DECEMBER 5 • 2019 | 15
CAIR relate to uniting to
combat hate for and stereo-
types of Jews and blacks.
— Kerry Greenhut
West Bloomfield
Recognition Past Due
Donald Trump’
s administra-
tion’
s recognition, finally, as the
impeachment hearings unfold,
that international law does not
require most of the Land of
Israel to be kept judenrein, “rid
of Jews,
” is long overdue.
It’
s almost laughable. The
provisions of the United
Nations Charter and the
Geneva Convention, which
supposedly govern this sit-
uation, were a formal legal
response to the Nazis’
crimes.
They were never invoked, even
once, in almost 70 years —
except against the Jews!
Allegedly, Israel belligerently
“occupied” inherently “
Arab
land” through warfare and
illicitly transferred “settlers”
into it. But the war was defen-
sive; the land was the historic
Land of Israel, which had been
illegally occupied by Jordan,
through violence, in defiance
of all prior Jewish claims and
legal dispositions. And it’
s indi-
vidual Jews and their families
who’
ve been settling it, on their
own initiative.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie
Sanders both promise to
reverse the Trump administra-
tion’
s holding. They advocate
the “two-state solution.
” But
that is merely “land for peace”
— in the face of Arab leaders’
expressed intentions to use
whatever land they get to “lib-
erate” the entirety of “Occupied
Palestine,
” including Tel Aviv.
Maybe Warren and Sanders
will rethink this. Donald
Trump’
s administration is,
plainly, antithetical to the rule
of law. Its sole virtue has been
its support for Israel. In this
one thing, it’
s on the side of the
angels.
To those who claim to love
Israel, if Israel annexes the
whole “West Bank,
” practically
speaking, won’
t that lead to
an apartheid situation, of Jews
living
cheek-by-jowl to mul-
titudes of Arab sub-citizens?
Or, just as bad, to granting full
suffrage to people who pro-
duce children’
s programming
teaching “Kill the Jews?”
Those are false alternatives.
As is giving land to existential
enemies. Especially if ground-
ed on the inanity that Jews
don’
t belong on the land —
that it’
s not Israel’
s, legally and
morally.
God willing, Democrats will
recognize these things, so we
get someone we can vote for
against Trump.
— Michael Dallen
Detroit
Correction
In “Joys of Judaism” (Nov.
28, page 12) Rabbanit Jenna
Englender’
s last name was
incorrect in many instances.
The JN regrets the error.
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