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Giulio Meotti's blasts Daniel Gordis for supporting ethnic cleansing of Jews

I wasn't the only one who was upset to see Daniel Gordis joining the Leftists to urge Prime Minister Netanyahu to bury the Levy report. So was Giulio Meotti, who was published an open letter to Gordis.

Here's some of it. Daniel, isn't ethnic cleansing of Jews from Judea and Samaria, using political, diplomatic and economic pressure - such as denying them government land, forbidding building, abolishing town planning - illegal, constituting a breach of the settlers' human rights, as well as a betrayal of Judaism?

Unfortunately, even important Jewish intellectuals like you are sending out the message that the blood of those living on the wrong side of an imaginary line on a map is not as red as that coursing in the veins of their fellow countrymen in Tel Aviv.

Daniel, where the Israeli media will stop to use the dehumanizing, dejudaizing language to distinguish between Jewish and Arab residents of Judea/Samaria? The "settlers" are not even qualified by the adjective "Jewish", while the Palestinians are "local residents". A "settler", of course, is meant to suggest an alien interloper who will be sent back where he came from; a "local resident" is supposedly an indigenous citizen.

Daniel, why do you repeat the canard that without Israeli concessions, the "Palestinian problem" will never be resolved and the Arab-Israel conflict will continue ad infinitum? It's like Hitler Big Lie. For the Islamic world everything Jewish is “illegal”. Everything is “stolen land”.

Peace can only be true if the Jews are no longer characterized as foreign occupiers, but as native sons who have returned home.

Destroy the outposts and you will see the domino effect: all Israel will be in lethal danger. "The colonist" is a very tiny figure in the Middle Eastern conflict, but for many reasons the civilization's future lies on his shoulders.

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Labels: Daniel Gordis, Giulio Meotti, Levy Report

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:23 AM