Caveat Emptor: Jewish America's West Bank Sell-Out

[ProgressiveMuslim]

David Kaufman

Last month's arrest of a Florida-born West Bank resident by Israeli security forces is the most potent example yet of the threat posed by the Jewish Settler movement to Israel's democratic soul. Yet the bloody paper trail left by admitted murderer Jacob Teitel is not just a wake-up call to progressive-minded Israelis -- but to Jewish America's own liberal masses, as well. Firmly planted on the Left, they can rightfully claim a noble history of supporting the most sacred
struggles for American egalitarianism -- from the battles for worker's rights and women's suffrage in the first half of the 20th Century to Civil Rights, Gay Rights and Pro-Choice movements in the second.

Yet over the past year, American Jewry has been prodded by the Israeli political establishment to abandon this righteous legacy in favor of a far-flung religious Right. Led by an alarmist Benjamin Netanyahu, backed by his extremist Beltway proxies and gussied-up under the guise of "sovereignty", the Jewish State is asking its American brethren to sacrifice a century of good works for the sake of terrorist-settlers like Teitel.

The arrival of Barack Obama in Washington and the return of Prime Minister Netanyahu to Jerusalem launched this new era of discord between American and Israeli Jews. Considering the secular majorities of both groups, the Settlements -- and most crucially, their settlers -- have proven an unanticipated flash point. Yet since Obama's June speech in Cairo calling for an end to Settlement construction, American Jewry has been inveighed upon to support the Settlement enterprise as if Israel's very survival depends on it. As for those Settlers, they've been conveniently repackaged as virtuous victims -- simple family folk merely searching for adequate housing to accommodate their "natural growth".

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kaufman/caveat-emptor-jewish-amer_b_358492.html

[safeinOhio]

1. Israel has no choice

They brought in the settlers to expand territory, now they are stuck with these people that are the Jewish Taliban. In order to stop the settlements it would mean bringing these crazy people into Israel itself. No one in Israel wants to live among these crazy zealots, so they are stuck.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Our world is plagued with religious zealots. What did we do to deserve this.

They are not modest and they are dangerous.

So who is really going to go to Heaven?

I am fed up with all religious zealots and perhaps Taliban is the right word.

There is something wrong with religion when it becomes as political as it is right now - justifying the death of one or many. No decency. Contempt for the laws.

What phony's.