General Discussion

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I will repeat what my father told me when I was 12 years old that the hardest part about being a liberal progressive will be dealing with the antisemitism coming from the left. That was in 1965. The first real experience I had with that particular brand of antisemitism was when Israel defeated the Arab armies in 1967, and all the lefty publications that came to our house were decrying their victory, and bemoaning the loss of Pan-Arabism.

The second thing is that all these terrorist groups (a.k.a. “Freedom-fighters”)promising to “eradicate” Israel, and the Jews therein, have quite possibly learned the meaning of that word and its implications. It’s horrifying , as were the crimes perpetrated on that fateful day by terrorists at the Festival and Kibbutz. For many years Israel was forced to liberate hundreds of prisoners in order to recover one or two Israelis held captive or even to reclaim their corpses. So if that’s the proportionality in one direction, the terrorists quite possibly learned it holds in the other. Not nice, but war is not nice. Perhaps they will think twice before another act is contemplated and executed.