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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