to take various portions of the Israeli Jewish population as citizens. Israel would not go for this, of course, unfortunately, but the alternatives are not going to get any better for anyone.
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