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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1991
Can The World Only
Love Jews As Victims?
GARY ROSENBLATT
Editor
Amidst all the
praise that Is-
rael has received
in recent days
from the United
States including
a flurry of sym-
pathetic phone
calls from President Bush to
Prime Minister Shamir,
unanimous resolutions pass-
ed by the Senate and House
of Representatives and a visit
to the Israeli Embassy in
Washington from a grateful
Jesse Jackson, one aspect is
most disturbing. And that is
the gnawing realization that
Jews are still loved most
when they are victims.
The reason why Israel, un-
til recently perceived as the
bully of the Mideast, the
Spartan country that beats
up on Palestinian kids, is
now the darling of the
Western world, is Jerusalem
has refrained from
retaliating for Iraqi missile
attacks.
(I hasten to add that all of
this positive sentiment may
have disappeared by the
time you read these words if
Israel has indeed struck
back. If and when that time
comes — and "when" seems
more likely than "if' — will
the United States and the
Free World continue to
praise Israel and empathize
with her precarious position
as a lone democracy in the
Mideast, a nice little country
living in a bad neighbor-
hood? Or will they voice
their outrage in the United
Nations against Israeli ag-
gression?)
For now, Israel has turned
the other cheek and the
world is relieved. But that is
a Christian tenet, not a Jew-
ish one. The Torah is filled
with instructions from God
for the Jews to avenge the
bloodshed of their brethren.
Each Shabbat morning we
recite the Av Harachamim
prayer, which reads in part:
"In the holy writings it is
said, Wherefore should the
nations say 'where is their
God?' Let there be made
known among the nations in
our sight the revenging of
the blood of thy servants
which have been shed."
For thousands of years, the
Jewish people did not
avenge the blood of their
martyrs — Jews slain by the
nations of the world, from
the Crusades of the Middle
Ages to the pogroms of this
century, simply because
they were Jews. Jews did not
strike back because they
were without power. They
had no state of their own, no
government, no army to pro-
tect themselves.
There were those among
the nations of the world who
shed tears for the Jews. But
not enough to change the
pattern of suffering.
Any student of history
knows that the rare times
that Jews have received
world sympathy are when
they have been murdered
and destroyed. The most
vivid and recent example, of
course, is the Holocaust.
After one-third of the world's
Jew were annihilated, the
nations of the world allowed
the State of Israel to be born.
And just like Pharaoh of
ancient Egypt, who after
finally allowing the Jews to
go free rallied his army to
pursue them, many nations
Israel has turned
the other cheek
and the world is
relieved. But that is
a Christian tenet.
have regretted their United
Nations vote in 1947 to sup-
port the founding of a Jewish
state.
Somehow, the image of the
tiny remnant of the Jewish
people struggling to return
to and rebuild their ancient
homeland pierced the hearts
of the world long enough to
bring the State of Israel into
being. But as soon as Israel
started to act like any other
nation, by defending herself
from sworn enemies and
making herself strong
enough to survive, the sen-
timent and sympathy began
to change. No longer was
Israel the tiny David staving
off the onslaught of the
mighty Goliath, seeking her
destruction. Now she was
Goliath, the powerful bully
seeking to conquer her
neighbors.
Along the way, Israel has
learned a powerful and
disturbing lesson: that her
first priority is to protect
herself. Only then can she
seek to please the rest of the
world.
Israel understands what
many of us in America do
not: that to survive in the
Mideast, amidst a host of