Narrow-casting is inevitable, but total polarization regarding Israel is not, and mainstream Jewish organizations are valuable. There might still be a moderate middle to work with.
Founding coordinator of the Global Forum against Anti-Semitism in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, and former senior advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky. Israel office director of Canada’s Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs. A three-decade veteran diplomatic and defense columnist for The Jerusalem Post and many Jewish newspapers around the world.
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There is much that US and Israel and others can do to support the emergence of a muscular Iranian opposition movement.
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The war against Iran had a coherent cause and was strategically successful. It is dishonest to deny this.
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Do not listen to the defeatists that gloomily dominate American and Israeli airwaves driving a double sourpuss narrative – that the war against Iran was politically vain and/or militarily futile. …
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Don’t lecture Israel about the “inviolable sovereignty & territorial integrity” of Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza or the “internationally mandated territorial contiguity” of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. These are hackneyed concepts, extinguished by reality in the region.
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Who would have dared predict that he would be courageous enough to blow off his political detractors from left and right to pursue this campaign with such certainty? And even if he cuts short the war against Iran, I will still salute him for strategic bravery.