President Obama’s Misguided Praise for the Israeli Approach to Terror
Israeli “resilience” involves actually fighting terror.
March 28, 2016
No real friend of the Jewish people.
Born in England to Jewish parents who baptized him at the age of twelve, Benjamin Disraeli went on to become prime minister as well as an accomplished novelist. Although some have held him up as a Jewish hero who often spoke with pride of his ethnic origins, Disraeli’s latest biographer, David Cesarani, argues that he was a cynical opportunist who only used his Jewishness when it suited him. Norman Gelb writes in his review:
Israeli “resilience” involves actually fighting terror.
Whether or not a boycott resolution passes, the damage is done.
It was simultaneously masterful and preposterous.
No real friend of the Jewish people.
Perhaps.
Born in England to Jewish parents who baptized him at the age of twelve, Benjamin Disraeli went on to become prime minister as well as an accomplished novelist. Although some have held him up as a Jewish hero who often spoke with pride of his ethnic origins, Disraeli’s latest biographer, David Cesarani, argues that he was a cynical opportunist who only used his Jewishness when it suited him. Norman Gelb writes in his review:
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