Although Caroline Glick puts up a good fight, the anti-Israel forces - in America and even in Israel itself - seem awfully daunting.
These forces are at work every day, even in the Hillel organizations on our college campuses and among the most prominent commentators of our time. Here, Glick hands Thomas Friedman his hat:
.... Channeling the longstanding anti-Semitic charge that Jewish money buys support for power-hungry Jews best expressed in the forged 19th century Protocols of the Elders of Zion and in John Mearshimer’s and Stephen Walt’s 2007 book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, Friedman denied the significance of the US Congress’s overwhelming support for Israel.
As he put it, “I sure hope that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.”
It would be nice if Friedman is forced to pay some sort of price for finally coming out of the closet as a dyed-in-the-wool Israel hater. But he probably won’t. As he made clear in his column, he isn’t writing for the general public, but for a very small, select group of elitist leftists. These are the only people who matter to Friedman. And they matter to him because they share his opinions and his goal of indoctrinating young people to adopt his pathologically hostile views about Israel and his contempt for the American public that supports it.
There are antidotes, even for such widespread poison. Carl in Jerusalem offers us one such light in the darkness:
Here's Ophir Elbaz - he looks about 5-years old - singing Elokim Natan l'Cha b'Matana (God gave you as a gift) on the Israeli equivalent of A Star is Born.
Enjoy.
Turns out, he's nine. A Jewish Mom writes:
How intensely moving to see “secular” 9-year-old Ophir Elbaz of Sderot singing this gorgeous tribute to Hashem on the Israeli version of American Idol. The words sung with such pure sincerity are so sweet and true,
“God gave you as a gift a great and wonderful thing, He gave you life on this earth. He gave you the night and the day. He gave you love, hope, and dreams….He gave you green fields, and blossoming trees and flowers… God gave you a great and wonderful thing, He gave you life on this earth…”
Posted by: Mannie Sherberg | Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 10:12 AM