Filed with Sources, Books & Media (MOC) · Related: 60.1 Israel-Palestine · Key Arguments (MOC)
- “Israel always have a patron”
- Israelis have nowhere to go; you aren’t going to defeat Israelis with terrorism
- Dont like to defend Israel
- We are the Jews that don’t justify themselves
- “Lets say we lose this moral popularity contest in the minds of Westerns”
- So what?
- Dont have to explain the reasons why you should exist
- First Zionist writing in 1880s, Jews don’t have to justify their own existence.
- “The proper, the only solution, is in the creation of a Jewish nationality, of a people living upon its own soil, the auto- emancipation of the Jews; their return to the ranks of the nations by the acquisition of a Jewish homeland.” Leon Pinsker
- These ‘moral cartoons’ that Western minds have for pro-Palestinian arguments actually hurt Palestinians
- American and British Jews are more scared than Israeli Jews
- Due to determination
- Lack of agency
- American Jews great fear is liberal promise will fail them. Reason why their the 2nd most liberal group
- Jews, who supported Universities as they were the bastion of liberalism, found out that Universities were for sale and Qatar bought them. And now its a fountain of illiberalism.
- Israel is having a crisis of faith on the idea of strategy
- Peace hasn’t worked
- Sit around doing nothing didnt work
- War didn’t work
- Nothing has worked
- Due to not having a larger sense of the Arab undercurrents
- Israel is just an arena to prove what the Arabs need to prove to themselves
- Israel is back to the simple and fundamental: They will defend themselves.
- People are understanding that America is retreating into itself and it won’t protect other countries and people. And there are bad people in the world. You have to be able to defend yourself. That’s the basic Israeli message.
- Countries will need to wake up to defend themselves; the basic Israeli message
- As long as America feels safe, luxury of privilege people, the America that wakes up after will be unified
- There was moment after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, that Japan could of attacked the California coast—those fear united Americans against evil.