Beating back the anti-Israel forces

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…”

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Two comments: (1) The forces arrayed against Israel are indeed "daunting." That's why the work done by such intrepids as you, Yael, and Caroline Glick matters so much. It's because you and a few others have kept your fingers in the dike for so many years that the dike is still holding. I won't get alarmed unless people like you and Caroline lift your fingers -- and the daunting become an irresistible flood. (2) Anyone who wants to know just how daunting Tom Friedman is should read Adrian Wooldridge's very readable new book "Masters of Management, in which he describes Friedman as "the most influential opinion journalist in the United States," and informs us that Friedman has so much clout at the NYT that he's been given "a blank check when it comes to travel" and that Pinch Sulzberger never asks him what he intends to write or how much his travel will cost. He lives, not so incidentally, in a home of more than 11,000 square feet on 7-1/2 acres. He is (my language, not Wooldridge's) a classic example of the nebbish who became king. That "small group of elitist leftists" for whom he writes are the geese who lay the golden eggs.